User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/What if the Black Trailer was better?/@comment-25405817-20160310042305/@comment-5426254-20160310044849

Now that you look at it, maybe it's because it's the less than stellar presentation and the fact that Adam's screentime was/is severely limited, so that little of his character is established.

Don't get me wrong, there may be an element of misogyny in Heroes and Monsters. And I can maybe see RT try and present him as someone truly vile and creepy.

However, what I'm criticizing here is the execution, not the concept. The actual appearance of him in Heroes and Monsters makes him look like a strawman for the sole purpose of boosting Blake.

It's as if RT presented him like this:

"Look everyone! Here's Adam! Durr, look at how evil he is! Look at the fuel he will bring to the Bumblebee shipping and Blake tearjerking moments and fan fics!" ,

instead of trying to uncover what Adam was truly is, which was supposed to be their original objective.

For Option C, there was so little screentime that was used between that to help mark this change, so there was not a lot of buildup to the moment, and therefore threw a lot of people off.