In Defense of Michael Bay's Optimus Prime | Talon Discussions | Video Essay

Here it is, my in-depth look at Michael Bay's Optimus Prime and why he isn't the bad character adaption that he is made out to be.  I look at his various controversial actions and lines of dialogue from each movie, the war as presented in the Michael Bay films, accusations of war crimes, and more!

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:02 - Backstory of the Bayverse
3:46 - The 2007 movie
5:13 - Revenge of The Fallen
14:47 - Dark of the Moon
33:28 - Age of Extinction
46:56 - The Last Knight
49:57 - Brutality, war, and how it relates to Optimus
55:03 - The portrayal of the Decepticons
56:53 - War crimes
01:01:11 - The character of Bayverse Optimus
01:07:25 - Comparisons between different versions
01:15:42 - The Peter Cullen of it all
01:19:53 - Conclusion

The music in this video is "Addict (Instrumental)", "Just Breathing (Instrumental)", "Go Down Swinging (Instrumental)" by NEFFEX, "Silent Partner" by The Wrong Way, "Traversing" by Godmode, "The Whole Other" by Valley of Spies, "It Was a Time" by TrackTribe, "Planetary Paths" Joel Cummins and Andy Farag, "Chasing the Dragons" by Joel Cummins, Kris Myers and Andy Farag, "Asleep With the Sun" by Unicorn heads, "Early Oceans" by Freedom Trail Studio, "Global" and "Tangled" by Emmit Fenn, and "scifi" and "newdawn" from Bensound and can be found here: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free

All images used in this video were from Google searches, Hasbro Pulse and the TFW2005 boards.

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