Under the Summer Sun
As I was BBQing some ribs in the backyard, I had a revelation. A geeky, Transformers related revelation.
Optimus Prime and Co. are not that old.
OK, let's have some context first.
G1 Optimus Prime was easily over 4 million years old. Hell, TF: A Ratchet was over 4 million as well. But 2007!Movie Prime is probably only a few thousand.
Why do I say this?
It's been established in the movie that The Fallen and the other Primes were still alive when early man existed. By early man, I mean early modern man, Homo sapien, because that's what they looked like in the movie (unless Bay was just saving on make-up for a bigger SFX budget, lol). According to my half-assed research, modern humans go back about 250, 000 BC. So, take into account the whole Fallen and his followers wiping out the Prime dynasty, of which Optimus came from but was too young to remember/learn his heritage ... yeah. Only a couple hundred thousand years passed from when Optimus was rescued to when he arrived on Earth. And that's assuming Optimus was the orphan that was hidden away; it could easily have been his ancestor instead.
This is all hinging on which species of Homo we saw in the movie. Even if it was supposed to be an earlier throw-back of humans, the earliest species was Homo habilis, around 2.4 million years BC. That's still millions of years younger than G1 Optimus.
... And this had absolutely no real point. :) Oh, and Bull's Eye BBQ Sauce is okay, though I'm not crazy about it.
Also, R.I.P. Martin Streek. I didn't always liked what you said over the radio, but I respected that you were brave enough to say what was on your mind, whatever the consequences. Saturday Nights at the Phoenix will never be the same without you. I hope you find rest now. And yes, I pin most of the blame on the radio station that fired you after 20 years of working there! For no other reason than they wanted to replace you with someone else. Bah. I understand keeping things up to date, but it cost someone their life's work, not to mention their life.
... I think 102.1 the Edge has been losing its edge for a while now, though. -_-
Optimus Prime and Co. are not that old.
OK, let's have some context first.
G1 Optimus Prime was easily over 4 million years old. Hell, TF: A Ratchet was over 4 million as well. But 2007!Movie Prime is probably only a few thousand.
Why do I say this?
It's been established in the movie that The Fallen and the other Primes were still alive when early man existed. By early man, I mean early modern man, Homo sapien, because that's what they looked like in the movie (unless Bay was just saving on make-up for a bigger SFX budget, lol). According to my half-assed research, modern humans go back about 250, 000 BC. So, take into account the whole Fallen and his followers wiping out the Prime dynasty, of which Optimus came from but was too young to remember/learn his heritage ... yeah. Only a couple hundred thousand years passed from when Optimus was rescued to when he arrived on Earth. And that's assuming Optimus was the orphan that was hidden away; it could easily have been his ancestor instead.
This is all hinging on which species of Homo we saw in the movie. Even if it was supposed to be an earlier throw-back of humans, the earliest species was Homo habilis, around 2.4 million years BC. That's still millions of years younger than G1 Optimus.
... And this had absolutely no real point. :) Oh, and Bull's Eye BBQ Sauce is okay, though I'm not crazy about it.
Also, R.I.P. Martin Streek. I didn't always liked what you said over the radio, but I respected that you were brave enough to say what was on your mind, whatever the consequences. Saturday Nights at the Phoenix will never be the same without you. I hope you find rest now. And yes, I pin most of the blame on the radio station that fired you after 20 years of working there! For no other reason than they wanted to replace you with someone else. Bah. I understand keeping things up to date, but it cost someone their life's work, not to mention their life.
... I think 102.1 the Edge has been losing its edge for a while now, though. -_-