Originally Posted by
bowspearer
Ordinarily I'd agree with you. The problem here is that the series is a massive continuity mess after a poorly done soft reboot. The current IDW staff really need to learn how to properly engage in universe building and work with existing built universes in a way where when they want things to take a massive left or right turn, it all still seamlessly works. Sadly nothing the current IDW staff have done, is shown they're upto the task with that.
I actually wish DC got the Transformers licence tbh. Say what you will about the likes of New 52, but at least they can write a coherrent multiverse where things can turn on their head completely with two different versions of the same character (eg Batman vs Owlman) and still make sense.
Not as an extreme example, but let's the Rewind and Chromedome originally having just a close friendship and then Rewind and Chromedome suddenly being lovers. Nothing in the IDW continuity - specifically the xenobiology and xenopsychology is compatible with that. For Chromedome and Rewind to be lovers, it can only be explained by the later Chromedome and Rewind having a different xenobiology and/or xenopsychology which is both compatible and conducive to Rewind and Chromedome being lovers.
In short, you're essentially talking about an Earth-1/Earth-2 type situation. The same "character", but different because they're essentially from a different reality to each other - as evidenced by their xenobiology and xenopsychology.
Yet rather than intelligently approach this intelligently and have a crossover and kill the earlier versions of the characters off, the writers simply pretended that "Earth-1" Chromedome and Rewind were really "Earth-2" Chromedome and Rewind, while keeping the xenobiology of Cybertron as that of "Earth-1". That kind of thing simply wouldn't be likely to happen in DC, yet IDW have shown that they're fine going down the path of that continuity nightmare. Honestly, both Transformers and the under-represented groups they were attempting to represent, deserved a much more competent execution of things.