Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form

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Paramount released a trailer for Season 2 of Transformers Earthspark. In it, we can see some of the toys that were previously revealed, like Hashtag's new alt mode being a pickup truck.

We also have a synopsis of each episode, which also explains why Hashtag changed alt mode.

Episode 1:
One year after Mandroid's defeat and the Emberstone's shattering, the Maltos go on a search for the shards. When a Decepticon creates a new foe from a broken shard, the Maltos realize life in Witwicky is about to be chaotic.

Episode 2:
While searching for Emberstone shards, Mo and Thrash stumble upon ancient ruins where a Quintesson Executioner lay in stasis. The duo try to care for the creature, after it follows them home but they fail to realize it has a plan of its own.

Episode 3:
Hashtag helps the Autobots get rid of all the old GHOST stuff around base, which has her feeling like her GHOST van alt-mode is obsolete too. Meanwhile, Shockwave needs to acquire a GHOST hard drive that holds a key to Starscream's master plan.

Episode 4:
Robby, Mo, Twitch, and Thrash attend a carnival where Robby develops a crush on a new student, while Twitch, Thrash, and Mo encounter trouble with the carnival's Fairmaster. As the heroes battle Fairmaestro, they unlock a new power: cyber-syncing.

Episode 5:
Jawbreaker wants to cyber-sync, but he's left out. Walking home, he saves Aftermath from a woodland monster. The two spend the day together and accidentally sync into one awkward bot.

Episode 7:
Twitch and Spitfire accidentally swap bodies; it's hard for both to avoid getting caught behind enemy lines; the Decepticons plan to attack Twitch's friends and allies.

Episode 8:
Optimus lands a prestigious photoshoot, so Robby and Hashtag take his battle worn trailer to get detailed. Unfortunately, the Decepticons steal it from them, leading the kids to race the clock to get it back in one piece.

Episode 9/10:
Mo and Hashtag find a giant secret beneath Witwicky, and Starscream plans to use it for evil. To do so, Starscream needs to rebuild the shattered Emberstone. Robby rallies his family and the Autobots to stop him, and end the chaos once and for all.

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Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2180367)
Posted by Stormshot_Prime on May 15th, 2024 @ 9:13am CDT

Well the Hashtag thing makes more sense now! Glad she’s getting an alt that’s more “her”, I’m sure that’ll be an interesting little arc. Seriously excited for season 2 and the new terrans, I love the lore of this series so much.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2180378)
Posted by o.supreme on May 15th, 2024 @ 12:00pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:How much we wanna bet that this is the same promo that will be played during the upcoming theatrical presentation of the G1 cartoon pilot three-parter?

I'm certain it will be. It would make sense however to play this trailer (along with other ads) before the 40th anniversary show actually starts. I thought I heard some odd rumor they were going to play it at the conclusion of the show, which seems odd. I'm thinking a lot of people get up and leave if that's the case.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2180386)
Posted by Glyph on May 15th, 2024 @ 2:09pm CDT

From someone watching it (not me):

Grant W. (@ZakuFan0079) wrote:#Earthspark preview for #Transformers40th is the core Autobots, Terans and humans keeping 3 ember stones away from the Seekers.

https://twitter.com/ZakuFan0079/status/ ... 7024218189

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2180414)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 15th, 2024 @ 7:31pm CDT

Weird Al Cosmos and new truck mode Hashtag is cool sounding

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2180429)
Posted by william-james88 on May 15th, 2024 @ 9:49pm CDT

fans watching the 40th anniversary screening were given an exclusive sneak peek at a scene from Transformers Earthspark season 2. It was shared below by a fan

https://twitter.com/TFHypeGuy/status/17 ... 0857675148

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2181190)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 8th, 2024 @ 12:41am CDT

The first ten episodes of Season 2 have premiered.

