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On your view, what work is "gender" doing besides preconceived notions? For example, what's the difference between la biblioteca and el biblioteca? Libraries don't have human genders (regardless of whether "gender" is meant to pick out biological sex or social gender). It's not clear I could...

Of course there will be divisions of labor and organization, but for the most part I think it's best to leave this off screen. Every minute your story spends explaining who Sideswipe's commander is is a moment you don't see Sideswipe doing things. I do think that once things get settled on...

I like Lugnut. I'm not sure he'd be in my Revised Nemesis Crew (Given contemporary animation and voice acting limitations, I think it's best to be able to break characters down into 5-man teams with some straggers, so we're talking ~15 autobots total and maybe ~10 decepticons (not counting...

Slipstream & Roadrage seem like inspired choices. I like the comic origins of the Dinobots, but I think we need something to get people excited about transformers and doing a Dinobot prequel would be better. Modify the IDW origin, with the Dinobots leaving cybertron to chase some villain or...

Suppose that you were tasked with doing a rebooted Transforms cartoon largely based on the G1 property. What concepts, characters, and character arcs would you adopt from other iterations of the story and why? For example, here's some things I'd want to fold in from Armada: 1. Demolisher -...

Seems like a missed opportunity not to have a toyline associated with this.

Oh, I know - they're robots, they're in disguise... so it's some kind of Cyberverse!

This was the story in S1-2. But Quintessons have transforming Cybertronians working for them, so inference to the best explanation suggests they could always transform. MAYBE they forgot (... uh... like the G2 Swarm/Budding forgetting?), but like all longstorm, multiauthor storytelling, either...

If we assume the Quintessons conquered them, it's likely that they used shell programs to significantly restrict autonomous transformers. On your theory, it would be like dogs gaining sentience and/or an overt Skynet thing; neither of which is how I'd want to present our race of aliens. Early...

I don't think that's fair; his quote is "Peace through tyranny" not "Let's be colonizers, brah!"

I think Star Trek DS9 does a good job of explaining what I'm talking about. The Bajorans think of the wormhole aliens as gods and worship them. Starfleet knows they're wormhole aliens and know they've interacted with the Bajoran society in the past; but they're not gods. Similarly the...

Transformers is fiction, and in fiction you want a diversity of characters. In real life, all bank robbers want money. In fiction, you have fictional bank robbers who want money, who want to antagonize Batman, who rob banks as art, who rob the bank as a distraction so they can place something...

I haven't actually watched S3, but the mutliversal aspect is a bit much I think. You're free to do "Conversion Brainiac" if you want, but you need to introduce normal Brainiac first. That feels like an IDW elseworlds thing. But we do know that magic exists in the Transformers universe...

I'm inclined to think that this might be time for a better Metroplex/Metrotitan. Short of that, though, maybe... Broadside?

In the G1 movie. Quintessons were weird and goofy with a strange, unknown connection to the Transformers. In G1, S3 it's revealed the Quintessons built the Transformers... although I've been more of a fan of the idea that the Quintessons enslaved the transformers. Either way, they seem to have...

I want this to be inoffensive and fun, but from the trailer I think it's kitbashing the G1 Quintesson occupation/enslavement with the IDW "The Primes/Autobots are real d-bags, but... oh no... Megatron has gone TOO FAR in opposing fascism!" backstory. The IDW story never made sense to me. If...

Unique sub-faction symbols is a neat idea. Given the premise, I kind of imagine a Car-Robots-style enterprise; some key new molds coupled with strategic reuse of good and available molds to fill out the cast. A traditional anime would be great, but honestly a CGI show would be fine, preferably...

That's a fun idea. Maybe each participant world proposes a game and judges over the game. 1. Cybertron 2. Earth(?) 3. Char 4. Junkion 5. New? Quintessa and maybe 6. Velicitron, 7. Beast Planet, etc. as needed. For the sake of convenience, I think each world would present a team of 5...

Fair question. I'm not actually sure we need factioned-judges; there are civilians after all, but I take it we'd see judges from both sides as appropriate. However, this does raise an interesting question - would there be sports that allow cheating/deception? For example, a "no holds barred"...

I'm envisioning this as a post-G1(ish) universe, where factions are practically nationalities; especially if they end up on different planets. (I'm not a big fan of that; it sounds vaguely cruel of the autobots to banish the decepticons, but then again I'd be worried about "Decepticon...