I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way

This thread has brought back some awful flashbacks of ROTF that I'd forgotten about.

- The Pretender, enough said.
- The countless anonymous Decepticons there purely for fodder for the Autobot carnage.
- I guess he forgot he named the tank Devastator in the first film.
- The twins were annoying, if they'd died at the hands of Devastator, I could have been a bit more forgiving... but they took his face off. Not happy.
- Bumblebee tearing out Ravage's spine.
- Prime getting resurrected through "love".
- Decepticon babies??

To me, it felt like a video game. Not a good one either, much like every "game of the movie" is awful, this felt like watching someone play one of those. Its all about Prime, he goes through a stage killing a bunch of miscellaneous Decepticons before reaching a 'boss'. In between fights, theres some cutscenes involving Ms Fox curves and Mr Lebeouf's big ears, then its back to something involving Prime. Plenty of other robots make their token appearances for their 2 minutes of onscreen time. Even when he dies, its still all about Prime.

@Paulbot - True, there are a few great episodes, and I hope I don't offend when I bring up a few things from Season 2 that I didn't like...

- Seaspray turning into a mermaid.
- A transformer afraid of heights (Silverbolt).
- Ripping Prime's body into pieces and using them as parts around a city (I remember a part as a crocodile, his arm and rifle ontop of a building)... I forget the name of this episode.
- So many episodes with the "mini" transformers as the main characters, so kids that could only afford those still felt special (Ok, this sounds mean - I just didnt like them)
- Cosmos can fit all Autobots inside him (I dislike Astrotrain for this reason too)
- Whoever made the decision on how Warpath should speak.
- Omega Supreme is godlike in one episode, a broken down wreck in the next.
- Omega Supreme having happy-fun times on Cybertron with the Constructicons, 3 million years prior - yet Megatron created them in Season 1.
- Acid rain on Cybertron.

... now I sound like all I do is complain.

Season 1 had great characters, and build up to a nice finale, and the movie just topped it off for me.

I thoroughly enjoyed Beast Wars for the same reason. It had great character development and didn't try to cram each episode with a heap of new characters to try and sell. The plot twist at the end of Season 2 was fantastic.

Now we're at TF:Prime, I've not been so eager to see the next episode since I was a kid watching Gen1. Can't wait until this series hits Blu-ray.

BC