5 Reasons Why Transformers Prime is amazing
1. The Plotline. It's very dark for a children's show, and not what I honestly ever would have expected from a Transformers title. I admit I had some stereotypes when I turned this show on the HUB for the first time, and I was like "Okay, lolrobots that are also vehicles" and I was completely drawn in by the plot. You have some things that are expected of a children's show - villains do something, heroes foil them. But there are so many more layers to it than that. Each episode builds on the other, and the situations that the characters find themselves in are both very classic sci-fi and introduced in away that older science fiction fans can still enjoy.
2. Arcee. All too often in children's shows, they make a big deal about having a girl that either isn't really awesome, or she always stands out just because she is The Girl. Arcee is not like that. She is, in many ways, the coolest warrior among the Autobots. And by cool, I mean chilling. She's got a level head on the battlefield and raw strength to match her agility. At the same time, she has very real feelings that are handled in a believeable way for a soldier - she doesn't always like having them, but they're a part of who she is. It's not official, but I think there's a reason why Optimus Prime treats her like his second-in-command with regards to military stuff.
3. The issues it deals with. Although the characters are robots, it deals with very real ideas like the effect that holding on to revenge has on your mind. It talks about torture and murder - alone, that shouldn't necessarily be a drawing point, but it talks about them in terms of why the characters are the way they are. It has good characters that are good and honest and noble, but not afraid to sacrifice the needs of the many for the needs of the few. Even Optimus Prime, who is ridiculously noble and is always hoping for peace, would kill his enemies if it meant ending the war. And the villains are bad - in many ways, they're sympathetic because the things they want are understandable, but they are not so sympathetic that the heroes seem like douchebags for fighting them.
4. The moments of absolute brilliance in the storylining. As I've said, they recycle a fair number of science fiction tropes, but at least once an episode, there is some kind of twist or some kind of crowning moment of awesome that makes you forget the trope is a trope.
5. Starscream. He's Scar from Lion King and Cassius from Julius Caesar, with a little bit of Blackadder thrown in there. He's so sneaky and evil and such a self-preservationalist. I love him.
2. Arcee. All too often in children's shows, they make a big deal about having a girl that either isn't really awesome, or she always stands out just because she is The Girl. Arcee is not like that. She is, in many ways, the coolest warrior among the Autobots. And by cool, I mean chilling. She's got a level head on the battlefield and raw strength to match her agility. At the same time, she has very real feelings that are handled in a believeable way for a soldier - she doesn't always like having them, but they're a part of who she is. It's not official, but I think there's a reason why Optimus Prime treats her like his second-in-command with regards to military stuff.
3. The issues it deals with. Although the characters are robots, it deals with very real ideas like the effect that holding on to revenge has on your mind. It talks about torture and murder - alone, that shouldn't necessarily be a drawing point, but it talks about them in terms of why the characters are the way they are. It has good characters that are good and honest and noble, but not afraid to sacrifice the needs of the many for the needs of the few. Even Optimus Prime, who is ridiculously noble and is always hoping for peace, would kill his enemies if it meant ending the war. And the villains are bad - in many ways, they're sympathetic because the things they want are understandable, but they are not so sympathetic that the heroes seem like douchebags for fighting them.
4. The moments of absolute brilliance in the storylining. As I've said, they recycle a fair number of science fiction tropes, but at least once an episode, there is some kind of twist or some kind of crowning moment of awesome that makes you forget the trope is a trope.
5. Starscream. He's Scar from Lion King and Cassius from Julius Caesar, with a little bit of Blackadder thrown in there. He's so sneaky and evil and such a self-preservationalist. I love him.