Talk:Dark Star

Soundwave's Status

Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, the only major change done here is that Soundwave becomes his second-in-command.

As of the end of this issue, as far as the reader knows, Soundwave is dead, and Scorponok is still staring out the window of the Ark; he hasn't gotten around to rebuilding his cadre yet. The point at which it becomes apparent that Soundwave is A) not dead and B) Scorponok's second-in-command, is several issues later (#54 or later, I think). Therefore, as I see it, the sentence above is misleading if not outright wrong — the "major change" in question isn't done here at all. I think the sentence should be cut. JW 04:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The change never explictly happens anywhere, though -- we are only eventually informed of it after the fact a year or so later. There's no inherently better place TO mention this change. And there's no reason Items of Note have to refer ONLY to things that happened on-panel, in this issue, as if no future issues have come out yet. We KNOW Soundwave survives -- the notes shouldn't pretend otherwise. There are already notes here indicating more characters may have died than are shown on-panel, because of what future issues have shown or told us. Similarly, it makes most sense to refer to Soundwave's status here, because this issue caused the change in status (the merging of all Decepticons of Earth) which led to Soundwave being named Scorponok's second-in-command BTS at some unplaceable later point. It's forward-looking in nature, but I don't see what's so wrong about that.

If it makes you feel better, we could change "done here" to "made by this union", so that it doesn't sound like Soundwave's status changed in the issue itself. --Xaaron 05:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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