Beast Wars is still highly regarded and popular amongst some, and fans have been asking for this.

Megatron in the IDW comics has become a really compelling character. He’s sort of like Killmonger in the sense that he has a very definite point and justification for his actions; it’s just that his methods go off-kilter.

Read the ‘post war’ Cybertron based comics from IDW sometime.  They’re excellent, and definitely have a more peaceful take on the Decepticons.  Especially when they go into Cybertronian history and show exactly why Megatron started the uprising that he did.  The IDW books brought SO MUCH more depth to the Decepticons…

Well, Nicole Dubuc is one of the main producers on the show, and she helmed the original Rescue Bots animated series, and has a pretty lengthy writing resume for animation. She’s hardly a stranger to children’s media.

What’s great about Megatron in this show is that the way stuff is being framed, if he DOES have a heel turn he’s going to be 100% justified in doing so and if anything the audience will have reason to be on his side.

I just want to throw out there that Nightshade would not be the first non-binary transformer as we do in fact have Acid Storm as presented in Cyberverse who would swap between male and female appearance at will.  

Being a creation by humans made in the what? 80s? Of course they were going to be gendered, even if logic would make you think they weren’t.

The current continuity (so far as IDW anyway) has Transformers be a semi-organic race in the sense they spawn via a budding-esq process - for the most part anyway. A lot of the strife on cybertron started because cybertronians realized they could put a spark into a constructed body instead of waiting for a protoform…

There *are* gay Transformers (mostly in the comics, like the ones by IDW). For example, Knockout is shown to be gay (and hinted to be in a relationship with Breakdown). Then there was Chromedome and Rewind. Meanwhile, Skids has been revealed to be bisexual. Hell, Crankcase dated a Dire Wraith. (Yes, fellow ROM fans.…

There are Trans Formers, too. I really like this panel because her answer to the question “why?” Is so simple and concise and really the only reason anyone needs.

Proof that gender is a far more complex concept then we sometime’s give it credit for I guess...

When what are unicorn cars?

With that rectangle face and tall forehead, Ryuk is definitely Bart.

Itchy & Scratchy Land is a broader homage to Crichton’s amusement park critiques, so it ends up using a lot of references to both Jurassic Park and Westworld over and over again. Disney jokes are almost ancillary to the episode’s point.

This. Luke, have you actually watched all the episodes to be able to say it’s mostly rubbish? Don’t get caught up in the internet consensus which is typically a minority of people voicing their extreme opinion. Don’t be fooled by the “Like button” “downvote” binary hyperbole social media has put forth. 19+ seasons…

I don’t think anyone (except maybe Plunkett) writes off the Simpsons as being rubbish. It’s first nine seasons or so were utterly amazing TV, a truly unprecedented run of greatness.

Like a lot of classic episodes of The Simpsons, Itchy & Scratchy Land wasn’t a spoof on just *one* cultural thing, anyway. Disney and Jurassic Park provided a lot of fodder. It’s hard to think of it as “the Westworld spoof” episode.

I like the callout on the poster to Homer’s instant makeup application invention...

I’ve actually heard good things about the recent simpsons. It seems like it’s turned around with a new show runner.

Which is weird, given The Simpsons has already done a Westworld thing, one that lasted an entire episode and is one of the series’ all-time greats, but I guess 1994 was long enough ago (and the modern HBO series so different) that they feel like they can do it all over again and newer viewers won’t even notice.