Hard Hacker wrote:Nico wrote:I know im going to get banned for this.
To all you troll who think it sucked, SHUT UP! Go back to your corner WHINING on how it was NOT like G1 because thats all you can do! Yes Animated looked really weird and childish, but I guess it was the point. It was strange but I got over it and enjoyed the show.
Let us remember each Transformers cartoon for their quality and what they brought to the franchise. I could even go on about RID and the Unicron Trilogy, shows I despise and think they are horrible. Yet im sure they left their mark on the franchise.
Animated was designed to be childish, but was it really? I ask you people. To me, a show is childish if it treat its viewers likr morons, if it has no plot, no storyline.
G1 was nothing but repetitive storyline. The character had no depth (sorry to say this, but G1 Optimus Prime was rather dull). They added character when they feeled like it, or rather when hasbro needed to advertise a new line like the Dinobots. Generally, they just came out of nowhere or something. Im not saying this was always the case, but most of the time the addition of new character was poorly done.
The plot repeated itself all the freakin time! Megatron ALWAYS retreated, Starscream ALWAYS attempted to overthrow him and so on. I don't think that doing the same thing each episode make a good villain. On a final verdict, G1 Megatron was boring.
I know this is a somewhat incoherent rant, and I apologise. All this is something that need to come out. I know some will scream "ANIMATED FANBOI" but I disagree. Fan, yes! Fanboy, no! A fanboy can't see the flaws of the thing he like. I see the flaws in Animated.
I think Animated was a rather dark show at times. Pick ANY episode with Ratchet and his war flashbacks. It wasn't childish. It was a well written show HIDING behind a childish appearance. It had a plot that made sense even if it was about giant transforming alien robots. The character had personnality, something that was rare (but NOT unheard of) in G1. We can see a really goo deal character development.
All im saying was: Animated was TV Show, not JUST a 30-minute toy commercial.
I ask you all, and answer me honestly: G1 and Animated, which one was the most chidlish?
I salute you for telling the truth.
WRONG! Not Truth, vociferous proclaiming of ones OPINION, same as I have been doing with my pissed off rants against Hasbro.
As for comparing G1 and Animated, that's a fools errand. EVERYTHING with that much of a span of time inbetween is going to be so different in just about every aspect that comparison is near impossible. What I can say about animated is that the animation style and the subject level were not the same. I was very surprised at how deep some of the subject and dialogue of TFA was. The human villians were the points where it dropped sharply as was previously stated along with a few of the standard episodes, but the majority were well done. I was skeptical but agreed to start watching with my kids and I warmed up to it fast.
What I can't understand however, is how all of the folks who did enjoy the show are reacting. I liked it a lot but the shows over. They aren't stopping production of TF toys so therefore we are going to get another cartoon at some point. It's just that black and white. It's a freaking t.v. show and if folks are that upset about it then you need to stop and re-evaluate your value system. It's 30 minutes of sitting on your ass and not thinking and that's not worth lamenting, just like all of my issues with Hasbro, which have fallen on deaf ears anyway, aren't worth voicing anymore. In the comsic scheme of things, bigger stuff is more deserving of our energy.