PM me if anyone without Paramount+ would like help watching them.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2181616)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2024 @ 11:38am CDT

Apparently, making this show hasn't actually been a very fun experience for the production crew. If you look at the credits for season 1 and season 2, you'll notice a massive shift in the crew who made season 1 and the crew who made season 2, with several people behind the first season just gone and several new people added to the second season who did not work on the first. The first season was animated by Icon Creative Studio in Canada, but season 2 switched to being animated by 88 Pictures in India. The series' CG Supervisor Michael Launder gave this explanation for why there was such a drastic change in production between the two seasons:

https://twitter.com/mtlaunder/status/1799443950358692082

hasbro and nick decided to switch to a new studio as the mental health and well being of icon and the nick team was suffering during S1.

Yikes.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2181700)
Posted by bluecatcinema on June 24th, 2024 @ 2:26pm CDT

I just finished watching the latest batch of episodes. Overall, not too bad. The Chaos Terrans were an interesting new addition, and seeing Starscream acting as the big bad was a nice switch. Terratronis was a pretty big surprise. I'm hoping there's more episodes so we can see more of her.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2181702)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 24th, 2024 @ 2:35pm CDT

bluecatcinema wrote:I just finished watching the latest batch of episodes. Overall, not too bad. The Chaos Terrans were an interesting new addition, and seeing Starscream acting as the big bad was a nice switch. Terratronis was a pretty big surprise. I'm hoping there's more episodes so we can see more of her.

Luckily, this is Part 1 of 3 for Season 2.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2181704)
Posted by bluecatcinema on June 24th, 2024 @ 2:50pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Luckily, this is Part 1 of 3 for Season 2.

Good to know.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182062)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 7th, 2024 @ 5:26pm CDT

I still need to watch it, though I admit, as soon as I found out about the visuals changing companies and seeing that that change definitely impacted the quality, I haven't been in a rush to watch

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182126)
Posted by o.supreme on July 8th, 2024 @ 12:48pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Luckily, this is Part 1 of 3 for Season 2.

Do we know for sure S2 is a full 26 episode season? With the sale of eOne, it certainly could have been cut short.

For instance with Young Justice back in 2012 Imbecilic Executives at CN cut the second season from 26 to just 20 episodes. There's many other examples I could site, but unlike YJ, if the show isn't popular, and the toys aren't selling (YJ really didn't have any merch, which is why that claim doesn't make sense), Earthspark could definitely have been cut short.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182303)
Posted by TulioDude on July 14th, 2024 @ 7:30pm CDT

Watched season 1 on Netflix, it was good! Pretty wholesome.
Nice mix of slice of life stuff, similar to Rescue Bots. The stakes feel believable.
The one thing I not sure if this series is fully begginer friendly. The Maltos can ask questions the viewers or kids could have, but I feel this series expects you to be familiar with Transformers lore in general in other parts, like how Megatron abused Starscream.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182343)
Posted by JazZeke on July 15th, 2024 @ 3:43pm CDT

I just finished the first season of Earthspark and the first episode of season 2. I want SO HARD to like this show, I really do. I love the fact that we're getting a postwar story on TV. I love that the franchise is trying new things and evolving past The Great War. BUT...

I feel like the show is sidelining the ACTUAL INTERESTING stuff to focus on baby Transformer "edutainment" hijinks. Optimus and Megatron working together? Awesome, but hardly on screen. Optimus and Megatron talk all the time about not trusting GHOST, but we never see the GHOST agents actually DO anything worth questioning their ethics aside from occasionally standing menacingly in dark rooms.

Dot Malto is a badass, I love her. Her husband though is a moronic chump and his fanboying and merchandise collecting is utterly ridiculous. Why would there even BE TF merch in a world where TFs exist? Mo is okay but her giant eyes are creepy as fuck, Robbie is... just there. Twitch is cool, but Thrash is another "just there" character.

