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Transformers-Power Surge

Kalamadea said
I must be one of the few Transformers fans who sees no huge problems with the Transformers films. They're not perfect, but I don't think they're horrible.Then again, I'm not picky about any franchise. As long as it's entertaining, I have no problems with it.Also, thanks. I should have the sheet up either today or tomorrow.

My main problem with them is that I grew up reading the Marvel transformers comics and several subsequent stories that have followed on from them.
The comics really got into some detail and depth of the characters of both factions, as well as their human friends and allies, and made them into characters with a lot of depth and scope. They also took the story of 'good robots fight bad robots. They also turn into stuff'. And gave it a whole mythology and background that spun out into more of an epic (in the literary sense) tale of ancient forces of primeval creation and destruction that affect more than just themselves.

Michael Bay's movies gave us swinging robot testicles and racist sub-compact sports cars. Oh, and farting robots.

I understand that the movies are targeted toward a more casual audience, but even a casual audience don't need to be treated like idiots, and those movies are - to my opinion - idiotic. They're eye-candy, plain and simple, and as a fan of Transformers, I don't find that they really answer what I want from a Transformers story - non-human characters with developed personality, and stories that have more than robots punching each other while some tediously conventionally 'hot' woman pouts at the camera and THINGS EXPLODE.

But then maybe I want too much out of my movies, since they keep cranking them out and they keep making money.

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Kalamadea said
Well, my character will be more of a martial artist than a straight-up brawler like Krieg. He'd be fast and nimble instead of using brute strength.I also imagine Shockwave will take up the mantle of Decepticon leadership if Megatron never recovers. To be honest, I think Shockwave as Decepticon leader is a bit scarier since he's known to be far more sadistic than Megatron.

It wouldn't be the first time Shockwave has tried to take control. He's been through various periods of being the Decepticon leader in the comics, both Marvel and otherwise. One of the best comic covers of all time has to do with his attempt at taking over.

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I edited my post so Treadbolt says the same thing as 'Scream. I think it's a nice kind or mirroring if the first two two recover both ask the same question.

Across Broken Skies [Ace Combat inspired RP]

I'm sure I can manage that - I'll have to link you to the previous years' galleries as well. I know I've got pictures of Gripens at other times, amongst other things.

2007
More from 2007
2011
2012
2013

You might catch sight of me and my GF in some of these photos :O

I'll also throw in a link to my photos from Tangmere Aviation museum, which is in my neck of the woods.

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Well, I guess the writer in me likes the exercise...!
I thought your post was great though, it was an excellent intro to the setting.

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Cool cool. I made my post, and I hope it's okay! Not much, but it sets things rolling for the Autobots to start interacting, I hope?

Across Broken Skies [Ace Combat inspired RP]

I'll be sure to take as many as I can. My GF will have her camera too, so between us we'll take plenty. Though, it's nigh-impossible to take decent pics of anything flying without a special rig. We'll get lots of static photos though!

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

That's a promise!

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The approach to the planet, with it's richly organically alive blue-white surface wrapped in filmy clouds of vapour had been chaotic. There had barely been time since the emergence from transwarp to admire the planet or make sense of the myriad of primitive electromagnetic signals and radiation pouring off of the planet before the Decepticons had been at them, hammering them with all manner of weapons fire.
The pilot of the Autobot vessel had done their level best, keeping the battle a moving affair. Weaving through and around the astronomical features of the system, and pulling out every well-learned and well-remembered trick in the book. They'd got some knocks in on the Decepticon ship to be sure, but in the end the hostile vessel had them outgunned and outweighed.
Nonetheless, both ships had been heavily damaged as they'd arrived in orbit, and lacking in suitable control and timing, had been forced to make a barely controlled landing, heading for the area least built-up and with the most open space in the continental landmass below.
Screaming through the planets' dense atmosphere, buffeted and thrown around like pebbles in a tin can along with the ship disintegrating and falling apart around them, many of the Autobots had been thrown off-line temporarily, or massively disoriented - and then the ship had hit the ground, travelling at many hundreds of miles an hour, the impact enough to do more damage.

Treadbolt had been luckier than some - in the upper decks of the ship, he'd only been merely smashed around at uncomfortable velocity, enough to leave his sensors whirling and trying to make sense of which way was up, before he detached himself from the rooms' fittings and regained his balance.
The ship was eerily silent, but for the clicking and groaning of settling, cooling metal and the rattle of broken and smashed systems trying to return to some form of operation.
Grimacing, the heavy soldier made his way to the door, half twisted out of its' frame by the warping of the ships' hull from the impact.
Trying his internal comms - and relived to find them working - he sent out a message to his fellow Autobots. It was a simple enough one:
"Is anyone still alive?"

Task Force Lima (COMPLETED)

Got mine up, thought it was pretty exciting and dramatic.
As an aside, I'll be away for a couple of days from Friday, so I won't be able to get much up in the way of posts, in case I'm badly needed or anything.