Combiner Wars animated series by Machinima

[DarkHyren]

I'm confused. Considering how they are only 5 min, it had trouble keeping me interested for those 5 minutes. Which is quite a feat considering that vast majority of rubbish on youtube that I've watched for more than 5 minutes.

Completely agree, considering that this is a series based off something we all know and love I would think it would take some sort of idiot savant to make a series that most of us just can't be bothered watching for a measly 5 minutes a week.
I haven't watched this latest episode, though by the sounds of it it's just a longer version of the Starscream trailer they put out to advertise the series, so I'm in no rush to do so.
I might just ignore it till it ends then watch all the clips back to back, but if they are all as lackluster as the first (and second from all you guys comments) I don't know if I can even be bothered watching it then, my time might be better spent downloading and reading the comics instead

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Episode 3 "The Duel" is up on youtube.

Go in with low standards -- very low standards...

[DaptoDog]

Episode 3 "The Duel" is up on youtube.

Go in with low standards -- very low standards...

Crickets....I'm at work so haven't caught it yet. Have they already lost their audience after three episodes (I use that term loosely)? Or is everyone taking the "if you don't have something nice to say, then say nothing at all" approach?

[Initial_G]

Just viewed it during lunch, /sadface It seemed so long and drawn out ... worse than DBZ episodes ... I think like others I'll just wait till all episodes are out and watch them all in one go

[Jazzman]

There's a weird room reverb on the voices that just doesn't sit well...

[GoktimusPrime]

It's hard to take the voice of the Honest Trailer Guy seriously. I keep expecting him to say something that rhymes with "newbs."

[griffin]

It's hard to be objective when I dislike the concept of Windblade... another "Drift" that suddenly becomes a prominent character who is made to look like they were always there... when there could be other pre-existing characters to bring to centre-stage as a major character. It just feels so forced, and if you aren't yet familiar with her or her standard character traits, it makes you focus more on her character just to try to understand what is going on (which in itself is confusing in this cartoon).
In other words, any episode that has her featured in it (and this one has her as the primary character), I'm just not interested enough to like it because it doesn't feature characters that have always been a part of Gen1, that I do know and care about.

As for Optimus, the animators don't do motion very well, with him moving like a zombie mannequin... especially when he was first backing away from Windblade at the start. That just looked really terrible.
And his voice reminded me of the Autobot leader from within the Matrix in the Hate Plague episode... it was way too digitised.

This series had better start throwing in some (credible) action or it is going to lose everyone before it ever gets to a climactic final conclusion.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

As for Optimus, the animators don't do motion very well, with him moving like a zombie mannequin... especially when he was first backing away from Windblade at the start. That just looked really terrible.

I think his moves are pretty slick for an old bot that's been brought back to life a couple times...

[DaptoDog]

I've been an apologist for the first couple of episodes but there was nothing to redeem this episode. Prime doing the moonwalk evasion was comical. Prime's voice was ruined by the voice effect applied to Jon Bailey's solid voice work. Moreover, it just sounds like each person reading their lines, there's no real interaction between the two characters voices.

Suddenly Menasor and Computron going bang bang doesn't seem so bad.

[MayzaPrime]

I have to agree with all of the comments posted...

Maybe my expectations were to high for this series... I will continue to watch because I have already committed and watched 3 episodes.

Its just been a massive let down.