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fandomsecrets2012-05-05 04:27 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-05-05 04:27 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #1950 ⌋
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It just doesn't seem fair that many fans say the 'cons are better because they have flaws but get mad when an autobot is given a fatal flaw. I know that the autobots should be on a different level of mortality because - well - they're the GOOD GUYS, but...
...Gah, does any of this make sense? ._.;
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Nah, I understood what you mean. And now my rebuttal.
"Maybe I'm too much of a Bulkhead fan to be unbias, but the scene felt well played to me and added some great character development. Bulkhead is an emotional character, and he's from a group of autobots that were normally scent on suicide missions where it was either kill or be killed. He lost control. It made sense for him to react like that to me, and his own reaction to realizing what he had done with his uncertain "...I had to do it" just... I think it was a fantastic character flaw to bring out in that way.
It just doesn't seem fair that many fans say the 'cons are better because they have flaws but get mad when an autobot is given a fatal flaw. I know that the autobots should be on a different level of mortality because - well - they're the GOOD GUYS, but..."
This is why I have a problem with the scene. The general aspect of TFP (what I notice anyways) is that it goes for a black and white morality of Autobots = good and Decepticons = bad (this is not a criticism, mind you), so there's a kind of mindset and expectation that I follow. Thus, I can expect the Cons to pull something like this because they're "the bad guys". Starscream did provoke Bulkhead - guns and all - but Bulkhead immediately lost his cool (granted, with justification), rammed him down, and smashed his head until he died without ever thinking of the serious repercussion of the murder he just committed. Then he had the gull to say he had "no choice". Yes, he did. He could have let him live; he could have just threatened Starscream to help him find an exit, or knock him unconscious or whatever. This isn't a case where he's killing out of defense; he did just because he lost his cool. I want to say this is character development/flaw, but at no point in the episode after does he ever ponder if he went too far nor does he get reprimanded by Optimus who wouldn't approve of this. It's hard to count it as a flaw if no one calls him out on it or the episode never emphasizes it's a flaw. To me, it seems we're simply suppose to accept that Bulkhead did the right thing. Oh, Starscream deserves to die, no question, but I do think Bulkhead wasn't acting out of defense. I think it's full on coldblooded murder.
And I especially find it irritating because in the same episode, Arcee let Airachid live and took a third option because she declares she is not like her - she's better than her and the Cons. And the episode treats it as though her actions and Bulkhead's fit in the same category. I can't speak for others, but this has nothing to do with Cons being better (I'm mostly Team Autobot for most of the TF franchise :D), it's just an immoral act to me.
I'm soooo sorry for the lengthy rant. It's just, yeah, I don't like it. Sorry. ^_^;
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...I still thought it was cool though, but yeah, that is the bias talking. :B
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