Talk:Transmutate (episode)

Continuity error

The continuity error notes that Rampage says Transmutate's name before Transmutate gives it. This is true, but I don't think it's a continuity error. Rampage says that Transmutate is part transmetal and part mutant, calling it "a Transmutate." This would seem to indicate that the term either already existed, or at the very least was invented by Rampage as a general term for a mutant/transmetal form, rather than an actual name he wanted to give Transmutate (especially since immediately after he gives this description, he asks for her (?) name). And either way, whether (as it seems) he was trying to give a general descriptive term to her form, or (as it does not, to me, seem) he was actually giving her a name, it seems quite likely that when Megatron later asks what her name is, she says "Trasmutate" because Rampage had used the term in reference to her ealier. So is this a continuity error? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blazemane (talk • contribs){{#if:14:55, 30 April 2010| 14:55, 30 April 2010|}}.

Good point. Probably worth changing, in that case.

Oh, and don't forget to sign your Talk page posts with four tildes (~~~~) or by using the signature button above the editing window. --Apcog 15:12, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

Oh, I definitely forgot. Thanks.Blazemane 15:24, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

I always took it as Rampage inventing the term, and then Transmutate taking it for his name, since that's the first thing he'd been called. It's sort of like Wreck-Gar initially calling himself 'worthless-wreck-walking-pile-of-garbage', only with less comedic effect. --Detour 15:29, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

It is a continuity error. There is no ambiguity about this. Rampage uses the term Transmutate before he plainly invents it. --KilMichaelMcC 15:46, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

Yeah. His "naming" dialogue was slow, thoughtful, and figuring-out, with his tone of voice rising at "a trans-mutate!" to imply novelty and discovery. He even says "hmmmmm". If he'd really come up with it 5 minutes earlier the first time he said it, he wouldn't have bothered mentally sketching out and justifying it at such length the second time. This episode is notorious for continuity errors, btw. --Thylacine 2000 16:06, 30 April 2010 (EDT)

Oh... the issue here is Rampage's own timing. And yeah, I just looked through the episode- he does say "Transmutate, do not speak. None shall hurt you know." You're both quite rightBlazemane 02:26, 31 May 2010 (EDT)

Autistic Transformer?

To me Transmutate resembles a person with low-functioning autism. That's sorta a real world reference. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Femtransfan (talk • contribs){{#if:| {{{2}}}|}}.

Animated Blitzwing has multiple-personality disorder, IDW Ultra Magnus has OCD, and so on, and we don't call those real world references. Jalaguy 18:38, 18 May 2013 (EDT)

Removed one "error"

I'm on my phone doing this, so I couldnt properly type out my reasoning. The error ofSilverbolt claiming it's Optimusbut not seeing him... how is that an error? In visual medium, not everything must always be explicitly shown. I've seen this episode a good 30 times, at least, at various ages, and never did I think that scene unclear or poorly done. So I removed it. I doubt many others were bothered by it as well. The World Is Yours (talk) (apologies if I cant add signature. Again, on phone. "The_world_is_yours"