For me, it's because ghosts are at least plausible in G1. Transformers have souls, that was established in "Sea Change". It's not much of a step conceptually from "having a soul" to "soul running around after body is dead". Besides, "Starscream's Ghost" & "Ghost in the Machine" confirmed it, not to mention all those geezers in the Matrix.
I have no problems with human vampires in G1; they've shown that all kinds of weirdness exists in the Sunbow-verse: wizards, ghosts, ancient Egyptian gods, pre-human serpent-man civilizations (Cobra Commander, Robert E. Howard wants his Valusians back), Berserkers (Hi, Unicron!), time-machines, magical time-gates, Lovecraftian horrors from the deeps of time...
What I have a problem with are vampire-robots, because vampires are tied to organic death and decay and blood. Blood is the life, there, and giant robots don't have any, don't die the way organics do, and don't decay quite the same way, either. The motifs don't fit.
Zombies have been made to work: they are just rusty, badly-damaged dead Transformer shells put back into operation as non-sentient drones. Except when the mind comes back and gets all cranky, then you get Impactor.
I write lich-Scream, which is a ghost possessing a drone body. (He still hasn't figured this one out yet in my fic-verse; he thinks he's alive. Cue "Sixth Sense" quotes. LJ-Screamer is much more self-aware).
TFA Starscream was some kind of undead: his spark was gone, but the Allspark fragment kept him online and sentient. Maybe it housed his spark as well; maybe he was a soulless intelligent undead. (Once again, it's Starscream's fault for confusing things).
So different undead work in Transformers stories; it's just vampire-Transformers that don't make sense for me.
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Date: 2009-06-20 06:16 pm (UTC)For me, it's because ghosts are at least plausible in G1. Transformers have souls, that was established in "Sea Change". It's not much of a step conceptually from "having a soul" to "soul running around after body is dead". Besides, "Starscream's Ghost" & "Ghost in the Machine" confirmed it, not to mention all those geezers in the Matrix.
I have no problems with human vampires in G1; they've shown that all kinds of weirdness exists in the Sunbow-verse: wizards, ghosts, ancient Egyptian gods, pre-human serpent-man civilizations (Cobra Commander, Robert E. Howard wants his Valusians back), Berserkers (Hi, Unicron!), time-machines, magical time-gates, Lovecraftian horrors from the deeps of time...
What I have a problem with are vampire-robots, because vampires are tied to organic death and decay and blood. Blood is the life, there, and giant robots don't have any, don't die the way organics do, and don't decay quite the same way, either. The motifs don't fit.
Zombies have been made to work: they are just rusty, badly-damaged dead Transformer shells put back into operation as non-sentient drones. Except when the mind comes back and gets all cranky, then you get Impactor.
I write lich-Scream, which is a ghost possessing a drone body. (He still hasn't figured this one out yet in my fic-verse; he thinks he's alive. Cue "Sixth Sense" quotes. LJ-Screamer is much more self-aware).
TFA Starscream was some kind of undead: his spark was gone, but the Allspark fragment kept him online and sentient. Maybe it housed his spark as well; maybe he was a soulless intelligent undead. (Once again, it's Starscream's fault for confusing things).
So different undead work in Transformers stories; it's just vampire-Transformers that don't make sense for me.