#or like when characters are oddly hostile to OP/the autobots but are perfectly fine working with far worse ppl

[lord-squiggletits]

Like I'm not one of those story "critics" who will nitpick the smallest inconsistency and call it a plot hole that ruins the whole story. I'm okay with inconsistencies and even the occasional plot hole if it ends up producing a story that's interesting, gripping, and brings up interesting things.

The problem is that suspension of disbelief only stretches so far. And secondly, stuff like character drama and themes are only as strong as the plot that supports them. If the plot is full of contrivances, plot holes, and really stupid things that make it feel like the author is just forcing something to happen to move the story along, then the themes and character drama become much less convincing.

#squiggposting #anyways i do like problematic idw op and i do like it when he has enemies and ppl who don't trust him #but not when the plot to make ppl hate him is stupid as shit and barely makes any sense #or when optimus does something mildly dubious and people act like he personally tortured their families and then murdered them #or like when characters are oddly hostile to OP/the autobots but are perfectly fine working with far worse ppl #like how the humans were all 'fuck the autobots theyre evil' but were fine with helping the cons build a fucking base??? #after the decepticons already killed 1 billion humans??? including soundwave who is one of their main liasons??? #if the humans really didn't trust the decepticons then why didn't they just say 'fuck you you can't build a base in our solar system' #or like that stupid publicity plot point about how OP 'abandoned' jazz when like. #so you're telling me OP can't defend jazz for killing one. ONE cop in self defense #but it's not bad publicity for him to associate with soundwave who. let me repeat. was literally on the ground slaughtering humans in AHM #spike even knew about how that entire situation with the cop was a trap laid by megtron but somehow that never came up in the whole comic #it's just so dumb man like it feels sometimes more like its an IDW OP hate train and actual logic is secondary to making OP look like an as #also galvs being all like 'that's my boy' when OP annexed earth when galv is a racist boomer grandpa who kills organics for sports #i refuse to believe that guy would be impressed by anything less than OP personally murdering a human. not making them part of cybertron's #gov. you know? it's just silly #it's part of why i've been putting off rereading barber's comics because it was weird and contrived the first time #and i don't really want to put myself through rereading it again just to have to suffer through shitty plot again #so many things in that series couldve been genius if they were written in a plot that wasn't aggressively mid tier