But the fight in Chicago, the one that could have been avoided had the Autobots and NEST teamed up instead of the Autobots pretending to leave in order to save our sorry butts from our own bureaucratic morons, told everyone the Transformers exist.
The Fallen broadcasting a signal around the world to threaten humanity to give up Sam wasn’t even enough to arouse suspicion. The giant Decepticon in Shanghai was somehow explained away. The huge battle in Monument City wasn’t enough to alert them. First of all, humanity is now fully-aware of the existence of the Transformers. I wasn’t prepared for how stupid this was going to be. Once again the humans want to exploit Cybertronian tech but kick out the Autobots. Like I said, I knew what was coming in Age Of Extinction. And apparently adults don’t like heroes or something. Not 80s kids, but kids who are not yet adults. Yes, Hasbro throws a bone to the adult collectors but this started as a product for kids. Of the currently active series, the web series is set on Cybertron so we won’t count that, and four are on Earth two of them are shows for kids and two of them, one a comic and the other a movie, are targeted for grown-ups and the heck with the target audience for the series. The humans knew their own planet and energy sources while the Autobots protected them from the Decepticons. (Except in the comic but I’ll come back to that.) In the cartoon humans and Autobots joined forces against the Decepticons.
See, I grew up at a time when the Autobots were allied with the humans. But it’s also an extension of a problem I see in the adult-targeted side of the Transformers multiverse. I’m pretty sure I know where the story is headed because it’s been done before. But there’s a scene in there that just made me realize it was dumber than that. Why, you may ask? Well, it’s not like I didn’t know it was about humans treating Autobots as the bad guys. I didn’t even make it through the first half-hour of the FX Movies broadcast. Until The Last Knight hits theaters (and a movie that wants to sell itself to me by having Optimus Prime attack the Autobots is not doing a good job of it) it’s the only Transformers movie I have yet to see. Tonight I was going to review the fourth installment of Michael Bay’s Transformer movie, Age Of Extinction.
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