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    Yeah, this Bulkhead is a big improvement over the one we saw in Animated. And I don't think all the cross references will confuse kids - not the ones who are seriously into Transformers anyway. After all, we had multiple parallel continuities in G1 when we were kids (e.g. tech specs, books, comics, cartoon etc.) and most of us understood them to be separate continuities (maybe not consciously, but I think most of us didn't confuse them).

    I'm also pleasantly surprised by some of the more darker elements of the show, particularly with killing Cliffjumper off so early, and Jack's line about "robots that can die" drills in the consequentiality of war; which I think is good (unlike say the G1 cartoon where warfare was mostly non-consequential, which arguably serves to make war appear "fun"). There is an incredible amount of violence in the show, but there was also incredible amounts of violence in Beast Wars and Beast Machines too. And as Mainframe said, they were able to get away with it because their characters are machines, and not humans or animals. A lot of kids' cartoons these days are showing the consequentialism of violence/conflict, such as Star Wars Clone Wars, and even the occasional episode of Ben 10.

    Jack's line about being "too old" for cartoons at age 16 amuses me... reminds me of some kids I went to school with who, during high school (and some as early as Primary), decided that toys, cartoons and comic books were for babies and decided to give it all up... and of course hassle people like me who refused. Yeah fine, go ahead and throw out/give away all your toys... I'll keep mine thank-you-very-much. Good on ya Jack. His mum's pretty hot though.

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    I quite liked Arcee's line about going back to the base and watching cartoons with Bumblebee. Although the cartoon watching 'Bee was more Animated than Movie and it goes a bit against the kick-ass warrior we saw when he took on thise drones.

    About time to see som consequentionality of battles methinks. Hopefully they don't kill Cullen off in THIS show...

    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    Good on ya Jack. His mum's pretty hot though.
    Oooh, Gok...

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    Generally this show so far is what I expected: a cross between Animated and the Movieverse.

    Although the trio of kids and the Autobots hiding on earth actually remind me more of Cybertron actually too.

    I was surprised that Cliffjumper was chosen to be a redshirt, but with him out of the picture (at least for now?) we've left with at a glance is the Animated cast again, except the motorbike is now a woman.

    I prefer to look at this series so far as an alternate more kid friendly(?) take on the Movie-verse. The same way that the G1 comics/cartoon/storybooks all had different takes of the same characters and basic situation.

    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    Yeah, this Bulkhead is a big improvement over the one we saw in Animated.
    How exactly? Bulkhead barely did anything in these two episodes and yet somehow you think it's a "big improvement"? I'd rather watch clumsy good-natured Animated Bulkhead anyday. So far the Prime characters don't look like they will have any fun. Not surprising when the five of them are apparently the only Autobots left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quickstrike View Post
    Really? I don't think they look very "movie" like, except for Prime and Bumblebee. They don't really have the Movie's aesthetic though.

    I like Soundwave's Oscilloscope face.
    Whoops, I meant 'Not so movie like'

    off to edit...

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    Just watched the first episodes with my kids. They love it, i like it so far, would like to watch it with bigger resolution to see how good the animation really is.

    2 things annoy me though: the transformers mouths/faces (why can't they be robotic like the rest of their body, they just look wrong), and the little know-it-all kid who can translate Bumblebee's voice and fix computers.

    Seriously why does every TF show need a 10 year-old tech-geek?

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    Okay I kinda like it, so far.....kinda - except for it having token humans ... again, sigh. I hate token human allies.....they take valuable screen time off the bots... I know, I know it's a kiddie aimed show..... I say if it's a "realism" thingie they were aiming for, Im just saying.....fine... it's a kids show

    The Negatives so far.

    1. Token human allies - why is it all kids? Isnt there like any adult for once in the mix..... jeez, dont they know they set a bad example again ( like in Cybertron) that these "children" are out gallivanting to who knows where, and what parents keep track of em with just celphone calls, that's it? Oh and you know no humans will ever get hurt - not even a single scratch. cmoooon - fighting hard metal here, human casualty, even off screen cmooooon.

    2. How stupid are those cons in the first episode to go after the kids BY WALKING TO THEM TO CAPTURE THEM instead of just shoot em where they stand and be DONE with it? like laser fire can't be slower than kids legs running - cmooooonthey got short legs people, they cant run fast enough to dodge laser fire - evn if they dont use sensors to shoot at em a ten feet laser sweep is certain to hit em or at least take a couple of limbs off or jeez just transform in car mode and run over the little bastards!

    3. Dark energon - hmmm just like hasbro - recolor something in black and its either "dark", "Nega", "stealth" this and that, sigh.

    3. No nosebots - this i can understand - THEY DONT BREATH!! so no need for it, finally they get it!! Get used to it guys.

    4. Non talking bumblebee - its a very large MINICON! and that Raf kid can understand him perfectly - wow talk about.... geeez. Which planet is that kid from? coz he's certainly not HUMAN! - I dont think even Stephen Hawking can understand - "dot di dot. poot, dot ting ting " yet somehow this Raf kid can, really now?

    5. Autobots can't even save one of their own (Cliff) and yet these kids( and every other token human ally) never gets killed cmoooooonn -

    Some positives.....some

    Soundwave is so ominously mysterious and Starscream's not so bad too - even if he has spindly limbs. The voices I can live with.
    Megatron - hmmm, take cue from the various Megsys - erm like a friend of mine has said - looks like a robotic little shop of horrors' monster plant with massive teeth eheheh - now that's a villain.

    I can't wait for the toy line. Very interested how they will translate the look into real live toys. I was really amazed how they did it in Animated so it's a wait and see for this if its going to be pass or fail

    Jeez, well its early on in the show so we'll see. Overall, its ok, it might get interesting later on much like how beast wars story got interesting later on. Oh but wait, there's no annoying token "human characters" in BW which prolly explains why its the best TF storyline so far, ever with TF Animated being second in my book. Hopefully the storyline will be good for this one to compensate for it having token humans ( who'll never get squished -seriously, even in an all out blast fight war?, cmooooon) in the show
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    I wrote up a more detailed analysis of what I thought about the show here, but in a nutshell, I found it to be mediocre with a very nice presentation.

    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    Yeah, this Bulkhead is a big improvement over the one we saw in Animated.
    He hardly did anything aside from say one-liners and shoot things. How is that an improvement?

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    When you think about it the main human characters are an even representation of Transformers consumers: kids, teens and adults be they male and female.

    Re: Soundwave I don't know if I'd even apply gender to this iteration of Soundwave, it makes him just a bit more creepy. If he can speak (and not just mimic or play back voices) I figure it would be Frank Welker...

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    Quote Originally Posted by liegeprime View Post
    Oh but wait, there's no annoying token "human characters" in BW ...
    Have you blocked out "Go with the Flow" from your memory?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot View Post
    Have you blocked out "Go with the Flow" from your memory?
    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.

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