Quote Originally Posted by Shia La Beouf
"We were making our second movie in the middle of the writers' strike. We had no script. We had to work with nothing. We literally had like 40 pages. And everything was sort of made on the fly."
This kinda explains why the story was so haphazard and "bi-polar." Hopefully it won't happen with the 3rd movie (or if it does, they won't have another writers strike to blame it on :/)