WORST transformers show!

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by Barricade fan 9000, Mar 9, 2020.

  1. Tekkaman Blade

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    Gobots
     
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    Challenge of the Gobots. It isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, handled gender better than TFs ever did, and had some of the most kick ass female characters ever
     
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    Nothing with Crasher can be the worst.
     
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    RID 2015. The animation is an eyesore. Weakass autobots on the same tier as Animated. Optimus needing an activator powerup to beat lazerbeak!

    Absolutely ruined the legacy of TF Prime.
     
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    Prime Wars trilogy is pretty bad since I have not even sat through it all yet. It is a soulless attempt to go look at these G1 designs! It just just like the 80s! When it is just bland, boring, moves slow literally with that frame rate, and just lacks heart. Besides having Peter Cullen, Gregg Berger, and Judd Nelson play their iconic roles this series should be burned.

    Then there is RID2015 which is the worse mainline show and is the only show I do not have a single figure of. (Besides Rescue Bots and its sequel) This show is long, boring, ugly, and an insult to my intelligence. The Autobots act like children. All of them. Not just one of them but the whole Bee team besides Drift act like obnoxious toddlers. The Decepticons are a joke and annoying. I can barely recall any of them besides Steeljaw and Thunderhoof. The only reason I remember Thunderhoof is because his voice actor is Sylvester Stallone's brother, Frank. The only good parts is when Optimus, Ratchet, Starscream, Bulkhead, Soundwave, and others show up for a few minutes to break up the boredom. But even then there are so many episodes it is far and few between. I could probably tolerate the show if it was 39 episodes... maybe 52 but that is if they just cut all of this annoying fat off. I will say at least it tried to do something unique with the designs but it was not enough. If I ever watch this show again from start to finish it will only be for a Transformers marathon in which I watch every show from start to finish back to back. Thank goodness that there were good toys from Generations during 2015-2017 to keep me into the brand or I would have lost my mind.
     
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    The Headmasters.
     
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    Transformers Prime is objectively the worst written and crafted of the cartoons that I take seriously enough to judge as badly made. I hardly find a single person that has been able to argue effectively that it wasn't bad in every single aspect other than voice-acting. Even the animation is straight up 90% of the time lifeless and embarrasing compared to other 3d shows made at the same time.

    Prime Wars and WFC are simply too cheap and low-brow for me to waste time criticizing. Same for most of the animes, they are worse than Prime, but it feels mean to stomp on them, so Prime will stay with the trophy.
     
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    Challenge accepted. Are you honestly going to say TF Prime had worse writing than RiD2015 or Energon? Lol "lifeless animation" buy sone glasses. You can clearly see the the eyes flicker and the mouths dont flap up and down. But for arguments sake what other cgi shows are you comparing it to?
     
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    Are you here to embarass yourself on your lack of reading comprehension or the fact that you rushed to defend a cartoon because you saw internet people being mad to it?
    Prime aired at the same time as Green Lantern TAS, who managed to have locations and set-piece with much better variety (along with storyboarders that actualy remembered they were a 3D show and thus could actualy make good use of camera tricks) and Star Wars Clone Wars, which just straight up blows it out of the water in every single way.

    And yes, the writing in Prime is worse than RID2015 in nearly every single way. RID2015 is a competent show for kids that knows how to do precisely that, Prime is a show that flunked nearly every single plot line it attempted, and even though it had such a limited cast of characters is failed to give them depth. Shows should have objectives and follow them thru, RID2015 did it's job with focus, Prime couldn't even commit to something as basic as "have the good guys suffer actual consequences, even though we start our very first episode with Cliffjumper's death precisely to pretend that this show will have an edge". Tone and promises are everything in a mediatic work, and Prime did that awfully.

    Also lol at "the mouths dont flap up and down" when the majority of Prime season 1 features character's mouths expanding up and down with absolutely no regard for lip synching sounds.
     
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    You do realise Prime had CGI with reflections on the models right? Comparing the cgi to Green Lantern is a bit of a joke. Again Prime's CGI actually won an emmy.

    The fact you say RID2015 is better than Prime means you lose all credibility. Where are the awards for RID2015? I mean you're spelling the worth "through" as "thru" why should I take you seriously?
    RID2015 turned the characters into jokes, Optimus couldn't even beat lazerbeak without a powerup. You're bringing up cliffjumper but do you forget Arcee lost it and tried to murder Starscream in revenge?

    Also lip synching is hard and Prime was made by a Japanese company (Polygon pictures) so there's language issues.
     
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    Of the ones I've seen, Siege is far and away the worst.
     
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    You like to reference awards as if that’s the only measure of quality a show can have. There’s plenty shows better than Prime that haven’t won awards. Even you said it won an award for animation, not story or writing.
     
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    Cyberverse, Siege, and I guess I have to put in the obligatory Energon. But for me, Energon is not as "bad" as it is just totally forgettable. I mean, I'm sure it is bad, but I honestly can barely remember any of it. But with Siege and Cyberverse, I can surely say that I actively dislike both of them. People seem to really despise Prime, but at least with Prime I can watch it without wanting to turn it off after a few minutes because of the voice acting. I can't say the same with Siege and Cyberverse, however. In a franchise about robots, I never thought I'd have complained about the dialogue and voice acting sounding way too robotic.
     
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    Prime because it ruined the MISaligned DIScontinuity.
     
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    Yeah, I don't see how anyone could possibly say that Prime was the worst Transformers show. The only way that I can think of to state what the worst series has been would be to somehow figure out which series has been the least successful. But without a way to definitively do that, the only way that I can figure out how to say what I find to be the "worst" series, would be for me to say what I have found to be the least entertaining. And while it's definitely not my opinion, I can at least understand if users here found Prime to be the least entertaining Transformers series.
     
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    Might as throw my hat in the bus.

    Prime wars trilogy,a God awful animation,voice acting, and a meh plot,If it wasn't for mark hamill, cullen, marhnoca(I don't really care how you spell that name)and Jon bailey, I would've said this some of the worst voice acting ever, but segie takes that award.

    Speaking of segie, Good Lord was this frustrating to put up with,such an amazing concept such as the war for Cybertron of all things and turn into one of the worst shows in the entire franchise, The writing felt rushed. the voice acting is the worst of the Transformers franchise, and characters are nethier annoying, boring or felt shoehorned in because toys.

    Rid15 I don't like prime at all but I'll gladly watch That over rid any day of the week Because this show is the beast machines of prime the characters never learn they never go through any development (watch as somebody says otherwise) and the animation is meh at best.

    And finally beast machines this show ruins beast wars in every way possible, I beast machines then and now. It trashed all the stuff liked about beast wars. I hated the characters. could have loved it if they didn't change the characters personalities into something unrecognizable.I will say though that Megatron, cheator, and the vehicons (specifically thrust, Jetstorm, and tankor) are the only tolerable characters
     
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    RiD'15: ruined the legacy of transformers prime. Even if it wasn't a prime sequel, 26 episodes are the same, a "decepticon" comes, bee team struggle, learn a stupid life lesson, capture the con and next episode it's the same thing. Only good things were starscream and soundwave.

    Beast Machines: the message is pretty good, but the 'go back to nature. Machines bad' was really unnecessary since Cybertron is a metal world. And the designs are crap.

    Energon : waste of time. For me, watching an episode was like having to listen to a Karen.

    Prime Wars : energon but slower and split in 3
     
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