I’m actually liking the human characters? ????

what is even happening

I’m actually laughing at parts meant to be funny???

IMHO RotB takes the things that could have been really good about the Bayverse and mixes it with the heartfelt human-bot bonding that happened in Bumblebee without forgetting that like...these bots are suffering soldiers still in the middle of a war.

I should finally watch Bumblebee

but I was lured into this by Unicron lmao

I think I’m enjoying myself a lot actually

I was surprised at how much I loved Mirage

I didn't expect him to be bad but i didn't expect to love that fucking idiot the way I do

I think I already like him XD

The ultimate meet-cute is trying to commit grand theft auto and getting kidnapped instead

damn I’m actually worried about what happens to these humans

good job, movie

noah and elena (and kris) are precious and must be protected

okay this movie is really cute help

cute, brotherly love is a core theme, it breaks your heart, and also robots fight and wreck shit

this movie is super cool too holy crap seeing Unicron like this is awesome

unicron is so good

“your reward for saving the world is health care most other human beings should get for free without jumping through these hoops”

if this essentially works as a reboot I’m on board XD

technically bumblebee is the start of the reboot, but rotb does such a good job

the director said if they let him do another one he already knows what direction he wants to take it (learning more about the maximals with gi joe as some background shit going on, and another movie where they get to reconnect with cybertron later on)

that will be so cool if it happens!!

and i'm just like YES LET THIS MAN DO THE MOVIES

HE FUCKING GETS IT

SERIOUSLY

so far most of the people i've seen with complaints...like i think they just don't really like live action transformers or get how they have to be done to make sense in a live action format. because they say stuff like "UGH IT WAS TOO BAYVERSE" while uh...complaining about the stuff that actually wasn't the bad parts of bayverse.

(them having to adjust the bots to make sense for how they transform instead of all the mass-shifting and stuff that's canon for the cartoons/comics).

yeah I think this was a good movie! I’d totally rewatch this

I’m definitely not a part of the “they changed it so it sucks” contingent of fandoms

this movie felt like they got what the good stuff of bayverse was while making us care in ways bayverse didn't/couldn't.

yeah like I was actually invested in what was going on

I completely thought I’d tune the movie out and tag while it was in the background lmao

i went to see it three times in theaters i'm robot trash

lmao! legit the only reason I saw this is because husband suggested putting it on

otherwise I totally would’ve slept on this movie

we’re both very happily surprised

if you've got paramount+ bumblebee is on there

THE ONLY THING THAT MADE ME MAD is they took out scene that shows a picture of bee and charlie (his human bff from Bumblebee) because for some reason it did not do well in the test screenings.

she still gets referenced in the movie, but it's not the same

I get it if some people are annoyed about Wheeljack? but otherwise

I really super enjoyed this

He does not look like the wheeljack i prefer but I'm just gonna love on that Pablo TV van forever

yeah I think the design is fun

everyone else is all tense and stressed the fuck out and he's communing with butterflies in the rainforest

i don't dislike the design either. i don't think "wheeljack" when i see it, but it's still a cute design so /shrugs i will work with it

exactly my thoughts like

I enjoy the nerd car thing, even if it isn’t something that reminds me of Wheeljack ^^;;

i keep calling him pablo in my head

I really want to find a toy for Nightbird so badly now too

her design was my favorite

I loved nightbird and battletrap

they had such obvious personalities

the fact that nightbird is actually a flyer but chose a ground altmode was also like oh yes do your thing

plus the car she chose is super cool /biased

IT IS

..... why do I get the sinking feeling I’m not going to be able to find a lot of Mirage/Noah fic >.>

haha jokes on you

oh?

I liked it tooooo

mirage/noah is like the main takeaway people got from this movie

there isn't a huge amount of content since the movie has only been out a month but you know

amazing brilliant I am excite then

like the fanart content has been amazing

ala

dawwww that comic

Nellasaur: I’m like that Gordon Ramsey meme “finally some good fucking food”

IT'S SO GOOD

Mirage/Noah needs to meet Tracks/Raoul from the G1 cartoon

/scrolling through tumblr rn lmao

"So you got jacked by a human and he decided to keep you?"
"No, i kidnapped him when he tried and decided to keep him because he's my boy now. What self-respecting bot gets carjacked?"

Tracks:

I love how all of this is because Mirage was so lonely that he imprinted on the first human to try grand theft auto on him

like a duckling

And OP is too busy being the big brother who clearly has a Favorite and Mirage is that brother he just tolerates like "ugh i can't kill him he's my family BUT I MIGHT FORGET THAT IF HE DOES THAT SHIT AGAIN."

