Transformers Earthspark Season 3 Trailer and Poster Introduces Prowl

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

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.

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.

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?!?

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

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.

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.

Next episode batch drops tomorrow.

Here's a preview clip featuring Prowl:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It aired on TV, too.

As a heads up, I don't know when they were added or how long they've been there, but Netflix added the remaining eight episodes of EarthSpark Season 1, which were missing when the first 18 eps were originally added to Netflix. So now the entire first season is up and on there to watch.

Hasbro is now uploading season 1 episodes of EarthSpark to the official Transformers YouTube channel. The first three episodes have been posted so far:

It's still incredible how much of a drop in quality season 2 was from season 1. Season 1 was great and was setting up a great future. Season 2 killed all of that

So, I was watching some YouTube videos from TJOmega in which he mentioned, in each video, that EarthSpark's cartoon had been canceled, and I'm like "When was this confirmed?" I've looked around and have found no such declaration from any credible sources. So then, why do he and so many other people think EarthSpark is over? Well, I think I may have found what's brought about the confusion.

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Back in mid-May 2024, there was a rumor floating around that EarthSpark would be canceled after its second season, which was reported both here on Seibertron and on TFW2005:
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/rumour-transformers-earthspark-to-be-cancelled-replaced-by-new-transformers-animated-show/48175/
https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/05/16/rumor-earthspark-to-be-cancelled-after-season-2-replaced-with-new-tf-series-511669

However, this rumor was based purely on speculation, as there were rumblings of yet another TF cartoon being made (which we now know to be Cyberworld) and the people who initially spread this rumor were assuming that the new show might possibly be a tie-in with TF One, as said movie was still coming soon at the time and the true nature of Cyberworld being a YouTube show of short episodes was not yet known at the time of this rumor's initial spreading.

Near the end of May 2024, however, a follow up story was posted here on Seibertron attempting to clarify some things, as the rumor had grown exponentially and the staff wanted to clear up some misinformation, specifying that Paramount had indeed ordered two seasons of EarthSpark and there was no official confirmation of what, if anything, was to come of the show beyond that initial order:
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/clarifying-some-tf-earthspark-misinformation-whats-cancelled-whats-not-and-whats-exclusive/48193/

Still, despite this attempt to play damage control on this site, the rumor persisted elsewhere, as TFW continued to post doomsaying news posts about EarthSpark's imminent demise:
https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/06/19/rumor-earthspark-replacement-line-solicited-to-retailers-513855

And keep in mind that this one was made before EarthSpark's second season was even released! Meaning they were saying Season 2 was the end before the so-called "Season 3" (as Paramount+ labels it) was even known about!

This next one in particular made explicit claim that Cyberworld would be EarthSpark's "replacement", as though it were impossible for the two to coexist despite one being a Paramount+/Nickelodeon show with full-length episodes and the other being a YouTube show with short episodes (which, again, was not yet known at the time this post was made, so more assumptions were being made without any actual facts):
https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/25/earthspark-replacement-series-listings-found-transformers-cyberworld-519436

So, everyone who saw these kinds of news posts and didn't understand the difference between a confirmed fact and an unconfirmed rumor took them at face value and ran with the notion that EarthSpark is dead and canceled, long before it was ever made clear that Cyberworld is a completely different beast (so to speak) from EarthSpark.

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As for the future of EarthSpark's cartoon itself, well, while it does seem that there were certain plans for the show that have since changed over time, it doesn't seem to be all doom and gloom as people are saying.

According to this now outdated (as you can see Reactivate featured here before it was canceled) annual quarterly report from Hasbro, the initial plan was to release Season 2 of EarthSpark in two batches in 2024 (which did happen), one batch in 2025 (which has yet to happen), and a fourth batch in 2026 (which... wait, why a fourth batch?):


But around August 2024, a new quarterly report updated these plans to instead say that we would be getting more EarthSpark stuff in the first quarter of 2025 (and, well, more toys and stuff were definitely on the shelves during that time) and that some "S2 Specials" for EarthSpark would be released later in the final quarter of the year after the launch of Cyberworld in the third quarter, coexisting with more Cyberworld stuff in the final quarter:


What's more, around the same time in August 2024, Nick Roche made a couple of tweets that said he was currently working on something for EarthSpark ("On the Earthspark treadmill") and, when asked which season of the show he was working on, he cryptically answered "Cannot confirm which season I'm working on... !" But that exclamation point at the end also made it sound like he was pretty excited for what this might be.

Combine this with the Specials revealed in the updated annual report and it seems that Roche was hinting at the forthcoming release of said EarthSpark specials.

And while I cannot find anything else to support it, this Instagram post by Cartoonempire25 claims that Paramount+ renewed EarthSpark for a "Season 4" back in November 2024, with more episodes to come in 2025 (but we'll see if this is the case or if it's instead just the specials):
https://www.instagram.com/cartoonempire25/p/DB7LmUMP_en/

Well, this certainly flew under the radar.

Back in June 2024, Greg Weisman participated in the following interview on YouTube in which it was casually mentioned multiple times over and over throughout the video that he had spent six months doing work for Nickelodeon on the Transformers: EarthSpark cartoon.



At the time this interview came out, Season 2 had recently premiered on Paramount+, so it wouldn't have been those episodes he had worked on. But the thing is, looking over the credits for the "Season 3" (or "Season 2 Part 2") episodes released later that October reveals no sign of Weisman's name anywhere, yet he insists that he worked on the show.

A reminder that Season 1 was three batches of 26 episodes total, while the "Season 2" and "Season 3" batches have so far only totaled to 18 episodes. It's been speculated that there ought to be another batch coming, and/or a couple of specials that were previously mentioned in a Hasbro report (and which Nick Roche possibly alluded to on Twitter). Could Weisman's statements in this interview that he worked on the show be sign that at least something more is still coming to finish off this show more properly? Here's hoping.