Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah yeah we all want a “100% on Cybertron zero humans plot” but it’s not the end of the world, more and different media will always be coming.
But it
isn't. It's the same old human-centric garbage, except this time the main human is black.
Weirdly, this is the least neckbeardy take on this (from your side) that I've seen in this thread so far.
"Neckbeardy?" Seriously? You pass judgment on me because I have a different opinion on the subject than you do even after I gave reasons for it? We don't have to agree but you assuming the worst right off the bat says something about your thought process rather than mine. At the least it makes you a hypocrite.
It's fine to already be pissed at the movie because it will have any human focus at all (assuming of course you have equal vitriol for most of other Transformers movies/shows which also heavily feature humans).
I have. Ever since Armada. The only exception was the Prime show, because it was well written and made the 3 kids a natural part of the story while limiting background characters and focusing on the Transformers. I gave a pass to the 1st Bay film because I understood that to appeal to general audiences it couldn't be *only* Transformers.
But I hoped that any sequels would cut back on them, but all we got were more mediocre acting and caricatures of minorities in the rest of the movies. Even the Twins were a crude joke, making them a waste of Transformers screen time, which to me was an even bigger offense. And with every movie, whether Bay had a direct hand in the story or not, the focus became the people. The Bee movie kinda turned it on its side, because Bee and the Cons were very much the focus, and even though Charlie was also around, her story was integral so I got past it. But it was a rehash of the 1st movie, except with a female lead.
And NOW we have the
same thing, but with a main character who is a black version of Sam Witwicky.
Even that fact in itself is fine. The kid is black, whatever.
It shouldn't be the central focus of the story, like the director said it will be. It's the same argument I had 4 previous times. (RoTF, DoTM, AoE, TLK)
What's little more unsettling is the people who were fine with the previous stuff but are now enraged purely because the humans involved are not white.
Agreed. If they're TF fans, they should be upset there are main character humans, period.
My displeasure is also fueled by 1 other aspect: I'm a HUGE Beast Wars fan. Despite previously knowing the director's racial proclivities, I was still willing to give this a shot just to see the BW characters on the big screen. Then we got word about some of the characters, and even though I thought the new concept in Scourge was intriguing, I was a bit let down. Then the director had said the movie will have "a 90s hip-hop flavor" and then I started seeing the writing on the wall. It would be about the humans,
AGAIN.
Which meant the beasts were going to get limited screen time, because besides the humans, of course the G1 characters had to be included. Prime and Bee, fine. But Mirage, Wheeljack and Arcee? WHY? Thanks to that, it looks like some of the Maximals will get a few scenes and that's it. The Predacons? Almost nothing, maybe a few fight scenes. Character development? Forget it.