One of the biggest problems Michael Bay must have encountered when trying to adapt a cartoon universe to the silver screen was how he could a series with only one main villain interesting across more than just a single film. Megatron - leader of the Decepticons - was a fine opening villain for the franchise, but in the cartoon, he's the only villain. Optimus Prime and his Autobots spend practically every episode of the original cartoon fighting their nemesis, but the concept of a frequently repeating villain just doesn't work well in cinema... It gets boring. Bay tried to work around this by keeping Megatron in the loop, but supplanting his threatening presence with other primary antagonists like The Fallen and Sentinel Prime. Not only was this idea a complete condescension of Megatron's personality (he would never be subservient to anyone), but the villains in question were both boring, and questionable in their motives for being evil. For the series to do anything new or worthy of another sequel, its setting needs to move over to Cybertron and cast Unicron - the planet-sized Transformer - in the lead villain role. With the mutual destruction that the Decipticons and Autobots would face as a result of Unicron's presence, the two factions could come together out of a mutual enemy to provide Megatron (or Galvatron) a very loose anti-hero status.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
