Transformers Prime cartoon reviews/comments (spoilers)

[5FDP]

i think getting cut in half and left in the massive energon explosion is the end for cliffjumper and would be very suprised if he make another appearence.

It was just a flesh wound

[kup]

It was just a flesh wound

That's basically the excuse they used in Beast Wars when they 'permanently' killed off a character at the end of a season only to have fans or Hasbro demand that they make him come back the next.

This resulted in 'It was only a flesh wound' brush offs after the character was blown up, disintegrated or quartered suggesting a permanent dismissal the season before.

Naturally the above doesn't apply to Waspinator.

[FFN]

Liked today's episode. Atmosphere in the Decepticon ship and that canyon was great.

[Hursticon]

Liked today's episode. Atmosphere in the Decepticon ship and that canyon was great.

Yep, would have to agree with you there dude.
My concerns though?
1. Soundwave = Mute.
2. Waves and Waves of undead drones that all look the same.
3. Not being able to wait until February to see the 6th and subsequent episodes!

Oh and for those who were frightened by Cliffjumper's death scene, you're not going to like how a Decepticon drone dies in this one.

[Bartrim]

Just watched episode 3. Humans are starting to annoy me and Bulkhead has some animated traits but overall I am still enjoying it alot more then I thought I would.

[i_amtrunks]

Ratchet is gold. (but not in an actual metal or colour sense).
Turns out he is purely a technician in this series too, not a soldier, a nice trait to steal from Animated.

The drones are anything but cannon fodder, Starscream is nice and Saturday morning cartoon evil, while Megatron looks to be a much more solid and wholesome evil.

Soundwave is mute.

Prime is looking up, nice and dark to begin the series, wonder where they can move to from here for the rest of the season?

[Quickstrike]

Miko's annoying but amusing at the same time. I liked "HOLD HIM STILL".

[5FDP]

Just watched episode 3. Humans are starting to annoy me....

+1

Hmmm... this show isn't really for kiddies is it?!

[gekisou]

I am enjoying this series. It isn't really in tune with Hasbro's reboot though is it? While it does take elements from WfC... its not really in-sync with it.

Watched the 3rd ep... and have to say, I liked it. Sure people talk about the annoying humans and for some part, they are but it also gives a chance to show the differences between humans and their visitors, the Autobots.

I agree that this show doesn't seem to be aimed towards kids too much but really, in Japan, the kids watch death happen to characters in their anime too and its usually in the same time slot. Kudos to the writers to not being afraid to push the envelope for American cartoons.

I eagerly await ep 4.

[kup]

I just watched episodes 3 & 4 and although they were overall good, it felt much more disjointed than the first two.

The most annoying bit were sadly the humans which in this episode seem more in line with the infamous annoying humans of the past, the girl in particular. Another thing which annoyed me was how that kid managed to hack into the FBI database - That was absolutely ridiculous and I wouldn't be surprised if even children feel that their intelligence has been insulted after that scene.

Before that girl was just a nuisance now she is very annoying and disrupting. If I were the Autobots I would simply lock up all the kids in a box like the Furman IDW Autobots did in Infiltration.

It was a very disjointed couple of episodes which is more indicative of Orci and Kurtzman's writing style. One moment it's very cartoony with 'yipee!', 'Awesome!' 'Kid hacks FBI computer' but by the next scene with the same humans, there is this attempt at realism with pain, angst and depression throwing me off as a viewer.

I hope the series improves as I can see myself loosing interest if it continues to be this disjointed with the humans becoming 'super kids'. So far the main plot is good but not that interesting to balance out the now more prevalent annoying bits.

As Sky Shadow mentioned, it is certainly by far the best current TF fiction out there as the IDW comics are horrific but I still feel that it could be better if they tone down the kids, particularly Miko and stop giving them random 'super powers' like Raf's hacking skills.