Sunstreaker and Sideswipe's relationship:
That was definitely a conscious decision. He'd been under Streaker's shadow for quite a long time and the events of AHM caused him to mature in his mindset considerably.
Alternatively it caused Sunstreaker to go the other way which had them in a position during AHM for the teacher to become the pupil as it were.
Both reacted differently to the situation (clearly Streaker had more going on though) but Sideswipe, initially, took the higher ground and realised they had to see the big picture due to what had happened.
Sadly Streaker had already fallen too far and, when he made the sacrifice on the bridge it forced Sideswipe to become somewhat bitter about their prospects and what their actions had brought about.
Sideswipe's connection to Streaker and his having almost become the conscience of this war factors into #12. Stay tuned...
On Cliffjumper:
Absolutely. I tend to see Cliffjumper as the weaponsmith of the Autobots. There's a reason he's the only Autobot with a gun in the original crew stranded on Cybertron. Take a closer look, he fashioned it out of spare parts. Face it, he's MacGyver.
That's also why he's chatting with Perceptor in one of the shots after the teams unite; the two gun guys are geeking out at what he'd built.
On Bombshell in Blaster's spotlight vs. his version:
The way I saw it was that the Bombshell we saw in the Spotlight was a prototype for the larger model we see later.
I think it's great and I think there should be more of it. Wherever possible I re-invented rather than reintroduced (Perceptor, Roadbuster, Blurr).
Who created the Insecticons?
That's open to any writer wanting to tackle that point. The current Insecticons were created by Megatron and Deluge, the previous ones? Hmmm...
[quote="Shane McCarthy"][quote="Mort"]Does that mean the praise Deluge gives out is directed at Megatron ('This was a stroke of genius [...] It's upsetting I didn't think of this myself' etc) or did I misunderstand you and the praise was for Soundwave's (or whoever else's) original creations?[/quote]
It was directed at Megs.
[quote="Mort"]Also, having had the time to listen to the interview now, I have found the relationship between Megatron & Starscream ambiguous all the way to #11, but you seem to be making it absolutely clear that Megatron is sincere in what he tells Starscream and Starscream is sincere in his change of heart. Would you just reconfirm that that's indeed what you meant for them and there are no additional layers to that conversation. [/quote]
I'm glad you found it ambiguous. People debating their motivations were exactly what I was hoping for. However, yes, to clear it up: Megatron is indeed sincere in what he tells Starscream (however he's also baiting him to 'trick' him into playing his hand) and Starscream's change of heart is...oh wait, #12 isn't out yet is it? Shhh then.
[quote="Mort"]And whilst on the subject, what was that final step that Megatron wanted Starscream to take to completely embrace the Decepticon ideal back in #3?[/quote]
To accept who he is and accept Megatron as leader...OR...to make his play for leadership and take Megatron out. That was basically Megatron saying "Sh*t or get off the pot."
[quote="Mort"]Regarding Kup as the traitor, I did think strongly it was him around the time of #6, particularly because of his speech to Prowl. Was any of it going to be part of his traitor persona had you gone down that route or was he going to be an entirely different personality altogether? The canvas must have been pretty blank after Nick's spotlight. Or did you never get that far at that stage?[/quote]
Let me be very, very clear on this (even though I have been but little things like this have a habit of running off to other boards and mutating into 'Shane changed his mind and blah blah!!', haha). My idea for having Kup as the traitor was something I threw out WELL before AHM #1 had gone to script. The Kup you see in AHM, all the way through, is a non traitor Kup.
As you say, I had a blank slate to play with and rebuilt him with 100% badass components, no shoddy workmanship there at all ;)
[quote="Mort"][PS: The cigar is brilliance - especially the scene where he picks it up in SL:Drift][/quote]
For all the cigar fans, it has two 'moments' in #12...other than that third moment where it takes on Megatron single handed and save the universe from evil and...stuff.[/quote]
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