The show has really grown on me. Still, I could do without the supervillans. I hope they phase those fools out next year.

What's wrong with David Kaye? He rules. I think he's done a fantastic job with Prime.

David Kaye's Prime voice doesn't overwhelming impress me, but I don't dislike it either. :) Of course, it's hard to beat his awesomesauce BW/BM Megatron voice... yesss. ;)

 

*EDIT* And Bob Skir was the head writer for BM, not Marty Isenberg.

Isenberg's redeemed himself from his work on BM, and some, with Animated.

Bob Skir was the editor, Marty Isenberg was a writer on BM. He was also a writer for some eps in the G1 cartoon - which is something this reviewer conveniently failed to mention. ;)

 

Btw, I think it's unfair (and unnecessarily unkind) for anyone to be throwing personal insults at this person even if you strongly disagree with what he's saying. Feel free to tear his arguments apart, but I would refrain from flaming him - especially when he's not even here to defend himself. There is the option to address him directly via PM or leaving a comment on his video for those who have a YouTube account. :)

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE INVITE THIS DOUCHEBAG TO TFORMERS SO I CAN FLAME HIM IN PERSON!!!

 

 

first off, I am really tired every cocksucker with a camcorder making youtube videos, learn to write a script and have stage presence please

 

second of all, there were so many non sequiturs in his argument he ALMOST made sense.

 

and third, Goki, you picked the worst fucking example humanly possible to prove your point :wtf

I hesitantly watched the first 3 episodes of the series recently when i found some time and...its quality of writing (by mainstream cartoon series standards) is enough that it kept my interest *despite* my cringing at the art style. I simply do not like the "lazy animated" look. Had this show been drawn in the vein of any other TF series i would rank this much higher so far. THis show makes me feel similar to how i felt when reading IDW's " Spotlight: KUP " which is to say not all that good lol.

 

As others have mentioned..Starscream is impressive as a character thus far (other than circling his captives in jet mode. I found that...odd).

 

Bottom Line: Its good enough to continue watching when time permits thus far.

and third, Goki, you picked the worst farging example humanly possible to prove your point

Erm... that's not my video/review. That person's opinions do not necessarily represent my own.

 

I actually neither love nor hate this show - there are parts that I like and dislike about it which I've discussed in this and other threads.

 

But yeah, I was just merely sharing one fan's opinion for the negative, and that's all it is, his opinions.

 

Suntzu28: I agree with you that the animation is pretty lazy in a lot of areas - especially transformations. Although it improved in the Elite Guard episode.

I came to this show more or less with luke warm respects.. I have grown extremely tired of the Japanese mishmash they've been throwing out for the longest time, it just does not engage me at all. For instance, as being an animation major in college, watching stupid ass cartoons and enjoying it to a lesser extent comes with the territory. IE, I openly enjoy Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents.. etc etc.. I was not watching this show to get really anything out of it, other than some good, old fashioned, home grown transformers fun.. like Beast Wars turned out to be.

 

There are several things that have impressed me with this show.. several things I'm meh about. I'm meh about the weirdo human villians.. Meltdown, for example.. oozing chemical man, not so hot on. I liked characters like the police chief guy (I forget his name) and I'm glad he's been included on some Autobot outings. I do like the fact that the human characters, the ones connected with the autobots aren't these snot nosed wise ass kids that treat the autobots like pokemon. "Hot Shot, powerlink with jolt and defeat that creep!!" Sure kid, whatever.. you have no idea what you're talking about. The only character that kind of comes close to that is Sari.. but the drastic difference in that is that except for Bumblebee and Bulkhead.. the other autobots kind of shrug her off.. even so, she's still a redeeming character, in a way.. it seems like she's learning and evolving as time goes on. The art style is a bit different, I'll give it that.. but no different really than Justice League. It takes some time to get used to not having super detailed character models and what not. All of the decepticons are awesome too.. from what little I've seen of them -unfortunitly- I've really enjoyed watching them shoot up some autobots. -The only one I'm kinda meh about would be Black Aracnia.. which is surprizing being Beast Wars still is my favorite TF show like ever-

 

It is a lil funny for me to watch the show and hear Starscream as Evil Spongebob.. and then have Patrick as Bulkhead.. Wilt as Jazz.. it's just strange. But other than that, I'd GLADLY take this show over the 4 years of japanese garbage.

I think that's an important thing to note. It's not necessarily that Animated is a great show (even though it is), it's that Animated ISN'T the crock of total sh*t we've been fed twenty years (apart from BW and BM).

 

Okay, and maybe tiny parts of RID ( :note Skybite :note )

The English dubbing of the recent Japanese shows also really trashes them. I'm not saying that they're fantastic works in their original forms, but from what I've seen of the dubs, it really wrecks it.

 

I saw all of Car Robot long before RiD came out. I like Car Robot - for what the show is meant to be, it's good. Then I saw RiD and I thought the dub ruined CR. I've seen both Micron Legend and Armada in its entirety... Micron Legend is a lot better than Armada. After that I decided not to watch any more of the TF dubs so I've never seen Energon or Cybertron, but I have seen Super Link and Galaxy Force. Super Link is alright with some pretty good memorable moments. Galaxy Force was pretty ordinary though.

 

But yeah, overall the "Unicron Trilogy" cartoons were never anything exceptional. So saying that TFA is good just because it's better than Armadaverse really isn't saying much. Anything can be good if you have lower standards. :)

 

P.S.: I'm not necessarily saying that TFA is crap, but comparing it with shows that are generally considered to be really crap just isn't saying much.

:tflaugh Then why does it constantly appear that you're defending them against it?

I'm not - as I've repeatedly said, there are parts of this show that I like and dislike. And I've illustrated which parts that I like and dislike. As I've said before - so far, I neither like nor hate this show. It's just very... meh.