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Transformation 79: Bruce Willis Vs. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

15/11/2013

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This week, there's some serious toy shilling; the first of only two appearances for Galvatron's handgun mode and the glorious début of Whirl!

But whatever you do, don't mention Omega Supreme. I mentioned him, but I think I got away with it.


All in:


Target: 2006 Part 1!

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Tim Roll-Pickering link
15/11/2013 01:06:55 pm

Seeing the cover with all that white splash on it is a shock for me - this is about the first one you've come to where I first saw the image on a later reprint with rather less intrusion on the artwork. I'm guessing Hasbro UK were very keen to promote the two as "the New Leaders" but that raises the question of how Furman got away with never actually showing Ultra Magnus in a leadership role.

I agree about the mess with Galvatron - time travel fiction often gets into a mess when it doesn't nail down just what the rules are about changing history and gets even worse when they seem to change. Hence no end of debate amongst Transformers or Red Dwarf fans, and Doctor Who generally ducks out of exploring the consequences of this one.

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Stuart
16/11/2013 02:23:28 am

if not for it running long again I'd have mentioned the cover, and how it's basically a slightly better done (in that it seems to be original art and the background is more interesting) of that bloody awful Special Teams one.

I suppose that, technically at least, Magnus is effectively leading the Earthbound Autobots for the very last bit of the story when he finally gets them all onside, but there's not much of a fuss made about it and Magnus doesn't really get much chance to do all leading as Galvatron's machine is almost instantly blown up right after all the 'bots say they're with him.

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Simon Hall
16/11/2013 01:31:32 pm

I've always found it easy to square away the Galvatron not remembering stuff from when he was Megatron. He has been recreated from Megatron's remains by Unicron and is effectively a 'new' character based on what came before. There's nothing to explicitly state that Galvatron remembers much of whom he was - only that he knows whom he is immediately descended from. I would imagine that nearly dying and then being totally reconstructed by a cosmic being might do some damage to your mental state (which of course it does, as the series wears on...).

Likewise, Cyclonus and Scourge show no traits of the Decepticons they were rebuilt from (probably not surprising, as whom they actually are is a bit vague, hence that dreadful line in T2006 about Cyclonus being made from, er, Life Spark, rather than either and/ or Bombshell/ insecticon clone and Skywarp/ random seeker). So none of that bothers me.

The Doctor Who analogy also very nearly gets away with the whole 'meeting up with past selves thing', as its established that regeneration does cause a whole shift in the Doctor's make up and he seems unique amongst Timelords that his regenerations are not controlled and are totally random (to a point - as recent 'Night Of The Doctor' will attest) so I do wonder that because of the way he lives his life, remembering what happened where and when doesn't always come immediately to mind. Also : both 'Time Crash' and the clip of 'Day Of The Doctor' on this years' CiN have suggested that The Doctor does remember some meetings with his past selves.

I seem to recall that Quantum Leap was pretty good at portraying the consequences of time travel - the changes Dr Beckett makes change history, so the previous history of what happened 'first time around' is erased and replaced by whatever changes Sam had made. That of course made it very difficult to prove that Sam was actually changing history - as the original history simply never happened. Al witnessing the change in the senate committee board member approving funding for P:QL is the only time (IIRC) that a change made in the past is visible in the present - but only Al knows this as to the other members of the senate haven't noticed any change because the replacement has to them been there all the time.

...I hope that makes sense!

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