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Post by Matrix Dragon on Mar 10, 2019 4:17:28 GMT -5
The Prime Wars trilogy is up on Rooster Teeths site now. Regardless of quality, this actually means it's easier for people to watch than ever before, which I feel is important. It also means that it is placed against Rooster Teeths own animated works, which a part of me sees as a challenge being issued to the writers of Siege. I mean, the last ep of Gen:Locks first season came out today, and I'd say it sets the bar damn high for its new sister show.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Jul 30, 2020 8:50:42 GMT -5
And it's up on Netflix. Just finished it. It's pretty good.
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Post by iacon45 on Jul 30, 2020 19:05:09 GMT -5
Just wrapped up watching the 6th episode and overall not too bad. It's leaps and bounds better than the Prime Wars trilogy series.
Good:
*Good story with an even tone and flow through out. No wasted "fluff".
*A G1 Prime showing some honest to good emotion was a great change. Hard to see his facial expressions but the animators did a good job reflecting his emotion in his optics albeit very subtlety.
*RATCHET - Outside of Prime and Animated, it was also good to see a G1 style Ratchet get some characterization and back story.
*I loved seeing Soundblaster as more than just a resurrected Soundwave and he had a great backstory to boot.
Bad:
*Megatron's Botox'd lips...nuff said.
*There were some good emotional parts but most of the time, regular speech sounded like everybody was whispering very loudly.
*Voice Choices. I know not everyone can mimic G1 and that is not a bad thing but some of the voices just didn't seem right for the character. Jetfire and Soundwave in particular.
*Character models needed some variety. I know models can cost money. I can see the weaponizer and seeker clones but all the Impactors, Prowls, Sideswipes, Mirage clones was odd.
*Ultra Magnus - Well...don't know what to say and I don't get how it tied into his "spoiler pack" toy release.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Jul 30, 2020 22:54:19 GMT -5
It's a good start, with room to improve. The 'send the Allspark into space' plotline is familiar, but it's a good starting point for a new timeline.
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 31, 2020 20:38:07 GMT -5
This is why I'm glad I have you guys to remind me of this stuff. How did Netflix not think I'd be interested enough to be notified of this?
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Post by machsabre on Aug 1, 2020 0:24:55 GMT -5
So I watched it.
It's okay.
Look, there's nothing technically wrong with it. But it's just I prefer my robots in disguise to be a little less dark and serious and a little more lighthearted. I'm not saying make everything Rescue Bots and Cyberverse or anything. But maybe a little more Prime and a little less... Age of Extinction.
If this is what people are digging, then I'm not going to give anyone shit for it. It just wasn't doing it for me.
Also, there's NO WAY this is in continuity with the IDW comics, no matter what they say.
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Post by triumshockwave on Aug 1, 2020 1:47:10 GMT -5
God dammit, Mach. You're supposed to like everything.
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Post by machsabre on Aug 1, 2020 22:58:38 GMT -5
Sorry.
The last half of the last episode is kinda neat though... But yeah. It just didn't do it for me.
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Post by iacon45 on Aug 2, 2020 9:10:39 GMT -5
I always use Mach as a measuring stick to gauge how well a series is. He usually finds something good in everything (except for Thundercats Roar. I remember his post in that thread. ) I'm kidding Mach. But seriously, I can definitely see how this can not be everyone's "cup of tea" and like he said, that's just fine. I would say this would be the best of both worlds scenario with War for Cybertron on Netflix for fans of a darker tone and Cyberverse for those preferring a lighter feel. That is if Cyberverse wasn't ending. Seems like lately, just as something finally finds its footing, it gets canned. I really liked some of the ideas Cyberverse had before the canning and would have liked to see some of those make it to screen.
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Post by Optimal Megatron on Aug 2, 2020 19:42:44 GMT -5
Honestly, I rather liked this for some of the interesting takes that weren't there before (Seeker Commander Jetfire, Ratchet the former weapons designer who decided to become a medic after seeing his weapons never actually help anything, Soundblaster the Shockwave-experiment clone of Soundwave and black market dealer). Some of it was rather done as in stuff we've seen before, but the execution was genuinely smooth, and I kind of want to see more of the pre-war period at this point given the references here and there to it (The Battle of Tannhauser Gate, Megatron, Optimus, and Magnus being students of Alpha Trion, etc). That said, it's significantly better than the Prime Wars trilogy, and something I think would make a good introduction to the TF mythos for people who aren't neck deep in this franchise, especially after the last major mainstream offering was the movies. - Magnus's death was unexpected, not from the plot, but from the fact that as a toy selling measure, he didn't get a lot of screentime. That said, I wish we'd actually gotten to see him fight a bit more. - Also surprised by a few other deaths that were kind of early overall. Skywarp (sorry, Iacon. ) and Impactor went down and I was legitimately wondering if Mirage would buy it was well. Then there's Moonracer in the Sea of Rust and possibly Spinister when Optimus freaking impaled him during the ambush. - The Ark coming online as a freaking battleship with Star Trek phaser arrays made me laugh given the old Echoes days of the Ark being a literal warship, not just a giant ass transport. - At the end, Optimus and the Ark are considered dead in the space bridge explosion, but I'm unsure if Omega Supreme was as well, or if he got caught up in it to wind up on Earth as well. - The "unknown vessel" is almost obviously the Nemesis, but it's interesting that Megatron would create that ship to chase Prime when everyone thinks the Ark was destroyed.
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