The lack of realism. Or "Prime vs. This much better thing"

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by SPLIT LIP, Apr 22, 2012.

  1. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    How is character developement, interaction and, in broad terms, storytelling a minor thing?
     
  2. soundwave142

    soundwave142 Decepticon over-seer

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    I don't feel the but i'm just not expecting so much from prime so i don't get let down often. It feels like prime tries to have epic fight scenes like the movies while laying on the story. Armada was......a cluster-fuck and although I enjoyed it did the opposite of what crossfire did to me. i'm purely basing my opinion on shows since I don't read comic or books but prime could be better but hey.......watcha gonna do? Now what I would like is a sequel to prime series kinda like beast wars did with beast machine but with a new team I would love that.
     
  3. Una

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    Every show has a right to be criticized.

    And I agree with Split Lip.
     
  4. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    I think your over analyzing this show. That's why.
     
  5. General Magnus

    General Magnus Da Custodes of the Emprah

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    Sadly this is a toy franchise, with the fiction being an after thought.
     
  6. kaijuguy19

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    That's certainly true but you're right all the same. :) 

    I guess maybe I don't demand and expect a lot out of the show and as a result I don't have much to nitpick about as much. So that's why I still enjoy it despite it's flaws.

    SPLIT LIP I'm sorry I accuesd you of hating Prime. I know that you like it but the vibe you give off about it just seems to appear otherwise to me.
     
  7. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    So... analyzing the story is considered excessive?

    How is... you know what, I'm just gonna assume that makes sense to you.

    Especially when it achieves a certain standard, then fails to live up to it.
     
  8. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    Even though Hasbro is becoming a entertainment company and the toys didn't come out until just before Season 2.

    I just find you pick apart things that i wouldn't bother thinking about. You think outside the box and i like that about you but sometimes I think you like finding flaws.
     
  9. kaijuguy19

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    That's true but it's still amazing about how Prime can get THIS much criticsms. You'd think that we're talking about some truelt horroendus show like Terranove from what I've heard to be a terrible show.
     
  10. kaijuguy19

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    He didn't mean it like that. He was mearly thinking that you may be overthinking every little thing about the show that's all.
     
  11. Mechafire

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    Sorry mang, but this really isn't a valid excuse, what with the good fiction Transformers (and other toy-based fictions) have gotten in the past.

    And also what with Hasbro's apparent push in making Transformers more entertainment-based.
     
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    LOL yeah i heard Terranova is pretty bad.
     
  13. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    $$$$$ Duh.
     
  14. General Magnus

    General Magnus Da Custodes of the Emprah

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    I was saying that it was a bad thing.
     
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    ... wat?
     
  16. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    You don't bother thinking about the characters?

    These aren't little things, as you keep saying. These are big glaring flaws that smack me everytime I watch it. You can't devote episode upon episode to a flawed premise, continuing with a revenge subplot that the audience is not capable of sympathizing with.

    . _ .

    Sure, why not.
     
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    Me too but still yes Prime's flawed and it's not above some criticisms but I honestly don't find it to be THAT flawed to the point of being the next Energon.

    It may be just me but I just don't understand about the mindset of the site at times. I just personally find the show to have some small kinks to work on that's all.

    BTW Sorry for almost losing it again people.It's just I'm still amazed about how some poeple can take soem criticsms to a new level that's all.
     
  18. soundwave142

    soundwave142 Decepticon over-seer

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    people are gonna complain they feel they don't need to. Your coming off as a tad bit ignorant arguing against an opinion. so split doesn't feel the same way as you do? It's a forum so why not let people how you feel? if people like to talk about flaws let them.
     
  19. jackgaughan

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    You're the only person Kaijuguy saying that Prime is going to be Energon.
     
  20. BB Shockwave

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    This is especially true about Optimus himself. He always delivers lines in that "The fate of the world rests in our hands now..." voice, even when... he is asking about the weather.

    It's sad when the show creators must had to come up with a silly excuse saying "well, all Primes are serious like that" to explain why Prime is so... bland and boring, while trying to be epic.

    I think that's the show's biggest problem - it wants desperately to be EPIC, and just fails at it, big time. Every battle scene has the bots put up against immeasurable odds, the vehicons outnumbering them 20 to one, but then, the epic intro music starts and we get cool slow-down action scenes and Arcee doing jumps while taking down Cons left and right... It actually feels like I am watching someone playing a console game, like God of War, and is about as boring as watching someone else play a game instead of playing it yourself.

    At this point, I can't take the Decepticons seriously anymore. They have like, a thousand Vehicons, and they are all utterly useless. Apart from the first episode, they just die by the dozen in every episode without accomplishing anything, and have worse aim than stormtroopers.