During the finale when Megatron was strapped to a table and being cut up by laser, Dot sabotauged the laser, and Megatron was still stuck to the table while Mandroid worked to fix it. During the rescue though, someone shot the laser, and Megatron... just stood up? No straps were holding him down? Why did he just lie there the first time? I had to scream at that. The overall narrative of the series is good, but so often the writers take shortcuts just like the example above because I assume they think the dumb kids watching won't notice or care and it just drives me NUTS.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182351)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 15th, 2024 @ 10:52pm CDT

JazZeke wrote:During the finale when Megatron was strapped to a table and being cut up by laser, Dot sabotauged the laser, and Megatron was still stuck to the table while Mandroid worked to fix it. During the rescue though, someone shot the laser, and Megatron... just stood up? No straps were holding him down? Why did he just lie there the first time? I had to scream at that. The overall narrative of the series is good, but so often the writers take shortcuts just like the example above because I assume they think the dumb kids watching won't notice or care and it just drives me NUTS.

That doesn't sound at all like the Season 1 finale.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182360)
Posted by snavej on July 16th, 2024 @ 9:10am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Apparently, making this show hasn't actually been a very fun experience for the production crew. If you look at the credits for season 1 and season 2, you'll notice a massive shift in the crew who made season 1 and the crew who made season 2, with several people behind the first season just gone and several new people added to the second season who did not work on the first. The first season was animated by Icon Creative Studio in Canada, but season 2 switched to being animated by 88 Pictures in India. The series' CG Supervisor Michael Launder gave this explanation for why there was such a drastic change in production between the two seasons:

https://twitter.com/mtlaunder/status/1799443950358692082

hasbro and nick decided to switch to a new studio as the mental health and well being of icon and the nick team was suffering during S1.
Yikes.

What could it be, to make a dedicated and talented team just give up? Overwork? I'm guessing that certain higher-ups kept changing the script because of their peculiar values and lack of talent, so the animators had to redo their work, possibly many times. My brother is a video editor so he has to deal with this kind of thing regularly.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182391)
Posted by JazZeke on July 16th, 2024 @ 4:21pm CDT

I just saw the episode with Tarantulas. And while it was a great showcase for Nightshade and honestly made me tempted to get the toy, they did my boy Tarantulas dirty. I know better in this fandom to complain about a character being different from past incarnations, but this Tarantulas is not just different, he's bland. They could have put just about any Decepticon in that role. It was so less interesting than the gleeful sicko. I kept hoping Tarantulas would show us something... naughty.

Loved the way they animated his mandibles though.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182393)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 16th, 2024 @ 4:29pm CDT

JazZeke wrote:I just saw the episode with Tarantulas. And while it was a great showcase for Nightshade and honestly made me tempted to get the toy, they did my boy Tarantulas dirty. I know better in this fandom to complain about a character being different from past incarnations, but this Tarantulas is not just different, he's bland. They could have put just about any Decepticon in that role. It was so less interesting than the gleeful sicko. I kept hoping Tarantulas would show us something... naughty.

Loved the way they animated his mandibles though.

Just so you know, you're still in Season 1. It's 26 episodes.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182395)
Posted by JazZeke on July 16th, 2024 @ 4:44pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
JazZeke wrote:I just saw the episode with Tarantulas. And while it was a great showcase for Nightshade and honestly made me tempted to get the toy, they did my boy Tarantulas dirty. I know better in this fandom to complain about a character being different from past incarnations, but this Tarantulas is not just different, he's bland. They could have put just about any Decepticon in that role. It was so less interesting than the gleeful sicko. I kept hoping Tarantulas would show us something... naughty.

Loved the way they animated his mandibles though.
Just so you know, you're still in Season 1. It's 26 episodes.

Paramount+ lists this as season 2.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182396)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 16th, 2024 @ 4:52pm CDT

JazZeke wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
JazZeke wrote:I just saw the episode with Tarantulas. And while it was a great showcase for Nightshade and honestly made me tempted to get the toy, they did my boy Tarantulas dirty. I know better in this fandom to complain about a character being different from past incarnations, but this Tarantulas is not just different, he's bland. They could have put just about any Decepticon in that role. It was so less interesting than the gleeful sicko. I kept hoping Tarantulas would show us something... naughty.

