Review of Transformers Prime season 2 finale

[Tabias Prime]

Just watch the season 2 finale.....Thoughts anyone..

incase anyone hasn't seen it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7Cw...ature=youtu.be

[SMHFConvoy]

Would love to but YouTube seems to be playing up :-/

[liegeprime]

Would love to but YouTube seems to be playing up :-/

try watching it at www.animeflavor.com they have alternative players in the site as well so if one player doesnt do it , select the other one.

My thoughts... NOW THAT is A Cliffhanger!!!! Surely then Hasbro WILL NOT CAN this series as how they did Animated... if they did, they'd better hide or not attend on the next Botcon coz there will be prices on their heads

It will be a very looong anticipated wait for the next season

[SMHFConvoy]

try watching it at www.animeflavor.com they have alternative players in the site as well so if one player doesnt do it , select the other one.

My thoughts... NOW THAT is A Cliffhanger!!!! Surely then Hasbro WILL NOT CAN this series as how they did Animated... if they did, they'd better hide or not attend on the next Botcon coz there will be prices on their heads

Thanks for the link Liegeprime!

Wow, that ending. It's interesting how the 1st season of this series was so... ordinary but the 2nd season has really picked up. Possible spoilage: Seeing as next season is Beast Hunters I think someone may be getting a radical upgrade.

[griffin]

Tonight I watched the final four TFPrime episodes... not as impressed as I was hoping to be. It didn't feel like it was better than the first season finale... Each season ending should be twice as good as the previous one - this one felt like it was missing something. Worst still, the third-last episode (Ep 24) in this multi-part finale story was a clip show. That was so cheap. If it wasn't for the last 5 seconds with Dreadwing, it could have been completely skipped as an episode. You expect that sort of thing from Japanese-originated series, or joint-venture series... not from Nth American originated series.

And a season finale is when I expect a bigger cast involvement as part of the climax, but this one didn't have it. Several characters were either background or removed completely in the last 4-5 episodes.
Decepticons - Soundwave, Dreadwing, Breakdown, Hardshell, and Airachnid were either completely absent, or just in the background for much of these last episodes.
Autobots - Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Arcee and Wheeljack were similarly in supporting roles, with Wheeljack just showing up in the last five minutes doing very little.
I was actually disappointed that I had to sit through 26 episodes for this minimally-climactic ending to the "relic hunt" that was Season 2. And they lost all those relics too.

At least the next season is said to only be 13 episodes, so won't be as much of a waste if it ends up being just as disappointing. But won't be enough screen time to get much of a look into the new Beast theme... let alone flesh it out and then build up to a multi-part climax.

Kinda looking forward to the next series after TFPrime, as this one is failing to inspire in both cartoon (story) and toys (availability).

This season should have seen more new characters after the first season was padded out with extensive character building of the small core cast. Instead, they progressively removed characters this season - Breakdown, Airachnid, Dreadwing. If Soundwave had a voice, he'd have been used more too, so the silent gimmick wore off real fast, and ended up ruining a potentially interesting character.

The Dreadwing element was a surprise, and didn't make much sense - it felt so forced, giving the Autobots the Hammer and then going back to the Decepticons... and then being shot by Megatron (which I assume is fatal).
I actually thought that Episode 25 was going to be about him finding his twin, as the title was "Resurrection" and the previous episode had him finding out to his anger that Skyquake was still out there somewhere.
Dreadwing was actually the most interesting Decepticon, with his weaponry, flight mode, power, ranking, and even the colours.... he was more interesting/productive than Starscream, so I'll miss him if he's gone for good.

And how annoyingly inconsistent is it to have the Autobots easily destroying Insecticons, despite them being rather indestructible previously.


If they take so many episodes (26) to flesh out just a handful of characters, feature existing characters, and have a story arc, I don't expect more than three or four new characters in a 13 episode season, which will be all the animation we get for the entire year of 2013.
A large new range of characters would be expensive to animate, and would prevent a decent amount of character development.

[Kazza]

I too felt the ending of s2 was rather anti-climatic, but i do like how they're setting up a grim scenario to begin in s3.

[liegeprime]

Well the 3 or four new characters you are expecting griffin might just be the 3rd party faction beasties and that's it .

[SMHFConvoy]

Well you can't please everyone.

[griffin]

I don't mean to put anyone off who enjoyed it. It certainly wasn't boring, as I was willing to watch the final episodes in one sitting (and the whole season as well).

I'm just someone who loved the way Beast Wars and Animated (both multi-season, story-arc shows) were both exponentially better with each finale... so I guess I was just expecting something MORE epic.
It also feels like the cliff-hanger is once again centred around Optimus, which is kinda disappointing.
But the set up for Season 3 is certainly more complex and interesting than the set up for Season 2 (this time all the Autobots are scattered and "lost"... last time it was just Optimus that was lost).

I did like the bit where the Autobots armed up with all the ancient relics, and used them in battle... but then they were all lost. (and kinda seemed pointless, as they didn't end up putting a dent in the vast army of Vehicons and Insecticons that we see in the final minutes - if they have most powerful weapons in the universe and can't decimate the Decepticon forces, it's not going to be plausible for a half-dozen Autobots to ever defeat them without relics or help)

[GoktimusPrime]

I quite liked this episode - a riveting cliffhanger of an ending... especially with Megatron's secondary objective of Cyberforming Earth and attacking the Autobots' base - creating a whole new complication level for our protagonists. But compared with Other Visits Part 3 or The Agenda Part 3 I suppose there just wasn't that intense build up toward it that gave it that "Ooomph!" that those other season enders had. To me, that's what's held this ep back from being the really epic season finale that it could've been... there could've been a more intensive run up. Instead we had a drawn out relic hunt, followed by a recap episode, then really intense final two episodes instead of building up to that climactic ending sooner. Even the ending of Prime Season 1 was better done in this regard IMHO.