Scardoll
Since: Nov, 2010
05/03/2012 00:00:00
I feel the same way about Breakdown's death. I was like "Wait, what? Breakdown's dead? I... What?" It's anti-climactic, it's dark, and it killed off a character who was rather prominent.
It'd be like just saying, "Oh, by the way, Rampage died. Tarantulas killed him when he left the Predacons."
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.
Riders
Since: Dec, 2009
09/01/2012 00:00:00
Apparently a lot of fans like Sari Sumdac. I never quite understood that. I myself found Sari to be insufferably annoying an one of the primary reasons that I hated the first season of Animated. I don't mean that in a "you're wrong, I'm right way" but I just don't see how she's so popular.
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Transformers Prime, or: The most adequate TF series ever.
Let me get this straight. I don't hate Prime. I still will watch it sometimes, and I still collect the toyline related to it - Wheeljack is one of the best toys in recent memory, in fact.
Thing is... The show kind of averages out. It has a lot of good points; the CGI is probably the best ever seen on a TV budget, the designs basically mix the best parts of Transformers Animated and Michael Bay's movies, and the show generally feels like the live action films minus the horrible idiocy that made Revenge Of The Fallen so awful. The show also has some pretty great characters, such as Knock Out, Ratchet, Starscream, Soundwave, Fowler, Bulkhead and Arcee. In addition (most) of the humans don't suck - Raf and Jack are almost as likeable as Sari was, in fact.
But then you have the forced epicness and darkness that suck out most of the fun; the character deaths that seem to be tacked on because of said forced epicness (did we really need to kill off Breakdown?); and two pretty lame characters in Miko and Airachnid. Miko is bad because she's just annoying, and Airachnid... Well, she comes across as being too evil to be enjoyable. Also, Optimus Prime in this series is an absolute bore of a character - maybe it's because he was created after the far more human Optimus of TFA, but he's probably one of the dullest and forced-epic characters in the franchise.
In addition, the series has a focus on Mac Guffins of the week that hasn't been seen since the Unicron Trilogy.
All-in-all, this is a series that's... Adequate. Not bad, but it's merely okay. It's vastly superior to the second and third movies, but Animated is a far better series.