Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Yeah that looks alright. Still uneasy about checking this series out, but I'll still try it.
I don't see what's off about it since it's the same team that did Prime.
That's kinda what makes me uneasy. Prime looked good, and each episode was alright, but it didn't really have a story, so much as it had several stories that were messily wrapped up in different parts of the last 13 episodes, or some that were forgotten altogether. The character design is something I can probably get used to.
Ah, now I see what's up.
I agree that the storytelling of Prime wasn't the best. Or at least, for its first season. Seasons 2 and 3 had better stories than the first, even if there still were some issues with them. I guess we can say that Animated spoiled us with its more serialized format of storytelling.
Though, the episodic format seems to be what's in these days since past interviews with the Prime crew had them explain that the reason they told the kinds of stories that could usually be wrapped up at the end of each episode was to prevent from alienating new viewers who's come into the show midway, and so viewers could easily jump right into the show at any point and watch any episode at any time without necessarily having to go back and catch up ones that they've missed.
I myself don't necessarily agree with their thinking since that kind of storytelling kind of defeats the purpose of having a progressive, ongoing narrative that spans multiple episodes, thereby making the act of following said narrative from start to finish less engaging since chapters wouldn't flow together as well as they would if they built upon each other. This is why the Omega Keys arc of Prime is probably my favorite portion of that show.
Conversely, I can let the episodic format of Rescue Bots slide since that show isn't on the same scale as the bigger kid cartoons and isn't intended to be as ambitious (even if that show does tend to sometimes go the extra mile in its storytelling, but that isn't meant to be its norm, so they're special cases).