Transformers Prime cartoon reviews/comments (spoilers)

Just saw eps four and five, and I enjoyed them. Miko's pretty annoying though... whenever I was watching her the word クソガキ ('kusogaki' = little s***) kept popping in my mind. (x-_-) But afterwards I was thinking... there have been plenty of examples of teenagers throwing themselves into warzones simply because they're seeking adventure (e.g. Jim Martin) - so as annoying as she is, she isn't a completely unbelievable character.

As for Raf's "1337 h4xX0rZ 5|<!11z", I think it was handled better and explained when he studied the Decepticon screen and said that although he didn't understand the Cybertronian language, he could still recognise and understand mathematics. And that would explain all of his super abilities so far... Rafael is basically a mathematical genius, and his understanding of math allows him to basically hack into computer systems, even alien computer systems. Perhaps it's all too convenenient and cliche/corny for a little kid to be such a math genius, but not absolutely impossible. Although you'd think that a kid this smart would have been picked up by his parents and teachers much sooner... you'd think he'd be like one of those Doogie Howser kids who would've been accelerated and would already be in uni now! (cos at least Chip was portrayed as a young scientist - not some random schoolkid).

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

looks like there might be some robo-love between Arcee and whats that guys name.. human guy, not Raf

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Jack. I wanna see his mum again. ;)

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Originally Posted by gekisou

Ralf... somewhat useful.

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Ralf fail English? That's unpossible! :p ;)

I also thought the fight scene between Optimus Prime and Ratchet against the hordes of zombies was way cool. :) Although... I never knew Cybertronians had veins! :o

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

Jack. I wanna see his mum again. ;)

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Ha hahaha! lol..

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

I also thought the fight scene between Optimus Prime and Ratchet against the hordes of zombies was way cool. :) Although... I never knew Cybertronians had veins! :o

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Yeh, I thought that a bit odd too. Why not at least use circuits when wrigint about robots... Maybe they do, I haven't seen a transformer physiology book. Remember on Zone, Predaking had brains and intestines...

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

Yeh, I thought that a bit odd too. Why not at least use circuits when wrigint about robots... Maybe they do, I haven't seen a transformer physiology book. Remember on Zone, Predaking had brains and intestines...

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Yeah, that was a rather gutsy moment.

しぃ～～～ん

FI-YAA GUTS!!

Stop dragging Cicadas into this Gok. :p

I suddenly remembered what really bugged me about the ep. The ending communication Prime sends out. Its almost like the Bay Movie ending commu, which isn't unexpected cos its got the same writers, but instead of telling Autobots to come to the planet, its telling would-be invaded to try it and we will kick your asses off-planet. Interesting but odd.

Not bad, but it is borrowing all the good stuff from Animated at the beginning of the series, rather than at the end (Decepticon Army arrive via spacebridge).

Bulkhead really is the standout from the mini, nice to not have "Bumblebee is teh Awesum!!!11!" shoved in our faces for a change.

Animation is nice and fluid, fighting is really well choreographed, not to the Avatar, last Airbender level, but it is still very dynamic, with each bot having their own style for fighting, both hand to hand and with weapons.

I was watching some TF Prime during my lunch break today, and ya know, putting all the fan-b!tching aside -- I really am liking this series a lot. Ever since Beast Wars ended, I've often complained about Transformers series simply failing to deliver a simultaneous appeal to both child and adult audiences. Beast Machines was too adult and everything after that was too kid-oriented. Car Robot (RiD) was good considering it's target audience and Animated got better later on... just before being canned. And the Unicron Trilogy was rather forgettable. The comics were more enjoyable, but of course, we all know happened with Dreamwave <sigh>.

I feel that this is the first Transformers cartoon we've had since the Canadian Beast Wars series that actually is trying to appeal to both kids and adults at the same time... and IMO it's doing a fair job (cos it's NOT easy to appeal to two such different audiences at the same time) -- a helluva lot better of a job than Michael Bay. The only thing, for me, that is missing would be tying in with G1-G2-BW-BM continuity, but that's obviously never been the intent of this series (and the fact that Beast Machines ended in a way that boxed in continuity makes it jolly hard to follow up doesn't help) -- so it's not something I begrudge them for.

I just hope they run with this continuity for a good long while before doing another reboot. I'm tired of seeing 'disposable continuities' thrown all over the place for the last 10 years. Yeah I know G1 had different continuities within it, but it all belonged to one larger "universal" continuity (i.e. same core cast of characters, one toy line etc.)... I'd like to think that if Prime is successful then Hasbro will decide to continue this series... but Hasbro has a habit of prematurely cancelling series in fear of it becoming stale (e.g. Beast Wars and Animated).

Now... bring on the toys!!

Overall, it's not a bad series in my opinion, but then it's not great either. I think it comes down to the characters. I just fail to care about them. Arcee and Jack are kinda likable, Ratchet and Bulkhead are bearable and everyone else seems boring.

Prime is getting some terrible movie-style dialogue in this show. I don't really blame Cullen, it seems to be more-so the script/direction. But damn Prime needs to lighten the f*ck up.

But it's still ok, has plenty of action, a few interesting ideas and the sporadic comedy is quite well done.

While nowhere near as good as Animated's opening three-parter, it was still somewhat enjoyable and has plenty of potential.

i have only watched the first 2 episodes so far but i have to say i think it is turing out really well. i am loving the animation and the character designs. i do think it is probably a bit dark for younger kids but i dont really mind as i am not a younger kid and enjoy the darkness :P
looking forward to watching the next episodes

Meh - it's not bad. I'll probably get in to it more, but it's not blowing my mind just yet.

I'll keep watching but Prime isn't doing anything for me at the moment. I think it's biggest problem (horrendous designs aside) is that it takes itself far too seriously. It's just not that fun at all.

I also loved how in TFA the Decepticons were a real threat, even Starscream could really hold his own against the whole team of Autobots making for exciting viewing. In this show, every fight seems to consist of the Autobots against wave after wave of generic clones, meanwhile, Big Girls Blouse & Mrs Pantyhose AKA Starscream & Megatron sit in the background shining their breastplates.