Sabrblade wrote:It's like I said before:
Sabrblade wrote:This is how TF motion picture sequels tend to be. Beast Machines could be watched without Beast Wars, Energon could be watched without Armada, Cybertron could be watched without Energon, any of the movies after the first could be watch without the preceding ones, Fall of Cybertron could be experienced without War for Cybertron; it's the very nature of "soft reboots" and has been going on with each of them all this time.
Even the Japanese did it. The Headmasters could be watched without G1, Masterforce could be watched without The Headmasters, Victory could be watched without Masterforce, Beast Wars Neo could be watched without Beast Wars Second, Go! could be watched without Prime seasons 1-2, etc.
One could even say the same about certain seasons within single shows, like one could start with the G1 cartoon via the movie and continue into season 3 without having to go back to seasons 1 or 2.
Like I said in the PM, Beast Machines did it differently, they used the amnesia as an excuse to reveal the surviving characters to new viewers, the rest of the show still clearly continued Beast Wars. It was still the same characters, just now they had to deal with the fall out of getting back to Cybertron, and some of them were MIA. The show also brought up the previous show and character relationships from there, it even continued on from a few things from it. It also used the same assets.
It was still much more obviously a continuation than RID is.
Headmasters, recounted what happened before and even started out with some of the same cast before passing the torch. Masterforce is another exception because the director had no idea what Transformers was and even admits that if you removed terms such as Autobots and Decepticons it's its own thing and has pretty much nothing to do with TF.
The movies, again, recounted what happened before, and even retold the origin every time, it also starred the same characters, had the same style, look and feel to it as the proceeding movies. The only one that kinda broke the mold was AOE, and even that had more connection to the proceeding movies than RID has to Prime.
Cybertron was only a sequel to Energon because Hasbro originally planed it and tried super hard to kinda make it work after the studio had already gone a completely different direction. Hell, Cybertron is even more of a bad example to bring up, because Takara had to bring up this stupid retcon in a short story that was written way after the fact to say that all the continuity errors and discrepancies were due to the black hole.
Go isn't even part of Aligned.
Plus again, this was not what they sold this to us. They claimed that this time round continuity, story, world-building and mythology would be taken seriously, and would be just as important as selling toys. Prime was sold to us as the beginning of a large "Marvel style" continuity, they claimed that it would be different this time round.
So no, the "you can watch X without Y" excuse doesn't cut it. Seriously, had they done it similar to Beast Machines, I wouldn't have minded it and nobody would complain as it would be completely clear that it's still the same thing. Here though it feels different, looks different, and the only connection is BB. And the fact that Season 2 might have the Prime Autobots show up just makes it sound even more like this was developed as an unrelated show, with last minute rewrites to include BB. Kinda like back in Beast Wars, when Mainframe still wasn't sure about what they wanted to do history wise during season 1, and then just went full on G1 sequel during season 2 and filled in the blanks.
Heck, Animated makes a better sequel to G1 than this does to Prime, that at least had the History tapes easter egg some crazy people tried to justify that crazy theory.
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