Quote Originally Posted by drifand View Post
The writer's hands are already tied from the initial movies so you can't go far, just worse.
Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
If they want to do this, they should do a total reboot. There is little to nothing worth building upon from the Bay theatrical films. In fact, they may be a hinder to creativity as the universe presented there is ridiculously inconsistent.

Total reboot would allow for better and more TV friendly character designs (Not some metal scrap garbage design with 100000+ moving parts nobody can see) and allows for freedom in the scripting process.
The movies haven't really been internally inconsistent - there isn't a whole heap of stuff that's internally contradictory. Besides, AoE practically set up an expanded universe: the 'creators' are out there somewhere, and Lockdown's presence hints at the possibility of other (factions of) Transformers independent of the Autobots and Decepticons. Also, as with previous movies (as well as G1 itself), other Autobots and Decepticons can come in (seemingly out of nowhere) and join the fight.

Given that, I don't get why there's such demand for a reboot. Not only is it far too soon (one year after the last movie), but as I've said before, I feel that reboots are a 'cheat' and a lazy way out. Wouldn't a better test of writing be working with what you have and expanding on it, rather than taking the easy way out and starting over?

Besides, who's to say that the reboot won't be worse?