Is 5FOD really TFTM2?

TimothyVernon · 03-01-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris McFeely

No, that can't be right. The time frame is totally wrong - that would mean that the movie (released in August) was deemed a failure, the sequel's script re-written and five whole episodes recorded and animated in... one month, since FFoD premiered in September of that year.

Also, it's been documented in a few actor interviews that FFoD had already begun recording before the recording for the movie itself began.

usually sequels are made during or shortly after the first movie is being shot/animated.

DrGrim · 03-01-2007, 10:14 PM

I don't think the movie ever had any sequel, and instead just had episodes that happened after the movie. That's my thought.

Hot Rodimus · 03-01-2007, 11:19 PM

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I heard that it was "The Return of Optimus Prime" that was supposed to be the sequel.

Kind of makes more sense to me.

As some one else said, RoOP was a cop out to make the soccer mom's stop complaining that their kids were crying over Optimus. Even the guy that wrote it hated it. I didn't mind the "hate plague" idea but bringing Prime back, especially after Dark Awakening, completely ruins Optimus for me.

LigerPrime · 03-01-2007, 11:56 PM

Somehow I have always felt that if Optimus had remained dead, TF's legacy as a cartoon and toy would have been greater, more iconic.

Black Widow · 03-02-2007, 12:12 AM

Or it might have been worse, since there would be a feeling that the best times were gone.

Backscatter · 03-02-2007, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by LigerPrime

Somehow I have always felt that if Optimus had remained dead, TF's legacy as a cartoon and toy would have been greater, more iconic.

Just think of all the Prime and Magnus (white Primes) that never would have seen the light of day.

Anyway, if you watch the extras on the newest TFTM DVD, you'll see the even the creators now realize that killing Optimus Prime was a big mistake.

Besides, "Dark Awakening" would have been a terrible way to end Prime's existence. I really lost a lot of respect for Rodimus after that episode. Wasting all those resources on a "Funeral ArK" and then thinking no one would bother the remains, even after learning about the existence of the Quintessons. TROOP made me one happy fan.

TimothyVernon · 03-02-2007, 10:20 AM

i enjoyed RoOP especially when he finally gets to open the matrix, the music is perfect.

A/OrionPax/3 · 03-05-2007, 09:42 PM

No ifs ands or buts, Prime had to make the return. Rodimus is a joke. That whinny poopypants shouldnt be allowed to lead the autobots on a camping trip much less a war. They definately could have found a better way, but as has been stated, they knew it was a mistake and had already written themselves into a corner with dark awakening. OPTIMUS=TRANSFORMERS. That character is iconic in ways the show never could be, even if he had never been rubbed out.

Dolza_Khyron · 03-05-2007, 11:07 PM

while i love the episodes, god is that animation weak

no way it's a sequal to the movie, not a chance.

Pravus Prime · 03-06-2007, 01:15 AM

Besides, 5 Faces had already was in progress when TFTM was being made, it was noted that Frank Welker had already done the TV Galvatron lines before Nimoy, and that Nimoy was told that he could do Galvatron as he wished, not as trying to copy Welkers; Welker had done Galvatron first, not Nimoy.