Heh, yeah. With those movies it seemed like Bay tried his darndest to aim them as far away from child audiences as possible, as if he was scared stiff of any potential embarrassment he might have of being labeled a director of kids movies.
I keep seeing people use the words "kids movie" to refer to this one. What makes this more of a "kids movie" than a "family movie"? I see this as more of the latter than the former. To me, "kids movie" means it's meant only for kids and has little to no value for adults to enjoy. This looks like...
She's probably become too relevant in her current form to have her name changed, what with her "Ariel" name having become more obscure since it wasn't brought back into the mainstream like Optimus's "Orion Pax" name was.
Right, parts of their bodies altered to allow for them to transform. But they're still just Orion and D-16 at that point. Orion hasn't yet received the Matrix and D-16 hasn't yet turned to the dark side. The same thing happened to B-127 and Elita One when they received their own T-Cogs.
Although, this movie looks like it'll portray their friendship in a much better and more believable way, since even when they were friends in Exodus, all of Megatron's dialogue still read like he was an evil villain with evil ambitions and wicked intent (he just thought Orion would stay loyal to...
Their friendship was the main focus of the Exodus novel, up until they're falling out. And even after, their dynamic as enemies had the weight it did because of how much focus their friendship had earlier in the book.
Exodus did that first back in 2010.
In the G1 cartoon, the art of transformation was first invented by the Autobots during their first war with the Decepticons long after the Quints had been kicked off the planet, so transformation being a later invention isn't a new idea.
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