william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Silverwing wrote:You know the monster planet in the picture Hopkins is holding? Anyone else think the shape resembles a traditional Quintesson?
Just looks to me like the same honeycombed broken planet that we've seen in all the trailers, which is quite possibly Cybertron itself given the full contents of this trailer and the notion of the upcoming Cybertron playset being made in the TLK toyline.
You know, I dont get the whole honeycomb thing. I was watching the 2007 Transformers film (which is not bad at all) and when we first see Prime he shows us what Cybertron looked like, which is quite different.
DOTM gave it the honeycomb look for some reason.
william-james88 wrote:Also, I realize now that there better be some serious explaining in this film if Megatron turns out to have been on earth for any other reason than to find the Allspark.
Well, I know Deadput will come and crucify me for saying this but the DOTM comics John Barber wrote a few years ago offered a very workable explanation for how Megatron's pursuit of the AllSpark, his servitude of The Fallen, and his deal made with Sentinel Prime all ended up coming to a head on Earth:
- First, The Fallen left Cybertron aboard the Nemesis (captained by Soundwave) to go looking for the Star Harvester, which he had previously built on another planet (Earth) eons ago.
- Then the Autobot/Decepticon war commenced, during which time Megatron and Sentinel made their deal, which they decided to carry out on the planet that The Fallen had built his Harvester on.
- Then Sentinel left Cybertron aboard the Ark, but which was presumed lost. It would crash on Earth's moon in the future (the 1960s).
- Then Optimus launched the AllSpark into space and Megatron chased after it. The AllSpark ends up on Earth NOT by coincidence: Turns out the AllSpark was drawn to that planet by the Harvester.
- Megatron arrives on Earth and gets frozen in the Arctic, unaware at the time that this planet is the very same planet that the Harvester is on, the very same planet that both The Fallen went looking for and Sentinel made his deal with Megatron over.
So, in this regard, it all ties in with the Harvester being the key that brought the AllSpark, Megatron (unknowingly at first), The Fallen, and Sentinel to Earth. Thus, the only coincidence left intact by this explanation is the particular planet that the Harvester was put on happening to be Earth.
Of course, the new films could ignore all this continuity-mending that the comics did and come up with their own explanation, or even just skirt around all explanations entirely. We'll just have to wait and see.