D-340 wrote:Oh, you're definately right about the Energon/Allspark deal. That's one of the things I don't like. ut I wounldn't go as far as to compare this to the Super Mario Bros. movie though. It's not that far removed from the source material as a whole(not just G1, but all the incarnations of TF).
I wasn't trying to compare the film as a whole to Super Mario Bros., I was just using it as an example of a really poorly recieved change made for a film adaptation. I do have some major qualms but I think a lot of the changes made were a reasonable compromise. Unfortunately it also makes the ones that don't feel like a compromise at all (Starscream, for starters) seem all the more glaring.
Leonardo wrote:I hadn't thought of that!
I am confused by what you say, though. At what point, with regards to the Allspark, did they listen to fans? Are you talking about how they changed the name from Energon Cube to Allspark?
Anyway, I don't see why the TFs had to be searching for their source of life. It seems pointlessly grand. Why not just have them searching for energon, that which keeps them alive?
My suspicion is that they probably wanted to avoid at all costs the potential for any real-life parallels that could be construed as anti-war. The bipartisan conflict here in the U.S. is as tense as ever and with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars going on they probably didn't want the press to make a political issue of the film (like they have with Happy Feet and just about every other film in the last 4 years). Two factions of an alien race tearing apart a planet and inflicting mass collateral damage on civilians in a battle over fuel probably wouldn't have sat as well with the military or right-wing fans Bay tends to court as a battle over an all-powerful life-creating relic will.