Autobot032 wrote:Vector, you have to remember...as it was stated, this is an entirely new continuity for TFs, plus it's more realistic. Why? Because, how in the world would Ironhide, or any of the Autobots for that matter, know anything about the humans?
You, like many others are still basing your opinion of these characters on their G1 counterparts. You never realized it back then (too young like we all were) and as we grew up we just didn't give a damn, but the more you look at it, G1 was too convenient. Automatically, the Autobots knew the ins and outs, etc. Of course we ate it up like candy, they were the good guys.
These Autobots are still the good guys, but they're realistic and have no idea what these weird aliens have in store for them. Ironhide's also a very old man who's seen too much battle (with a bad hip mind you), so he truly doesn't know what to expect, except the worst. Of course, he and the others as the film progresses...learns that the humans in general actually are kind and generous as a people and Prime's right...they are worth saving and fighting for.
It was not only a funny clip, it was realistic. I think people forget that this film, while outlandish and it knows it, was still striving for some reality, make them at least tangible if nothing else.
And that, I'd say, they've accomplished and then some.
I completely second that.
