transformers – Arthurian Legends

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

In 484, King Arthur participated in a heated battle with the Saxons along with his loyal knights, but the battle wasn’t going in his favor. The king told his knights that help was on the way. While his knights didn’t trust the help he said was coming, the king believed in the old sage. Help did arrive in the form of a giant three-headed fire-breathing dragon, who swiftly decimated the opposition. Viviane Wembly believed that King Arthur was more fiction than fact until her lineage was revealed to her by Sir Edmund Burton.

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“Protect this staff; one day, a great evil will come for it!”

I’ve been in the Transformers fandom since 2001, and having sat through five of these films, I can safely say there are a lot of hits and misses in them (mostly misses, unfortunately). Despite their flaws, there is the occasional bit of lore that shows through, and some good scenes buried among the bad.

The more recent film, The Last Knight, uses bits of Arthurian myth to expand the Transformers universe; in it, Merlin (Stanley Tucci) pleads with the Guardian Knights— a group of Transformers hiding on Earth during the Middle Ages— to help Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table win a decisive battle. I particularly like Merlin’s final plea to Stormreign (the red-armored Knight) that forms the basic theme of the Transformers mythos: “I know your world was destroyed; I’m sorry. But please, don’t let ours die, too.”

And admittedly, King Arthur being allied with giant robots is a weird twist on the story, but if any piece of fiction could make it work, Transformers is definitely it!

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What are you waiting for from Transformers: The Last Knight? Is it true that Liam Garrigan will be King Arthur ??

I have no idea haha ( about the first question)! I’ve never watched Transformers so I only have a vague idea of what it is about, but somehow they are putting King Arthur in it (somehow) and Liam Garrigan will play him : )

so I suppose we’ll wait and see : D