Will try again here:
Transformers One recap and thoughts (SPOILERS BELOW)
Recap: Orion Pax and D-16, best buds, work as cog-less (no device inside
them that lets them transform) robots that work in a mine with other
cog-less Cybertronians. There's also some talk of the original Primes,
the first Cybertronians created by Primus, the robot god who made
himself into Cybertron. Sentinel Prime, the leader of all Cybertronians
(no Autobots or Decepticons yet, just all who live underground on
Cybertron for some reason), who says he's still looking for the Matrix
of Leadership since the battle with the enemy Quintessons, has another
"Iacon 5000" race for transformable Cybertronians, which Orion and D
take place in with jetpacks not previously approved of. While they
don't win, Sentinel isn't impressed, he wants to reward them, but then
one of their bully, force-to-work bosses named "Darkwing" puts them down
in the center of Cybertron, where they run into B-127, a good bot who's
been down there for quite awhile, and Elita-1, who got there because of
stuff Pax and D had done earlier in the movie. They somehow work their
way to the surface, only to discover the remains of Alpha Trion and
other deactivated Primes. They give AT some energon, and he comes back
to life, and explains about Cybertron's long enemy, the Quintessons,
have ruled over the top of Cybetron for a long time, as Sentinel
betrayed the Primes, killing them and him, now since them works for the
Quintessons. Also, the cog-less Cybertronians DID have cogs, but they
were removed. AT then gives the four their own cogs, but it takes
awhile through to the end of the film for them to master transforming.
The four actually see this with their own eyes on the surface too. Pax,
D, Elita, and B then make their way back below. They find this
underground fighter group, made up of to-be-Decepticons, led by
Starscream, who agree to work with them, and Pax also rallies the
cog-less to fight with them also. They expose Sentinel to the populace
with a video of him talking about his duplicity. D tries to kill
Sentinel with his new cannon, but Pax gets in the way. He shoots him,
mortally-wounding him, and D grabs him before he falls into a massive
pit. D finally says he's done saving him, lets him go, and a presumably
falls to his death. D does then kill Sentinel. Pax encounters the
essence of Primus inside the Cybertron, in the pit, who reformats him
into Optimus Prime, and gives him the long-lost Matrix of Leadership.
Prime and D, who now calls himself Megatron, have it out, then Prime
wins, and orders Megs and his now troops to leave the area and don't
come back. Prime becomes the leader of a group calling themselves
Autobots, and Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons elsewhere,
naming himself after Megatronus Prime, who he idolized as D-16, and
their faction symbol somewhat resembling the face of Megatronus.
Sorry if I got anything wrong or left out anything significant here.
Please correct me if I did. Only saw it once and don't remember
everything.
Great film! Great storyline and very intriging! Lots of brief G1
character cameos, who I can remember off the top of my head: Jazz, Red
Alert, Ironhide, and Arcee.
Anyone else also have thoughts?
- Rodimus_2316