IDW Comics for February 2013
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:01 pm
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What sign are you getting of that? My read on the solicits is that RID is lurching into a Megatron plotline while MTMTE gets round to Overlord.Denyer wrote:I sincerely hope that this doesn't mark the beginning of MTMTE being reined in and steered back towards the Cybertron mess.
Oh no, they're going to go Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica nine years too late, aren't they?Denyer wrote:tired PoW storyline
Quite likely. Though I'm not too fussed on what happens to the plot - it's the stuff that happens in between the plot that is MTMTE's treasure.Overlord's likely to unbalance the MTMTE plot.
Wait, wasn't Shockwave one big set-up to Escalation? The Spotlights lost their way when they became a defacto secondary plot, in my opinion.relak wrote:Oh dear. The megatron spotlight sounds like its returning to the dark days of furman's style of spotlights.
Meaning that it serves merely as either a lead in to an ongoing plot or as filler rather than a character centered solo adventure of a revelation about a characters past or hidden motivations (like how earlier spotlights like shockwave did so well in)
That's true but I'm not sure I minded too much. I had faith in the -ations moving the plot forward and the Spotlights dropping in world-building details. When the plot strangled the main books at around the same time it ate the Spotlights, did it not? My memory is pretty hazy about the running order so I might just be narrativising.Denyer wrote:Perversely -- and from the word go -- they sucked all of the interesting plot points out of the main books, serving them up as jumbled bits and pieces rather than an overall narrative.
Yes but the focus was on introducing shockwave. His motivations, his personality, and his role in the bigger picture. We get an insight to his thinking process and his unique character and the issue could stand as a stand alone tale. Same with six shot, ultra Magnus etc. Compare that with, say spotlight grimlock or Optimus prime. Those ended up as ongoing dead universe arc issues rather than standalone spotlights.Terome wrote:Wait, wasn't Shockwave one big set-up to Escalation? The Spotlights lost their way when they became a defacto secondary plot, in my opinion.