by Lastjustice » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:35 am
- Motto: ""Laws only exist when there's someone there to enforce them.""
- Weapon: Laser-Guided Proton Missile Cannons
Beast wars is my favorite series of transformers. The characters were great, as I loved Silverbolt and Dinobot. Beast wars Megatron was by far most successful Megatron to date. He had the right amount of brains, brawn and menace. He was a bad guy I almost wanted to see win...almost hehe.
Beast machines had some cool ideas, but it didn't fully pan out as well as it could have. I enjoyed some of the directions it went in, but it just lacked the same energy of beast wars, and crapped on a couple characters in ways that were a bit jarring. The character models looked horrible compared to beast wars for the heroes, I prefer all the BW versions.
Animated comes in second, it has some solid character development. I mean we all know Prime one of the greatest heroes, but it's interesting to see the transformation of him go from rookie to a effective vet leader. It has so many awesome reference to other series. Getting past the art style, and skimming the first season it really picks up and proved itself to me. I don't think it will come back, but I'm glad it went out on a high note with end game.
I haven't really gotten into the Unicron Trilogy or RiD. They seem ok, I wanted go back and watch more of them so I could have a better opinion of them, but I havent yet. RiD from what I saw was too anime for it's own good, as Fortress Maxiumus is powered by child?....yeah..Not a fan of stuff powered by love or friendship. That was a bit of a turn off to it.
G1 I enjoy still to this day to some degree, but I can see how far the series has come from it. I don't hold the fact it was intially just a 30 min commerical in eyes of the suits against it. While I hated the 86 film, and the horrible use of the IP, the fan backlash showed the suits the fans do care about transformers, and they woke up with how they handled it. They realized had they pushed any harder on the matter they might alienated their fans.They realized it was something that had staying power, and treated it much better. I don't know if they d ever come to that conclusion if Prime hadn't been killed, but as horrible as that day was for many fans and parents,(oh primus I feel bad for them having all crying kids around.) I think it set a tone for thnigs to come.
I await to see what comes next after animated. While i'd preferred a better art style, animated did something really important ..it made sure transformers got back to people who it belongs to most. The next generation of kids. While us older fans might dug it, alot of it was for them, and they had their new mythos, a new optimus prime, a new megatron to despise with splashes of the old. I'm glad have something to share with my sisters kiddos.
While be nice see something with some slightly more mature tones in direction of beast wars, I don't want to see the kids get left out in the cold entirely. But I definitely wanna see a new series come in wake of animated if it's over. Transformers is more popular than it's ever been, they'd be foolish to leave it be heh.
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Lastjustice on Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
"The question that once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic...for I now find that I have no choice at all! I am a warrior...let the battle be joined." —Dinobot
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