Why would he call them this instead of whatever they actually were? Plasma charges, thermal detonators, energon bombs..... hell he could have just called them explosives! Why would he choose to refer to them as "Boom sticks"?
My theory: he was dumbing it down for the primitive ape-men. He wasn't really characterized in the movie, and there's no bio out for him yet (that I've seen anyway, if I'm wrong then point me in the right direction), so could it be that he doesn't think much of flesh creatures? That'd be a pretty amusing character trait actually. Have him acting all condescending to the humans all the time, haw.
What do you think? Maybe it was just bad writing, I dunno.
