Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
If that info is true, I think movie critics could end up focussing on its similarities to Stargate, instead of any 'originality' that a sequel hopes to at least acheive from its first movie. It's bad enough that it could just be viewed as 'another robot violence movie', it is also likely to be viewed as a copy-cat plot idea.
True. It also makes the Fallen's backstory sound somewhat similar to that of Blood from Masterforce (which means Transformers technically had like-minded ideas six years before Stargate. Not that the reviewers are going to realise that.)