I think Gok's comments here best sum up my opinion on the matters present.

Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
You just have to suspend disbelief and accept it really.
As much as I love Transformers fiction there are times you just have to be willing to suspend disbelief and accept things as they are. They are a fictional universe after all and the primary purpose is to tell stories and those stories should be compelling - not the inner workings of that universe. Understanding the consciousness of a spark or how Optimus Prime's programming was stored onto a floppy may add to one's appreciation of how TFs work but at the end of the day it has no bearing on your appreciation of TFs as a whole if the story is dragged under by it.

I'm not saying that that gives licence to completely ignore matters of logic or believability but I'm saying that to focus on these matters are relatively trivial. The core purpose of fiction should be to propel the characters and the plot forward. And these types of discussions detract from that.

I think that how Transformers work or the "science" behind it is rather misleading and a negative. Especially given that the so-called science behind it is very questionable in the first place. Even more so where there is a section of the fandom that hangs desperately onto their knowledge of just how Transformers work and try to propound the argument that there is some formal logic to how it all works. There isn't. And there needs to be an acceptance of that.

I've yet to see a cohesive explanation of how Transformers work yet. The most we've come is fans drawing tenuous links between disparate lines of Transformers such as G1 comic v. G1 Cartoon v. Beast Wars v. Masterforce etc etc. And I'm not really sure I care for it either. The more obsessive "science" fans can argue all they want but fiction is sometimes a product of its time and as Gok says, you have to suspend your disbelief in the science to appreciate it rather than drowning in the details.

What my true hope is we'll get some really good TF stories. Since the War Within and War and Peace, I have yet to lay eyes on a truly cohesive Transformers story.