Prime, Episode 3
It looks like this is becoming habit for me.
This is the first time I got to watch an episode live, which means I didn't have time to pause and reflect on my commentary as I went. However, I did get to see the program in better detail, and I think I really like the way they're doing the TF designs--the brushed metal look is really cool.
I am repulsed by Megatron, unfortunately. HOWEVER, that being said, he kind of has this old grizzeled Samurai look going, and suddenly I feel like I'm watching Kurosawa. Starscream is very compelling with his hiked wings, and Soundwave is beautiful and creepy.
The bots...well...I'll talk more on them later.
Have some comments!
*****
Episode 3
*****
Why is no one on these highways?
Also, why is the road five times bigger than them.
Ok, cute that bee plays games--inside himself. Except I don't even want to know what that means in translation.
Scalpel x Ratchet, in the basement, alone. Hot Medic Action! Claws in armor! Three optics between the two of them--HOLY GOODNESS HE'S GOT A BAT.
SCALPEL BASEBALL TIME.
Oh, nice resheath prime. AWW FACEPLATE PRIME IT IS SLIDING cute.
*waits for a 747 to crash into the Nemesis*
*waits for someone to oh, I dunno, SPOT THE GIANT, UNCLOAKED DECEPTICON CRUISER IN THE SKY?*
So...Megatron...looks exactly the same, after shoving dark energon into himself? Lame way to cop out on the animation--I thought he'd at least change color or something.
Megatronspiral?
Like Starscream and Soundwave's designs. Not so hot on Megatron, though can see the Samurai elements.
Starscream borrowed Edward Scissorhands...hands.
...I want to see a Cybertronian graveyard.
Miko, stop being so stupid.
Oh, there's a rusty autobot symbol on the floor! How long have they been here, again? Also, Ratchet had time to decorate but not to upgrade to Service Pack 2?
WOO RATCHET MISSION GO RATCHET THAT'S RIGHT KICK BUTT WITH PRIME.
...band. Practice.
Miko, you just get stupider.
...not liking Agent Fowler's random raging.
TEAM PRIME? Tell me this isn't like Team Jacob.
Daycare center? No. Babysitting humans is more like an ant farm for Bulkhead.
WHY IS THIS WORLD SO EMPTY????? These are BEAUTIFUL backgrounds! PUT SOMETHING IN THEM.
....okay, there IS a cybertronian graveyard? OH WHERE IS SHOCKWAVE HE SHOULD BE AFTER THE ENERGONS.
Okay, I'm pleased they explained the presence of energon.
HELL YEAH SOUNDWAVE THATS RIGHT USE YOUR....amazing...chest....kite?
Agent Fowler does the Dantoine skiff run...in a Helicopter.
Now he's going para-sailing on Soundwave's tentacle chestplate.
"IF I CAN HACK INTO THE FEDS MAINFRAME??" Um...yeah. Cause you can just...do that.
oooh interrogation time.
I hate you, Miko. PLEASE say there are consequences for your stupidity.
No, apparently there aren't. Die now. Die right now. Scout, I will give you your own HUB show if you kill her. Now.
I like this Bulkhead. I like how he's kind of got Ironhide's place....I like that he just ripped the chest out of that scout. Sorry, Scout, looks like you can't sign that contract without a central processor.
Kind of nice way for the two boys to get involved.
Liking Agent Fowler a bit here....wut. The prod? THEY'RE GOING TO CATTLE PROD AGENT FOWLER.
WHOA WHERE WAS HE AIMING THAT THING. STARSCREAM PULL UP PULL UP.
SO...like...no one has noticed a Cybertronian graveyard...on earth? This is stretching my disbelief a lot.
Unless there's some sort of earthian apocalypse? I don't know. I don't even know what year this is. I don't know if its our earth. I do know there is a Japan, but if Miko is Japanese then I AM F*CKING MEGATRON. BRING ME TEA WOMAN.
HO YEAH ZOMBIES REDUX THIS ROCKS
BEHOLD THE POWER OF DARKNESS MOTHERF**CKERS!!! RAINBOW OF DARKNESS THAT DARKNESS SENDS NOW BEGIN NIGHT THAT WILL NEVER END. Oh, wait, I mean 'thanks, Unicron, for your red cross donation this month.'
I'm enjoying this. I'm enjoying how dark it is, but I'm not enjoying how it feels like there were two different writers for the robots and for the kids. It's like watching two shows--the depressing 'SHOOT our race is dead and we're stuck on earth and have to survive' Transformers show, and the 'TEE HEE LETS SHOW UP ANCIENT ALIEN ROBOTS WITH OUR AWESOME EARTH WAYS' kids show. They're not meshing, and I'm not seeing enough setting behind the characters to be able to consolidate the two or understand why the robots are making the actions they're making.
I feel like applauding Hasbro for tackling some of these deeper issues while at the same time screaming at them to just TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON ALREADY. Why is movie Bee here? Why does everyone treat him like the retarded cousin? OH BUT GOOD JOB showing Bulkhead isn't leadership material without immediately making him stupid! But WHY THE HELL CAN TINY KID HACK THE FBI???
