>>5275049>It's not like it would have been that different, just less retarded."Less retarded" is all I would really want it to be, anyway. Prime had to die one way or another, but the way they went about it did absolutely no favors to the guy they were replacing him with, especially not when the rest of that guy's screen time in the movie, both before and after that once scene, is devoted to showing him doing all this cool shit he for some reason doesn't do in that one scene.
It'd be like if in Star Wars Luke was shown to be able to do all sorts of cool Jedi shit from the very beginning, but still does fuck-all besides screaming a whiny "NO" when Obi-Wan bites it or Vader tells him he fucked his mom, but goes back to being a badass when it's time to fuck up a Death Star.
Same deal with Hot Rod. You can't show me him shooting down a shuttle full of Decepticons or using an Insecticon as a ramp to jump a gap, but then make him completely useless for no good reason, only to later have him fighting space-robot squids and an army of transforming shark robots.
If you're trying to sell me on a new toy by showing me how awesome the new toy is, you shouldn't make a point of showing him completely sucking in between the bits of him not sucking. You either need to limit the suck to the very beginning, and build up to the badass, or keep him badass all the way through, and have his failure being that his being a badass just wasn't enough.