Loved the way they animated his mandibles though.
Just so you know, you're still in Season 1. It's 26 episodes.

Paramount+ lists this as season 2.

Season 1 was split into three upload batches:

Season 1 Part 1 = Episodes 1-10 (11/22/2022)
Season 1 Part 2 = Episodes 11-18 (03/03/2023)
Season 1 Part 3 = Episodes 19-26 (07/28/2023)

Season 2 proper went into production after these 26 were completed, and was made by a different studio altogether. Its first batch of ten episodes was released last month on June 7, 2024, 11 months later as opposed to the 4-month intervals of the first three batches.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182513)
Posted by TulioDude on July 19th, 2024 @ 6:20pm CDT

One moment I'm suprised that wasn't brought up again: in "Security Protocols" , Agent Schloder mentions that GHOST is going to increase security around Witwicky, so that's why Bumblebee had to leave, but in "Home" the Maltos go in and out of Witwicky, carring Bumblebee on their way back, without GHOST noticing.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182880)
Posted by ScottyP on July 30th, 2024 @ 11:53am CDT

Got my DVDs for season 1 yesterday. Glad it's actually being released on physical media, but so sad it's only on the ancient DVD format.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2182938)
Posted by Mechanurgist on August 1st, 2024 @ 7:48pm CDT

Earthspark reminds me of TF Prime in many ways, but is somewhat worse.

Pros:
Bumblebee can talk.
Good TF designs, a nice blend of simplicity and flare.
Mostly good voicework and facial animations that convey emotion well.
Atypical post-Great War stories that go beyond the standard Autobot/Decepticon fights.
Bumblebee can talk.

Cons:
Megatron's personality and voice are completely wrong and jarring.
Too much focus on humans and their family issues... and transposing those on TFs.
The environment/background design is a bit too clean and bucolic, and looks like bad 2010s CGI or some mobile farm sim game.
The "kiddy" Earth-born TFs were a mistake.

Overall a 6.5/10 from me.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2183140)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 7th, 2024 @ 3:41pm CDT

It seems EarthSpark may not be ending as soon as we originally thought.

Nick Roche has made a couple of tweets that say he's currently doing some work for EarthSpark ("On the Earthspark treadmill") and, when asked which season of the show he's working on, he cryptically answered "Cannot confirm which season I'm working on... !"

That exclamation point at the end also sounds like he's pretty excited for what this might be.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2183166)
Posted by bluecatcinema on August 8th, 2024 @ 2:39pm CDT

Glad to hear it. After the way the latest batch of episodes ended, I'm eager for more.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184494)
Posted by Glyph on September 25th, 2024 @ 10:45am CDT

Next batch of Season 2 episodes to hit Paramount+ on October 25, apparently:
https://x.com/ToonHive/status/1838697722099986542

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184495)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 25th, 2024 @ 10:53am CDT

Glyph wrote:Next batch of Season 2 episodes to hit Paramount+ on October 25, apparently:
https://x.com/ToonHive/status/1838697722099986542

And just so everyone's on the same page, while it says "Season 3", we know it's really "Season 2 Part 2", like how Season 1 was divided into three batches.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184527)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on September 26th, 2024 @ 9:33am CDT

Back when season one came out, I watched the first episode and wasn't all that interested in the series.

For those who have caught up, is it worth the time investment to jump back in? Does it get better from there, or if someone doesn't like the first episode is that pretty telling?

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184530)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 26th, 2024 @ 10:23am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Back when season one came out, I watched the first episode and wasn't all that interested in the series.

For those who have caught up, is it worth the time investment to jump back in? Does it get better from there, or if someone doesn't like the first episode is that pretty telling?

Season 1 gets really good as it goes on.

