I don’t know jack fucking shit about Transformers, I just watched the animated tv series that was on when I was a kid, but I watched the new Transformers One film in class and it occurred to me that Optimus Prime is essentially the like… Boomer/Gen X to the Rescue Bots series’ Millennial/Generation Z and that’s so funny to me as someone who has no idea what the fuck is going on outside of what they mention in a tv show set in the US state of Maine.
Like yeah fuck it up grandad you were young and stupid in the 80s and lived through multiple world-ending type events before the age of 20 and also miner strikes. I plant trees for a living.
This guy has so many insane claims to “When I was your age” and doesn’t drop it once to my knowledge so W for Mr. Prime on that. All the British kids in that screening were eating this shit up too.
(Overall, ngl, a good film, and pretty metal for a kids’ movie too. A guy gets ripped in half it’s nutty. I also realised it was an Optimus Prime backstory before my friend who has an Optimus Prime hyperfixation and I intend to laugh at him for that).
Like I genuinely can’t explain it and I’m also probably super wrong because I know nothing about the transformers franchise but it was giving this