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My lil' take on the "Don't be like Sentinel" moment

I actually think Orion was less literally saying "This is what Sentinel" would do and more just trying to say what he thought would break through the clear "blood"lust D-16 was experiencing and just picked the wrong phrase for it. Like I viewed it as he was just searching for any way to make D-16 pause and reevaluate, and he thought "Maybe this will work, and then we can talk, and I can tell him he's nothing like Sentinel."

And then like All That happened and then Megatron literally ripped out Megatronus's T-Cog and put it in himself exactly like Sentinel did so. Orion picked a bad way to try and "shock" D-16 out of his rage. It was less about "Don't kill the bad guy, you'll be just like him!" and more "I've seen a change in you since we learned Sentinel is a traitor, a dangerous change, and the path you're going down is going to lead to ruin and destruction and death. Don't do this."

I was elated when Megatron ripped Sentinel in half by the way, I was hoping for exactly that the whole movie. Like I get Orion's point, that bringing about the new and better world with a christening of "blood" is not the path Alpha Trion or Primus want, but I also just, really loved seeing Megatron rip Sentinel in half and will watch it again many times, and cheer every time.