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Kurona wrote:Anyone got a link? I mean I'm sure it'll be Optimus and Starscream using the 7 chaose emeralds mini-cons to sell their new toys power up before going back to the status quo Cybertron, but I need to see how this turns out.
I concur. This declares RID seasons 1-2 to be "45 x 22 minutes or 42 x 22 minutes and 1 x 65 minutes", which is what the 26 season 1 episodes, the 13 season 2 episodes, and these six additional episodes would add together up to be, with the last three of these six being a serialized three-parter able to work as a TV movie.william-james88 wrote:How do we know there will be more episodes to season 2? This looked like the end of it with Season 3 in 2017.
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: all of the Scavengers being made from recycling preexisting character models as a cost-saving measure
Thanks for the reminder! They too were made from recycled models. Shadelock used a Vehicon body with Prime Megatron's shoulders, Roughedge used the body-type of the museum guards from the pilot episode, and the Insecticon was just a Prime Insection model wholesale.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote: all of the Scavengers being made from recycling preexisting character models as a cost-saving measure
Do you think the Bounty Hunters were also recycled? I know one was Hardshell but not sure about the others.
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.'
That those three were as enigmatic as they were also ties in with the "barest minimum effort" part I mentioned.Kurona wrote:Weirdly enough, Roughedge is the one thing I wish they'd expanded on. Would have been so interesting to see why an Autobot decided to go all bounty hunter and possibly could have jibed well with what they're leading up to on Cybertron.
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:That those three were as enigmatic as they were also ties in with the "barest minimum effort" part I mentioned.Kurona wrote:Weirdly enough, Roughedge is the one thing I wish they'd expanded on. Would have been so interesting to see why an Autobot decided to go all bounty hunter and possibly could have jibed well with what they're leading up to on Cybertron.
It honestly felt to me like when Starcream showed up, the Scavengers and all the time spent with them in the previous episodes were rendered entirely pointless. It was a lot like how Megatronus's arrival cast aside all the importance of Steeljaw and his Pack, but only worse here since the Scavengers never really made the same impression that Steeljaw made and now there's practically no guarantees of us ever seeing the Scavengers again. In the end, they were little more than fodder villains whose only real purpose was to give some reason for the Mini-Cons being on the run on Earth.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:That those three were as enigmatic as they were also ties in with the "barest minimum effort" part I mentioned.Kurona wrote:Weirdly enough, Roughedge is the one thing I wish they'd expanded on. Would have been so interesting to see why an Autobot decided to go all bounty hunter and possibly could have jibed well with what they're leading up to on Cybertron.
Yeah, a criticism I fully agree with. I know a lot of people loved the last few episodes, but when I watched them I just... kinda didn't feel anything.
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:It honestly felt to me like when Starcream showed up, the Scavengers and all the time spent with them in the previous episodes were rendered entirely pointless. It was a lot like how Megatronus's arrival cast aside all the importance of Steeljaw and his Pack, but only worse here since the Scavengers never really made the same impression that Steeljaw made and now there's practically no guarantees of us ever seeing the Scavengers again. In the end, they were little more than fodder villains whose only real purpose was to give some reason for the Mini-Cons being on the run on Earth.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:That those three were as enigmatic as they were also ties in with the "barest minimum effort" part I mentioned.Kurona wrote:Weirdly enough, Roughedge is the one thing I wish they'd expanded on. Would have been so interesting to see why an Autobot decided to go all bounty hunter and possibly could have jibed well with what they're leading up to on Cybertron.
Yeah, a criticism I fully agree with. I know a lot of people loved the last few episodes, but when I watched them I just... kinda didn't feel anything.
