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Originally Posted by Ped
RIP
Prowl's death haunted my dreams.
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Funnily enough the only two things that were consistent in just about every single script written and rewritten were the Optimus Prime dying and the four bots on the shuttle crew dying gruesomely.
Each re-write and story board adjustment had the shuttle deaths become slightly less heinous... except Prowl's which stayed relatively the same through each variation. The only change was that the original story board had the POV follow the shot through his chest and out the other side and then him ending in a slumped sitting position facing the camera. It was always Scavenger who took the shot.
Friedman's initial script was a trainwreck of ideas, that almost feels like three different movies smushed together with little thought to cohesive story telling. Depending you who believe, this was either what Hasbro asked for or Friedman just trying to do too much. In the end, some of his original ideas that never made it into the final script have become accepted Transformers lore after the fact (Sparks, Unicron's origin). Some of the ideas that may never been seen sounded awesome (The original triple changer was a massive Autobot train that converted between a traditional multi-car freight train, an advanced cybertronian multi-car hover train and a giant snake).
