#NewTrailer | Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon (7/1/2011)
[tweetmeme source=“theycallmetune” only_single=“false”] youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSdtjXQhNTo&w=600&h=375&rel=0&hd=1&showinfo=0] One word.. Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!!!!!!!
Are they discovering such ‘bots for the first time? Have they seen such machines before? The encounter has left some fans confused about the timeline of events within the franchise’s mythology, so let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. We learn in the first film that Sam Witwicky’s (LaBeouf) great-great-grandfather discovered a robot during an Arctic mission in the late-19th century, leading to the eventual construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s as a way to hide the presence of nefarious Decepticon head honcho Megatron. Clearly, then, the astronauts and their government backers know Transformers exist. And after watching the new trailer a few times, it seems to us that the driving force behind the Apollo 11 moon mission was not solely to walk where mankind had never walked before but to figure out just what the heck was going on up there.
As soon as the astronauts find themselves on the dark side of the moon and cut off from communication with Earth, a mission control official says, “Mission is a go. You have 21 minutes.” Thus it seems, at the very least, NASA knew it was going to encounter something up there, that they had some indication of the presence of something odd on the surface. Whether they knew it was Transformers-related or not remains to be seen. But the key point is that this new trailer isn’t trying to suggest the '69 mission was humanity’s first encounter with the alien robots. Similarly, the original teaser trailer wasn’t meant to imply that the encounter with the 'bots on Mars was our first clue about their existence.