Brief thoughts about Earthrise...
* BORING. Suddenly Beast Machines feels thrilling in comparison.
* Voice acting^work is horrendous, especially "Emo-timus Prime."
* English is better than Siege; only noticed one or two grammatical errors (incorrect possessive pronouns)
* Episode 5 is completely forgettable and skippable.
* Y U NO TRANSFORM?
* Quintesson character ended up being just a generic monster. Yawn.
* Mercenaries end up being pretty generic.
* Scorponok little more than a big monster to run away from. Cue Yakety Sax (Benny Hill chase music).
* Elita-1's TMNT team of Autobots and their side quest. Because the one thing we've learnt from the Star Wars Sequels is that audiences just love side quest driven stories.
* For a show called "Earthrise," Earth barely features in it. Also, not that many Earthrise toys appear in the show. We have Doubledealer, Wheeljack, Quintesson Judge, Sky Lynx, Scorponok and... uh... that's it. Oh, and I guess Astrotrain too (I'd forgotten that he appeared in Siege too).
* Sky Lynx reminds me of Col. Sanders^the Architect from Matrix Reloaded. Only that the Architect lectures Neo for 10 minutes in a 138 minute movie, whereas Sky Lynx lectures Optimus Prime for 20 minutes in a 30 minute episode. Geez! And he just repeats himself... it was a 20 minute lecture that could have been 1 minute long.
* Why is Optimus Prime such an idiot? Nothing he does makes any tactical sense at all. It's as if he read The Art of War by Sun Tzu and thought, "I'm going to do the complete opposite of everything in this book!"