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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
For the Transformers? I've never liked the premise of the new movies, the Allspark that they are fighting for is realy an All-Macguffin that is just an arbitrary plot-object that two opposing good/evil forces are fighting over. It could be anything at all. The old cartoon was pretty terrible and silly but the basic story was actually pretty interesting as it an allegory to the energy crisis of the 70s and 80s.
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The immobilizer, the negavator, the energy of the peruvian temple, kremzeek, Deceptitran, the golden lagoon, Prime's new Cosmotron, the Matrix, Unicron, B.O.T, Nightbird.
Damn those new movies for having a static Macguffin! I liked it better when it changed every episode/movie too!
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
In the original cartoon, the reason the Autobots and Decepticons left Cybertron is that years of war had left their planet barren, ruined, and starved of energy and no more resources of any kind and they went out into the universe in search of new sources of energy. The Decepticon's chief goal became plundering earth's natural resources and energy and sending it back to Cybertron to continue the war while the Autobots stayed to protect the humans from Decepticon attacks. The decepticons were stealing Earth's supplies of oil, strip mining, drilling to the earth's core, etc. and basically wrecking the planet to extract all the things they wanted. There was an environmental angle you could go after.
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It was a toy commercial. You're going waaaaay to deep into it. I find that the "Years of war left the planet a lifeless metal orb forcing those still alive to escape it to survive, while hunting what was once the life force of the planet," a lot better than, "We need energy." Especially since there's a 4 million year gap where the planet apparently was fine without the Energy they were hunting for.