Please. Give me a base to work with, so that this makes sense.
This is the first time I got to watch an episode live, which means I didn't have time to pause and reflect on my commentary as I went. However, I did get to see the program in better detail, and I think I really like the way they're doing the TF designs--the brushed metal look is really cool.
I am repulsed by Megatron, unfortunately. HOWEVER, that being said, he kind of has this old grizzeled Samurai look going, and suddenly I feel like I'm watching Kurosawa. Starscream is very compelling with his hiked wings, and Soundwave is beautiful and creepy.
The bots...well...I'll talk more on them later.
Have some comments!
*****
Episode 3
*****
Why is no one on these highways?
Also, why is the road five times bigger than them.
Ok, cute that bee plays games--inside himself. Except I don't even want to know what that means in translation.
Scalpel x Ratchet, in the basement, alone. Hot Medic Action! Claws in armor! Three optics between the two of them--HOLY GOODNESS HE'S GOT A BAT.
SCALPEL BASEBALL TIME.
Oh, nice resheath prime. AWW FACEPLATE PRIME IT IS SLIDING cute.
*waits for a 747 to crash into the Nemesis*
*waits for someone to oh, I dunno, SPOT THE GIANT, UNCLOAKED DECEPTICON CRUISER IN THE SKY?*
So...Megatron...looks exactly the same, after shoving dark energon into himself? Lame way to cop out on the animation--I thought he'd at least change color or something.
Megatronspiral?
Like Starscream and Soundwave's designs. Not so hot on Megatron, though can see the Samurai elements.
Starscream borrowed Edward Scissorhands...hands.
...I want to see a Cybertronian graveyard.
Miko, stop being so stupid.
Oh, there's a rusty autobot symbol on the floor! How long have they been here, again? Also, Ratchet had time to decorate but not to upgrade to Service Pack 2?
WOO RATCHET MISSION GO RATCHET THAT'S RIGHT KICK BUTT WITH PRIME.
...band. Practice.
Miko, you just get stupider.
...not liking Agent Fowler's random raging.
TEAM PRIME? Tell me this isn't like Team Jacob.
Daycare center? No. Babysitting humans is more like an ant farm for Bulkhead.
WHY IS THIS WORLD SO EMPTY????? These are BEAUTIFUL backgrounds! PUT SOMETHING IN THEM.
....okay, there IS a cybertronian graveyard? OH WHERE IS SHOCKWAVE HE SHOULD BE AFTER THE ENERGONS.
Okay, I'm pleased they explained the presence of energon.
HELL YEAH SOUNDWAVE THATS RIGHT USE YOUR....amazing...chest....kite?
Agent Fowler does the Dantoine skiff run...in a Helicopter.
Now he's going para-sailing on Soundwave's tentacle chestplate.
"IF I CAN HACK INTO THE FEDS MAINFRAME??" Um...yeah. Cause you can just...do that.
oooh interrogation time.
I hate you, Miko. PLEASE say there are consequences for your stupidity.
No, apparently there aren't. Die now. Die right now. Scout, I will give you your own HUB show if you kill her. Now.
I like this Bulkhead. I like how he's kind of got Ironhide's place....I like that he just ripped the chest out of that scout. Sorry, Scout, looks like you can't sign that contract without a central processor.
Kind of nice way for the two boys to get involved.
Liking Agent Fowler a bit here....wut. The prod? THEY'RE GOING TO CATTLE PROD AGENT FOWLER.
WHOA WHERE WAS HE AIMING THAT THING. STARSCREAM PULL UP PULL UP.
SO...like...no one has noticed a Cybertronian graveyard...on earth? This is stretching my disbelief a lot.
Unless there's some sort of earthian apocalypse? I don't know. I don't even know what year this is. I don't know if its our earth. I do know there is a Japan, but if Miko is Japanese then I AM F*CKING MEGATRON. BRING ME TEA WOMAN.
HO YEAH ZOMBIES REDUX THIS ROCKS
BEHOLD THE POWER OF DARKNESS MOTHERF**CKERS!!! RAINBOW OF DARKNESS THAT DARKNESS SENDS NOW BEGIN NIGHT THAT WILL NEVER END. Oh, wait, I mean 'thanks, Unicron, for your red cross donation this month.'
I'm enjoying this. I'm enjoying how dark it is, but I'm not enjoying how it feels like there were two different writers for the robots and for the kids. It's like watching two shows--the depressing 'SHOOT our race is dead and we're stuck on earth and have to survive' Transformers show, and the 'TEE HEE LETS SHOW UP ANCIENT ALIEN ROBOTS WITH OUR AWESOME EARTH WAYS' kids show. They're not meshing, and I'm not seeing enough setting behind the characters to be able to consolidate the two or understand why the robots are making the actions they're making.
I feel like applauding Hasbro for tackling some of these deeper issues while at the same time screaming at them to just TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON ALREADY. Why is movie Bee here? Why does everyone treat him like the retarded cousin? OH BUT GOOD JOB showing Bulkhead isn't leadership material without immediately making him stupid! But WHY THE HELL CAN TINY KID HACK THE FBI???
Please. Give me a base to work with, so that this makes sense.