Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Ultra Mangus is not only out of character, I don't get where Bee gets the impression that Magnus runs into battle all hot headed.   I mean, unless he's got some kind of thing where he's thinking Rodimus and it comes out as Ultra Magnus.  Bee also thinks Magnus is super confident, which not so much.   When they were about to die at one point in MTMtE, Magnus calls to say he and those around him will die, and sorry.   It's Rodimus who orders him not to die, and is confident they won't because apparently the power of one's will works that way. 

Magnus, still convinced they'd die, is like 'aw, don't make me die disobeying your orders :('

And he's skeptical of many of Rodimus' plans.   

Like, what the hell is Bee thinking?

Is he thinking about someone else?   Is this like when multiple people tell me my robot pillow looks like cats?   Have you seen both robots and cats, people?   Have you?     Because I think you need to look at pictures of cats, and robots, then at the pillow again.   (And yes, this came up again in real life because my sister sees why people think it looks like cats although she didn't see them until I held it upside down, which wasn't the case when the first person thought they were cats.   Cats!   So, yeah, this is a sore spot with me, and so is Bee's thinking things of Ultra Magnus that are not at all like Ultra Magnus.)

More problematic is Magnus' brushing off organic life forms.   He's still, he's formal, but he's also compassionate; he's never really thought of other life forms as less than, or not deserving of life - at least until they prove themselves to be unrepentant evil doers.   This is especially problematic if they've already hit Earth and he's befriended oh, say, Verity, whom he based his holomatter avatar on because he liked her.  

Furthermore, the fact that both Bee and Magnus jump into battle without asking if the Space Knights were working with the Decepticons or not doesn't ring true to me.  It was there to add some tension, but wasn't in character.   

Seeing as the first issue was so amazing and focused on how Stardrive was raised, this is a pretty huge disappointment.  Seeing the Dire Wraiths and the Decepticons and what happened there was so fascinting, and there were hints about how traumatic Stardrive's upbringing was, but there was far less of her fondness for Rom - and his fondness for her - or how him checking up on her and believing in her gave her hope and made her adore him. 

In other words, the charming parts were toned down and I got a whole boatload of mischaracterization instead.   Which is a shame.   When the front cover promised the Seekers, I was so excited.  

Still, I liked the battles, Magnus was hot, the Seekers were hot, and I liked this more than I didn't, even as just pure eye-fucking material.   So three stars, and I'll try the next issue. And let's be honest: probably get four since that's the last in this mini-series.