Then I guess this just confirms they weren't people in Prime.

 

 

So I guess he says that the Prime cast was boring machines?

Good call, Kline.

 

So did they take it down, then put it back up now? How did I read this when the first part was put up, only for it to disappear moments later?

 

"Yes, let's not make our show about giant alien warriors deep or serious! We need jokes so we can appeal to a younger audience!"

- Rescue Bots

"But this is for a slightly older audience! And everyone knows that kids 7 and up only like comedy! I mean, it's not like we can have seriousness and comedy at the same time!"

-Beast Wars and Animated

"Well in this one we now have top-of-the-line animation!"

-Implying that PRIME wasn't at least well animated

I don't normally complain like your stereotypical internet fanboy, but pretty much everything he's said they can't do has been done before (and really well).

 

Tidbits:

* Mairghread Scott has written multiple episodes, as has Steven Melching. Alex Irvine wrote an episode of season one.
* Paraphrase: "Now that the ancient war is over, we can set up and tell jokes."
* Claims that they've always viewed the robots as people, not machines.
* No need to rewatch Prime or Predacons Rising to understand this.
* Composers of Ultimate Spider-Man and The Clone Wars are doing this series.
* Is Bumblebee just leading for now to hold down the fort until Optimus comes back? "You'll just have to wait and see."
* No comment on whether the Predacons will be back.
* Says an audience will latch onto a good character regardless of the characters' sex. More "badass" females on the way.
* 2D/3D mix was so they could have more characters. The mix is apparently pushing the boundaries of what can be done with animation.

 

So all future female characters will do 50 flips in the air and destroy whole brigades of generics?

Or will they actually be written good and not be Arcee 2.0?

 

Kline voiced no objection to the interviewers' claim that Arcee was a strong character. So I'm not expecting much.

 

its almost TFP all over again with 2D instead of 3D

will see how good it will turn out to be

 

Omg. Really? Realllly?

"There's no ancient war being fought, meaning we can actually take the time to set-up a
joke ..."

Transformers ...
Robots in disguise (except for the Decepticons).
Autobots rage their battle to destroy the evil jokes of the Decepticons.

Transformers ...
Take time to set up jokes.
Transformers ...
Who needs 4 million years of war?

The Transformers. Meow.

Even not counting the backbone of what these robots are about, what do you call tracking down and battling a horde of escaped Decepticons? A minor misunderstanding that involves making bad jokes when fighting (ugh) Bisque the Decepticon googling stalkeyed monster?

Facepalm for the epic win. Ugh.

 

"MEANING WE CAN ACTUALLY TAKE THE TIME TO SET-UP A JOKE, AND NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT. "

"LIGHTER. BRIGHTER. EVEN A LITTLE GOOFIER. 'CUZ WE'VE ALWAYS VIEWED THE AUTOBOTS (AND DECEPTICONS) AS PEOPLE, NOT MACHINES. AND PEOPLE ARE FUNNY!"

So, that's what this franchise has been missing...slapstick. Great! Can't wait to see fights devolve into energon pie throwing contests or bots getting doused with seltzer water all while a comedic track plays in the background.

Say what you will about Prime, it had serious issues, but is this garbage really the Transformers show that people want? A Rescue Bots 2.0? A show that's going to misappropriate the Pokémon gotta catch them all trope but mix in some zaniness so that they can say it's different? I get that some people say kids were scared by the darkness of Prime, but is this show the answer? In a time where Hasbro is trying to grow the fan base, surely they could've found a better middle ground between Rescue Bots and Prime than this to appeal to a larger audience.

By the way, the designs for the Decepticons in this show are too ridiculous to take them as a credible threat. They look like the short bus members of the Cons:



Grimlock, what have they done to you:



I thought the Dinobot's treatment in TFA was awful, but this...wow! Must be an example of the "goofier" aspect of the show.

 

Heeh, only the crab dude looks really silly, the others look original at least. But I´m skeptical of this show.

 

Glad to hear about more fembots coming later on in the series. Perhaps this is a sign of Windblade showing up?

Also I sort of like how the tone reflects Bumblebee's character in this series because unlike Optimus he doesn't have that baggage and grim nature at all so it's nice to see that the goofy and cheerful nature reflects that. Hopefully they'll be able to take what made some of the Autobot interactions work and build upon it to make it feel like BW in a way.

 

Prime was always intended to end in Season 3.

 

Awwwww the thing about how he names a lot of characters "Darby" is cuteee

 

I'm looking forward to this show more and more. It looks like it's going to be fun and entertaining, and hold the same character and personality Prime had, while losing some of the seriousness and darkness.

It's awesome that they're going this direction, we've seen the war, now it's time for a more humorous approach. Oh, and now there's no excuse for haters whining about it "not being a realistic war story."

 

No it wasn't. Unless I'm mistaken, the original premise was for 5 or so seasons.

Which is why season 2 feels so condensed [Mech, Airrachnid, Breakdown, Dreadwind storylines] and S3 so...whatever, with a forced theme as well.

 

Alex Irvine's writing an episode....interesting.

and more fembots....sounds great to me.

 

The show crew said that the show was planned for 65 Episode only, which equals 3 seasons

everything that was planned for S3 was moved and rushed into S2, because Hasbro ordered them to do the Beast Hunters stuff for the final seaso at the last minute

 

And yet.. no release date for the US..

 

Why are they torturing us