Talk:Meantime (Movie) - Revision history

Escargon: Escargon moved page Talk:Meantime to Talk:Meantime (Movie): The Mini-Cons are fine for now, I suppose, but this guy and the G1 guy are almost definitely separate characters.

2015-09-12T04:35:42Z

Escargon moved page Talk:Meantime to Talk:Meantime (Movie): The Mini-Cons are fine for now, I suppose, but this guy and the G1 guy are almost definitely separate characters.

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2015-09-12T01:27:02Z

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	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::::::I agree that separate characters should be on separate pages. I just think that we should be more lax about combining the same character from separate continuities. The assumptipn that different family must equal a different character seems lIke a falso one to me. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:27, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

Escargon: /* Keep as one page or split? */

2015-09-12T01:22:16Z

Keep as one page or split?

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	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

Escargon: /* Keep as one page or split? */

2015-09-12T01:17:03Z

Keep as one page or split?

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	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

Escargon: /* Keep as one page or split? */

2015-09-12T01:12:21Z

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	:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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2015-09-12T01:09:38Z

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	:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

Escargon: /* Keep as one page or split? */

2015-09-12T01:02:31Z

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	::We know nothing about the new guy except that he's a watch, which matches up with the movie guy. My vote is keep them together. If we get new fiction we can always reconsider.--[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 20:59, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::We know nothing about the new guy except that he's a watch, which matches up with the movie guy. My vote is keep them together. If we get new fiction we can always reconsider.--[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 20:59, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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2015-09-12T01:01:34Z

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	:We've had articles on less, I'd just say to put it on a G1 page. (We could've done the same with the Mini-cons who are mentioned in the Fire in the Dark page, I felt.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 20:51, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:We've had articles on less, I'd just say to put it on a G1 page. (We could've done the same with the Mini-cons who are mentioned in the Fire in the Dark page, I felt.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 20:51, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::We know nothing about the new guy except that he's a watch, which matches up with the movie guy. My vote is keep them together. If we get new fiction we can always reconsider.--[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 20:59, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::We know nothing about the new guy except that he's a watch, which matches up with the movie guy. My vote is keep them together. If we get new fiction we can always reconsider.--[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 20:59, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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2015-09-12T00:59:32Z

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	Now that [[Ask Vector Prime]] has identified "Autobot" from ''The War Within'' #2 as a Primax Meantime, should Dreamwave G1 Meantime get his own page or be added to this one? We know next-to-nothing about Dreamwave G1 Meantime, so he wouldn't have much of a page, but he's not a Real Gear Robot like movie Meantime, and that aspect of movie Meantime pretty much makes up his opening write-up. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|talk]]) 20:46, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		Now that [[Ask Vector Prime]] has identified "Autobot" from ''The War Within'' #2 as a Primax Meantime, should Dreamwave G1 Meantime get his own page or be added to this one? We know next-to-nothing about Dreamwave G1 Meantime, so he wouldn't have much of a page, but he's not a Real Gear Robot like movie Meantime, and that aspect of movie Meantime pretty much makes up his opening write-up. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|talk]]) 20:46, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:We've had articles on less, I'd just say to put it on a G1 page. (We could've done the same with the Mini-cons who are mentioned in the Fire in the Dark page, I felt.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 20:51, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:We've had articles on less, I'd just say to put it on a G1 page. (We could've done the same with the Mini-cons who are mentioned in the Fire in the Dark page, I felt.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 20:51, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			::We know nothing about the new guy except that he's a watch, which matches up with the movie guy. My vote is keep them together. If we get new fiction we can always reconsider.--[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 20:59, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

Escargon: /* Keep as one page or split? */

2015-09-12T00:51:55Z

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	Now that [[Ask Vector Prime]] has identified "Autobot" from ''The War Within'' #2 as a Primax Meantime, should Dreamwave G1 Meantime get his own page or be added to this one? We know next-to-nothing about Dreamwave G1 Meantime, so he wouldn't have much of a page, but he's not a Real Gear Robot like movie Meantime, and that aspect of movie Meantime pretty much makes up his opening write-up. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|talk]]) 20:46, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		Now that [[Ask Vector Prime]] has identified "Autobot" from ''The War Within'' #2 as a Primax Meantime, should Dreamwave G1 Meantime get his own page or be added to this one? We know next-to-nothing about Dreamwave G1 Meantime, so he wouldn't have much of a page, but he's not a Real Gear Robot like movie Meantime, and that aspect of movie Meantime pretty much makes up his opening write-up. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47\|talk]]) 20:46, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:We've had articles on less, I'd just say to put it on a G1 page. (We could've done the same with the Mini-cons who are mentioned in the Fire in the Dark page, I felt.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 20:51, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::::::I agree that separate characters should be on separate pages. I just think that we should be more lax about combining the same character from separate continuities. The assumptipn that different family must equal a different character seems lIke a falso one to me. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:27, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. It's better that we don't do things like Wikipedia for this sort of thing. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			::::::And frankly, I'm fine with the Beast Wars characters in Fire in the Dark and the cartoon staying where they are, but some of these mini-cons are clearly intended to be separate characters from separate continuities. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:17, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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	:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			:::::That was more for stories. One Meantime is a watch born on Earth from Allspark radiation. The other one is a full fledged Cybertronian from millions of years ago. They share nothing in common beyond a name and an altmode. [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:12, 11 September 2015 (EDT)

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	:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::Why, though? We have pages for one-note appearences like SG Leader-One. Why should this guy be any different? [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:01, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
	:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)		:::(Also, there was a very clear intention that some of those Mini-Cons were orignally Primax Beast Wars and movie characters, and Jim just repurposed them.) [[User:Escargon\|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon\|talk]]) 21:02, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
			::::I said why. Vector Prime has said that the Continuity Family distinction is arbitrary, and keeping them together seems simpler and more informative to me. But, whatever, I usually get out voted on this issue. --[[User:Giggidy\|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy\|talk]]) 21:09, 11 September 2015 (EDT)