because Optimus Prime is a Byronic archetype

Fail.

Every true fan knows Jetfire's relationship is with Starscream, not Megatron.

AS IF, JoshDM. Everyone knows the REAL Ho-Yay is between Megatron and Starscream.

Wait, it "won't be as robot-heavy" but will "get(s) much more into the robot character?" I don't get it, but Transformers WITH lots of robots = good. That's one of the reasons I hated the first one: too much human-focus.

And full confession? Optimus Prime was my first girlhood love.

Don't you ever quote TVTropes at me again.

Also, Bay will be focusing on more Chihuahua antics this time around.

Or perhaps because Megatron secretly longs to dance upon the stage, but fears how this will impact his relationship with Jetfire.

Yes, quoting TV tropes is dangerous. Sure, the beneficial side effect is a sense of scale, context, and perspective about the media, but the main effect is I lose an hour or two of my life.

I think his secret's out.

That YouTube clip is hilarious even to me, with minimal knowledge of Transformers storylines or characters. And that TVTropes page makes me more than happy to keep my knowledge of those subjects as minimal as humanly possible.

You want to lose some more hours?

Try the oft-humorous Transformers Wiki.

MaryAnn, I loves ya, and I agree with you about Revenge of the Fallen, but you mock Optimus Prime's being a fine example of a heroic archetype (though not a Byronic one) one more time and you an' me is gonna have words.

To steal from Brian Clevinger: I never understood religious fanatics, until I asked myself, "What if God is their Optimus Prime?" Which is not to say that I worship a gigantic alien robot, even one so advanced as to be in disguise, but if Prime were to say to me in that inimitable voice, "I need you to kill a man," that man would be fucking dead. "I got your back, Prime!", and next thing you know I'm shopping for sniper rifles.

Just as well he's as fictional as God too, I suppose.

Also, I fully expect more dreck from Bay, but until I see it, I will possess that rarest of treasures, which is Hope.

Forget Prime as God; how about Prime as President?

http://www.lazarusworld.com/archives/images/CNN-Election-Winner.jpg

http://galleygrub.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/change-into-a-truck1.jpg

Although with our luck he'd sacrifice himself nobly on some damn fool mission, and we'd wind up with dithering Vice President Ultra Magnus in charge...

Although with our luck he'd sacrifice himself nobly on some damn fool mission, and we'd wind up with dithering Vice President Ultra Magnus in charge...

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I was gonna say something regarding succession, but I can't find a way to combine "Hot Rod" and "Obama" into a proper amalgam without making it sound creepy-weird.

It's almost a Discworldly joke. "They agreed to help the city if asked, so long as the city never asked them."

I say I'd do it because he's not characterized as the sort of person who would ever ask (seriously, if he needed to do it, he could do it himself...hint hint, God), so if he did, it must be important.

Plus, y'know, fictional. If he were real the world wouldn't suck quite so much, if only because giant alien robots would be real and looking out for us.