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It's easy to analyze something you know little to nothing about as you can put any spin on it you want.Sorry for having an analytical mind rather than an ecyclopediac one.
No, that's not true. Subtext is "Subtext is content of a book, play, musical work, film or television series which is not announced explicitly by the characters (or author) but is implicit." It's not however "whatever the f*** I want to BS onto a piece of work". The Subtext of Blade Runner for example is the ambiguity between artificial life and human life since it's implicit in the plot (which confuses the observer on Harrison Ford's character's humanity). Subtext exists below the text, but it has to be shown within the text. That's how subtext works. It's beneath the existing text. It's not explicitly said in Blade Runner "hey humans an andriods aren't that different, think about it", instead lines and text point to this through indirect ways.As others have pointed out, subtext isn't always something a writer knowingly puts into fiction.
No, twenty thousand monkies at a type writer won't write for you A Tale of Two Cities.In fact, the best writing is one that doesn't know it's good writing.
PROVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Your insistence that it was something the writer did unintentionally is bunk, no offense. The comic was written under strict supervision by Hasbro, in fact Simon Furman talks about how "All Fall Down" and "End of the Road" (arguably the comics two best stories) happened only because Hasbro turned a blind eye to the comic. If you're looking for subtext or things that "seeped" into the premise I got it for you: buy these toys.And, I never claimed Bob Budiansky was trying to say ANYTHING. I'm only saying the events of the time seeped into the premise of Transformers.
Why, if it's suppose to be a environmental, socio political analogy were the Transformers - from day one - fighting over a vague substance known as energon which could come from anywhere instead of oil. Why - from day one - was the military, the political leaders, and the political events of that era left totally out of the show. Why - from day one - were the Transformers able to last 4 million years without (apparently) any energon on their planet? Why - from day one - were the Transformers not focused on character development but merely showcasing the characters one by one in a exposition type fashion.Fine it was a toy commercial. That doesn't mean it wasn't an intelligent commercial. Answer me this: Why weren't Transformers- from day one- fighting over a castle... or searching for their "creator" like Gobots?
Shows like Robotech made reference to the Cold War, World Wars and attempts at World Governments. They even talked about the failures of the League of Nations and UN, and went onto even criticize the warlike nature of mankind. So it wasn't the cartoon warlords who somehow were stifling Transformers from getting political or making a message. Transformers just wasn't interested in getting political or making a message. They were too busy selling toys. You can take the premise of Transformers and run with it, but it doesn't change the original show or make it something brillant. Beast Machines in fact took it and made it an extremely hippish, environmental, tree hugging show. But it doesn't mean the original was anything like that (considering BM was criticized for being too far afield of the original and BW).