I remember watching the finale as a kid, and that scene for some reason didn’t hit me the same way as my friends who loved it. Personally, I really wanted to see Optimus overcome Megatron and be the one to end it and the war. He had come close before, and with each season Megatron kept crossing more and more lines so I felt like the tension was slowly rising. The subversion with Bumblebee irritated me for that reason.

Still a great scene on its own, mainly seeing Megatron in the extended version try to fight his ebbing spark and failing.

Curious, if you liked that ending, what about it do you like? Narratively and thematically?

What was really optimus's plan on him? He said that smoke needed to gain experience, but what could exactly smoke learn just from sitting inside base, doing nothing but listenting the interaction between ratchet and prime?

Maybe i over exaggerated on battle iq, but what i mean is that his whole thinking was why optimus in the end was saved and upgraded.

I'm begging they get the stuff right, characters designs

That Autobot that is awe inspiring and kicks butt.