In an interview with Geek Cast Radio, Steven Melching, writer of several episodes of Transformers Prime and Beast Machines, shed some light on some upcoming plot points and addressed a few fan complaints about Transformers Prime – namely the widely-noted fact that status quo has been omnipresent thus far.
Other points he raised include:
- We’ve not seen the last of SynthEn (introduced, and last seen, in the season 1 episode Stronger, Faster)
- Steven Melching wrote the season 2 finale, Darkest Hour, and will be writing five episodes of season 3. Marsha Griffin (Prime series story editor, writer of Legacy, Predatory and Transformers Animated Endgame Part 2 amongst others) will also be writing five episodes for season 3.
- Season 2 “will not end well” for the Autobots. Apparently the big question going into season 3 will be how they get out of the situation they find themselves in.
- Season 3 will have a complete new setting, and no status quo.
- Steven Melching would be okay with season 3 being the end of the series, because going into the series they knew how they wanted the series to end, and apparently that is how season 3 will end.
HoneyPrime
Leonis Prime
i think that TFP will do what Justice League did when it became JLU.
They add list of new autobots and have most episodes following these and only a few on the original group.
Prime Jetscream
WHAT
I thought they confirmed a Season 4!??!
AxionPrime
I love fan-theories like these. Makes me want to make this a set of photos and post them on the Inspirational thread.
moreprimeland
^^^^
Megs will have to fight Starscream and his laughing cyber monkey.
Phantom6
They have to Kill Robo-god. It takes twenty minutes to complete the cycle back into Cyber-heaven giving team Prime roughly the length of one episode to get back to their bodies and back to Earth before Megatron manages to take over the Internet.
ErbFan28
I think Smokescreen is the major character death. I think he could sacrifice himself to save Cybertron or something along those lines
Autovolt 127
The writers have said when they kill a character they kill a character. In other words optimus would cheat death or never die in the first place.
VAwitch
Well, TF Prime, when it does end, will make my 63 y/o mom sad. She & I enjoy the fact that my parents, myself & my 10 y/o son all make an effort to sit down every other week to watch it live, and when my son returns from his dad-weekends, we watch it while eating Monday night dinner before 'their' shows are on.
Seriously, between the Bay-movies eye candy (and seeing the story potential), TFA & TF: Prime, my parents finally get why this franchise still jazzes me almost 30 years later.
Transformed
The TV-Y7 rating says otherwise.
As those behind the show grew up watching the original show themselves, they want to make something that they themselves would watch, so they've thrown in things to appeal to their older audience, but first and foremost, they have to appeal to children, as it is a children's show designed to sell children's toys.
OptimussSTAR
Transformers prime is not just a children's show, and they have done some things in the show already I found questionable for a as you described as a children's show as far as that goes. Killing off main characters is traumatizing to small children but yet they keep doing it, it seems to me the writers do it for shock value, with little regard to the younger fans of characters. I saw when happened with my nephews and nieces when Optimus Prime died in all the things including bayverse and it looks like it will happen again, so please do not tell me about it being a children's show, if that were the case they wouldn't be death in the show period. They will end up with the same problems as they have been in with the G1 movie.
Transformed
In a children's show? Really?
OptimussSTAR
I have a feeling the base will be blown up after, and one of the humans will be in it either Fowler or one of the kids, that would make the Autobots look really bad and they would end up being on the run.
Cyber-Scream
Or Magnus can be a temporary substitute until Smokescreen becomes a Prime.
But yeah, I highly doubt that'll ever happen because even if they did kill Optimus they would probably find some cheap way to revive him an episode later.
Transformed
Would jump at the opportunity if it ever happened …but doubtful
I know right? I figure they change ever so often to keep things fresh, like the many gimmicks and new looks we often see come and go, but I fail to see why it is important to start from scratch all over again. Doing so means that have to redo origin tales all over again–and isn't this what got Hasbro in the origin mess in the first place? If they told a leaner story from the get go, they wouldn't have had to lock things down some 25 years later
A change in setting, an occasional new threat, changing of allegiances (Autobot and Decepticon), periodic new recruits, mixed with a modicum of gains/losses for both would make the story interesting for a long time to come. I can't see how something that has worked so well for Star Trek couldn't work here.
