Comments on: Megatron’s plans, unabridged

By: Sadie

Sadie — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:16:44 +0000

For the record, thanks for sharing this! I found it enjoyable. And I’ve always been the kind of person who wants to know everything revealed about a continuity, regardless of whether or not it all fits together. This just made it a ton easier to keep track of things and what material I still need to read.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:24:56 +0000

Actually it’s Elita-1. Who is established in the prequel comics as (along with Chromia) actually being a Arcee’s sister, not a component of her of some sort.

By: Doom Shepherd

Doom Shepherd — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:02:56 +0000

t’s a parallel dimension created by time travel. Some of the less-knowledgeable Trekkies assumed that Trek was a siungle timeline, and that changes in it ALWAYS wipe out the prior timeline, because that’s how it appeared in a couple of episodes like “City on the Edge of Forever” and “Yesterday’s Enterprise.”

However, “Parallels” (and yes, the MU Episodes as well) established that many (over 200,000, anyway) parallel timelines can exist simultaneously.

ADD to that the most current time travel theory that postulates that you CAN’T travel back in time to your own past, but only to a pre-existing parallel timeline (to avoid a causality paradox, the universe forces this on you), and EVERY discrepancy in the 2009 Movie (“NuTrek” we call it) is easily explained.

By: Doom Shepherd

Doom Shepherd — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:57:11 +0000

Assuming “you” = “everyone” fail.

Sorry, every Star Trek fan I know (and I know many, being a huge Space Geek), except for 2 or 3 Internet Bitchy Continuity Fetishists – who always ignore the fact that TOS itself had CRAP continuity – enjoyed the new movie, including my father, who was a TOS fan during the original airings, and my mother, who HATES Star Wars (and most other Science Fiction.)

So, NO.

By: MisterFear

MisterFear — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:37:30 +0000

So the number 1 priority of Green Lantern WASN’T to make lots of money??? I’m not saying hardcore comic book fans aren’t an obsessive lot that will scrutinize little details, but alot of the things that make these properties popular in the first place with geeks (such as Spider-man’s troubled love life and money woes, in addition to his cool spider powers) ALSO translate well with mainstream audiences; it’s not nearly as impossible as you seem to think it is. You take the core of the character and you flesh it out, you don’t have to scrap everything. (You wouldn’t put Spidey in a long black leather duster give him a gun and surround him with explosions just because that stuff seems to appeal to the masses.) The stuff that made him one of the most popular superheroes in the world since the 1960′s still resonates today.

Green Lantern was a crummy movie made by committee. They threw together all the things they saw work in other films (An abundance of CGI, lots of explosions, turning Hal into Tony Stark, etc.) and it shows.

By: Derik

Derik — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:19:41 +0000

Primus bless McFeely and his doctorate in Transformerology!

By: David Willis

David Willis — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:03:59 +0000

I don’t think “pleasing Marvel fans” was the number one priority of Iron Man or Thor. The number one priority of Iron Man was to make lots of money, and to do that, you have to appeal to a wide audience, not just comic book geeks.

Contrast with Green Lantern, which was just as “fan-pleasing” as Iron Man or Thor, but was a boring mess that nobody liked.

By: MisterFear

MisterFear — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:35:30 +0000

I dunno; the recent Marvel films (Iron Man, Thor, etc.) are movies made to please Marvel fans (like myself) and I think they’ve been pretty darn good! You can make films that are knowledgable and respectful of the source material and still be appealling to the general non-comic audience.

By: KilljoyBob

KilljoyBob — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:32:16 +0000

I think the little “guy” is Arcee and the one in front of Prime is Ironhide.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:54:35 +0000

Who is the little guy in the picture in front of Sentinel Prime and is that Prowl standing in front of Optimus?