Yes they are...stunningly amoral. I can't believe people cheered the destruction of Cybertron.
I tend to view the Autobots and their iffy morality as sort of a stand in for America at war. We try to balance between fighting to win (which means being pretty damn brutal at times) and still trying to have some sort of moral high ground. Bay Autobots have NEVER had the high ground for me. They have in every other continuity, but Bayverse? If you look at the Bay movies, they could so easily be inverted.
Like. Okay, take 2007. Here's a story for ya: A team does anything it can to rescue one of their own who has been captured, held and tortured by an enemy. T-that sounds like the good guys, right? Well, that's the Decepticon storyline for most of the film. And what's Megatron's reason for being on Earth to begin with? To regain the thing that would restore life to his home.
THEY DO NOT SOUND LIKE THE BAD GUYS.
DOTM: Again, a plotline (I'll only go through Issue one of the comics so as not to spoiler excessively but as you've read this story which has a spoiler warning, blah blah): Our characters are down and out, huddling in the desert, scant resources, doing anything they can to help children stay alive.
THESE ALSO DO NOT SOUND LIKE THE BAD GUYS.
I love Bayverse, but part of what I love is the WTF morality of the Autobots. It's unique among franchises--G1 Optimus is The Best Guy--this one is...morally void. It's fascinating to me watching who totally buys into the jingoism and who does not.
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Date: 2011-06-30 03:53 pm (UTC)I tend to view the Autobots and their iffy morality as sort of a stand in for America at war. We try to balance between fighting to win (which means being pretty damn brutal at times) and still trying to have some sort of moral high ground. Bay Autobots have NEVER had the high ground for me. They have in every other continuity, but Bayverse? If you look at the Bay movies, they could so easily be inverted.
Like. Okay, take 2007. Here's a story for ya: A team does anything it can to rescue one of their own who has been captured, held and tortured by an enemy. T-that sounds like the good guys, right? Well, that's the Decepticon storyline for most of the film. And what's Megatron's reason for being on Earth to begin with? To regain the thing that would restore life to his home.
THEY DO NOT SOUND LIKE THE BAD GUYS.
DOTM: Again, a plotline (I'll only go through Issue one of the comics so as not to spoiler excessively but as you've read this story which has a spoiler warning, blah blah): Our characters are down and out, huddling in the desert, scant resources, doing anything they can to help children stay alive.
THESE ALSO DO NOT SOUND LIKE THE BAD GUYS.
I love Bayverse, but part of what I love is the WTF morality of the Autobots. It's unique among franchises--G1 Optimus is The Best Guy--this one is...morally void. It's fascinating to me watching who totally buys into the jingoism and who does not.
/shuts up nao