Fandom Geography 101

[greenconverses]

If I see one more fucking Tranformers fic where the location of the final battle is Los Angeles, I am going to bust some skulls!

The final battle takes place in Las Vegas. Say it with me now: L-A-S  V-E-G-A-S. So says the book-based-on-screenplay, Wikipedia, and common logic.

Now, I know not everyone reads books based on the movies and that not everyone actually researches stuff for their fan fics and quite a lot of people don't use common sense in fandom, but seriously. Someone needs to throw a map of the Western United States at the movieverse Transformers fandom. 

The Hoover Dam is in Nevada. Los Angeles is in California. The two are four and a half hours apart. There is no logical way that a military convoy plus the Autobots can make it to Los Freakin' Angeles with the Decepticons right on their asses and gaining, especially when they catch up and blow things each other up on the interstate. Just because the battle was filmed in areas of Los Angeles doesn't mean it actually took place there. 

Augh.

Geography is my personal pet peeve, mostly because whenever I tell someone I'm from South Dakota, he or she are like, "Oh, so you're right by North Carolina then?" or "Where?" or "You're not the state with the president head's on a mountain, are you?" or, when he or she figures out the location of the state, they ask, "Oh, so do you still ride around in covered wagons and live in teepees and fight the Indians?"

*headdesk*



Transformers has crawled into my brain and eatten it and I don't know why! *headwall*