craggy wrote: The inclusion of non-G1 characters into the story didn't seem to hurt it..
That's kinda my point. Anything that isn't G1 is wrong. However, if we just get G1 characters over and over and over, the series and product would very quickly become stale.
craggy wrote: HOWEVER, as said in my original post, I think it'd be fair for Hasbro to get some audio/visual entertainment out there for those of us who've grown up with the franchise, and have enjoyed the more complex (if only slightly so in some cases) depictions of their characters that have appeared in other media..
Good point there. I wouldn't mind seeing a G1 rehashing. I've always kind of felt that some of the original eps would be cool if redone with this style CGI, and lengthened to an hour to allow for more plot development.
craggy wrote: I didn't give Beast Wars a chance at first, cause they were all realistic looking animals and it wasn't really Prime and Megatron. The usual stuff. But once I started watching the show I really got to like it, even before the G1 fan-service stuff got added.
Another good point, but that also kind of makes MY point. It's different and different is evil. So many here are already decrying the death of the Transformers series without even giving it a chance! You can't just do that. If humans historically poo-pooed or shied away from anything different, we'd still be living in caves and picking bugs off of each other in social grooming circles. Humanity thrives on change, though often it is resisted. For all anyone knows, this new series could raise the bar for what is expected of Transformers to new heights altogether. Or it could suck. We don't know. But you really just can't come out and look at a picture of say "OMG, tHiS is teh suCksAge! I'll need psychotherapy to recover my damaged childhood dreams!" It's the whole "book and it's cover" argument.
craggy wrote:another thing First-Aid, I can't look at the box for Resolute, because it hasn't been released in my country, but there wasn't anything in that show that I don't think a cartoon about giant robots wouldn't get away with for children. A man with a samurai sword chopping up nameless grunts might not work for the censors, but I reckon they'd be a tad more forgiving to robot-on-robot violence. I don't know about the US ratings for the live-action films, but there was a lot of stuff in the first one that very definitely wasn't aimed at the kids. And even if it was PG13, I think so was The Dark Knight and I know there were a lot more little kids getting taken to see that than there really should have been, IMO.
There actually was a lot of conflict and outrage at the ratings for Transformers when it came out. It really pushed the lines for what is allowed in a PG 13 movie. In fact, I think that they had to edit a few things out ("Whoa mother-(dead air)!) and Spielberg had to pull some strings to get the rating it did. The Dark Knight was the violent, but there was virtually no blood in the movie, and very little swearing. If kids could sit still for the movie long enough (and it was a LONG movie) and understand what was going on, they could enjoy it. But the movie was aimed more at young adults and teens obviously. Resolute DID have a ton of stuff that the censors would not allow on a kids show: a control room covered in blood and a hand painted Cobra symbol out of said blood comes to mind, but that movie was obviously aimed at those adults who were familiar with the franchise. There was even less character development in that movie than in ROTF...and that's saying something. Let me amend that: there was NO character development in it. It was assumed that the viewers knew the main characters. Some thing like that for G1 would be cool, yes, especially if it were more like the novel trilogy as far as consequences to humans (they got splattered a lot, which is a heck of a lot more realistic than normal...get in between two giant warring robot factions, and you're gonna get stepped on). My point is just that people need to give it a chance...like you did for Beast Wars. They may be surprised.
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