I Find the Use of That Line Highly Illogical.
July 13, 2011
So here it is, my Transformers comic, and all I have to say is, damn are they annoying to draw, never again. Next time I make a Transformers comic I hope it’s a commentary on something like old school G1 Transformers, cause at least they’d be easy to draw, but I digress.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It’s a movie, it’s made like eleventy billion dollars or something. I enjoyed it, not as good as the first, better than the second one, it’s the best stupid action explosion movie of the summer. However there is one glaring thing in the movie that infuriates me to my core!
Leonard Nimoy voices Sentinel Prime, the former Autobot leader. A nice little allusion to the past, when Nimoy voiced Galvatron, the rebuilt Megatron in the original Transformers animated movie, you know the one from the eighties that scarred a generation of children, myself including, by showing them the death of Optimus Prime. So yeah that was a little treat to the fans. But then they did it, why oh why did they do it?
Leonard Nimoy, is a pillar in the nerd culture, he forever will be immortalized from his role as Spock from Star Trek. One of the most memorable scenes in all of the Star Trek canon is Spock’s death scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. As Captain Kirk watches his friend, having just saved the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise, sealed in a room full of radiation slowly and is dying. Spock tells Kirk, in his famous line, “The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few.” An absolute classic. Then Transformers: Dark of the Moon however takes that scene and takes a giant diarrhea dump all over it when in the conclusion of the movie, when Optimus and Sentinel are fighting. Sentinel exposits that Optimus will never understand that his plan to revive Cybertron at the cost of Earth is too ensure the survival of the Cybertronian race. The dialogue should have ended there, but Sentinel had to add one extra line, telling Optimus, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
What?
What!
I watched the movie with my Father, who is a bigger Trekkie than I and he was fuming as soon as he said needs. His reaction being, “You got to be kidding me!” This has got to be the single most infuriating thing they could have possibly done. Not only did it cheapen, and downright ruin the original line, in the context of Transformers it didn’t even make sense! Needs of the many my ass! There’s like twenty Transformers total, half of which don’t want the earth destroyed, let alone the six billion humans the would be slightly inconvenienced by, you know, not having a planet to live on and what not. So yeah, Leonard Nimoy! For shame! Michael Bay, No! You don’t do that! That’s a bad Michael Bay!
I can only assume in the inevitable fourth movie we’ll have Unicron voiced by Sir Ian McKellen shouting, “You shall not pass!” as he devours a planet whole.