i haven't seen tf1 (i'm seeing it tomorrow) and this is my understanding of the plot?? i thought it would be funny to review this tomorrow after i see the movie, especially based on people's reaction to the ending!
Thinking about that scene where Tarantulas lets Prowl glimpse his ideal future and it’s just Optimus showing off their beautiful homeworld and telling Prowl he was responsible for this wonderful thing. Prowl’s perfect ending is about being recognized as inherently good.
When the Constructicons and later Tarantulas arrive and praise Prowl, it’s for all of the things that everyone else hates him for: his cruelty, his pragmatism, his potential for destruction; everything that, in his dream, were forgiven as means to a more important end. Prowl wants approval, but specifically that which he has been denied: he wants people to see more of him than the sadistic tactician his reputation holds, and when love comes and it’s for that reputation rather than in spite of it, it ends up being just another reminder that everyone considers Prowl a monster.
screams
imagine you're a mechanic in the Transformers universe and you have a car come in with engine trouble so you open it up and the engine is just full of some kind of weird fast-spreading rust. never seen anything like it before
so you're like. hmmm. and you call the Autobots like 'hi I know this number is supposed to be for reporting possible Decepticon activity but I've got some kind of alien bullshit going on and I don't know who to ask'. they hand you over to Ratchet and Rachet is like 'hm I think I know what that is but let me come run some tests'
SO Ratchet comes over and has a look at the engine and is like yeah as I thought. its crotch rust. and you're like 'crotch rust??' and he's like yeah its crotch rust. its a. well I think humans call them STIs? its like that.
so you're like '..........are you telling me a Transformer fucked this car' and he's like yeah. looks that way. and you're like 'what in the world' and he's like I don't know. people are freaks. anyway we don't want this stuff spreading so I'll be back tomorrow with the right nanites. keep it away from the other cars.
he comes back the next day like okay so I have good news and I have bad news. you're like 'well what's the good news' and he's like WELL I spent last night testing all the autobots for crotch rust and they're all clean. so you're like 'does that mean the car wasn't fucked' and he's like oh no the car was definitely fucked there's no other way this could have happened.
so you're like 'wait. are you saying a Decepticon fucked this car?' and he's like yes. we have a Decepticon fucking cars. and they are giving the cars STIs. thank you for bringing this to our attention here are the nanites goodbye.
all hail megatron begins with jazz leading the autobots while optimus was in stasis, only for the series to end with starscream leading the decepticon while megatron was under restoration... literally lost potential in developing their future interactions and i mourn that everyday. the way they perfectly mirror each other got me SICK.