1. The Roommates
Because I am a geek with spare time, I come up with a lot of theories. Sometimes, they are with a lot of backstory (I decided in book 3 of Harry Potter that Snape would kill Dumbledore in book 6 based on a resentful look that Snape gives Dumbledore) and some are just weird (E.T. is a Jedi). A few days before I got around to seeing
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I told my roommate that what I would really like to see are conspiracy theorists who have all these ideas about what the giant alien robots are doing in America. She had seen it that afternoon and laughed herself silly at my comment. When I saw the movie and met Fassbinder, Sharsky and Leo, I understood why. These are, therefore, My Boys. We know what happened with Leo. He gave Sam his first "crappy job at a dinky internet firm," ran off with Sam and Mikaela, tased himself in the nuts at the Smithsonian and eventually helped Seymour Simmons save the world. Enough said, the guy is the kind of character that you want to see in the future through the hand clamped over your eyes. It helps that he speaks fluent Spanglish, like half the people I knew in California. I found the kitten calendars thing adorable. The man knows how to work the system, even if he doesn't know the basics of flirting. We know that Fassbinder and Sharsky are techies, hackers and conspiracy theorists in their own right. They rearranged housing to stock their dorm with hot girls. They help Leo run therealeffingdeal.com and seem to spend more time staring in worship at Autobots than even Sam. So, what gives? Four years later, Sam's out of college and while we hear whining about Mikaela, we don't know a thing about what happened with these roommates. We don't know what they graduated in or if they flunked out due to excessive Youtube stalking taking up their whole lives. We don't know if they ever managed to get girlfriends. We
especially have no idea if they ever met a Cybertronian.