Talk:The Return of the Transformers
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I had forgotten how much I loved this story. It's quite possibly the most adult Transformers fiction ever published - it's on a whole different level from basically everything else. -LV 03:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- Oh yes. And it's subtle too, it affects you when you're reading it (I found it diqquieting) but the reasons why are hard to pin down-- at least until you're writing a summary and you realize that everything is tying together so beautifully. Optimus Prime is at his absolute asshoiliest here (and in the UK, that's saying a lot) to the point that Jetfire ALMOST calls him on it. The failings of almost every character involved it what makes the story works. We never have the anagnorisis moment- because it's about the characters reaching for the possiblity of learning, change and growth... and failing to achieve it- and mostly knowing they've failed-- except when not knowing makes it worse. Like Prime, big an ass as he was here, if he's learned of the Aerialbots problems, he probably would have done something to force them to grow, instead his ignorance leaves them struggling together in the dark, bumping into things and wondering why it hurts.
- It's a great story. Bleak though. -Derik 04:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
