Talk:Sevax

2007-05-20T22:50:04Z

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''Going on the assumption that the Quintesson who hires then fires the torturer is Sevax... Sevax is not very smart. He accuses the torturer of "feeble-minded stupidity", then immediately finds him innocent of it. The torturer was sentenced to death anyway, which certainly provided a good distraction from Sevax's self-contradiction.''

- Uh.. isn't "innocence and then death penalty" how the Quintessons operate anyway? Is this really notable, or am I missing something? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 20:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

:Agreed. Innocence = guilty is a quirk of the quint legal system. Until we see what they do when they find someone guilty... we shouldn't bend over backwards to explain it. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

::Quintesson law is... not quite as screwed up as it seems just from looking at the movie. FFoD proves that they do have a ''point'' in conducting their trials, wen Ultra Magnus and Kup are found gulity in FFoD, because they're Transformers, and hence responsible (vicariously) for the theft of Cybertron from the Quintessons, and so they're condemned to death. Kranix and Arblus, on the other hand, are not, hence, they are found innocent - but the Quints are sick bastards and kill you anyway. The anomoly, of course, is Hot Rod and Kup being found innocent in the movie... that's what makes it seem like it's just a bit of silly sci-fi wacky-alien word-reversal. "Ho ho, those silly Quints, they think innocent means you die!" The belief that "innocence = death penalty" is just how Quintessons work would logically be what prompted the scene in BBo2k6, but there's more to it than that. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 22:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

:::That's true enough. However, I feel inclined to point out - for the heck of it, mainly - that the original script for TFTM has the ''Lithones'' found guilty because they escaped Unicron.

''KRANIX''<br>
''The world of the savage Sharkticons and their cruel masters the Quintessons. They hunt down those who try to escape the wrath of Unicron, and put them on trial.''

''KUP''<br>
''But what if they're innocent?''

''KRANIX''<br>
''Guilty or innocent, the sentence is always the
same - death!''

:::Of course, this was when the Quintessons were still the servitors of Unicron in the backstory... maybe Flint Dille specifically had that scene changed, since I assume he was working on TFTM and FFOD/Season 3 concurrently? (I remember John Moschitta saying that season 3 premiered in syndication BEFORE the Movie was in theaters, actually, which I had never really thought about before).
:::Uh... anyway. Just thought the tactic change from script-TFTM to FFOD was an interesting inversion. -- Monzo, who cannot log in at the moment<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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