I watched Earthrise yesterday. And while it had it's flaws, I enjoyed it for the most part.

Pros
Interesting story that at the very least gets you hyped for Kingdom
"I know him!" moments. Fanservice. That sort of thing lol.
Elita-1 and the Autobots on Cybertron were really interesting.
I dug the Quintesson and Mercenary parts, and kinda wish they were in it more.
The Dead Universe was pretty neat
Megatron, Starscream, and Shockwave were my favorite characters by far. Shockwave's VA even began to grow on me.
GALVATRON
DINOBOT

Cons
The voice acting for the most part.
Optimus. He was an Idiot. They seem to be physically unable to make him heroic, and I hate it.
The entire bit with Scorponok. Could've been handled way better.
Not enough time to fit in a good story.
Galvatron's head was a bit wonky.
Too much reusing of character models.
Transformers should actually, y'know, TRANSFORM!
Megatron extracting sparks to power the Nemesis, while dark, seems to not make much sense. Couldn't he just have said he was extracting the energon from their circuits? And does that make the Nemesis alive in some way, shape, or form? Idk.
Multiple other nitpicks.

So yeah, I enjoyed it, but it's not without it's flaws. I did definitely enjoy it more than siege, though, and can't wait to watch Kingdom!

Bring on the Beast Wars!

 

I mostly enjoyed this season, even if it did feel somewhat aimless. Despite only being 6 episodes and therefore being somewhat heavily condensed, it somehow also managed to feel rather stretched out. I don't know how it managed such a feat, but here we are.

I wish indidivual characters had been given more of a moment to shine, rather than just the usuals, but at least they appeared, I guess.

 

Kissplayers is unanimously agreed upon to be creepy and inappropriate. Regardless of “subjective” takes, the art style depicts female characters (sometimes nude) with deliberately under-aged designs in sexual and graphic circumstances. The fact that you’re trying to deflect from that or excuse it is red flag central.

The Japanese are known to be less prudish, true, but even the Japanese know a creep show when they see it. It’s not a culture difference, it’s fucked up.

 

 I don\'t know if anyone has posted this, but I noticed something today, in Earthrise Netflix episode 2 the Nemesis spaceship comes out of the clouds.

I realized the Nemesis spaceship might be what is pictured on the bottom of Earthrise Scorponok\'s box.

I wonder if this means that the Nemesis spaceship will be the next Titan Class Deception figure to be released? What do you guys think of this possibility?

 

Rorschach test. End.

 

I wish it was, but apparently Titan class figures are ending (not sure if true but that’s a rumor), so idk. I really wish they’d make the nemesis to go with the ark tho.

 

I watched this trash the other day. It's obvious this show was created to sell us the Toy Line (just like the original cartoon show...lol), lack luster voice acting, slow paced, boring story, boring "action". This show was really disappointing, at least it was a bit better than Siege. Doubt I'll be watching it again, I really don't care for Beast Wars so Kingdom isn't even a thought. I'll have to patiently wait for the new Transformers movie to be released to satisfy my Onscreen Transformers kick. Hopefully The Wreckers get their own series or movie, they need their own spinoff or something.

 

I liked it for what it was as much as the first one: A love letter to G1 fans. You will be left with a ton of questions if you havent followed the g1 plotline but thats besides the point.

The meeting of Megatron and Galvatron was just epic.

 

I liked the series.
There were a lot of flaws. I could go on and on about the flaws, honestly. I really didn't like Optimus' "yelling voice", for example. I'd have felt better if the guy just kept impersonating Cullen through those scenes.

But it warms my heart to see them actually attempt to tie something into past series. The golden disk, Galvatron, Dinobot, etc....these were just so nice to see. I haven't given a shit about anything animated from Transformers since maybe Beast Machines. Everything has just been a new reboot with varying quality. Some good (Animated), some bad (Unicron Tril), but I just dont really care about them.

Trying to tie it into the "main canon" even if its lacking in areas still makes me happier that whatever we've been getting in reboot land for 20 years.

 

This was an okay season. Siege was better, the backgrounds were way way better this time aroud. They added life to the show.

 

I had the same problems with this miniseries as I had with the Siege one: Rooster Teeth are not good writers. It's too bad that Hbomberguy's "RWBY is Garbage, and Here's Why" video came out right before the Siege cartoon, because I've gone into this series with his criticisms fresh in my mind from day one, and I think the writing quality in War for Cybertron shares a lot of the same problems RWBY has. They're good at flashy fight scenes, but some of their writing choices are just.......... weird, man.

