Carnivius_Prime wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:I disagree. He may have had screen time, but in the movieverse, he wasn't a must-have character, especially not as an old codger. The only good part he had was when Prime used his dead body as a steroid shot. Bottom line, which is what I was trying to convey to begin with, the name befits a much better quality character. After knowing Jetfire in the G1 comics and even in Armada, compared to them RoTF Jetfire is indeed a POS. The Blackbird was a cool alt. mode though. But the transformation sucked and the robot mode looked like crap.
I disagree with that. RotF Jetfire was the only Jetfire who never seemed like a bland nobody. Really liked his design and he was a fun character.
That's the beauty of having personal opinions. That's yours and you're entitled to it. I don't see it that way.
What exactly was great about G1 comics Jetfire? He was more interesting (and sinister) as a newly created mindless drone before he was given a 'personality'.
I liked him for his potential, too bad Budiansky did nothing with him after he got his personality. He was a heavily armed fighter jet who was more than equal to Starscream, but that was never exploited.
And G1 Jetfire/Skyfire always had a bad deal of looking like a bad tubby character compared to the rather awesome Macross borrowed toy.
Yeah, in the cartoon, Skyfire was a waste of space, worse than in RoTF.
And Armada Jetfire was done well, though kind of simplistic in the cartoon. In the comics he had more of a personality and was a leader. And the toy is pure win.
RoTF Jetfire is just...off. He has the personality of Alpha Trion. It doesn't fit a badass fighter plane, it fits an ancient character. That's my problem. If the same role and lines were given to an "older" character it would have been fine.
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