But them Templars be hype though.

Anyway, I tried watching Armada and I got bored of it a few episodes in (Somewhere soon after the introduction of blur). I remember Cybertron being pretty good, minus all the BUUURRRNIIING JUUUSTIIICE!!!!! and stuff.

 

Is anyone watching the Unicron Trilogy for the first time? With the recent re-release of DVDs I finally took the plunge to watch both Energon and Cybertron, which I missed when they originally aired. Armada is still a fun series IMO once you get past the first half of the series.

I'm currently 40 episodes into Energon and it's abysmal. I think the first 10 episodes had my attention, but after that run I literally feel like I'm watching the same episode 40 times. I'll have more thoughts to this when the series is over.

I'm looking forward to Cybertron. I've heard decent things about it.

 

I think its worth watching.
Armada starts slow but becomes fantastic.
I think Energon starts really well, then climaxes mid way through the series and is left meandering around wondering what to do with itself. I did enjoy it though which is against popular opinion.
Cybertron is decent too, Starscream especially for me. If you squint a bit it all fits as Hasbro (but not Takara) intended with the other two.

 

After it I sobered up and realized the G1 nostalgia RUINED IT!!!
Armada was Transformers Pokemon, it wasn't bad but it isn't a must see, it's redeemable parts were the Decepticons sagas and drama.
Energon was too big from the get go, it's like they tried to cram fifty ideas into a sequel and through a lack of cohesion it was an utter mess. It destroyed Armada's best characters and went nowhere.
Cybertron was a vast improvement over both, it works as a standalone series and had a few great arcs.

 

I enjoyed all 3 of them. Though Cybertron is by far my last favorite of the 3. I found that they all had problems but in general it's good. At least in my opinion.

 

Cybertron is the only one of the three I've watched in recent years, so it's the only one I can offer opinion on. I really like the series, with quite a few memorable characters and cool designs.

I LOVE Gary Chalke and David Kaye as Optimus and Megatron, so that's points for all three series.

One thing I will criticize it Cybertron's over-reliance on stock footage. Optimus and Megatron's transformations and combinations and super attacks especially. I can only see Prime and Leobreaker combine and attack against the same stock backdrop so many times before it gets REALLY old.

 

Energon sounds like it's something you must watch with buddies and alcohol for a laugh! Haha

 

Micron Legend seems to have actually had good writing before the dub mucked it all up, adding pointless, repetitive dialog where there was none and replacing the existing one with something that, a lot of the time, sounded random at best, and downright self-contradictory at worst. Even Starscream's characterization--by general consensus, the best thing about the show--was messed with by grossly exaggerating his disloyalty to Megatron, while at the same time downplaying the actual catalyst for his heel-face turn, which was the change in his attitude towards the Minicons. Oh, and the kids were much, much less annoying.

As for Energon and Cybertron, call me shallow, but I honestly couldn't get over the cheap, ugly animation long enough to give them a proper chance.

 

Energon is something that needs to be marathoned.
I'm talkin' 15-20 episodes a day.[It actually breaks down nicely into 3 or 4 chapters.]
Much like a highly cerealized daily newspaper strip you only get a very small progression of the bigger, overall storyline per episode.

First time through I was thrown a little but only by the pacing. The designs didn't bother me, the settings and concepts where cool-plenty of variety as far as locales go-and the transformations, the whole top/bottom thing, turned out to be one of the coolest ideas for this stuff I'd seen in a long time.

[People bash the animation, or various aspects of it. And whatever, that's how they feel but I can't for the life of me understand what they're seeing that I'm not, or what I'm seeing that they're not because I just friggin' love the hell out of it plain and simple.]

Forth or fifth time through [not consecutive] familiarity just made it easier for me to blast through huge chunks at a time and the weirdness of the pacing-per-episode, along with overall "clunkiness" of the series, completely disappeared. The grand, cosmic epicness of it came out.

This won't apply to everyone. You have to even BE the type of person who watches things in long sittings first, and then be someone willing to spend whatever precious downtime they may have watching Energon of all things so...

ENERGON + TRVE KVLLTTT!!!!
;]

 

Hehe.  

I powered through the entire show once. I liked it well enough right up to episode 26. That's when the plot started to unravel. But even then, there were some good eps after that. I think the show really tanked about the time that the 'cons got back to Cybertron and flooded the planet with toxic gas clouds. From that point forward the show just hit a break wall. But I gotta give you credit- it's not many people that will watch an entire show that they're not sure about 5 times to see if it finally clicks. That's true dedication!

 

Yeah, it really should've ended at 26. Why jump the shark with that one and canceled Animated is a mystery to me

 

Armada was a well paced show for me but ultimately, it's at the bottom of the list for Transformers shows to me even if there were some okay moments. Energon just kept abandoning high points of interest when it really could have capitalized. I love the deluxe scale combining toys though in that I have almost every version (damn you convention assembly exclusives). Cybertron was a fine ending in that it stayed very consistent even if the transformation sequences became repetitive to the point they added new dialogue into those scenes. In all, I'd give it all one look through,

 

^ The Transformation sequences in the whole U-Tril were always to pad out the run time of episodes  

 

Don't watch Energon.

Don't. It will kill you inside. Great toys, but every piece of accociated fiction is literally painful.

You want entertainment? Go read TFWiki's synopsis of the show and the notes for each episode. The show's so bad it's funny when you're not actually experiencing it. Hell, even the guy writing the notes slowly starts to lose his mind from the stupidity. It's immensely enjoyable seeing just how wrong they went.

 

HA, don't get me wrong, it wasn't like it took four five times to get any enjoyment out of it.

This was just [for me] more of a challenge stepping back and keeping all the various who, what, where, when, and why's of everything neatly arranged while watching.

Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about with the Energon Gas thing; it reaches a point where everybody starts running around like headless chickens and things seemingly degenerate into pointlessness but like I said, it took the familiarity of knowing where each character / situation eventually ends up for everything to click properly.

 

Because Energon was produced for as little money as possible under the "guidance" of Takara to sell toys in the Japanese market (hence, the 52 episodes), while Animated was a traditional western produced cartoon which cost a LOT more for Hasbro to support and develop (not to mention it was likely as much Cartoon Network that lead to the cancelling of Animated as much or more so than Hasbro)

 

My 9 yr old nephew watches UT every time he stays with me for spring, fall breaks... even he couldn't get all the way thru Energon.... he finally begged me to let him watch Cybertron.....he's on disc 4 of that one.  

As others have said, I love the toys from Energon.. but can't watch it again...unless maybe I'm bedridden with a broken leg or something.....again.

 

HA!
"Please make it stop!!"
Poor nephew. ;]

 

Only Superlink and Galaxy Force, and even then I feel reservation about using the word "properly", considering TV-Nihon "enjoys" no small amount of infamy in fansub circles, and not without reason.

 

I loved Cybertron. It worked for me. I hadn't watched the other two. I tried watching Armada but I got bored.