Difficult to tell.leviebaby wrote:but do you think since the beast wars 2nd and neo came out in japan on dvd you think shout factory will release them next
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:Same with even fansubbed releases, as hardly anyone likes these series enough to bother with them, as they're often reviled as being as bad as Energon or RiD.
Oh, trust me, I LOVE RiD, but it's more of a guilty pleasure for me as it's far from a masterpiece and only gets really good nearer to the end.Duke of Luns wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Same with even fansubbed releases, as hardly anyone likes these series enough to bother with them, as they're often reviled as being as bad as Energon or RiD.
Energon I agree with, but RiD? I started watching the series again recently(saw most of it but not all), and while it's not Beast Wars, Animated, or Prime quality, it's still a very decent series. Quick rundown of points:
You forgot Rescue Bots.Duke of Luns wrote:So overall, again not quite Beast Wars, Animated, or Prime,
Well, since The Headmasters was better than G1, guess that puts G1 at the bottom of the barrel too.Duke of Luns wrote:but by and large above Armada, Engergon, and Takara's Headmasters.
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.'
Well, since The Headmasters was better than G1, guess that puts G1 at the bottom of the barrel too.
I mean in that it actually "told a story" while G1 was mostly random battles that didn't amount to anything in the long run. Nothing ever came of the events of G1. It didn't even get a real ending ("The Rebirth" closed on a cliffhanger). Whereas The Headmaster had a beginning, middle, and end with a plot that developed all the way through.Duke of Luns wrote:Well, since The Headmasters was better than G1, guess that puts G1 at the bottom of the barrel too.
After viewing Headmasters again in good quality in it's entirety recently, I can't honestly say if it's better or worse than original G1. It's...different, and it was nostalgia that kept me watching. Not that G1 was expectacular overall, but it did have some good episodes/ideas/voice acting/music, and since it started the whole shebang I kind of keep it in limbo somewhere in between.
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.'
Yes, but considering that that was the prize both sides had been fighting over for millions of years, and with an outsider coming in and removing it from the equation, that forced the Decepticons to utterly change their ultimate goal since they lost the very thing that they had desired for so many years. And with their leader lost in the crossfire, that gave Scorponok his opportunity to seize control with ease.Duke of Luns wrote:To an extent, yeah, but to another extent, not really. Cybertron blew up....they spent most of their time on Athenia anyway.
It showed that Scorponok (now MegaZarak) was a force not to be trifled with and upped the stakes for the Autobots having failed to save not one but TWO planets they were trying to protect.Duke of Luns wrote:Mars blew up...nothing came of that until Victory referenced it.
It rendered travel from planet to planet much more difficult, but yeah, Chromedome somehow getting through felt like a cheat to me.Duke of Luns wrote:The Space Bridge was rendered unusable...yet Chromedome still managed to go through it in an episode(granted it may somewhat factor into the relatively small scale of the Decepticon/Autobot war in Masterforce).
His death was a dramatic shock that brought motivation to both sides, with the Decepticons feeling more confident than ever in conquering Earth and the Autobots feeling more determined to protect the planet and its inhabitants than ever before.Duke of Luns wrote:Ultra Magnus died, fine except he hadn't been seen in at least a dozen episodes and his "rivalry" with Sixshot was them shooting at each other in the first episode.
Well, his absence did give Scorponok a chance to shine as the leader, giving us a taste of his permanent status to come.Duke of Luns wrote:Final example, Galvatron was thought to have died when Cybertron blew up. That could have mattered! Instead, he came back and the Decepticons toured the Universe for the middle part of the season, stealing energy...for a wacko plan that...never came to fruition.
Agreed.Duke of Luns wrote:So while I will agree it does have a flow as opposed to G1, it did not age very well, though the last third of Headmasters was marginally better than the first two-thirds.
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.'
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