I'm still not sure if they're going to tie this into the Aligned continuity...

It got a lot better after Season 1. Trust me.  

 

First off, I thought Aligned was dead in the water. I mean, the concept of Aligned. I thought they threw that out with Archer.

Second, thank you for enabling my Alison Pill crush every day I'm on here.

 

Cartoon Network long ago lost it's bite. Remember shows like Courage, Samurai Jack and Ed Edd n Eddy? Now all their shows are just obnoxious (TTG) or sickeningly sweet (Summer Camp Island).

Cute use of those emotes lol.

 

I don't think they should bother trying. Continuity when it comes to the Aligned universe should always be in quotes at this point.

 

windblade's face is terrifying, like a mask being worn over her actual face

 

That scene bored me to death but maybe the actual show will be okay? I'm tired of mute Bumblebee. By the way that transformation sound is almost at the top of my hearing range, fuck me haha.

 

Well, it's still too little to judge properly.

The animation is serviceable, though it still wouldn't have been my first choice. But I guess that's the trend these days.
For a moment I thought they'd forgot to animate Bumblebee's mouth, before I realized what they were doing.
I actually quite like the idea of Thundercracker not begin particularly chatty (at least when it comes to Autobots), in that he considers it beneath him to even trash talk them. They're the enemy, and that's all there is too it.
Kind of fits in with his G1 bio in away, where his heart isn't really into the cause. It would be nice if they played up that aspect of the character, as unlikely as they might be. Either way I'll definitely be unchaining my wallet for the toy.

Still, whether or not this ends up nauseating me the same way TFA did, remains to be seen. Unlike a number of people it seems, I actually ended up loathing the show far more then I was initially expecting too. And I most certainly have no desire to see anything in the vein of it ever again, or have a truckload of clumsily inserted fanwank and references repeatedly shoved in my face thank you very much.

But so far nothing outright offends me, and it seems a bit more ambitious then RID if we take the Megatron speech into consideration. So I'm not going to play the overreactionary nostalgiatard clamoring for 'ye olde days' card, and wait a bit longer.

 

I showed my daughter this clip the other day. She thought it was funny and looked interesting.

 

I don’t mind BB talking through the radio in this - it seems like almost an after-thought, with Bee just saying what he’d say anyway, just with various accents and not moving his mouth. Compare that to the Pokémon speak of Prime and the movies.

The problem is that this version of Bee is a complete idiot. Even with radio speak, the character could be given more depth, realizing what he’s lost and working with Windblade to restore it. Maybe that will change in later episodes, but these clips make me worried that the whole show is going to be “Windblade and her Derp Sidekick Bumblebee”.

 

Bumble-Beedrill?