Quote Originally Posted by DeadXMan View Post
If he never died in the first place. then he wouldn't never of got reserectied and brianwashed.
It was going to happen regardless. The earliest draft with Optimus's death, Hot Rod wasn't involved. It was done only to create a different leader in Rodimus Prime.

Quote Originally Posted by Sighphi
im going to repost what i just said and add some help for your understanding.

They are part of the soup but they are hardly anything called major, not to the level these movies have them.
Again, watch those episodes. The humans did a lot that was on par with the movies. Especially "Super God Masterforce", where humans were controlling the Transformer bodies. That there alone puts it on par with the films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFUeAndJCE

The reason humans have more face time is that it's too expensive to have the Transformers on screen, in robot mode all the time. And seeing that the story takes place on Earth, it only makes sense for humans to be that involved.