I still maintain the best way to update the autobots is to make them a competing revolutionary group to the decepticons, rather than fighters to restore the status quo of a “Golden Age” that was actually pretty awful in most continuities.
I’m tired of shades of gray that go nowhere (Animated and Transformers Prime), The Transformers have their roots in older superhero stories. I want to see freaking hope.
Instead of making the Autobots former opressors, if you want to give them flaws, hold up a mirror to how while they’re often written empathetic to their own and those they’re allied with, but horribly ableist to neutral parties.
On a side note: I’d like to see avoidance shipping undertones to Megatron’s and Optimus’s relationship. I like foe-yay, but I feel having it between the faction leaders distracts from the other characters. I’d like to see the series move away from the “Great Man Theory” of history, and over-focusing on their rivalry seems counterproductive.
For similar reasons, I’d also like to see Unicron and Primus downplayed in their thematic importance.
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