I just watched a few episodes of the original Transformers. And I was wondering: the original cartoon is less stupid than the Michael Bay movies how, exactly?
Just to pick one example: the introduction of the dinobots.
Basically what happens is the autobots discover some dinosaur bones around the Ark, and because they've never seen dinosaurs before, they ask Spike to explain them. So Spike takes the Jeep guy to a museum where Jeep guy takes out a device that to all appearances is a gun, and takes holographic pictures of the dinosaur exhibit, and no one even thinks to stop him at any point. Then back at the Ark, Spike gives a grade-school explanation of dinosaurs that contained information that I think even at the time the episode was made was laughably outdated. Because of Spike's description of how powerful the dinosaurs were (I believe his exact words were "the dinosaurs were powerful"), the medic autobot and one of the other ones decide that they should have some dinosaurs, you know, to do manual labor and such. So they ask Optimus's permission, and Optimus basically says "I can't think of any reason that building robots based on creatures we've only just found out exist and know practically nothing about would be a bad idea. Go ahead."
Unfortunately, since Jurassic Park would not come out for several years, the autobots didn't realize that recreating dinosaurs would inevitably result in the dinosaurs turning on their creators and wreaking havoc, which they do almost immediately. So Optimus orders the dinobots to be deactivated, sealed in a cave, and never reactivated. But then Optimus and the autobots are caught in a trap by the decepticons, and so they have to, surprise surprise, reactivate the dinobots to save them. Only they're given just enough of a memory upgrade that they'll know not to attack the autobots and speak in sentence fragments.
Yeah, that's MUCH better than any of the live-action movies.
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