“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” — Optimus Prime
This one throwaway line in the new Transformers film is in fact homage to the original Transformers series. As observant readers of this blog may have noticed, I am quite a fan of the Transformers multiverse, particularly of the 1986 animated film (amongst other things, it has an awesome soundtrack and some great vocal work). Optimus Prime was a childhood hero of mine, so this motto has always struck a chord with me.
It also makes me wonder, if the Autobots are such strong advocates of freedom, are they themselves programmed with Free Software? Conversely, are the Decepticons proprietary?
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July 1st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I heard that Megatron is using Linspire
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
You put spoilers in the titles of your posts?
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am
Zhasper,
Ummm… how is that a spoiler? It was never a secret that Optimus Prime would be in the film, and I don’t think anybody expected him to die (been there, done that).