Date: 2018-12-20 11:32 pm (UTC)
astolat: lady of shalott weaving in black and white (Default)
From: [personal profile] astolat
Yes, I'm with you -- I felt with a lot of MTME that they were stretching out a fairly small amount of story, and this was an example of hanging a lantern on the fact that nothing was happening and they weren't actually achieving anything, which is both boring and depressing, and mostly it was like a bad office full of infighting and pettiness, lol.

IDK, I don't care about 90% of the characters they crammed the stage with and didn't want to care, so perhaps I am not the target audience, but even the ones I did care about I felt were badly handled. Megatron's redemption story in particular just didn't fundamentally work for me because they kept not SHOWING critical parts of it. And then they shoved him into another universe and had him reappear at the last minute as a saintly Marty Stu with his cannon turned into a medical kit, and then right, to be executed or imprisoned forever despite this, I guess either because the writers felt (correctly) that they hadn't earned letting him go free, since they didn't SHOW any of the actual work he did becoming that guy, or because they felt (incorrectly) that it makes his arc more ~deep~ to have a depressing ending. :P
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