Prime Age Of Extinction Verified — Sentinel

Rest in pieces, Sentinel. You won.

Though Sentinel physically perished at the end of Dark of the Moon (2011), his ideological shadow is the secret engine of Age of Extinction . The film, often dismissed as the franchise’s bloated mid-life crisis, reveals its darkest thesis when you realize that the humans have learned Sentinel’s lesson all too well: The Prime Who Sold the World To understand Age of Extinction , we have to remember why Sentinel betrayed the Autobots. In Dark of the Moon , Sentinel argued that the Cybertronian race was dying. His solution was brutal realpolitik: sacrifice Earth’s human population to rebuild Cybertron using the Space Bridge. He wasn’t a sadist; he was a pragmatist. He believed that the survival of his species justified the annihilation of another. sentinel prime age of extinction

In the end, Age of Extinction is the most cynical chapter of the Bayverse because it argues that Sentinel Prime was never a traitor. He was a prophet. And his prophecy—that love between species is a lie, and that survival belongs only to the paranoid—came true the moment the humans built their first anti-Transformer missile. Rest in pieces, Sentinel