I know people get tired of characters now and again–it's happening now with Arcee and Miko–but that doesn't mean one needs to end a show and start over again, with the same characters taking lead again!
I don't see why the end of the third or fourth season be the end of this current arc and the next season the beginning of the next act in the story? An occasional cameo or name drop here and there would suffice in keeping the two stories together. Best of all, you could bring them back together at the end of that story arc for a showdown like we haven't seen since the '86 animated movie.
With a good amount of mixing up and alternating casts here and there, I don't see how this could fail. But before this could ever work, Hasbro needs do something with Megatron and the Decepticons. Aside from wanting to rule our world, I don't know why Megatron is here or what he's doing. Why does he and the Decepticons have to be so random?
Why did the Cybertronians that preceded Optimus and Megatron wage war on our world, and why do they keep coming back. The universe is such a reach environment with millions of oppertunities, so why do they keep coming to the same little pebble in space? Why don't they ever go to our galaxy's other planets, like the ones rich in gasses and other materials?
I'm not a fan of good versus evil–please stop playing the Decepticons as thugs Hasbro. A clear vision for both Autobots and Decepticons would make future tales so much easier to tell.
Sounds a bit extreme there. I'm pretty sure the "change in setting" is referring to the Autobots losing their secret base. It's pretty obvious now that they're going to lose it–I originally thought Soundwave was going to figure out that the Autobots were piggybacking their systems and was going to find the Autobots base by tracing the signal back to the source.
While I do think the Autobots are going to lose relics, I don't see the Decepticons getting them. Airachnid is Primed to get them first and to be on her way. With the Decepticon forces fast approaching, I doubt she'll linger after collecting her booty.
I wonder if the Decepticons will ever find the location of the humans. It seems Megatron is more interested in using the information they have to triangulate the location of the Autobots' base. Once the Autobots are gone, he's going to enslave/kill humanity anyway, so why waste time hunting down humans when he can actual do something worthwhile?
Does seem a bit extreme, no?
The loses of one's home and possessions sounds like one's darkest hour to me, not to mention not ending well for the Autobots. With no safe haven, the Autobots will be exposed and very vulnerable.
I figure Wheeljack, however, will come in during the last episode to save many of them from utter defeat. The question is, though, will he survive giving Team Prime a reprieve?
Just curious, how do you guys see the Autobots base going down? I originally thought it would be bombarded out of existence, but with the Dark Star Saber in Megatron's possession, there really isn't a need for him to get off his ship. Do you think Megatron will get down and dirty and do it all himself or attack from afar, a safe distance away?
TFW10
"Doesn't end well" doesn't mean someone will die (hopefully no one does) it could mean something else.
The Autobot base is found, the Decepticons lay siege, and steal the artifacts.
Or Airachnid escapes.
OptimussSTAR
no actually it doesn't sound like a good season
Autovolt 127
That would make for a great season.
Spunky
Let me guess: the Autobot gang will lose Optimus and and possibly Bumblebee as well who will find themselves stranded on a robotic beast planet being hunted by Thundertron and his goons. The Decepticons will discover and invade the Autobot base. They will also discover the location of Jack and Miko. The Autobots will have to abandon their base and may be minus some of those relics as well if the Decepticons take them. They will be homeless, without their leader, on the run from the Cons and possibly more evil humans, without the aid of their relics and the ground bridge, and probably very hungry and malnurished as well stuggling to find enough Energon to stay alive. Jack and June will be relocated. Miko as well and either sent back to Japan or given to new host parents in the United States. To Jack, Miko, and Raf's protest, their Autobot buddies will decide to leave the kids permanently and never return thinking that all they did was put them in danger. The kids will be extremely lonely because not only will they be minus their Autobot buddies, but minus eachother as well all being in different locations far away from eachother.
YES IT WILL BE THE OPTIMUS', THE REST OF THE AUTOBOTS', AND THE KIDS' DARKEST HOUR!
DrGrim
That's how I feel about it too. I'm getting tired of the constant reboots.