Thread:Shado supreme/@comment-25600892-20180308232135/@comment-26059868-20180405020521

Well, yes, but, since the premiere is going to be back on Cybertron with Optimus getting the Matrix, why can't you go off of that and show Megatron and Optimus as friends, and then Megatron taking a darker path?

In the season 2 finale for my Stories of Steel series, theres this absolutely gut-wrenching moment where Megatron is about to kill Zeta Prime, a guy who's killed thousands of bots, some of them even onscreen, including behading Optimus' mentor right in front of him. But then, Optimus steps in front of Megatron, refusing to let his friend kill someone. Megatron breaks down, and berates Prime for being so cold and unfeeling after seeing one of his friends killed. It's a really great scene, because the audience is torn between wanting Megatron to avenge all the people who've died, even though a main theme of the season is that "killing is bad". Meanwhile, Optimus stands there, defending said mass-murderer, and the two eventually fight, leading to the autobot-decepticon war in season 3.

By shifting the setting (at least for the first few seasons or so) to Cybertron, you can show people what to expect when the war hits Earth. You can get to Earth with pre-developed characters. You can show Cybertron dying, and all the greif and anguish that entails, you can show Optimus thinking he failed his planet.