And Mirage is just like HE kNOWS HE LOVES ME

The least chill and yet somehow the most chill at the same time. Does not take any of the insults and bickering to heart whatsoever

kris is just like "if you ever break up i'm keeping knuckles, sonic."

hahahaha

god yes calling mirage Knuckles over the air it’s perfect XD

the optimus in the background

Barbie meme alwknsoaksndqk

all the barbie memes i've seen for TF have been Amazing

god

it's too real

this is why i love them

Tired Veteran Doing His Best x Manic Pixie Dream Porsche

i feel like noah would use this on mirage a lot

legit

mirage is being Too Mirage and gets a foam nerf dart to the head

Kris just staring him dead eyed like "There's A Child Present. Take that to the garage."

ahahahaha he legit would

noah dying slowly "Don't encourage him."

Bumblebee playing “Kiss the Girl” through the window in the garage while the two bicker

god you know what

mirage and bumblebee team up to tease optimus and play I LIKE BIG BOTS AND I CANNOT LIE

oh lord

bumblebee just random channel surfing to change lyrics

creating their own mixtape to troll OP

i want this

mirage assumes if bee is in on it he won't get in trouble because optimus will let bee get away with it

Bee is definitely the youngest child energy here

Mirage is your classic middle child

.... Arcee is the oldest who has her shit together

Arcee is the second oldest who has her shit together and knew enough to not get saddled with responsibilities of the oldest aka Optimus

NOT ME all over her

.... yes actually this 100% tracks

Optimus is the oldest who did not ask to be dad but dad fucked off and left him with the rest of the kids

I did find it funny that the movie is EXPLICITLY telling you that the bots have a family dynamic where Optimus is the Big Brother saddling all the parent responsibilities to look out for his younger siblings but a lot of fans are very much like OP AND BEE HAVE SUCH A FATHER/SON DYNAMIC.

to be fair, Optimus has given out dad vibes since G1

even if I do agree with your big bro take here

IT KNOW i just find it funny since the movie flat out says it haha

Elena calls him a big brother looking out for his family

Also it ties into the sibling dynamic that is big in both Bumblebee and RotB

(Charlie in Bumblebee has a little brother Otis)

/nodsnods/ like there are clear parallels between Noah and Optimus

Optimus telling Bee he can't go to the drive-in movies anymore

clearly movies are a bad influence on his perfect, innocent, pure little brother :|

/giggling/

Prime, your baby brother is a menace /affectionate

i do think rewatching bumblebee right before i went to see rotb the first time boosted my Feels level ha

because certain things that come from BB hit in a way that makes me want to hold my heart

(like his name is literally from the movie, charlie gives him the name bumblebee before that he was just Scout B-127)

that’s so cute

(her nickname for him was Bee so the fact it's what Optimus calls him is just...FEELINGS)

(he only calls him Bumblebee when he's being Stern And Authoritative which you know is just like Full Naming someone when they are in trouble)

/giggling/ I did notice that

Mirage does not get a nickname because when he is ever not being Full Named

*is he

XDDD

This is the thing I loved about RotB, you really get a Vibe of how these characters connect to each other and you get to see the bots having like...bonds that aren't just warbonds.

they really do come across like this dysfunctional family doing its best

they really feel like people

with entire personalities

AND THEN STRATOSPHERE

it was great ;;

lmfao

he barely talks but he's got SO MUCH PERSONALITY

yes that is the power of GOOD animation

"oh i just coughed out some big part? it's fine. i'm alive. it's fine."

calling himself Lord of the Skies while he's just hacking shit up and leaking oil. IF IT AIN'T KILLED ME I'M GOOD

i call him the hippie veteran

he's old, he's been through a lot of shit, but he's Too Old To Give Fucks and is just vibing through life now

ahahaha like something out of Kelly’s Heroes

I need to see this giant hippie vet and the tiny kup interact

these movies need to give me that

just imagine old grump kup who is is Too Old To Give Fucks but in an entirely different way with this guy

let them bicker like an old married couple

like stratosphere is so big optimus looks tiny next to him in the one scene

kup is going to be minicon size next to him

yup

i need it

ironhide and ratchet like "god will we be like that when we're old?"

yes.

i do need it

stratosphere is a great character concept and i hope he gets brought over somewhere else

I was worried I was the only weird one about Miguel x Mirage but I shouldn’t have been, this is the internet