by Autobot032 » Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:19 am
- Weapon: Switch Blade Tail
They won't do it, but the simplest way to fix of this is this:
Rip off G1 and put some Kruger touches on it. Make it so that the Creators (Quintessons) created the Cybertronian races as consumer goods and military hardware. (This would help with Lockdown's line about them acting like little children and him having to clean up their mess all the time.) Also make it so that they created the creatures Lockdown had in his prison. Illegal genetic modification and whatnot.
Have Prime face the Creators and let them tell him the hard truth: "You're nothing more than consumer goods. The whole race. We wanted our malfunctioning product back. Nothing more, nothing less." He could rebut the whole thing with how he and others like him have a soul, they can get into an argument about Primus, which will tell his backstory. Let's say he was a drone, like them, but ala Short Circuit, a fortuitous miracle, never again replicated, brought him sentience and life.
He decided to pour his soul, literally, into what would become the Allspark. The Matrix could've been conceived by the Primes as a tool to help rebuild the Allspark and to locate it. To find something as powerful as the Allspark (and control it), you'd need something of nearly the same amount of power, which is why the Matrix is basically pure Energon.
Prime can say something like "You made the body, but he gave us life" or something like that. Make it about being more than what you are, who you are, Just being more. Prime has always been considered the savior figure of the Transformers universe, to some degree, in different parts of the canon, so there's no reason to change it now. I mean, he already died and came back once in the movie series, might as well do a "Return Of The King" kinda deal.
Have Optimus lead the Cybertronians he finds along the way to an uprising against the Creators, promise them he'll lead them to freedom (in keeping with the savior thing) and bring it back to Earth so Prime and his new army of Autobots not only have a new home, but Cade and his family are still in it (since they signed on for the entire trilogy), and then they can have their usual free for all in a massive city setting, going up against Galvatron and his army of the undead. He can manipulate their Transformium to make them become Cyclonus, Scourge, the Predacons, all of it.
As for the Knight thing? Think of it as the Knights Templar. The best of intentions, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Primes broke free of their "duties" to become who they are now: Good and decent beings who value life and will do anything to defend it.
Does it answer all questions? No, but it will certainly cover some gaps and fix some continuity problems. It allows The Fallen to still exist, it allows the previous trilogy to still exist and keeps AOE all canon and in step with each other. As for the things it doesn't all cover, can't spoonfeed everyone, it's not possible. Nor is it possible to make everyone happy, either, so cover as many bases as you can and keep on truckin'. (No pun intended.)
NOTE: Realize that I am not a perfect Christian, nor do I profess to be. I apologize if anyone's ever offended by me, I'm not perfect. Don't hold my posts and opinions against other Christians.
