Sparks are part of the mythology arent they? i mean without them theyre just machines

:pfx Sparks should be used in the movie but only to a minimal extent as it may get to confusing for most viewers/critics who then hate the movie because they have to think about it later on. :roll

MTMTE got along just fine in delivering the idea of sentient artificial life. No sparks were needed. True, artificial intelligence becoming something more than the sum of its parts is a common theme in science fiction, but getting into souls or "sparks" smells of metaphysics, and ain't that, like, the opposite of robots?

i prefer to think of sparks as the true form of the tf's, ie, incorporal energy beings who inhabit mechanical bodies that allow them to interact with the physical world.

both,....personaly i like the idea of the spark, but also the idea of each transformer having an onboard computer seperate from their being. as was the case in beast wars.