Shadowman wrote:That was, far and away, the stupidest thing you have ever said. It's gore the the Cybertronians?
I find the irony between these two sentences very amusing.
Yeah, I'm sure **** cartoon characters don't have much of a voice with the censors, that's the issue.
Yes, Transformers don't watch their own show. Doesn't make it any less disturbing.
Batman: The Animated Series is probably a lot darker than Transformers Prime given its more mature TV rating in comparison. BTAS is rated TV-PG while TFP is rated TV-Y7. Clearly, something's happening with Batman that's having more impact than Prime in that regard. We, not only the fandom, but the audience altogether, lack sensitivity to when heaps of robo-entrails are getting torn out of a "robot."
Upon further consideration, which
everyone except for you seems to have done long ago, Transformers Prime deals with robot violence very differently from any previous Transformers series. It actually pays attention to the fact that they're
aliens first, robots
second, where other shows have
presented this and treated it the other way around. Consider some examples:
Beast Wars: Waspinator is, cut in half, torn apart, and blown up constantly. It's "comical" (
). They just put him back together later on.
Prime: Breakdown was mauled to death by Airachnid. That's it for him. They put him back together alright - as a means for Silas to become the living dead.
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Animated: Sentinel Prime was definitely a head of the game in "The Return of the Headmaster." Lame pun, I know. When he was decapitated, that was no big deal. Optimus even took the time to laugh at it. They just reattached it at the end of the conflict.
Prime: Arcee twisted a Vehicon's head off with her ankles by doing a 180 on his shoulders. Not only could that
not be anything but painful as hell, but that Vehicon was long gone once he saw his own ass. They didn't reattach his head later because it'd be like trying to sow Vic Morrow's head back on to his body and calling him ready to finish the Twilight Zone movie.
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Just because other shows have decided to emphasize all the (annoying) robot tropes in Transformers by making them aliens second does not mean that you should apply the same logic to Prime, in which has made it very clear they didn't take robot violence that lightly. They still got away with it given all of those robot clichés that exist in TV and film. It's Transformers. While it's not cringe-worthy violence, it doesn't mean that conceptually, what went down in Prime was rather grotesque.