Aintitcool.com gets in on the fun...

Aint It Cool News posted the information about the dung heap of a plot element that is a "Pretender", and shockingly, people there seem to have come to some interesting conclusions...

"A Pretender? Trust Bay to use one of the worst TF plots. Pretenders sucked when I was a kid and they suck even more now. We already got Terminators on film."

"Oh no, not Pretenders. Those were one of the lamest Transformers around after the so called 'Action Masters' that couldn't even transform."

"Bay is SO out of touch.... Pretenders were what made me STOP liking Transformers. Not only that in today's age it is just going to come across as a Terminator or Battlestar Galactica rip off. Do you really want to be ripping a TELEVISION show on FILM? Just do everything you can to make part 2 as cool as the ORIGINAL Transformers cause Part 1 certainly never came close."

"WOW!!!! The hack screenwriters finally found a way around actually having the robots onscreen. Now EVERY random extra can be counted as a "Pretender"-major props though. It took major props to leave out everything that made Transformers cool and skip straight to the stuff like Headmasters and Pretenders that everyone hates. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the film ends with a slow-motion fireball enhanced mini-con orgy. Sweet, sweet mini-con porn....."

"WOW... just when I thought the Transformers couldn't get more stupid, something like this comes along."

"for fucks sake. Just when I thought Bay and his team couldn't fuck up Transformers anymore this comes out. The pretenders line was an act of sheer desperation as the popularity of Transformers was slipping. Check the sales of Pretenders figures - they were shit then and it's still a shit idea. Fucking morons."

My outrage, let me show it to you. More to come.......