So what subtle changes do you guys think there will be or hope for the characters?

I wonder if Zach will bring back hiphopkido or just dance to Skrillex songs and if Billy will be an eccentric genius hipster who always wears a white labcoat on top of his blue t-shirt that says RADBUG.

Honestly I don't know what to say to your first point, because they are often associated with negative portrayals of "comical" black people in film and its Michael Bay's job to notice that and see why it could be considered offensive, not just let is slide and lar say "whoops, I didn't know people would be offended! They were funny!". Hell, even their choice of names, out of the hundreds of Transformer names is... Interesting when considering everything else on top of it. Even if his intentions weren't to be offensive, which I don't think they were, the fact remains that many people saw it as very, very off and that's a big deal.

"We don't read much..." (Prior to trying to read it)

Not "This is too ancient for us to read".


You're welcome to that opinion, but in my eyes they really didn't. I don't think it was an over-reaction at all.

And yes, Drift was absolutely a stereotype, but it wasn't presented negatively. He wasn't squinty-eyes, big eared or spoke broken English, for example.

But this is totally off-topic, so I will leave it be from now on. The fact is that people were offended from Skids and Mudflap and that the fact that they can be connected to so many stereotypes, even if it was possibly unintentional, is a problem and the fact that Reno Wilson didn't mind is totally irrelevant in the long run.

Pacific Rim 2 comes out April 2017. Could Pacific Rim 2 affect the movie's release plan for 2017 since both movies would be view as similar from each other.