JediTricks wrote:I studied that a lot, actually, and the chest is not complete enough to be clearly defined as any particular body type, there's more going on in the image which we can't see. Then there's the shoulders, which aren't connected to anything at first blush, and could easily have been part of the gray coffin itself.
Are we even looking at the same image? Based on that description, I'm not sure it is. His chest is fairly prominent in the image, and is distinctively his body. We've seen no other Transformers with a form similar to it. Same with his shoulders, which I can see clearly connected to his torso. It's not at all the same color as the coffin, the darker grey's of the body stands out from the lighter colors on the bed of the coffin.
You said "IT'S REALLY MEANT TO BE LOOKED AT IN TERMS OF..." as a direct retort to my interpretation, there's no opinion implied in your sentence, it's meant as a redefinition - placing all opposing viewpoints as somehow under your tutelage as you define the way the book should be read, the way it is somehow intended by its creators. If you wanted to state it as your opinion instead of assumed fact, you would have expressed that without the weight being on everybody else.
Again NO IT'S NOT. I'm going to thorough here, because you clearly aren't getting it. If I meant it as a retort, I wouldn't have spaced that paragraph apart from the other one like that, nor would I have phrased it the way it is. Hell, if I was responding to your opinion, I would have included another quote from your post to make it clear what specifically I was responding to, as I pretty much always do when I respond to a specific point like that, as even this very post is an example of. But, oh look, I didn't do any of that because I
wasn't responding to your opinion about it. Why are you blatantly refusing to accept you just misinterpreted after I've already said
twice that's not what it was? And to add insult to injury, you are telling me how I meant my own post while suggesting I'm the one defining what the creators intended? No. That's wrong on every level. You're taking that sentence, or rather, the
middle of a sentence, completely out of context and making an issue out of this needlessly. As I originally said, with the full context:
"Like andersonh1 said, it's a middle chapter. May not have been the greatest issue but it's really meant to be looked at in terms of the larger picture." It is just one issue in a larger story arc after all, which is the norm for modern comics, geared to be collected as one story arc in a TPB. More commonly it does make a difference to see the whole story together rather than the individual issues. And it's
MY OPINION (agreeing with the general opinions that have been expressed here I might add) that it wasn't the greatest of issues,
BUT being a middle chapter, as andersonh1 previously expressed,
I THINK it's really meant to seen with the full picture of the rest of the storyline. Perhaps I could have phrased it a little differently, but still, I shouldn't have to spell it out like this, or have to defend it like this given I believe the opinion was implied if you actually look at the context. I was giving my opinion about the quality of the issue and continuing off of that thought. Why would I even deny it if it was supposed to be a retort? Seriously, what's with this completely warped over-exaggerated reaction from you? "Placing opposing views under my tutelage", expressing my opinion as an "assumed fact"? None of that is true of what I'd said, I didn't suggest anything even remotely like what you're suggesting here. Once again, I was expressing my own opinion about the issue, not responding to your opinion. It's that simple. Yet you've chosen ignore that, to tell me how I meant what I'd said, twisted that into something I didn't say at all, and picked a fight out of nothing.
andersonh1 wrote:The other thing, apart from the art, is that I question whether or not they'd actually kill off a major character like Rodimus. Sure, it could happen, but I doubt it, and so when I see him apparently dead I'm waiting for some kind of twist to the plot to explain why it isn't really him.
It's not like they haven't "killed" off a character before and found some way to bring them back. But we have no idea what happened yet, so I think we can expect some kind of plot twist.
