Sabrblade wrote:He just means that if everything after G1 was always done just like how G1 did it, then nothing would ever be new/different/unique/etc. since we would always get the same old stuff as always, including characters.
No new characters, no new ideas, no new Dinobots, just same old same old stagnation.
I got his point, but the arguement here is then simply the desire for something classic opposed to something new. Why does something new have to be a revamp? Can't it be its own new character that isn't a "Dinobot"? I really don't care, but my point is that we don't have to act like the need to see the original team in full motion like we imagined as kids, when these new movie creatures could just be its own new idea without referencing any "Dinobots" with "Grimlock" as their team leader, as some great crime against forward thinking and a stop to anything new. They are not mutually exclusive. I'm all for new characters, but when you say Dinobots, usually people have a liking for the original team. Why do we need new Dinbots anyway? Is there only one way to attain something new, and that is to change what we already know? Can't we have new flying two headed Transformers with different names and part of a different team? Dragonites or some bs, I dunno.
Bulkhead was a very new creation, same with Airachnid as she didn't share that much with Blackarachnia, and the predacons weren't just 5 robots who looked different, named differently, and didn't combine, they were an entirely new species/faction. Hardly comparable to swapping out a team member (if it even is) with one with a second head and different name.
To make it clear, I'm not expecting anything much like the Dinobots we know already to be in this movie anyway.