Organics of Transmetals & Transmetal 2s?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Also, I have 2 more.
Are Hasbro G1 Optimus' smokestacks molded blue then painted silver?

My G1 Prime has them in the same shade as his legs, with (increasing less as time goes on) silver paint.

The writers just did the best they could with the toys Hasbro gave them... Ideally it would have been good to be consistent with that plot element, as well as the whole Transmetal concept itself, but I applaud Ditillio and Forward for what they did end up giving us.

Besides, these plot inconsistencies give us fans something to talk about, to make it more interesting dissecting the stories.

Oh yeah, no disrespect to Ditillio and Forward intended, it just suddenly struck me as interesting/odd is all and I wanted to see what people thought. Looking at TM2 Megs he doesn't seem to have any necessarily organic parts (in the same way as Optimal Optimus' gorilla chest is organically styled but doesn't seem organic per se), but then it becomes this big thing in BM.

My line of thinking is that Megs was only disliking of Organics with Beast Machines, as he seemed to actively enjoy both of his T-Rex & Dragon forms; Only with the advent of Beast Machines throwing out 3 Seasons worth of narrative did he begin to "Hate" organics - At least that's what I thought.

It's an interesting question as to why he ended up more of an Organic Dragon (Not that I'm complaining, the toy is beautiful).
Perhaps it could be based more so on what is at the "Laser-core" of a particular Spark and hence manifesting itself accordingly?

That's sort of what I was thinking, except that G1/old-school Megs did show an aversion towards organics and BW Megs (as opposed to BM Megs, who I maintain got driven a little space-crazy by being strapped to the outside of ship during a presumably long transwarp trip) seemed not to care either way (or to put it differently was typically pragmatic about the whole thing - power is power no matter whether it's organic or mechanical), whereas both Prime and Primal show a fondness/appreciation for organics. Based on the sparks involved, you'd think if anyone was going to lose their organic side it'd be Megatron^2, not Optimus^2.

Original Megatron was a maniacal dictator, bent on the conquest of the Universe whereas Prime was a leader who's own spark had been heavily influenced/mutated by those that had previously held the Matrix.
Maybe because of these influences "Evil" manifests itself as a Beast & "Good" the form of a/the divine being, as this particular being is Primus and all Cybertronians are supposedly made in his image (Transforming Anthropomorphic Vehicles, initially), the end result is far more Vehicular/Mechanical in nature?

I'll sorta pay that what with the pseudo-Biblical Covenant of Primus stuff, and I can think of a few various fanwank scenarios that'd sorta work myself. I'd still like to hear Verno's take on all this though.