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July 8, 2006
That’s right, I finally put my website up today! And I’m pretty darn happy about that. It’s amazing how simple it looks, yet it took me a month to get it to this point. I didn’t know a thing about making web pages, PhotoShop or CorelPainter a month ago. So with that, I give you my first *rant*
I was thinking about some talk I’d heard about updating Soundwave, Blaster and the cassettes because technology has changed.
Sure if Teletraan-1 was to scout out new transformation modes today, it would probably pick something different than cassettes and cassette players. But I like keeping to the whole 1984 awakening thing, so I think they should stay the way they are for now.
How would alien machines that didn’t integrate into human society know what was cutting edge human technology and what wasn’t, or even care about totally keeping up on it? The Transformers and Teletraan-1 couldn’t instantly know the complete background of technological development, or what the latest fashion in vehicles was, any more than you or I could if we were aliens on another planet. So Soundwave, Blaster, the cassettes, and even the vehicles could forseeably be slightly outdated, even today. Believe it or not, some people still own cassette tape players, just like a few people still own record players and eight tracks. A guy I went to high school with restored an old Mustang and installed an eight track player for authenticity. Brave guy you might say...
Okay, maybe a phonograph or something of obvious antiquity is where you could draw the line. I doubt Teletraan-1 would scan one of those. As for vehicles, I see vehicles on the road of all different ages. Heck, I recently saw a shiny, restored Fairlady Z on the road. I don’t think the Transformers, again being aliens and not having our sense of fashion, would necessarily care if they weren’t absolutely current. As long as they disguised themselves, what else really matters? Perhaps Tracks or Sunstreaker might care. But the old Corvette still looks great, and the Lamborghini has a kind of timeless look, like a Ferrari. Since Sunstreaker already thinks he’s the most beautiful thing on the planet, why would he want to change? It might be a big hassle and a lot of work to update every few years, also.
I bet there was technology of all different vintages on Cybertron. That’s one reason why I think the Transformers talk to each other using forearm communicators, etc - because their circuitry may not have been compatible with each other to communicate otherwise. I just can’t see a planet of machines all progressing or updating with each other in synch, especially since the two factions were at war with one another.
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