Combiner Wars animated series by Machinima

[reillyd]

I agree with Goktimus about the pronunciation and I could swear I read some interview somewhere that referenced the choice of Caminus as forge by the writer (I know, link for or it doesn't count, right?), but it's probably a mismatch between the voice actor / voice director and the writers intent. Let's face it - from the animation and length of episode, they're probably on a shoestring and already over budget.

I'm just so glad there's new G1-ish Anime that I can forgive the voice acting. I just wish they were longer

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Waitasec.

What's a Mistress of Flame??

[GoktimusPrime]

Waitasec.

What's a Mistress of Flame??

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mistress_of_Flame

[Trent]

Gok apparently thinks every TFs name needs to be sourced from real, literary sources. Primus alone knows what he thinks of Emirate Xaaron. Aside from that, he also appears to ignorant of one thing every student of linguistics ought to be aware of from the get-go: language changes.

Language evolution is a very poor excuse for bad language. They're mispronouncing it.

And ofcourse Gok is going to pick up on it. He's an English teacher who knows Latin. If they stuffed something up from your field of expertise I bet you'd be all over it too. You might not write about it to the same extent but no one is forcing anyone to read it.

[valkyrie_76]

On a side note..........Things can only get better....cant it?

I mean the only way is up for this.......cant it?

But Ill never gonna give you up........no time for being rolled on this

[griffin]

I recall the early promotions saying the episodes were supposed to be 8 minutes each, but so far they have been about half that... and there is so much padding, I can't imagine them taking very long to animate once the small number of CGI models/renders have been done.

5:18 long..... And the first 1:22 is starscreams silent commute to work?

The start definitely felt "cheap", with the first 45 seconds (15% of the episode) just being an establishing sequence of Cybertron that could have taken 2 seconds... then a very slow-mo arrival of Starscream for the next 30-odd seconds, followed by drawn out dialogue for most of the rest of the episode that could have been condensed into 30 seconds (they have a debate that just results in maintaining the current decision).
I was actually getting bored watching this episode and kept checking the clock to see how much more was left.
And we have a whole episode of a "Combiner Wars" cartoon but we don't see any actual combiners? (replaying of footage from the previous episode doesn't count... nor does the appearance of Optimus, who is likely to combine at some point in this series, but isn't one of the traditional combiners we are hoping to see here)

The characterisation of Starscream doesn't work for me. It may be in line with the IDW comics, of him being more of a politician than fighter, but when it comes to animated/motion media of Transformers, Starscream will always be an arrogant, opportunistic, fighter. I don't think I've ever seen him be graceful or intelligently articulated before... particularly in a Gen1 body form.

I know that I will have to wait and see if there is a reason for it in future episodes, but my first thought of them featuring (not a minor inclusion) of the Mistress of Flame, is why... when there is no official toy (or likely to be one), and is just a relatively new character, created by IDW. This cartoon seems to be heavily drawing on the IDW universe, when I thought it was going to be an unrelated, new, story universe, so should have been able to use any characters that Hasbro approved (with emphasis on the Combiner Wars toys), so if there is a role to fill that isn't a Combiner Wars toy, why not include a pre-existing Gen1 character that more people might be familiar with, particularly if most of the other roles are Gen1-origin characters that aims to interest both fans and people familiar with the old Transformers universe.
I'll wait and see I guess.

[Megatran]

But Ill never gonna give you up........no time for being rolled on this

Yellow card for posting anything Rick Assley () on this board.

[griffin]

I recall the early promotions saying the episodes were supposed to be 8 minutes each, but so far they have been about half that... and there is so much padding,

I might be confusing myself, as there will be 8 episodes... not 8 minute episodes.
(I do remember working out that the total series would be somewhere between 40 to 60 minutes, so about 5 minutes each would make sense.)

[CBratron]

I just default to that cloner planet from Star Wars: Kamino

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Ok, after some manipulation Majik, finally got around to watching it annnnddd

YAWN

The animation is jerk city. Menasor is a rather eloquent chap.

The bit with Optimus at the end of the first episode I think should've been a "wow" moment, but I was just thinking "What is going on? Where did that come from?"

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.