Talk:Atlantis, Arise!

Seriously? We're repeating the episode navigation because the episodes had a different order in Japan? -75.168.123.161 02:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Some episodes didn't air during the original Japanese run, as well. --FFN 03:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

There was talk of combining the two nav boxes into a single box for the sake of neatness, but I don't recall where it left off. -- Repowers 04:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

As I recall, if left off with me blubbering in a heap begging someone who actually knew how to do it to please please please DO IT. Effective! - Chris McFeely 09:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

So if the navbox gets changed, does that mean there will be summaries of the 3 Japan-exclusive clip shows? -75.168.123.161 10:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, we'll need someone to have actually SEEN them before they can be totally filled in, but the articles already exist in an unfinished form. Their existence is a large part of the reason for the secondary Japanese nav box. It's the same principle as the additional UK comic stories, and the secondary nav box we give those. - Chris McFeely 10:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

"Soundwave is drawn with a totally transparent tape door as Starscream has him unscramble Nergill's second message. It appears to be a deliberate choice to show the cassette mechanism within, but it conflicts with the usual white coloration of his chest panel."

Is this really an error? I thought his tape door was always considered transparent but just colored white as if light was gleaming off it like on Prine's windows. What does anyone else think?

It is colored that way, for that exact reason. So coloring it differently constitutes an inconsistency, and therefore an error. -- Repowers 00:36, 14 December 2009 (EST)

What Starscream was doing to Wheeljack

It seemed pretty clear to me what was going on: Starscream was draining power from Wheeljack to give himself enough of an energy boost to negate the dysfunction ray's effect. ZeldaTheSwordsman 21:28, 16 March 2010 (EDT)

It seemed pretty clear to me that he wandered over, opened a hatch on Wheeljack's chest, and tried to insert some wires. What the intended effect of this is not stated. "Trying to fix himself" is a likely guess, certainly, but still a guess. (For context, as a kid, I thought he was just trying to mess up Wheeljack further, particularly based on Bumblebee's next line.) Like I wrote, it's simply not explained. -- Repowers 22:50, 16 March 2010 (EDT)

Continuity errors

I have issue with virtually ALL the continuity errors listed. Let's not try to hard to find them when there aren't any.

It's not an error that Megatron calls them vultures. For one thing, just because Microchange called them condors, doesn't mean they are in the TF universe. More importantly, though, condors ARE a kind of Vulture. It's no different than calling Ravage a cat instead of a jaguar.

Spike: better animation might have served to show he's using a radio. Not really a continuity error. And if anything, super human strength and endurance is right in line with this show's continuity. When have they been shown to NOT be?

If Nergill's mouth is moving, then it's certainly an animation error, not continuity.

Bumblebee's a robot. How is it an error that he can calculate a trajectory very quickly? Scourge predicted the planet Galvatron was thrown to with a lot less information, and we aren't calling that an error.

Conquest might have simply not been shown on screen. Where's the error, exactly?

We don't know WHAT they're breathing in their city. Maybe there's an additive in the air?

So having an incomplete force field presents a continuity issue? The Autobots can make force fields... does the lack of a permanent one around their entire base mean there's a continuity error?

If it's an ommission, and not an error, why list the Starscream/Wheeljack incident here?

Wheeljack saying something vague and uninformative... okay, but how's this a continuity error exactly?

How they show a forcefield being destroyed is: A) Not any more wrong then the thousands of other animation conventions being used (cartoons are not meant to be a hundred percent true to life) and B) not an error with the continuity of this episode or series.

The Dinobots are beinf shown to be strong enough to break through this dome, which was thought to be invincible. The unsinkable Titanic sank in RL... does that mean RL has a continuity error?

The point about Starscream may be the only real error here.

Yeah, maybe the dysfunction ray works that way. I've never used one myself.

Yep. Fire can exist under water. Water can sometimes ignite fires, depending on the chemicals involved. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.102.11.3 (talk • contribs){{#if:00:34, 29 July 2011 (EDT)| 00:34, 29 July 2011 (EDT)|}}.

GPS did exist...

Actually, GPS did exist at the time of the G1 Cartoon, but it was primarily a military technology. However, the shooting down of KAL007 a couple of years before the show led to it being made generally available. (The Korean Air Lines jet got off course and was in Soviet airspace when it was shot down. The whole incident was a comedy of errors on all sides. The idea was that if they had GPS they would have known where they were.) So while most civilian cars would not have had GPS in 1985, Bumblebee isn't exactly one of those, and there's a number of possible guesses as to how he could have had it, or some sort of equivalent. Waverod ✈️ (talk) 19:58, 5 September 2018 (EDT)

From the quotes section

"Mmm, we are here."

—Grimlock is a master of subtle and astute observation

This reminds me of Gen Pershing arriving in Paris during WWI, when he said, "Lafayette, we are here!" The parallel is between the Dinobots coming to reinforce the Autobots and turn the tide with the US Army doing the same thing for the Allies. However, it's vague enough that I'm not sure it should go into the real world section, or be brought up at all (say, by changing the attribution line to something like "Grimlock channels his inner General Pershing"). Thoughts? Waverod ✈️ (talk) 19:08, 17 October 2019 (EDT)

This seems like a stretch. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 23:55, 17 October 2019 (EDT)