This is where I am with this. Integrating all the combiner parts is hard. I get it. But if there's a way to make it happen, I would expect Haslab to have the leeway needed to make it happen.
And I would expect frigging Liokaiser of all possible combiners to be the one that can pull it off. I...
I'm kinda tired of Sky-Byte, but this looks perfect.
Heatwave wears that mold much better than Bulkhead did. I'm glad to see it. Rescue Bots wasn't made for us, but the character designs were great and they deserve respect.
I'm torn on how I'd handle FFOD in a remake. On general principle I'd want to restore the original intent wherever possible, which would mean giving Shockwave his role back. But the switch from Shockwave to Blitzwing seems to have been done fairly early, because Octane's role in Starscream's...
There's so much potential, and the closest we've ever gotten to that again was Energon. Which... let us down. 20 years ago.
It's not that I'd prefer a G1 retread over a new thing. It's that I've lost faith in a new thing sticking around long enough to reach that scope.
I'd also give Blitwing...
Stuff like this is why I want to see a G1 rewrite that's actually a G1 rewrite and not something TF07 inspired but blockier. So many pieces of a story are there. It's a clumsy, repetitive, self-contradictory mess of a story, and it's so often only a mild rewrite away from totally working.
If they played it right, Hot Rod catching the Matrix could have been a demonstration of why he's the chosen one, not just that he is. They could have played him as a bot with no impulse control. It's his flaw at times, but it works for him. His reflexes move to catch the Matrix, he's gonna be...
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