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News Credits: 1 · by **Jeysie** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:00 pm

Psychout wrote:Im quite looking forward to this new cartoon to be honest, Transformers as a whole takes itself way too seriously considering its based on toys about space robots, this will be a refreshing change.

(I know this is an old comment, but I missed it the first time and wanted to reply to it.)

Actually, I kind of wish Transformers would take itself *more* seriously in some ways.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, both onscreen and literature. I can say that, for a "children's mythos", there actually are several themes/concepts in TF that either are very unique in the sense that they've never really been done, or they still have a lot of life left in them/have a fresh twist to them. Unfortunately, since this *is* intended to be marketed to children, a lot of those interesting angles don't really get explored all that much. Pity.

I still like the new cartoon a lot so far, but... I wouldn't at all mind a "serious" prime-time scifi show take on the TF universe. Although the new movies *do* seem to be trying to approach that angle, and haven't done a half-bad job so far, IMHO.

by **Pyrostrata** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:00 am

Jeysie wrote:I wouldn't at all mind a "serious" prime-time scifi show take on the TF universe. Although the new movies *do* seem to be trying to approach that angle, and haven't done a half-bad job so far, IMHO.

I wholeheartedly agree! There are quite a few "Rated NC-17 and up" aspects to TF that could be used to make an grown-folks version of TF and I would LOVE to see such a thing someday. They can actually make war what it is meant to be, full of gratuitous violence and general mayhem....Right up MY alley!

The movie attempted to touch on some of them, but fell short because it is still seen as a "kids show" and a "toy commercial". Pity.