Post by jessebaker on May 12, 2009 20:40:44 GMT -8
AKA Shit Jesse Baker thinks about while up at 4 AM in the morning, unable to sleep because he's sick. An alternate interpretation of "Transformers"
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"Transformers" are cosmic abominations. Cosmic horror not in the flesh but in the steel. These shape-shifting monstrosities are the stuff HP Lovecraft warned us about in his fictional works of the Eldritch Abominations of the Cthulhu Mythos. The only thing Lovecraft got wrong was not knowing that the abomination of old, in the vast cold void of space that see humanity as nothing more than an ant on the front porch step, are machine.
They live in the deep dark void of space and in the case of the originsl of most incarnations of the franchise, sleep a sleep that would let them outlive Death itself.
They are a warring race of titans, who's war has infiltrated many worlds and left a trail of death and destruction. Sometimes they absorb actual humans into their bodies, either as heads or as living batteries attached to their chest, with the implication that in doing so, the human minds of those poor souls are slowly erased as they become detachable body parts.
Their war is fought by two sides, the Autobots and the Decepticons. The later is the only truly "honest" side as far as being upfront with their destructive need for violence and enslavement of other lesser species. The Autobots cloak their violence and cruelty and culpability in the destruction of entire species by pretending to care about the poor downtrodded people who's worlds serve as the battlegrounds for their civil war. In truth, they do not care and instead push themselves towards manipulating humanoids to serve them as pets, protecting them mainly out of a sense of curiousity more than anything else.
Their "transformation" aspect is a deliberate mockery of the traditional notion of form and shape, allowing the Transformers to shift in form and size and mass to fit their desires. Furthermore, this also them to be able to truly walk among humans without even having to interact with humanity.
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"Transformers" are cosmic abominations. Cosmic horror not in the flesh but in the steel. These shape-shifting monstrosities are the stuff HP Lovecraft warned us about in his fictional works of the Eldritch Abominations of the Cthulhu Mythos. The only thing Lovecraft got wrong was not knowing that the abomination of old, in the vast cold void of space that see humanity as nothing more than an ant on the front porch step, are machine.
They live in the deep dark void of space and in the case of the originsl of most incarnations of the franchise, sleep a sleep that would let them outlive Death itself.
They are a warring race of titans, who's war has infiltrated many worlds and left a trail of death and destruction. Sometimes they absorb actual humans into their bodies, either as heads or as living batteries attached to their chest, with the implication that in doing so, the human minds of those poor souls are slowly erased as they become detachable body parts.
Their war is fought by two sides, the Autobots and the Decepticons. The later is the only truly "honest" side as far as being upfront with their destructive need for violence and enslavement of other lesser species. The Autobots cloak their violence and cruelty and culpability in the destruction of entire species by pretending to care about the poor downtrodded people who's worlds serve as the battlegrounds for their civil war. In truth, they do not care and instead push themselves towards manipulating humanoids to serve them as pets, protecting them mainly out of a sense of curiousity more than anything else.
Their "transformation" aspect is a deliberate mockery of the traditional notion of form and shape, allowing the Transformers to shift in form and size and mass to fit their desires. Furthermore, this also them to be able to truly walk among humans without even having to interact with humanity.
