...Or, maybe, it was just a bad idea that people admittedly overreacted to a bit.

Hey, the guy asked for opinions on his idea. You don't get better at anything by being treated with kid gloves. Although the criticism has to be something with more substance than "U R TEh Suxx", but I think even the harshest posts in this thread contain at least some element of real criticism.

 

I certainly encourage Dynamo to continue to refine the idea based on anything in this thread he finds to be valid/helpful and to ignore the rest because, as we all know, often times people on the internet (myself included) don't know what they're talking about. I would certainly be interested in seeing further "drafts" of the concept if he were inclined to share them.

Who cares about improvement? He's not writing the actual script or anything. He was just talking over an idea with a buddy and decided to share. It just seems that the pile on effect is pretty potent around here.

Who cares about improvement?

Well, gee, I never thought of it like that. :roll

 

I think most people would want their work to be the best it can be, even if it is just fan-fiction for fun's sake. He's creative enough to come with the idea, and I think he's creative enough to refine it if he finds doing so to be enjoyable.

Let's just stick to the topic now, okay.

Who cares about improvement?

Well, gee, I never thought of it like that. :roll

 

I think most people would want their work to be the best it can be, even if it is just fan-fiction for fun's sake. He's creative enough to come with the idea, and I think he's creative enough to refine it if he finds doing so to be enjoyable.

I think you're in the wrong forum. There is still a fan-fic forum, right? :tfhuh

Let's just stick to the topic now, okay.

:pfx

i like the idea of his bot-mode geing dinosaur like and his alt-mode military vehicle but your characterization seems complicated considering he amount of time spent in the first movie concerning the robots character...

 

look at it from a casual fans perspective, they know optimus is leader, and ironhide like to shoot stuff, but they didn't get the feeling that starscream is a traitor or anything... the robots characterization was very lacking and i don't know how bay would add one like that and make it unique? what did we really find out about any of their pasts? or reputations

Let's just stick to the topic now, okay.

:pfx

:tdown

 

Seriously, I would be a bit surprised if we ever see a movie Grimlock.

i like the idea of his bot-mode geing dinosaur like and his alt-mode military vehicle but your characterization seems complicated considering he amount of time spent in the first movie concerning the robots character...

 

look at it from a casual fans perspective, they know optimus is leader, and ironhide like to shoot stuff, but they didn't get the feeling that starscream is a traitor or anything... the robots characterization was very lacking and i don't know how bay would add one like that and make it unique? what did we really find out about any of their pasts? or reputations

I agree. If you strip away everything you know about Transformers and then watch the movie, what do you really know about these characters at the end of the movie? Who knows where they may be planning to go with a sequel, but to my mind this franchise wasn't really set up to be the kind of thing that allows the robots to be real characters. Their main function in the first movie seemed to be to get the audience to say "whoa cool!" Most of their dialogue was cartoon-level stuff.