* Jetfire, completely and utterly unironically, says the Decepticons could turn against them and should be killed, while Red Alert, a character who in other media (ie IDW) has been depicted as paranoid, says nothing. What on Earth compelled them to give that line to Jetfire? It doesn't work.
* Deseeus is an interesting concept for a character, but prior to his Face of Wrath taking control, he was just one big infodump. Did we need to know he freed the Transformers from Quintesson ownership? What does it add to the story, exactly? And if he managed to reach consensus to do that, why oh why did Wrath go all axe-crazy? Surely Wrath was pro-Transformer-freedom too! And he had Transformers under his command, so the interpretation that they went mad from isolation/abandonment feels hollow to me. Why hasn't he killed his Ironhide repaints? Either have him be totally alone, and establish that he resents being alone, or just make him a typical Quintesson and have him turn on the Autobots from the get-go. His character motivations were waaaaaay too muddy.
* Scorponok. Why is he the "Last Scorponok"? That's dumb. He's a member of so many different species and factions, was it really necessary to make up a new one? Make him the last Nebulan, the last Headmaster, the last Titan Master, or hell, use some of the Japanese terminology and make him the last Cyberdroid. There's so many names they could've gone with without making him a Scorponok.
* My theory as to why is maybe Scorponok from the Kingdom toyline will be revealed as another Scorponok who survived on what I can only guess was "New Nebulos".
* But if you're gonna present him as a new species who's never interacted with Cybertronians before... WHY DOES HE HAVE A DECEPTICON BADGE?
* God, I hate the voice acting. Starscream is excellent, but the rest sound... wrong, somehow. Ironhide is too young, I can barely understand Soundwave without subtitles, and Shockwave doesn't have any of the pomp and grandeur of the original.
* I did like that Galvatron at least attempted to sound like Leonard Nimoy, and I give him props for that, but oh MAN, Optimus Prime needs a throat lozenge.
* I'm not one of those guys who thinks every Optimus needs to be voiced by Peter Cullen or anything, but that gravelly Batman voice does not suit Optimus Prime at all.
* Yet another Spoiler toy that isn't a spoiler. Nemesis Prime appears for a grand total of half a second.

 

Watched it last night. That was some weak ass writing. Spoiler: stop if you don’t want to know more.

They wrote Prime as an ineffectual leader drowning in his regret and completely locked in a juvenile understanding of right and wrong. Seriously!!!??? Prime was begging Megatron for forgiveness so he can kill him??? Total crap. I’ve read and have seen a lot of Transformers stories since ‘84 , so I feel I having an understanding of the Optimus Prime character. This story just sucked.

 

Agreed!
I previously mentioned this, if it was meant to sell "products" i.e. toys, it fails miserable 'cause they "recycled" a lot of Siege models when it should now be ER.  Maybe should have called this Siege Season 2

Iirc, Furman did this in his original Marvel run. Talk about unorigi....homages  

x infinity!

 

I finally watched Earth rise..... I regret watching the skylynx episode. 20 minutes of exposition and wasted time that amounts to nothing.

As usual, everyone talks slowly, but that wasn’t my main issue. Just the abundance of throwing shit at the wall. They just throw things at you then get rid of them almost immediately. The show feels both agonizingly slow, but yet extremely rushed. There’s cool ideas in there, but the writers clearly won’t commit to any of them. Optimus somehow ends up being among my least favorite things in this show, which is depressing. I hate the fact that it’s tied to the toy lines. Just make a show that has free reign and an actual budget. Let them do stuff without hamfisting everything together and rushing in to the next line...

I legitimately do not want to watch the next “season”. I have no attachment to beast wars outside of liking the designs and watching clips as a kid, but I don’t want to even see what sort of characters those end up being. I just want this show to end.

 

I’m genuinely scared as to what they have planned for the beast wars characters in kingdom as this show has left me feeling the same way siege did. All the bad voice acting, Boring episodes, lack of anything interesting and it’s just a big meh from me. Primus help my favourite characters from hasbros ridiculous plans  

 

I wouldnt be surprised if dinobot is the only bw character that shows up in kingdom

 

I mean, besides Primal and Cheetor who're confirmed to get toys.

And everybody who's gotten a toy has shown up.

Meh. Won't matter because I have the original on DVD and nothing they do will change those or the toys.

Will be interesting to see how they change up things given the Beasts are already there this time. And I wonder how they'll handle the scaling issues. Will they be giant animals? Because we've already seen them play with scale regarding Lynx/Skorpy.

I wonder if part if the change will be a few G1 dudes getting beast modes. Especially Megaton. I really want him to become a trex.

 

Springer, Apeface, Snapdragon, Brunt, Fasttrack, Hoist, Grapple, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Smokescreen, Bluestreak, Runabout, Runamuck, and the Allicons sure as fuck didn't show up.

 

I was talking about the Netflix line, but go off.

 

Finally watched it and I thought it was alright.

Yes there were too many unnecessary plotlines, too many cameos ,the voice acting is still sub par and the dialogue isn't great.

But I think the character models look good, frame rate is stable and at least they had more interesting locales this time.

It was more interesting from Siege for sure and there were lots of nods to pas shows i.e. the bombs the autobots use look like the same ones out of TF Prime.

Bring on Kingdom I say.