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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roger semerad" data-source="post: 9477705" data-attributes="member: 6998612">I don't go to theaters anymore, but I'm a big Transformers fan so I'll get around to seeing this eventually.  It's nice to hear some positive reactions.  Transformers movies are a pretty mixed bag, I've always got my fingers crossed when one comes out.It's a bit odd of your friend to say the movie does some things "right or wrong" when it comes to story.  Unlike other big media brands, Transformers doesn't really do continuity*.  Every new show, comic, game, or movie is it's own thing unless it says otherwise, and I thought this movie was unconnected to previous works.  Riffing off similar ideas probably, but not in continuity with anything.  It's one of the things I like about the brand really, there's room to be really creative when a new thing comes out.  Maybe there is just a bit of telephone game going on here. *there were two times the brand tried to have an actual continuity.  The first was the Japanese generation 1 timeline, which tied together all Transformers media up to I think the Cybertron show.  Most of these shows were not originally meant to be in continuity, and as a result the Japanese G1 continuity is a bit of a mess.  Thankfully, Takara stopped trying this a long time ago.  The second was touted as a grand unification and ongoing continuity project that was going to start with the War for Cybertron game and the Prime t.v. show.  I've forgotten what it was called, because it fell apart almost immediately.</blockquote>

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