The jury's still out on how Season 2 will rank in the long run, since its first batch of episodes haven't wowed as much so far, but there's more to come so we'll have to wait and see.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184536)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on September 26th, 2024 @ 4:09pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Season 1 gets really good as it goes on.

This is encouraging. I feel like I've been starving for a good animated Transformers series since Prime ended, as I wasn't thrilled with Prime Wars, RID 2015, Cyberverse, or the WFC trilogy.

So if this show gets really good, I might just have to buckle in for the watch.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184537)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 26th, 2024 @ 4:11pm CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Season 1 gets really good as it goes on.

This is encouraging. I feel like I've been starving for a good animated Transformers series since Prime ended, as I wasn't thrilled with Prime Wars, RID 2015, Cyberverse, or the WFC trilogy.

So if this show gets really good, I might just have to buckle in for the watch.

Cyberverse was amazing by Season 3.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2184864)
Posted by william-james88 on October 6th, 2024 @ 9:19pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Cyberverse was amazing by Season 3.

Yup, by then that show was better than Prime

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185110)
Posted by william-james88 on October 16th, 2024 @ 9:10am CDT

Prowl is coming to Transformers Earthspark in Season 3. While it was first seen as the second half of season 2, it has since been rebranded as a third season to the show. Nickelodeon and Paramount Plus have revealed the poster and trailer to this third season and both feature Prowl prominantly. You can check out the trailer, poster and description below.

In season three, a giant-size Dome divides the town of Witwicky and traps the Decepticons inside, but it can’t hold them forever. The Malto family and the Autobots must figure out a long-term solution, and help arrives from an unlikely place. While doing all they can to get life back to normal again, a mysterious saboteur threatens the Autobots, and Robby and Mo face a ruthless foe who challenges their right to wield the power of Quintus Prime.

New to the series are Emmy® winner Eric Bauza (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DORA, Looney Tunes Cartoons) as Prowl, an old-world Autobot detective who follows his instincts and trusts the facts. He’s highly suspicious of Optimus’ new alliances, but Prowl always finds the truth he seeks. And Betsy Sodaro (Glitch Techs, Big Nate, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) as the Quintesson Judge, Commander of the Quintessons (the first “sons” of Quintus Prime), and she feels it is her birthright to possess the power of the Emberstone. She’s wise, dangerous, and her ego is so large that it’s no wonder she has five heads.

Previously announced guest stars, "Weird Al" Yankovic as Cosmos, Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra) as Spitfire, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea as Aftermath and Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) as Fairmaestro return to the series to lend their voices.

TRANSFORMERS: EARTHSPARK stars Sydney Mikayla (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts) as Robby Malto, Zion Broadnax (Day Shift) as Mo Malto, Benni Latham (Cornerstones: Founding Voices of the Black Church) as Dot Malto, Jon Jon Briones (Ratched) as Alex Malto, Kathreen Khavari (Dead End: Paranormal Park) as Twitch, Zeno Robinson (Big City Greens) as Thrash, Danny Pudi (Community) as Bumblebee, Alan Tudyk (Resident Alien) as Optimus Prime, Rory McCann (Game of Thrones) as Megatron, Cissy Jones (The Owl House) as Elita-1, Diedrich Bader (Better Things) as Mandroid, Cyrus Arnold (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) as Jawbreaker, Z Infante (Dead End: Paranormal Park) as Nightshade and Stephanie Lemelin (Dawn of the Croods) as Hashtag.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185112)
Posted by bluecatcinema on October 16th, 2024 @ 2:24pm CDT

Prowl does look pretty cool. And is that a new version of the Hate Plague?

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185121)
Posted by Seibertron on October 16th, 2024 @ 6:28pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Cyberverse was amazing by Season 3.

That is definitely a matter of opinion. My experience with Cyberverse varied greatly from yours. I appreciated the fan service and nods, but the show was definitely not for me mostly due to the animation style, the light-heartedness, the short episodes and the incorrect Autobot symbol. I preferred RID 2015 over Cyberverse.

