As Tetsuro has had his right of reply, I think it would be better if everyone (mods included) drop this now.
Cliffjumper wrote:Is irrelevance really a problem? Nightbeat is irrelevant in Edge of Extinction.
I'd say the small character vignettes are the entire point of Edge rather than an irrelevance, it's showing how different characters react (and mostly fail to deal with) the devil turning up rather than being about a main plot through-line, a rather neat idea considering it was written on the assumption it would be the last ever piece of Transformers fiction, it's a means of trying to give as many of the characters a last bow as it can possibly manage.
I'd say Nightbeat's cameo in Rage is more problematic on that score, not that the idea of the Transformers having to go all kamikaze to deal with the Swarm is a bad one, it's just Megatron shows up with the cure for what ails him about thirty seconds after the detective's sacrifice.
of course, I get one of the problems with serialised fiction where you're working to a predetermined page count is that you will often have irrelevant moments to make things fit, but for something to count as the best to me it really all has to pull together as close to perfectly as possible.
That's where Legacy has the edge for me, there are plenty of great set pieces but pretty much every moment advances the story in some form, either providing new information, changing character relationships or altering the status quo. It's probably the tightest "Epic" of the entire Marvel run, the closest it comes to irrelevance is the business about Rodimus being pissed with Smokescreen, mainly because it gets no resolution (Wreck Gar turns out to be alive but there's nothing to say Rodimus isn't ****ed with Smokescreen still for the rest of all time), and that's a very minor thread.
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