Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
ScottyP wrote:^ Yeah, it was a weird sequence. Felt purposefully downplayed
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Was it Hasbro's call to make Dinobot such a goodie-two-shoes?
william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Was it Hasbro's call to make Dinobot such a goodie-two-shoes?
I don't think so. People asked Josh what Hasbro's involvement was and his response seems to show that Hasbro is more involved with who they want in the comic and the the kind of general story arc (so repeating the initial show premise, for instance).
"When a series is pitched theyre usually brought a small handful of different approaches (basic premise/ rough outlines of story arcs/cast etc). They greenlight one, maybe have some notes on things they'd like to see or things in the pitch that they'd like adjusted/characters to use or not use. That type of thing. It's a collaborative deal/general approach kinda thing."
I would say Dinobot's one note personality is just a short hand the writer used to get Dinobot where Hasbro wanted him to end up asap. And I think the book, and more importantly this character, suffers for that.
JazZeke wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I would have loved for them to go beyond Beast Machines. To progress that narrative. Not rehash Season one with superfluous kitbashed characters.
Personally, I have always wanted a sequel to Beast Wars that ignored Beast Machines completely. Something like the Maximals coming home, getting hailed as heroes but at the same time grappling with secrecy as the shady Maximal Elders have classified the events of Beast Wars, and our war-weary heroes trying to fit back in with society and also expose the Tripredacus Council's planned uprising. Less war and more political intrigue.
william-james88 wrote:Honestly, it's kind of depressing when even the comic's creators don't think their output is great and hope we stay around waiting for better things to come later.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:Honestly, it's kind of depressing when even the comic's creators don't think their output is great and hope we stay around waiting for better things to come later.
Agreed. If that quote had been out before this started, I wouldn't have bought an issue. "It gets better, honest" isn't a reassuring pitch, from what is already a far from inspiring book.
To reiterate my earlier point and why this characterisation of Dinobot fails so hard:
1)Dinobot didn't just join a Predacon gang, he is a Predacon.
2)He didn't become a Maximal, he allied himself with them.
Literally every word spoken by him in this issue I could read with McNeil's Silverbolt voice. That's the wrong McNeil voice I should be hearing in my head.
Not as strong. I liked it, but objectively, "average" is an appropriate assessment. It did a lot for Nyx, the parts with her lost in the wilderness did more for her character than the earlier parts with her captured by the Predacons.william-james88 wrote:ScottyP wrote:^ Yeah, it was a weird sequence. Felt purposefully downplayed
How did you find this issue in comparison to the previous ones?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Honestly, I didn't get the slightest hint of sincerity from those letters. Having seen years of letters pages in DC and Marvel books, it doesn't have that kind of honesty to it. Possibly an extreme level of cherry picking?
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:To reiterate my earlier point and why this characterisation of Dinobot fails so hard:
1)Dinobot didn't just join a Predacon gang, he is a Predacon.
2)He didn't become a Maximal, he allied himself with them.
Literally every word spoken by him in this issue I could read with McNeil's Silverbolt voice. That's the wrong McNeil voice I should be hearing in my head.
Source?Verno wrote:The writer only watched Beast Wars for the first time last year.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Source?Verno wrote:The writer only watched Beast Wars for the first time last year.
Sabrblade wrote:Source?Verno wrote:The writer only watched Beast Wars for the first time last year.
william-james88 wrote:Well we now know that those letters are based on their response to the first issue which was better than the latest one. If they are now at issue 4 and still choose to show letters from the response to issue 1 then yeah, cherry picking. But still legit responses.
Verno wrote:The writer only watched Beast Wars for the first time last year. Perhaps he's getting the characters mixed up.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:Well we now know that those letters are based on their response to the first issue which was better than the latest one. If they are now at issue 4 and still choose to show letters from the response to issue 1 then yeah, cherry picking. But still legit responses.
The part that made me sceptical was people gushing over how much they love Skold and Nyx. One or two issues in. When they had said little, were barely seen and had done nothing of note. Sounding very, very fake.Verno wrote:The writer only watched Beast Wars for the first time last year. Perhaps he's getting the characters mixed up.
All the more reason this was the wrong creative team to be given this book. In spite of my overall opinion of The Gathering/Ascending, I likely would have opted for Simon Furman and Don Figueroa.
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