Like I said, they were a means to get the Mini-Con refugees hiding out on Earth. Not that it was well-handled means, but it did the job it was set out to do, even if it meant wasting the Scavengers' relevance.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It honestly felt to me like when Starcream showed up, the Scavengers and all the time spent with them in the previous episodes were rendered entirely pointless. It was a lot like how Megatronus's arrival cast aside all the importance of Steeljaw and his Pack, but only worse here since the Scavengers never really made the same impression that Steeljaw made and now there's practically no guarantees of us ever seeing the Scavengers again. In the end, they were little more than fodder villains whose only real purpose was to give some reason for the Mini-Cons being on the run on Earth.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:That those three were as enigmatic as they were also ties in with the "barest minimum effort" part I mentioned.Kurona wrote:Weirdly enough, Roughedge is the one thing I wish they'd expanded on. Would have been so interesting to see why an Autobot decided to go all bounty hunter and possibly could have jibed well with what they're leading up to on Cybertron.
Yeah, a criticism I fully agree with. I know a lot of people loved the last few episodes, but when I watched them I just... kinda didn't feel anything.
I'm still not entirely sure what the point of the Scavengers was. They could easily just have put new toys Paralon and Scatterspike on Starscream's team and have the whole thing lead up to him rather than putting half the episodes' focus on these random guys with no impact.
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.'
Two guesses on that. Either some of the members of Team Prime, or... the reformed Megatron.D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Wonder if those old friends of Prime happen to be a certain group of Autobots that survived Prime and have yet to make an appearance...
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:Two guesses on that. Either some of the members of Team Prime, or... the reformed Megatron.D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Wonder if those old friends of Prime happen to be a certain group of Autobots that survived Prime and have yet to make an appearance...
Though, wouldn't it be outrageous (in a good way) if the old friends that Bee knew turned out to be Rescue Force Sigma-17?D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Two guesses on that. Either some of the members of Team Prime, or... the reformed Megatron.D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Wonder if those old friends of Prime happen to be a certain group of Autobots that survived Prime and have yet to make an appearance...
Possible... his voice actor was confirmed to be doing some voices
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:Possible... his voice actor was confirmed to be doing some voices. Though, wouldn't it be outrageous (in a good way) if the old friends that Bee knew turned out to be Rescue Force Sigma-17?
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:One other thing that makes these six episodes stand out from the others is how blatantly obvious they were made to specifically advertise the new Power Surge and Clash of the TFs toys. At first glance, this doesn't seem that abnormal since TF fiction has always existed To Sell Toys, but in this case, it IS odd since this show (like with the movies, Animated, and Prime) has had its character cartoon model designs made first while the toys based on those designs get made second, meaning the show ends up promoting toys of characters who were first made as cartoon models for the show before they were turned into toys. But with these six episodes, they're instead advertising toys of characters that were already made into toy form before they were put into the show, which instead matches more closely how things were done in most of the pre-2007 series, where the toy designs came first and would get turned into cartoon models afterward.
That's... what I just said. The toys that these six episodes were promoting were already on the market before these episodes came out, whereas every character from the first two seasons who got their own toys ended up getting made into toy form after (sometimes even LONG after) they appeared in the cartoon.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:One other thing that makes these six episodes stand out from the others is how blatantly obvious they were made to specifically advertise the new Power Surge and Clash of the TFs toys. At first glance, this doesn't seem that abnormal since TF fiction has always existed To Sell Toys, but in this case, it IS odd since this show (like with the movies, Animated, and Prime) has had its character cartoon model designs made first while the toys based on those designs get made second, meaning the show ends up promoting toys of characters who were first made as cartoon models for the show before they were turned into toys. But with these six episodes, they're instead advertising toys of characters that were already made into toy form before they were put into the show, which instead matches more closely how things were done in most of the pre-2007 series, where the toy designs came first and would get turned into cartoon models afterward.
Well, could it be that the toys were made before? We know that beast hunters brought back the idea of toys being made first, maybe that carried into RID. The character designs for the minicons were spot on with the toys in this season so I can only guess that the toys did indeed come first and this season was made to sell this powerizer subline.
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:Also, "powerizer"?
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