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Posted by Seibertron on October 16th, 2024 @ 6:30pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Cyberverse was amazing by Season 3.

Yup, by then that show was better than Prime

I definitely didn't experience that feeling at all with Cyberverse. Prime is one of my favorite go-to Transformers shows. It's not perfect, but I like it a lot. The art style of the humans in Prime has always seemed "off" to me, the "barren" Earth, and perhaps it's on the other end of the spectrum by being a little too dark, but it's much more inline with what I'm looking for from Transformers fiction.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185124)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on October 17th, 2024 @ 12:11am CDT

william-james88 wrote:While it was first seen as the second half of season 2, it has since been rebranded as a third season to the show.

The dreaded curse of RID 2015 strikes again! Will any wiki ever be truly accurate?!?

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185129)
Posted by kuhlio on October 17th, 2024 @ 7:33am CDT

This just really makes me disappointed the Takara deluxe Prowl was cancelled now....

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185197)
Posted by o.supreme on October 18th, 2024 @ 7:21pm CDT

Bumblevivisector wrote:
william-james88 wrote:While it was first seen as the second half of season 2, it has since been rebranded as a third season to the show.
The dreaded curse of RID 2015 strikes again! Will any wiki ever be truly accurate?!?

More like just taking a play from something Netflix started, and other streaming services are doing. Breaking up the episodes into shorter "seasons". They can define it any way you want, but in the end, saying a show had "more seasons" only makes it sound better if you dont look beyond the surface.

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Posted by o.supreme on October 18th, 2024 @ 7:25pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:I definitely didn't experience that feeling at all with Cyberverse. Prime is one of my favorite go-to Transformers shows. It's not perfect, but I like it a lot. The art style of the humans in Prime has always seemed "off" to me, the "barren" Earth, and perhaps it's on the other end of the spectrum by being a little too dark, but it's much more inline with what I'm looking for from Transformers fiction.

I dont think it got too "dark" at all, but I agree with all your other sentiments for sure. I just did a rewatch of Prime yet AGAIN, and there's still nothing in the past decade that comes close to as entertaining and satisfying TF wise. This was mostly spurned by the fact that I was watching the TF streaming channel on Amazon. They seemingly just keep playing the same Season 1 episodes over and over, and I needed to see S2 and 3 and the film to finish it. so I pulled down my BRD and enjoyed.

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185367)
Posted by Sabrblade on October 24th, 2024 @ 4:36pm CDT

Next episode batch drops tomorrow.

Here's a preview clip featuring Prowl:

Re: Transformers Earthspark Season 2 Trailer Confirms Hashtag's New Form (2185416)
Posted by Sabrblade on October 25th, 2024 @ 1:59pm CDT

I forewent sleep last night to stay up and binge watch all eight episodes. This batch is a definite improvement over the last batch of eps.

While Paramount+ labels it as "Season 3", it definitely feels more like how season 1 was split up into three episode batches, with this being the Part 2 of the season 2 episodes, as it directly continues off from where the last of those episodes concluded, unlike how episode 1 of season 2 picked up long after the finale of season 1. The two part climax of this batch also feels like those of the first two season 1 episode batches, as there are still a few loose ends left open and it did not feel like a true series finale like how the season 1 finale could have been.

Without spoiling anything, watching the previous episode batch and this one back to back really shows how the Decepticons turning bad back in those episodes now feels like it was a red herring meant to throw us off from suspecting the true main antagonists who appear in these new episodes. In that sense, I no longer find the Decepticons going bad again as regressive in storytelling as it originally seemed to be.

Of these eight episodes, only one of them felt pretty lackluster to me, and all but one other one move the plot forward in a serialized direction, and I'll always be for serialized storytelling in Transformers cartoons.

