At the time I wrote this, there were a few discussions going on in the newsgroup alt.toys.transformers. dealing with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and why is wasn't heard of until the movie. Obvious answers aside, this was a question of how it fit into the fictional canon of Transformers. What you are about to read is my attempt to do so.
Defending the Matrix of Leadership(an essay by Troy "ShadowWing" Ackermann)(NOTE: Though I love the comic, I consider it a seperate universe and isn't used in this post. In my opinion, the Creation Matrix was redesigned to match the tv/movie universe. It was originally supposed to be a program which created Cybertronian life. But that's...another essay.) For those of you who wonder why the Matrix was overused in the third season, lets look at it. The Matrix's origins were not revealed to my knowledge. However, it was meant to "light our darkest hour" Perhaps the word "hour" is not meant to be taken litteraly. EX: In the book of Genesis, the Earth was created in 7 days. There are those who say that this is a figurative expanse of time and God actually used the length of time mentioned by scientists. Perhaps that is the same with "our darkest hour" My theory is that the entire length of the third season is the Darkest "Hour". With Unicron, the madness plague and what not, this would definately be a dark time for Cybertron. Now it would be time for the wisdom and power of the Matrix to be called upon. Safeguarded by the Autobot leader, it must be kept safe until it's collective strength would be called on to save the world. If the Matrix was created by Vector Sigma, this leads to my final thought. (if any of you are still awake, please indulge me a little longer.) Remember, Vector Sigma was the one who told Galvatron about the Plasma Enegry Chamber within Cybertron. It was part of his plan-aided by the Nebulans and Spike-to bring about Cybertron's "Second Golden Age". Just as the planet is almost out of juice, and it's people have been though hell and a half, times were at it's darkest! The events of "Rebirth" (technically the fourth season, but only these three episodes were made) just brought power to the planet. Indirectly, the Matrix was a part of this-thus lighting their darkest "hour". It's power defended the world from Unicron and the plague, plus gave the current leader (Optimus Prime-duh) the info to do his part. Now you understand (I hope) why the Matrix is virtually unknown until the movie and used to death after. In a nutshell-they didn't need it yet. |