New trailer, has two important lines by OP & Megs
This continues to look good. I am concerned about how they are going to do Megatron's turn to tyranny right in one film.
Let's be real. The (arguably) most iconic version of Megatron had the most simplistic origin of them all: He literally woke up on an operating table surrounded by a bunch of green and purple dudes, ran outside, and started shooting people. That's it.
Green and purple dudes that he had to reprogram into evil first, after he built them on another planet four million years later.Let's be real. The (arguably) most iconic version of Megatron had the most simplistic origin of them all: He literally woke up on an operating table surrounded by a bunch of green and purple dudes, ran outside, and started shooting people. That's it.
There's also a race and establishing the corrupt system and then presumably some of the revolution. Gonna be a lot going on.This continues to look good. I am concerned about how they are going to do Megatron's turn to tyranny right in one film.
When you put it that way, it seems more fitting for his copy to do that....Let's be real. The (arguably) most iconic version of Megatron had the most simplistic origin of them all: He literally woke up on an operating table surrounded by a bunch of green and purple dudes, ran outside, and started shooting people. That's it.
It's all Shockwave's fault.Green and purple dudes that he had to reprogram into evil first, after he built them on another planet four million years later.
Caught an advance screening of Transformers One and can confirm it is a DELIGHT. Absolutely tremendous fun, a wonderful love letter to the franchise and a stellar introduction for new fans! You guys are gonna LOVE itFull review coming soonish!! Here's me getting punched by both of them
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It's based on the Aligned lore of the Quintessons invading/taking over Cybertron and the later event of Orion Pax and Megatron working together to reform the oppressive High Council and the societal stagnation of the caste system, combining the two events together so that it's the Quintessons instead of the Council that the two are working together against.I want this to be inoffensive and fun, but from the trailer I think it's kitbashing the G1 Quintesson occupation/enslavement with the IDW "The Primes/Autobots are real d-bags, but... oh no... Megatron has gone TOO FAR in opposing fascism!" backstory.
That's one of my major issues with the IDW1 continuity, is that they were so enamoured with their "Megatron is a revolutionary against fascism" idea that the eventual turn to get us to "Decepticons are the bad guys Autobots are the good guys" felt muddled.I want this to be inoffensive and fun, but from the trailer I think it's kitbashing the G1 Quintesson occupation/enslavement with the IDW "The Primes/Autobots are real d-bags, but... oh no... Megatron has gone TOO FAR in opposing fascism!" backstory.
The IDW story never made sense to me. If Sentinel Prime is a fascist bigot oppressing people, and Megatron keeps assassinating the Primes until Optimus shows up, why the hell doesn't Optimus just say "You won. Good job. You killed the bad guys. War over, let's all go home."
I imagine there can be some sensible disagreement about who gets executed at The Hague after everyone's free, but you're telling Optimus is up for a War Without End because Megatron wants to kill Cardassian collaborators and Optimus is a little skittish on the matter? Optimus, they're collaborators - if it was up to you alone, you might turn the other cheek, but it's not up to you alone - everyone was enslaved and violated, and they might not want to forgive and forget. They might want justice. For all intents and purposes, Optimus takes over for Adolf, wears the same uniform, and says "This symbol stands for freedom, which is the right of all sentient beings." No, Optimus, whatever it used to stand for, it doesn't stand for that now. Surrender to the allies. Let the fighting stop.
TLDR: Megatron might not be right, but he's close enough that I wouldn't spend the rest of my life in a protracted planet-killing civil war over it.
That's one of my major issues with the IDW1 continuity, is that they were so enamoured with their "Megatron is a revolutionary against fascism" idea that the eventual turn to get us to "Decepticons are the bad guys Autobots are the good guys" felt muddled.
And maybe moral ambiguity was the... oh no wait. Megs goes on to commit genocide countless times over and has a Space Auschwitz. NEVER MIND.
I'd buy that (the Soviets rebelled against the Tsar with good intentions before setting up prison camps and a police state of their own) except that IDW1 comes around again and wants me to feel sorry for the guy who waged multiple campaigns of genocide and had a space death camp.We either die the hero, or live long enough to become the villian.
I want this to be inoffensive and fun, but from the trailer I think it's kitbashing the G1 Quintesson occupation/enslavement with the IDW "The Primes/Autobots are real d-bags, but... oh no... Megatron has gone TOO FAR in opposing fascism!" backstory.
The IDW story never made sense to me. If Sentinel Prime is a fascist bigot oppressing people, and Megatron keeps assassinating the Primes until Optimus shows up, why the hell doesn't Optimus just say "You won. Good job. You killed the bad guys. War over, let's all go home."
I imagine there can be some sensible disagreement about who gets executed at The Hague after everyone's free, but you're telling Optimus is up for a War Without End because Megatron wants to kill Cardassian collaborators and Optimus is a little skittish on the matter? Optimus, they're collaborators - if it was up to you alone, you might turn the other cheek, but it's not up to you alone - everyone was enslaved and violated, and they might not want to forgive and forget. They might want justice. For all intents and purposes, Optimus takes over for Adolf, wears the same uniform, and says "This symbol stands for freedom, which is the right of all sentient beings." No, Optimus, whatever it used to stand for, it doesn't stand for that now. Surrender to the allies. Let the fighting stop.
TLDR: Megatron might not be right, but he's close enough that I wouldn't spend the rest of my life in a protracted planet-killing civil war over it.