Shadowman wrote:-Plot Hole,
TF Wiki has a few, but here's a new one I just read about: near the end, Simmons contacts the USS
John C. Stennis Aircraft Carrier. The problem? That was the Carrier the Decepticons had destroyed when they came to Earth earlier in the movie.
Lemme go through the list.
Most of the NEST and American soldiers are seen using small-caliber arms such as assault rifles, machine guns and sniper rifles against the Decepticons, despite the previous film establishing that "high-heat" sabot rounds were the only means of penetrating Decepticon armour. Even if they somehow figured out how to make small caliber ammunition achieve the "high heat" required to damage Decepticon armour, it is extremely unlikely that such low-powered weapons would do any meaningful damage that warrants such widespread usage. After all, in real life, you can't kill a tank with a machine gun, well, unless you're in G.I. Joe.
The guns looked highly modified, probably to fire bullets designed for penetrating Transformer armor. Not a plot hole. Lack of observation on the person who wrote the article.
The notion that a big metal box (containing a complex electronic mechanism shouting to be released) would ever make it through airport luggage screening is a bit on the implausible side. The novelization of the film attributes this to Mikaela's Epic Hotness distracting the guard into just letting her through; she also claims that the box contains expensive mechanic's tools which might look strange in an x-ray. Neither explanation is present in the film itself, however.
Humorous moment. Not a plot hole.
When Alice attacks Sam and his friends, the box Wheelie is imprisoned within is taken along, but the box is not seen when Mikela and Leo escape from the foundry in Bumblebee (the box should still be inside the wreckage of the car Mikaela hotwired at the college).
I'll give them that one.
Given the Autobots are part of NEST and are dependent on the US Air Force for transportation around the world, it is not clear why Major Lennox had to be alerted to the fact the Autobots were on the east coast of the United States. Do the Autobot normally go on unexplained joyrides?
The Autobots aren't prisoners either. As long as they stay hidden I couldn't see them not being allowed off base. Not a plot hole.
Tasers do not cause those tased to go into convulsions.
Technical goof with a weapon. Hardly abnormal in any film. Not a plot hole.
Where does Mikaela get the padding and gauze to bandage up Sam's hand?
I almost gave them this one, but I wouldn't doubt that they'd maybe brought a first aid kit along on their little raid of the Smithsonian. Logical analasys wins out. Not a plot hole.
When Jetfire teleports to Egypt, Wheelie is seen landing by him, but disappears until the group reaches the border guards. After they arrive at the pyramids, Wheelie is seen rolling in with the quartet of humans, but is never seen again.
I've given Wheelie's dissapearence at this point in the film some thought compared to other "Minicons" that show up in the films (Ravage, Frenzy, etc) and I'm going to make an educated guess. Wheelie is housed inside Bumblebee's superstructure much like Scorpinok was inside Blackout, or Frenzy inside Barricade. He shows up in DotM, so it's not like he died or dissapeared entirely. Plot hole status: negatory.
There's no rational reason for Simmons to climb the pyramid after Devastator. It looks like he's enabling the Navy ship to "fire on his position", which is useful when the firer can't see the target. However, as we find out just before the railgun is fired, the ship can see the pyramid. (And railguns are line-of-sight weapons, anyway.) So, Simmons didn't need to climb; he could have stayed someplace safe, called the ship, and told them, "Take a look at the pyramid, and shoot the giant robot tearing it up." It's also hard to believe he wasn't crushed by the flood of pyramid stones, which at one point are raining down on all four sides of the structure.
This one's the worst of the bunch. Simmons doing all that is totally in character as someone desperate to get back into and stay in the action. Did he need to do all that? Probably not. But then again, this is Simmons we're talking about. Also there is such a thing as getting lucky and not having the debris fall on your head. Again...not a plot hole.
Out of eight listed plot holes, only one stands up under scrutiny. The article fails in this regard.
As for the aircraft carrier I'll watch the film again and update on that. Even if they're the same aircraft carrier in terms of ship used for the sets (it's expensive to rent those things), that doesn't make them the same ship in terms of the film's events.
Note: The geographical errors will not be counted. Films do this all the time and don't catch flak for it. Using them as "plot hole ammo" is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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