Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Some problems with this idea:
+ Such a project would be costly - where would the Autobots acquire the resources and labour to construct such a prison without giving humans access to their technology? Optimus Prime clearly doesn't trust Cybertronian technology in human hands.
+ Acquiring land to construct this prison. I don't think the Autobots own any land on Earth - they appear to be wards of the U.S. government and I don't know if they'd be able to hold real estate in order to construct a gaol -- again, would probably involve land ownership by an Earth government who would oversee its construction (and thus gain an insight into Cybertronian technology).
Tis a valid argument, but this is the wonderful cracktastic world of Transformers,where any thing goes!

If you can have a semi truck turn into a 33 foot fully functioning robot, (despite incompatible mass and parts) a giant cube which defies pretty much every known law of nature, and a human boy communing spiritually/ psychically with the spirits of dead mechanoids in a parallel dimension, I think it's safe to say you can really go nuts and justify anything! Bay does it, and unlike you and me he doesn't even try to bring logic into the equation - not that that is necessarily a bad thing when imagination and fantasy are involved. On the contrary you can end up with something quite liberating and exciting.

Don't get me wrong, I do get where your coming from. But it would be just as easy to imagine that the highly advanced aliens could posses technology that removes the spark from the body, and then stores the raw energy and memory on a small device no larger than my thumb nail. If human kind is capable of creating sunglasses for a fly and a microscopic guitar that is still playable, the vastly technologically superior alien race must be able to create such a restraining/removal device. It's not like you have to lock the 60 foot D'con in a cell...Demolisher would probably dig his way out anyway.

We could sit and argue against, or justify Primes actions in the film as fans, and create no end of weird, wonderful and wacky scenarios but at the end of the day Prime did what he did because it was Bay's film. So naturally we got Mr Bay's own skewed perception of morality and heroism. And somehow our explosion loving, openly superficial director seems to think that Genocide is ok as long as the 'good' guys are the ones doing all the killing. okie dokie.

So lets see... in Mr Bay world we have the 'good' side committing genocide against the other side for being 'evil' in their genocidal ways.... yes, ok this line of distinction is starting to get a bit blurry


Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Even simpler solution: have Mr "we could kill the humans/I accidentally blew up a planet" Ironhide kill him, then have Prime tell him off for it. Both Prime and Ironhide are still in character, the 'bots are still shown to be badass/acting within the realities of war, and Bay gets his gratuitous death jollies. It's not like they didn't already have an established boticidal maniac to use, but noooo...Prime's not hardcore enough!
Pure Brilliance! See it can be done! Everyone walks away happy.

Originally Posted by Lord_Zed
Well that and the fact Prime effectively brought the war (back) to earth, in the movie universe just as in the cartoon and comic, Primes actions led to the Transformers war spreading to Earth, corrupt as Earth's inhabitants maybe they are innocents in the Transformers war. Were Prime to abandon earth just because he believed its inhabitants warlike he would drop down a few notches and become even more cruel and cold.
Ah, yeah forgot about that. Good point.