A bluff that didn't fool Megatron for even a second. Yet Rattrap was still willing to listen to Megatron after that. Seems like begging to me if he was still willing to go that far just to get his hands on some weapons.andersonh1 wrote:He wasn't begging. He was trying to bluff Megatron.
Now this is more to the point I'm getting at. The writers didn't seem to care how realistic something was, they just wanted to fill the roll the episode called for.Yeah, and how likely is that? That's a horribly coincidental piece of writing, that they would just happen to find the one place on the planet where Megatron carried out his schemes. It's utterly absurd. It's about as stupid as the utter ease with which the Maximals trash the Vehicon drones time and time again.
Would Megatron know where every single weapon on Cybertron was stored? I doubt that.Would control-freak Megatron have left any weapons stashed anywhere? I doubt it.
And even with his army of drones, I doubt he'd have gone looking for every single weapon with the populace pretty much wiped out. Heck, he was arrogant enough to move the Autobot shuttle to the space port after the Maximals crashed.
What, like they couldn't take it apart and rework it into something they could use? Not to mention we saw Rattrap could hack into the drones through his tail to take direct control of them. Would have been interesting to see Rattrap invent a 'gun extension' for his tail like the other tools he had.Let's apply that idea to "The Weakest Link". You and Synjo have both suggested that Rattrap should have scavenged some weaponry off some of the immobilized Vehicons. But how do those weapons work? They're hardwired into the Vehicons, right? Controlled as part of their bodies, not free standing weapons with triggers that someone can point and shoot.
He was also a spy, and that would require some tech skills given how sophisticated some Cybertronian security systems are (and Rattrap claimed he hadn't met one he couldn't beat). "Double Jeopardy" showed Rattrap using his spy gear for picking locks and stuff around the Predacon base and we found out in a later episode he installed a spy cam while he was at it. He was shown to be working on some maintenance on the Axlalon in "Code of Hero". I'd assume it took all of the Maximals to help salvage the Axalon and set up the volcano base. And Rattrap just strikes me as the type to know his way around a gun. Seems to me he should have all the tech skills required to reconfigure one.Rattrap is not, at this point, the inventor and tech-head that he develops into. He's a sharpshooter and demolitions expert who has spent the last five episodes trying to learn how to transform.
Now you're just splitting hairs. Maybe Rattrap wasn't literally begging, but he was still willing to go to great lengths just to get his hands on weapons from Megatron, hence why I call it begging.Because he didn't beg. He went in and threatened Megatron, and Megatron called his bluff. Megatron then offered a deal, which Rattrap accepted. Rattrap then started to turn on Megatron, only to have Megatron appeal to his better nature and give Rattrap pause. There was no begging involved anywhere along the way.
I seem to recall Rattrap hacking into a mole drone that was offline at one point (in another episode), implying he could activate an inactive drone. But even so, it seemed like the Maximals automatically knew what their robot modes were capable of as soon as they mastered transforming into them (Cheetor's first time gliding with his swords for instance). As such, I think it should have occurred to Rattrap that he could hack essentially anything on Cybertron. And Rattrap wasn't sure exactly what condition Megatron was in yet. It would have made sense to spend the two seconds it takes him to plug into something to at least try it out and maybe have something to defend himself if need be. Not to mention, it would have been easier to do with a drone that isn't moving rather than when they're fully active.The drones were all offline. And even if they weren't, Rattrap had only just discovered how to hack into Cybertron's computers. I'm not even sure that he's contemplated controlling a Vehicon at this point. So why waste time messing around with deactivated Vehicons, hoping to get lucky? He went straight in and threatened Megatron and tried to get what he wanted that way.
And that's the problem... He didn't change naturally from his Beast Wars persona, it was forced on him to fit the roll of the episode. Even with the hardships he faced in the early episodes of Beast Machines, realistically, it doesn't make sense he'd ever consider going to Megatron, his mortal enemy, for help before even looking at other options first. I mean really, he had a hard enough time trusting Dinobot in Beast Wars. Even with Megatron in a weakened condition, why would he think he could ever trust him? Put simply, it was mis-characterization on the writers part.And that's the point... he's not the Rattrap we knew in Beast Wars. He's changed.
