Megatron’s revolution in this movie is not founded on a desire to change and rebuild society for the better. It’s founded on his on a personal feeling of hatred and anger at discovering his idol not only failed but lied to him his entire life

His extrajudicial execution of Sentinel is about satisfying his own pain and heartbreak in a way that can never be sated, because he was ultimately HAPPY as a miner following the rules, and he can’t reconcile that with the changed worldview Alpha Trion showed him

The only response is to destroy everything even resembling that life; not just abolish the caste system, not topple just Sentinel’s rule, not just expose him, but “burn it all down”

But there’s a problem there

Iacon already existed. Sentinel didn’t build it, he STOLE it

And that’s the fundamental problem with Megatron’s goals here. His anger at his pain can never be satisfied. It can only be transferred. Once Sentinel is gone, Iacon must burn. Once Orion betrays him, it’s the Primes who are false and must be toppled.

He has nothing anymore. Following the rules, being a good miner, it was all meaningless. So everything else must be meaningless as well.

He even claims the legacy of his idol, Megatronus, but divests it of its true name, becoming simply Megatron. Because he can’t abide what came before, while still being shackled to it by his own anger and hatred.

Anyway that’s my thoughts on Megatron

Orion is great. I think making him a worker like Megatron, nay, all the Autobots, avoids the problems of previous media

He definitely reads as autistic to me

Cybertron feels alive here, with the wildlife and alien landscapes and constantly shifting landscape

Bee was not as annoying as the trailers made me fear he was; he comes off more as just excited to have friends and is kind of endearing

Elita being ambitious and jockeying for promotion was an interesting take beyond making her just the love interest. I really liked her

I’m so glad Shockwave is a loser again. Just like the G1 cartoon, he spends all his screen time getting pushed around

Previous Starscreams: No, please Megatron, not in the face!

One Starscream: HIT ME! YEAH, HIT ME! YOU WANNA BE A BIG MAN?! FUCKING WRECK ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

Airachnid is made of nightmares as usual

im so mad i don't have time to see this sob....it sounds so good :[

I’m headcanoning Jazz’s actual name is J-422, and he chose the name Jazz based on that

excellent

Every cogless probably has a numerical designation and pick up “real” names as they go along

D-16 never picked one because he never really desired to color outside the lines

About the Primes; you have no idea how thrilled I was to spot Vector Prime looking just like he did in Cybertron

And....that’s all I have for now.

.....you just sold me on seeing this

chocolateisbrainfood

I want to see it so bad man aughhh
i hope it does well at least :[[[

athensbrat: see it for the toxic yaoi, if nothing else

do you understand just how much of my damns about transformers center around the toxic yaoi

this movie was made for me, I am the target audience

Haha. I’m serious, it’s exactly that. Orion is always dragging D-16 into situations that D doesn’t care for and their friendship is very imbalanced well before D starts his homicidal breakdown

It’s a very powerful and heartbreaking story about how Optimus and Megatron shouldn’t fuck each other

(I actually came out of this shipping Optimus and Elita I am a basic bitch)

okay so Chromia is definitely a hastily renamed Mirage xD

Tries to think about how minicons could fit into this universe

Also I’m headcanoning the racing announcer was Blaster

athensbrat: let me know when you see it