I'm noticing that Roberts has a bad habit of putting guns on the wall and then forgetting about them and then coming back to them after he's lost the original momentum of putting the gun on the wall...
The Scavengers are sort of symptomatic of some of the problems, though. It's like they realized, "Oh, this is Transformers, and we don't have enough Decepticons doing anything," so the Scavengers are thrown in for a bit and then lost out of focus.
The Scavengers are also explicitly coded as rejects and otherwise abnormal Decepticons. They aren't typical rank-and-file - because Primus forbid that the typical rank-and-file be portrayed in a narratively sympathetic light.
The Scavengers also do nothing aggressive against any actual Autobots - and befriend the first Autobot they meet, because Primus forbid that sympathetic Decepticons do anything aggressive against the precious, darling Autobots!
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Date: 2014-04-01 01:55 pm (UTC)I'm noticing that Roberts has a bad habit of putting guns on the wall and then forgetting about them and then coming back to them after he's lost the original momentum of putting the gun on the wall...
The Scavengers are sort of symptomatic of some of the problems, though. It's like they realized, "Oh, this is Transformers, and we don't have enough Decepticons doing anything," so the Scavengers are thrown in for a bit and then lost out of focus.
The Scavengers are also explicitly coded as rejects and otherwise abnormal Decepticons. They aren't typical rank-and-file - because Primus forbid that the typical rank-and-file be portrayed in a narratively sympathetic light.
The Scavengers also do nothing aggressive against any actual Autobots - and befriend the first Autobot they meet, because Primus forbid that sympathetic Decepticons do anything aggressive against the precious, darling Autobots!