(WARNING: Plot points revealed in the following post.)

I’m not a movie critic. I’m a scientist. But the Transformers movie raised a lot of questions that trouble my scientific mind. (I will say that the special effects were mind-boggling even to Prof. Losanjealous—and that’s coming from someone who once installed two flux capacitors in a T.A.R.D.I.S. and made perfect flan.)

Starting with the chronology. Prof. Losanjealous seems to recall that the toys came first, then the cartoon, then the comic book, then the movie starring Orson Welles and Judd Nelson (who rumor has it feuded throughout production). Then a few years later there came some vector graphics nonsense where Optimus Prime was an ape and Megatron was like a wine rack. I think that brings us up to date.

So the following are just some notes based on a single viewing of the recent studio release:
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Dear Prof. Losanjealous:

I was in my biology class and I fell asleep because it was so boring. My teacher was showing slides. But then I woke up and saw something that looked like a Cheesy Bites pizza. Then he changed the slide. Can you tell me what I was looking at?

Sincerely,
Henry Gomez
8th grade
Thomas Starr King Middle School

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