Prime was particularly sparkthirsty through the movie. Almost genocidal actually. Any violence he engaged in earlier incarnations was undertaken reluctantly, and seldom initiated by him. This time around, it was almost like state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing.
And also - because the US Government has problems with what the Autobots were doing, they were going to leave the planet? We all know Bay is one of the Manifest Destiny, "America, F*** Yeah!" types, but jeez, they couldn't have tried something like "Screw you, we'll base ourselves in Australia then!"?
Maybe the idea that the US of A != Planet Earth genuinely didn't actually occur to him.
Last edited by SofaMan; 4th July 2009 at 02:57 PM.
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