Character discussion : This Week 'The Quintessons'

Post by **Best First** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:57 pm

i don't agree - the eggs (egg!) were clearly in charge, to remove them would have made th Quints seems a bit odd.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:05 pm

They were hardly there anyway. What I meant was that if they hadn't ever been made up, any alien race would have worked just as well in that story.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:25 pm

Trident ships - Ulyssee's... all good

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:21 pm

I liked them in Space Pirates.

Actually, that 'servants of Unicron' thing would be interesting.And posssible, too. We saw that Uni doesn't destroy all the time, he can also create (Galvy and the gang, Hook-Line-Sinker).

Would be interesting ifthe Quints made a "deal with the devil" - Uni spares their planet, inreturn they become his contingency plan, destroy the TFs if UNi fails.

Alpha Q was also great (in the comics). Wonder if we'll ever learn what he and Avalon were up to.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:57 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Actually, that 'servants of Unicron' thing would be interesting.And posssible, too. We saw that Uni doesn't destroy all the time, he can also create (Galvy and the gang, Hook-Line-Sinker).

Would be interesting ifthe Quints made a "deal with the devil" - Uni spares their planet, inreturn they become his contingency plan, destroy the TFs if UNi fails.

That's about the only way I think I'd find them interesting.
Was the only motivation for the Quints in Space Pirates just killing all the TFs off so they could steal their planet(s) and resources? If so, then yeah, maybe any old alien race coulda fill their....shoes.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:48 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Hook-Line-Sinker

*shudder*

BB Shockwave wrote:Uni spares their planet

That would've worked out famously for them, wouldn't it? Until Cyclonus got trashed and time ripped up their gaff. Unicron would've still been indirectly responsilbe for their planet's destruction by creating Cyc.

Stormwolf · Post by **Stormwolf** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:23 pm

KingMob wrote:Was the only motivation for the Quints in Space Pirates just killing all the TFs off so they could steal their planet(s) and resources? If so, then yeah, maybe any old alien race coulda fill their....shoes.

No, their planet was about to be destroyed and Cybertron was the only planet they could survive on for some reason.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:44 am

KingMob wrote:
BB Shockwave wrote:Actually, that 'servants of Unicron' thing would be interesting.And posssible, too. We saw that Uni doesn't destroy all the time, he can also create (Galvy and the gang, Hook-Line-Sinker).

Would be interesting ifthe Quints made a "deal with the devil" - Uni spares their planet, inreturn they become his contingency plan, destroy the TFs if UNi fails.
That's about the only way I think I'd find them interesting.
Was the only motivation for the Quints in Space Pirates just killing all the TFs off so they could steal their planet(s) and resources? If so, then yeah, maybe any old alien race coulda fill their....shoes.

Might as well use an established foe though.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:25 pm

I liked hook line and sinker - I liked the way they were hardcore, and kicked Galvy about untill Galvy lost his rag with them and killed them for being muppets.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:03 pm

i liked Hook and Line.

Sinker was pump!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:09 pm

Best First wrote:i liked Hook and Line.

Sinker was pump!

Metal Mittens and obtuse antennae, I ask you!

That guy was so last universe.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:27 pm

You know what they say about people who have to wear boxing gloves in bed...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:43 pm

Autobloke wrote:You know what they say about people who have to wear boxing gloves in bed...

They forget to take off their shoes when dumping them in the septic tank?

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 11:00 pm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 11:21 pm

Autobloke wrote:

Umm, a poorly-remembered tale of a young Arnold J. Rimmer?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:50 am

Rebis wrote:
Best First wrote:i liked Hook and Line.

Sinker was pump!
Metal Mittens and obtuse antennae, I ask you!

That guy was so last universe.

Still i liked the concept - tho where Unicron would get the concept of HLS from. earth?

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:37 pm

Ah, Rimmer. Now I get it.
Unicron must have got the idea from Earth - how many other planets have hooks, lines and sinkers? Grouped together? As a crappy character naming pun? Those guys should have been called 'Scraping', 'Bottom' and 'Barrel'.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:12 pm

How about Larry, Curly and Moe?

ShadowSonic · Post by **ShadowSonic** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:49 pm

Hook, Line and Sinker were criminal from some wolrd he ate, right? Maybe they visited Earth and took their names from there.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:56 pm

ShadowSonic wrote:Hook, Line and Sinker were criminal from some wolrd he ate, right? Maybe they visited Earth and took their names from there.

Not when you consider the fact that Unicron named them, there and then.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:12 pm

Their names are inconsequential. Know simply that they are scum.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:11 pm

With dumb names.
Maybe Uni (not the annoying creature in Dungeons and Dragons) had eaten Earth already, in some alternate dimension. Or perhaps the universe is the same everytime it starts anew, and Earth is destined to be created again and again, so he's eaten it many times.
That way he'd know of hooks, lines, and sinkers. If only by reading the menu.

ShadowSonic · Post by **ShadowSonic** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:27 am

Or maybe we're reading too much into this, and we fail to understand that the story and characters were written by a human who just used human names and ideas in his writing.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:40 am

So getting back to the Quints, what was your favorite face? Least favorite?

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:22 pm

ShadowSonic wrote:Or maybe we're reading too much into this, and we fail to understand that the story and characters were written by a human who just used human names and ideas in his writing.

Unimaginative spoilsport.

I kinda like the Death face, but there were only really two memorable ones and I can't remember the name of the other one. It wasn't the Fat face though.
What WERE the other faces called?
Did Alpha-Q's faces have names (including 'Annoying Whiney Face')? Do we really count him as a 'true' Quintesson? Yeah, I know that should be in the Energon topics, but as we're here...

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:47 pm

Autobloke wrote:I kinda like the Death face, but there were only really two memorable ones and I can't remember the name of the other one. It wasn't the Fat face though.
What WERE the other faces called?

http://hometown.aol.com/silverphoenix12/junkion.html

Looks like Death, Fatty, Angry, Stern and Nora Batty.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:58 pm

Hmm... I could have swore that they also had more serious names. Death, Judge, Inquisitor etc.
Or was it Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Doc, Grumpy, Dickhead, er... Nixon, Rudolph?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:56 am

It's got their 'names' in the Ultimate Guide, but as its a bit big and I don't tend to carry it with me to work, I couldn't for the life of me tell you what they are right now.

Has anyone got the Ladybird TF:TM adaptation? I want to remember what they called the tentacle-alien in the cast of characters bit. Began with P.

ShadowSonic · Post by **ShadowSonic** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:38 pm

Originally, the Quint faces were meant to represent differant emotions that the Quint was expressing at the time. This is what is says in the script anyways.

I can't remember which face stood for which emotion though.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:47 pm

The tentacle alien was the Prosecutor I believe.