Calling Hook a rookie was an interesting development. At first I took it as him being a rookie on Earth, but then I got to thinking (never a good thing), and I started to wonder if perhaps McCarthy is pretending (or is potentially even unaware) of the events that occurred in Megatron: origins and will have the Constructicons (and perhaps Frenzy) as "new" bots made in the recent past, rather than bots that have been around for millennia.

I'm still not sure that Mc Carthy himself is sure if AHM is to be in continuity with the Furman-verse or not, there are a number of small things that contradict or pull into question what has already been established. Hopefully things like combiner tech working so quickly after being such a problematic tech, Ore 13 missing (not existing), the origins of certain characters and whatnot can be dealt with sooner rather than later.