o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Although, when Galaxy Force started airing properly, it initially pretended like it was another reboot before Takara later clarified that, yes, it too was supposed to be another sequel.
They can frame it however they like. Common sense when watching the shows both in Japanese and English is pretty telling that it works better as a Duology ( Armada/Micron progressed naturally into Energon/Super link) where as Cybertron/ Galaxy Force is clearly in a separate continuity. Those visuals inserted into the cartoon network broadcast of the Last scene of the Last episode make no sense.
Also after having a race of sentient robots build multiple cities on earth, then a decade later, all of Earth's population forgets they even exist...kind of silly
It is, although it wouldn't be the first time (*side-eyes Masterforce, which borderline goes there*)...
However, that wasn't how things were
supposed to go. Cybertron was
meant to be a further continuation, which can be seen in not only that external promotion framing it as one but also at the visual design level - multiple characters have features carried over from the previous designs (Red Alert and Hot Shot's heads, Jetfire's head and faux shuttle bay doors, Starscream's shoulder stripes, Optimus' gun being a fire truck-ized Energon Blaster, etc.), and the destroyed bits of Unicron floating around in flashbacks are also telling. But the blasted Japanese writing team went off the rails, and unlike when they tried to do the same with Super Link... this time they weren't caught and slapped down in time to prevent the continuity breach. Oy...
The dub salvaged certain things from the original intent, such as the idea that yes, the evil destroyed
was Unicron and that's where Megatron got his armor, but it didn't try to forcibly repair the direct sequel connection; that would have been a lost cause.
I personally think salvaging the connection by, say, having the black hole be a result of the Cybertron cast defeating Unicron offscreen in their universe at the same time as his demise fueling the creation of the Energon Sun in
Energon would have been a smoother solution than what Aaron Archer went with: saying "improperly killing a god snarled up spacetime" (even if that kind of thing does make sense as a consequence of such) to keep it as the
direct sequel it was supposed to be. But the latter is what we got, and Takara ultimately decided to follow suit.
to finally get him. This is my first HasLab and the wait is rough.
