Talk:A Plague of Insecticons
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Continuity Errors section
- Hello, I kinda think that all the points in the continuity errors section are no really continuity errors:
- If the Insecticons had landed four million years before the crash of the Ark, and have presumably been active throughout all previous episodes, how come neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons ever learned of their existence until this episode. And when they did learn, how did they find out simultaneously?
- A (kinda poor) explanation might be that the Insecticons had so far limited their activity to the "Demon Swamps" of Bali (which must have earned that named for some reason) and some surrounding landscape. The Decepticons and Autobots simultaneously found out about their existence because both of them caught the same SOS radio signal send by the Balinese farmers. Or maybe the Insecticons were, like the rest of the season 1 maincast, simply inactivated until recently.
- How does Skyfire manage to hide in the bushes with the other, shorter Autobots? He's about four Bumblebees tall!
- How about kneeling?
- Why do the Decepticons and the Insecticons not know each other if they were all on board the Nemesis? Even if you assume that there were lots of Decepticons on board and Megatron didn’t know them all personally (which in itself is doubtful), the Insecticons must surely know who Megatron is! It's entirely possible to retcon this by claiming that the Insecticons were protoforms who had not come online and were activated by the pod as a method of preserving them. However, the protoform concept hadn't been introduced yet, so...
- It's at no point said that the so called "Decepticon Escape Module" was launched from the Nemesis. Megatron says "It was launched before our own Starship crashed the earth four million years ago." To me that sounds like it was actually launched from Cybertron, not the Nemesis. Remember, the Ark and the Nemesis were not the first time Transformers visited Earth, as at least Starscream and Skyfire had been there long before. Megatron and his Decepticon followers want to find energy to "reboot" Cybertron. The Insecticons against that simply want to feed on energy. They have no interest in reviving Cybertron, conquering the universe or whatever. They simply left Cybertron and for a random place with lots of energy, which by coincidence was the Earth. This must not have taken place immediately before the crashlanding of the Ark, it could as well have happened millions of years before. Of course that's all my personal guessing, but that's what I myself figured out when I watched the episode (before consulting this article). --134.76.63.1 13:57, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
