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cogito-ergo-dumb:

I think why I love transformers so much is that it’s the only robot story I know where the robots are legitimate People? like every other robot story is “oh these robots are piloted by people” or “oh these robots were made by people and they’re learning what it means to be alive and exploring the anxiety around ais/the advance of technology and how you define personhood” or as accessories to the human characters like in star wars or Star Trek or mass effect or like in wall-e the robots are cute but they’re very much just Cute Machines like “oh it’s a coffee maker but it makes cute noises!” or even just people’s minds in robot bodies etc etc but transformers is so different! cause it’s like… yeah they’re robots but they’re first and foremost People… like they have a soul and the robot thing is partly just flavour cause they’re very much people with emotions and personalities but also the incredible worldbuilding you can do in a race of robots like what kind of society would you have if your race lived for millions of years? if you could rebuild your body whenever you wanted? if there was no concept of children? if your brain was a computer and you could just download whatever information you needed and do complex calculations instantly? it’s so INTERESTING the idea of an entire society of completely sentient + sapient robots with no human influence who are nonetheless people…. I just think it’s so neat

and on TOP OF THAT… they can TURN INTO CARS AND STUFF… I love it I love. Transformers it’s so good

i-dnt-know-either:

Can we appreciate that Skyfire, this huge, tough-looking shuttle, built to handle the rigors of space, is a shy scientist? Like, he could have turned out to be this closed-off, tanky warrior, who fights in the middle of ruined spaceships and asteroid belts. And instead he’s this gentle giant who loves science and is a big lovable nerd. And that makes me so damn happy. That the big guy who looks like your typical brute is really a genius.

wavex2:

i’m 100% here for dramatic cultural differences not just between cybertronians and colonists, but between autobots and decepticons, or even different units and geographical stations within each faction. you can’t tell me that a bunch of autobot scientists stranded on a distant research planet isn’t going to have different tastes, linguistic sets and culture than a unit of decepticon frontliners or a lost city of theocratic NAILs.  there are millions of cybertronians and they’ve been so spread out for millions of years – just imagine how many weird subgroups and fringe cultures must have developed!

more culture clashes please!!!!

spookyprime:

spookyprime:

for me cybertronian culture is by far the most interesting thing about transformers and subsequently its one of the least explored aspects in the whole damn franchise 

me: Hey I wanna know about robot sociology and native culture pertaining to them as a species. I want to know about their writing system and their language and how that effects communication. I want to know more about their physiology and the extra senses they have like electromagnetism and how this helps them navigate their surroundings. I want to know about their music and what music for robots might sound like. I want to know what kind of art they produce given that they see on different wavelengths than we do. I want to know more about their religion and the different religious sects that they have and any of the inter-sectional disputes that may arise because of different beliefs. I want to know more. 

hasbro: U want them to punch each other on earth????? gotcha