All in all, I'd say this was a pretty good batch of episodes. The writing feels stronger again, more like the middle and latter thirds of season 1. Thankfully, the previous batch of episodes was not a sign of things to come, quality-wise, but were instead just setting things up for this batch in ways we didn't expect it to do.

Granted, there was one big plot twist in these eps that I could see coming a mile away, but the precise details of how the twist was done was something I did not see coming at all. So even though I knew that twist was coming, I was still surprised by how it was done.

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 28th, 2024 @ 1:04pm CDT

I'm home sick today, and got to watch the new episodes myself. One was kinda cringy to me, but the rest were pretty solid, even if the animation has definitely taken a huge downgrade.

Prowl showing up ended up being pretty good, i think they balanced his personality well, and made him interesting as well.

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Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2024 @ 10:27am CST

The first 18 episodes of EarthSpark are now on Netflix, and they're all normal-length. Meaning the two-parters that Paramount+ has smooshed together as double-length episodes are the individual versions.

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Posted by william-james88 on November 16th, 2024 @ 11:39pm CST

One of the main obstacles with the Transformers Earthspark was that it was behind Paramount +, which is not one of the main streaming services a family has. Well, if you have Netflix instead, then we have great news for you. The first 18 episodes of EarthSpark are now on Netflix, and they're all normal-length. Meaning the two-parters that Paramount+ has smooshed together as double-length episodes are the individual versions.

Hopefully this is a much easier way for more people to have access to the show around the world and for younger fans to discover it.

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Posted by cloudballoon on November 17th, 2024 @ 4:07pm CST

william-james88 wrote:One of the main obstacles with the Transformers Earthspark was that it was behind Paramount +, which is not one of the main streaming services a family has. Well, if you have Netflix instead, then we have great news for you. The first 18 episodes of EarthSpark are now on Netflix, and they're all normal-length. Meaning the two-parters that Paramount+ has smooshed together as double-length episodes are the individual versions.

Hopefully this is a much easier way for more people to have access to the show around the world and for younger fans to discover it.

Great news! Everyone...

Too bad this move by Hasbro to have it on Paramount+ first (or the unfortunate "lock in" to Paramount+ from whatever contract obligations Hasbro might be in with Paramount... I don't know so I don't want to lay blame without knowing the behind-the-scene machinations) did zero benefit to create buzz for toys sales. And worse, the needless non-controversy about "gender woke-ness" hurt the show & sales even more.

The main Warrior & Deluxe ES lines got some pretty great figures, they were an improvement over Cyberverse over-all if you disregard the carry-overs imo. But many people just didn't bother because they couldn't see the show.

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Posted by Sabrblade on November 17th, 2024 @ 4:42pm CST

cloudballoon wrote:Great news! Everyone...

Too bad this move by Hasbro to have it on Paramount+ first (or the unfortunate "lock in" to Paramount+ from whatever contract obligations Hasbro might be in with Paramount... I don't know so I don't want to lay blame without knowing the behind-the-scene machinations) did zero benefit to create buzz for toys sales. And worse, the needless non-controversy about "gender woke-ness" hurt the show & sales even more.

The main Warrior & Deluxe ES lines got some pretty great figures, they were an improvement over Cyberverse over-all if you disregard the carry-overs imo. But many people just didn't bother because they couldn't see the show.

Cool story, bro.

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Posted by kevinblack on November 18th, 2024 @ 11:00pm CST

Honestly this should've happened sooner.
After TF1 kids were looking for Transformers media, but rejected all the old stuff becuz [Megatron is a funny guy] - (not a joke, kids think Megatron is a good guy) - this is the only option but for most is trapped on the floopy Paramount+ never to be seen.
And it's like the only modern CG show.
geometry dash lite

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Posted by Quantum Surge on November 22nd, 2024 @ 4:21pm CST

Lol, being with Netflix could have saved this little show from underperforming with a streaming service few people care about

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Posted by Sabrblade on November 22nd, 2024 @ 4:40pm CST