Starscream GaGa wrote:A few days ago you were talking about how the ending of the book showed that movie Megatron "wasn't just a Saturday-morning cartoon villain."
Do you just change your mind depending on what's in the actual movie or something?
Well, yes. Lacking I context made a poor criticism of the scene. It's easy to see the book's ending as superior lacking the context that the most important of all the resources on Earth was seven billion slave laborers to get such a task completed. That's not the kind of thing you can easily come across in the universe, ya know.
So to sum up the books ending: it ignores Megatron's character and motivations and relies on Optimus trusting a backstabbing war criminal ontop of the fact that even with the resources of a different world the rebuilding can't be done without Earth's population as a labor force.
Doesn't help that how the scene plays out in fact is different from how it played out in my head reading the spoilers. I expected a speach on Megatron's part, something to show he'd changed and realized his omnicidal crusade was wrong. In actual fact this didn't happen.
In short: I was wrong to support the scene originally because I didn't know enough about it.