Somewhere, the prince of darkness is wondering why he has to drag his mittens out of storage.  It’s because Michael Bay, up here on earth, has just exhibited a startling amount of rational sense.

Why?  He just started talking about Transformers 3, and he said there would be fewer explosions in it.  And fewer robots.  It’d be focused more on, get this, the CHARACTERS.  He also said this:

“There will be a nice crescendo ending.” He added, “It gets much more into the robot character. The last time you kind of met a few of the robots; this time you’re gonna get a much cooler landscape.”

This makes perfect sense, actually.  With all this in mind, let’s give the man the benefit of the doubt and forget he actually talked about getting an Oscar for Transformers 3.

Even this actually made some sense–no, put away the torches and pitchforks; it was for EFFECTS.  Or possibly sound editing.  Folks, there’s only one horrifying conclusion I can reach from this: did Hollywood’s leading hubris cloud actually LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES??

What’s next?  An eclipse?  A rash of two headed calf births?  Either way, I’m downright horrified, because now, I’m kind of looking forward to Transformers 3.