"nah, they'll be too impressed with all our CGI to stop and think about it."

 

It worked :( This question never previously occurred to me.

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It never occurred to you because it wasn't something that had to be explained.

"Who was leading the Decepticons while he was gone?" Starscream was.

"Why didn't they ask where he was?" He just launched himself into space in the middle of a battle to go after the All Spark, which Prime jettisoned from Cybertron. So to both sides he more or less left in the middle of a war and never came back. To the Autobots they were just happy he was gone, and the Decepticons, still at war, needed a new leader fast, so their faction wouldn't splinter, with SS eventually winning control. Also, for both sides the war was still going on, and they needed to find the All Spark. The Autobots didn't want Megs found, and SS wanted Megs lost forever so no one could challenge him for control; he was in a position to limit the 'Cons' search to just the All Spark, doing everything he could to steer them away from their lost leader. Unfortunately for SS the two ended in the same place.

 

It had nothing to do with poor writing, or the movie relying to much on CGI. It had everything to do with not treating the audience like idiots. It sucks whenever a magic narrator shows up to explain EVERYTHING about the back story. TF did it right. They focused on the primary conflict, and provided just enough info for the audience to piece together the back story on their own. Even without reading any of the prequel material most of the above stuff could have been figured out just by paying attention to the movie and using common sense.

 

And yes, it makes perfect sense to assume Megs knew what was going on while he was frozen. I'm not sure he could have accessed the web, but he was being studied by humans (Americans to be exact) for 100+ years. It's common sense to assume he leaned English, and developed a hatred for humans, over that time period.

plus, this was already a long movie, how much more "story" do you think should be in it? I mean seriously, I think some of you guys want an entire season worth of canon thrown into a single 2.5 hour movie.

Well the decepticons are such a snuggly bunch I'll bet they cried and sat in a mourning circle when he didn't show back up after a few months.

 

 

uh no...

 

 

seeing as evil dudes are supposed to be cut throat power hungry villains I'm guessing that Megatron was only the leader because he was the biggest baddest guy around and when he wasn't around the next biggest baddest guy around just stepped in and stomped the crap out of anyone who had anything to say about it.

That does makes sense with regards to what happened in the film, thanks chaps.

 

I'm still not sure I like the Megatron frozen in ice for K+ years story line itself though. I'd have preffered Megs to be in it from the start and have had an earlier confrontation with Prime in a set the scene kinda way.

I think the sequence that shows Megs Killed the entire Planet Cybertron set to mood for who he is.

Poor writing.

 

 

NO.

 

 

You can bet there will always be questions like this with just about any kind of movie, especially sci-fi/action flicks.

 

There may what people perceive as holes here and there, don't think that the makers don't know that. Just because every question isn't answered doesn't mean there couldn't be an answer. That's part of the fun of movies like this because it leaves some things up to the imagination. Fill those holes with whatever explanations you see fit and have fun with it.

 

It also makes for some good discussions and bouncing different ideas off the walls as well. Nothing wrong with that!

really though that does leave a big question.... maybe it was starscream. cause why would he go back to cybertron? they would question why he didn't help megatron and probobly kill starscream. but if he was already their leader than he takes control. ha i think i cracked the case. or i'm off by a longshot...

 

oh well :tflaugh1

If Megatron had access to the internet did he have to suffer dial up?

 

I always assumed no one knew exactly where the Allspark went except Megatron. The universe being a very big place, no one guessed its exact coordinates. I havent read the prequel novel but I imagine once the humans started tinkering with the Allspark the Transformers knew where to go. Once again the universe being a very big place, it could take a while to get there.

wait a minute forget my last post.

at the begining optimus said "we scattered across the universe in search of the allspark" So megatron and all his decipticons were off looking for it and didn't even realize megatron was gone because they were too far away.

same with the other autobo

wait a minute forget my last post.

at the begining optimus said "we scattered across the universe in search of the allspark" So megatron and all his decipticons were off looking for it and didn't even realize megatron was gone because they were too far away.

same with the other autobo

According to the prequels, no. The AllSPark was launched in space by the Autobots, while the Decepticons attacked the Autobot stronghold. Megatron knew the trajectory, and followed it. Autobots and Decepticons were looking up into the sky following Megatron as he went into outer space, and then looked at eachother, not knowing what to do next. Eventually, it was understood that Cybertron was falling apart, and that it needed the AllSpark back. What followed was a diaspora, an exodus of Transformers in search of both Megatron and the AllSpark, knowing that where one would be, the other would not be far away.

BTW I think Optimus jettisoning the Allspark into space was the dumbest idea ever. Thankfully the prequel comics =/= the movie.