Prime is not a gritty show, lmao

anyway i hope this puts more eyes on tf. I hope its good. Im gonna hate seeing people like 3C films or New Rockstars report on this and get shit wrong. TF is really hard to research for and report on to movie news youtubers for whatever reason

 

If this was a Disney property on D+ I wouldn't be worried about budget for the cgi. Seeing as it isn't, I'm definitely worried about the cgi budget for a live-action Transformers show. It's just going to be a teen drama with a couple minutes of actual Transformers sprinkled in here and there. No thanks.

Extremely disagree with this. Cybertron-set stuff is my favorite part of the franchise. "Gray lifeless and boring"? WfC and FoC would like to have a word with you. FoC especially had a lot of variety and color and felt like a living world, granted one that was beginning to die because of the events of the prior game but still. They were faaarrr from gray lifeless and boring. The intro to the Bumblebee movie was incredible as well. I love high tech future city stuff like Couriscant in Star Wars so for me, the more the merrier. I get so sick of human kid drama whenever Transformers go to Earth, imo that takes away from the actual Transformers and just becomes a show about kids and Earth problems and we already get more than enough of that everywhere else.

Agreed, I really liked Prime but it isn't gritty, it's moody and often somber in tone. There's a huge difference and somehow people get that confused. The recent Netflix shows tried to be gritty but under very obvious constraints which just resulted in the whole thing coming off as too try-hard.

 

I love the netflix shows though. I got what they were trying to do. Blech

Well anyways, Prime was just..yknow, of the era. Its just kinda boring XD

this new show will be live action. My friend had the idea of an X-Files show focusinf on Sector 7 investigating monsters and things, turns out its the decepticon pretenders! Somethin like that

 

big if true

 

Boy, I sure hope the series focuses on a mute Bumblebee and his Camaro alt mode! Haven’t gotten enough of that!

 

The best use of Cybertron is the occasional flashback or one-off story, like in the original comics.

 

Jeez, excuse the frag out of me for daring to use the word gritty. Prime was a bit darker in its themes and geared more towards fans from their late teens and older.
Personally, I would like to see a show in the vein of Prime (and no, Siege isn't what I was looking for). I'm talking about a show more geared towards adult fans, not kiddies or teens. Maybe a Shattered Glass type show.

 

Called him "Mr. Richtman"

 

Paramount+ Transformers series....? :/ I just hope Optimus doesn\'t bang a Decepticon prisoner of war.

 

There’s been plenty of stories and shows where Cybertron is not just a boring metallic sphere. Cyberverse recently gave us cyberfauna and plants and it was awesome. Alien worlds are far more interesting than earth to me.

 

Interesting

 

I hope it's set in the Bayverse. I'd like either a series about Lockdown. Quintessa played by Gemma Chan or a buddy series staring Glenn and an Autobot.

I'd be worried about the quality of the CG too, but Transformers have always seemed to look good in TV adverts, so I imagine that sporadic use can help. AoE and TLK so had characters talk in alt mode so there's also that.


Optimus in the recent Direct Line advert.

 

I would be excited, but Paramount just recently shit all over Halo and made a terrible show out of it…

 

If an advertisement brings in a couple minutes of CG, then they're gonna need a whole lotta product placement.

 

So now it'll be 100% about the human characters rather than just 99%?

 

Do you think they'll do a '98 Godzilla and make sure the only time the Transformers appear in robot mode is at night when it's raining to hide the CG imperfections? Or maybe season 4 Airwolf where they couldn't use the actual Airwolf helicopter so they have to keep reusing the same handful of pre-rendered stock footage?

 

someone better make a "live: Elita-1 reaction" webm

 

Both Transformers and Godzilla are getting live-action shows. Those are cool ideas I would love live-action shows for both. But I feel both are just pipe dreams I think the budget is not going to work well and a lot of human drama or bad CGI.

I could be surprised since some streaming services are giving shows bigger budgets than the regular network shows still I don't have high hopes.

 

There was a time when I looked forward to something like this. But after years of Bayverse movies, and the fact that the only good live action movie, Bumblebee, only happened because the Paramount 'big boys' went AWOL after the TLK disaster, has me wary about something like this.

But now the Paramount big boys are back (Bumblebee didn't die off like they'd expected it to, and actually brought back some of the fan goodwill they'd destroyed), and seeing what happened with the Snake Eyes movie - they clearly still hadn't learned their lesson (they seemed to have pretty much stomped the nails into the live action GI Joe coffin with that one) - it looks like we're probably in for more of the same old same old.

In any case, if Rise of the Beasts turns out to be more Bayverse style c***, I'm done with the live action films.

And if Paramount can't even do the Transformers movies properly (except when the folks at the top do a runner, leaving someone who actually cared about Transformers and was an actual legit fan, in charge) , can they really be trusted with a TV series?

 

That would be a dream to see. So many lose ends in the Bayverse.