Toon Zone Talkback - "Transformers: Animated": More Than Meets The Expectations

The problem being that even though he was the most extreme example, he spawned countless imitators. He went from the extremity to the standard. If Optimus behaves like that, you can bet there's going to be a lot of complaints.
 
Well, I finally sat down and watched it. What a giant, stinking, steaming pile of dog doo. Were these people on acid when they made this cartoon? Calling this cartoon godawful would be an insult to ones such as Jem and Silverhawks.

Other than the hardcore TF fanbase and the very young, who have no idea how inferior this is, this show will probably go down as an abyssmal failure.

Give me TF: Armada or Cybertron over this garbage any day.
 
Oh Good Lord, where to start?

Well, how about Optimus Prime being a "crime fighter" by stopping and aiding the arrest of a poorly conceived Robin Hood-stile bad guy? Whatever happened to "Robots in Disguise"? Next, the animation style is godawful. They're giant, transforming robots, yet they move like they were made out of cloth; bending and flexing all over wehre it should be solid metal. Next, they've totally screwed up the characters.

Prowl is a polica car, not a motorcycle, and the last time I checked he wasn't an Eastern Transcendentalist. Now, on to BumbleBee, quite possibly the most beloved of the original G1 TF. They've turned him into a smart-mouthed hanger-on wanna-be side-kick.

From top to bottom, everything I saw was just awful.
 
'Supposed to be' is a very fickle term for a franchise which constantly reinvents characters (primarily to keep copyright). Whilst homages are frequent and certain key characters do generally stay the same, there is nothing that says one character must always be interpreted the same way.

As for the general theme of the show- the last 3 series effectively flopped. There isn't a market for G1 style really outside of the long term fans who have the comics for their fix. Animated is trying to mix the best stuff from all previous series along with new elements. Part of that includes limited use of the Decepticons to keep their menace and the human enemies.
 
I see you watched a random episode and not the first episodes (Which explains why you don't know whats going on) And you are complaining about them making changes. It's not suppose to be the same show over again.

Anyway the animation does suck but this show is still good. Much better then the Unicron Trilogy in my opinion. I hated the Unicron Trilogy.
 
i liked the Unicron trilogy, because it focused a little bit less on the action, and more on the character development and plot. Cybertron was the best of the trilogy in my opinion.

There's a right way and a wrong way to depict Transformers. This new series does just about everything wrong. I might come back and watch it later, but until then, I'm calling it "blah" and sticking with it.
 
Cybertron was decent enough and I did enjoy it most of the time. However, personally, I'd say that from the look of things, this new series will have a more thought-out, intriguing plot. So far, it's definitely an improvement over Cybertron's redundant scavenger hunt.

Though, creativerealms is right, it would've been a good idea to start with the pilot movie. It was much better than this past Saturday's episode, IMO.
 
Well yeah, it's not heavily based on continuity, but the episodes do seem to have at least a little subtle continuity. Megatron is slowly coming back to power, and there's a ton of Autobots and Decepticons that we haven't seen yet, or have only seen once.
 
That's definitely true, but I don't see at this point anything "intriguing" being built up. But it's only been four episodes so far, and there's definitely more to come.

I'm probably just biased since I really liked Cybertron. :p
 
I think that after seeing Galaxy Convoy, with guns on top of guns on top of guns, it's a bit harder to adjust to Optimus Prime, the Academy flunkee turned repairman.

I do think that the shows were do for a new approach after the Unicron trilogy and its last leg (Gonzo pretty much going to hell with the prior continuity and Hasbro having to pick up the pieces) took the Transformers as super robot approach to a proper series after what can arguably be viewed as two blundered attempts. Is the "Autobots as losers turned superheros on Earth" going to be as epic as Galaxy Force? Maybe, maybe not. It will be a fresh approach, and when working with a long-standing brand that's seen everything from character deaths to Munkys to parody to utter perversion, change is not a bad thing.

That said, Animated OP is not my idea of a good leading character.
 
Well, I watched the first episode despite not being all that impressed with the movie. I was kind of curious to see what would happen when the old scientist revealed that all of his robotic breakthroughs were actually stolen from alien (Decepticon) technology. Besides, I was waiting for the game to come on. :p

Okay, so I didn't get any big reveal with the scientist but I did like the opening with them fighting "Robin Hood". The idea of the Autobots as more traditional superheroes had not occurred to me despite them being called "superhero" in the movie. In the movie, it was all just them fighting the Decepticons. Of course, once the episode started moving back to the whole Autobots vs. Decepticons plot, I started to lose interest again.

As for Sari, I just don't know. I mean, the character is okay but the magic key needs to go. She already used it three times in the movie which was way too much. And now she can do anything with it? Kind of takes a lot of the suspense out of the show if she can do that.

Anyways, I was sure I wasn't go to watch again after seeing the movie but maybe I will check it out again next week before the game starts. I've moved to an "on-the-fence" viewership, I guess.
 
I liked it but I'm not sure what this show wants to be. On one hand the designs look like they're targeting the "5 and under" demographic, but the humor and action seemed more appropriate for older kids. Even the use of weapons seemed to be odd. The Autobots don't carry traditional guns but they had no problems showing humans using what appeared to be machine guns.

Anyway, I would rate the show slightly above average and that's due largely to the character designs.
 
I did not watch the movie, but I did watch the first episode. It was better than the last three Transformer series. If they insist on having a kid sidekick at least Sari is tolerable. The other three shows were so kiddie that I could not watch it. Also the 3-d models left a lot to be desired animation wise.

I did find Bumblebee annoying, but they did make up for it with having a menacing Megatron.
 
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