Transformers Prime cartoon reviews/comments (spoilers)

[GoktimusPrime]

True, but the kid doesn't have to know how to write binary or decipher electronic sounds. Why can't they be a normal kid for once? For once show us a standard dumb kid who just goes along for the ride without repairing something for the TF's (Sari anyone?).

Kids don't have to be dumb (we already had one incredibly stupid human companion with Daniel Witwicky) - but I agree that they don't all have to be Peter Parker-esque freakish geniuses either. Gets boring after a while. But hey, at least Rafael doesn't have superhuman strength as well (e.g. like when Chip Chase tore a floppy disk apart with his bare hands -- I' not sure if even Arnold Schwarzenegger could do that! )

But to be fair, there have been plenty of fairly average (i.e. not demonstrating 'super' intellectual or physical abilities) human companions of the Transformers. e.g.
+ Buster Witwicky
+ Sam Witwicky (a bit too average perhaps )
+ Spike Witwicky
+ Sparkplug Witwicky (comics only, cartoon Sparkplug was freakishly smart - being able to repair Cybertronians on par with Wheeljack and Ratchet. He even BUILT an Autobot shell once! How does someone this smart end up as an oil rig worker? Or a mechanic... or whatever the hell his job's meant to be)
+ Jesse
+ Minerva, Go Shuta, Cab, Cancer, Bullhorn and Wilder (aside from the powers given to them by their bracelets, they're ordinary humans - and of course they lost those powers after their Transtectors gained sentience)
+ Jan/Jean
+ Akira (ambiguous gender issues aside )
+ Onishi Yuuki (aka Koji)
+ Bradley "Rad" White, Carlos Lopez, Alexis Thi Dang, Billy and Fred.
+ Sally Jones, Misha
...etc etc.

Those were cro magnons pre humans, and well kinda necessary, kinda - coz these same pre humans made a Hero out of Dinobot. With the humans in every other line - Armada, Energon, Cyb, now this - the humans have yet to prove they are "necessary" or just decorative excuses. Besides its not like in BW they took the pre humans to live/hang out with em in their base all the time.

Tru dat. There were humans in Beast Wars, but I don't think they were as "token" as in other Transformer series.

[G1Optimal]

3 words...

I Like It.

[SkyWarp91]

3 words...

I Like It.

Me too.

[Bartrim]

+ Sparkplug Witwicky (comics only, cartoon Sparkplug was freakishly smart - being able to repair Cybertronians on par with Wheeljack and Ratchet. He even BUILT an Autobot shell once! How does someone this smart end up as an oil rig worker? Or a mechanic... or whatever the hell his job's meant to be)
.

Simple... the money. Why else does anyone like working on an oil rig?

"I do this job because the pay is good, the scenery changes and they let me play with explosives" - Steve Buscemi in Armageddon

[Tallestblue]

An Interesting start. And a few unexpected twists (Cliffjumper!! Nooo!) I enjoyed it and the only things I had a problem with were that the Japanese girl sounded Russian and Bulkhead could have just as easily been Ironhide.
But here's hoping it last longer than Animated.

[Paulbot]

When Arcee referred to the Decepticon cars as "twins" I started looking at them as new incarnations of Runabout and Runamuck. Try it: it makes the scene a bit more interesting than thinking of them as drones.

[1AZRAEL1]

The scene where Arcee drops Cliffjumper, and he bonces off the floors was pretty brutal, for a kids view. They could have just as easily pulled away for that. But I still enjoyed it. I will watchi this show. I may even decide whether to watch the series' that I missed (everything after Beast Wars )

[GoktimusPrime]

Simple... the money. Why else does anyone like working on an oil rig?

Well he sure ain't spending his money on new clothes. Or buttons. Maybe he faked his own death after Season 2 and went off with a harem of hawt mistresses. Sure beats babysitting his loser of a grandson.

The scene where Arcee drops Cliffjumper, and he bonces off the floors was pretty brutal, for a kids view. They could have just as easily pulled away for that. But I still enjoyed it. I will watchi this show. I may even decide whether to watch the series' that I missed (everything after Beast Wars )

It's still not half as brutal as half the stuff that happened to Waspinator when you think about it. It probably feels worse because Waspinator's horrific deaths were portrayed in a non-serious slapstick manner -- and of course, he'd always be back in one piece by the next episode. No surprise as to why everyone compares Waspinator with South Park's Kenny.

[Towers_Spy]

As I'm reading all the comments posted so far, I can't believe how many people like it! I personally, was horrified. I don't know much about animation, but I felt like it was unfinished, almost like a project done by some Uni student. IMO even Beast Wars animation sh#ts cosmic tons all over this, at least aesthetically. And the mouths... I-I cant even look at Prime. Not at all. Every scene he was in I had to look away because it freaked me out. Not to mention his dramatic speeches every time he speaks. Criiiinge.
Plus the overly cinematic music, bumblebee talking in crappy electronic noise, soundwave basically being a drone, annoying token humans, and generally everything I can think of.

I have to say, I can't think of anything I enjoyed. At all. Sad face.

[5FDP]

I don't know much about animation, but I felt like it was unfinished, almost like a project done by some Uni student. IMO even Beast Wars animation sh#ts cosmic tons all over this, at least aesthetically.

^ This *nods in agreement*

I was saying the same thing when they first aired the promos but held some hope that they were unfinished. Looks like that was the final animation.

I'll still watch it tomorrow night... it's almost xmas and there is nothing else on anyway