Stormwolf wrote:Yep, here's your shot at complaining about the things that you don't like about TF. There's been tons of garbage in the TF genre over the years, so here's your chance to talk about it and propose how to fix it.
Here's mine:
- The shouting of attacks or "transform" whenever a TF transforms. I know it's traditional in Japan, but it starts to get really annoying after 2 episodes.
- Stockfootage transformations to drag out the episode. Really, a transformation mid action sequence is 100 times cooler.
- Storylines that involve kids as the only solution to the problems TF's are facing. Blerg, no kids.
- The Japanese like to turn the Decepticons into retards. I prefer them as a well organised army with some very powerful elites, competent leaders and maybe the odd psychopath here and there.
- The Autobots always win. Having the Autobots on the ropes for most of the time will give a far more interesting story. They should only barely win if they win at all.
- Plots that rely on humans being retards. Megatron's masterplan wasn't all that masterful.
- Micromaster wrestling. The less said about it, the better.
- Decepticon leaders wasting too much time with being dramatic. A serious coldblooded leader is going to have much more of a badass factor (think Darth Vader).
- Humans always wearing exactly the same clothes each episode or comic appearance. Although labcoats could be a exception. Spike and Sparkplug weren't always working in the cartoons now were they?
- Starscream coming up a with a poorly planned plot to overthrow Megatron. Dang, there's been many plots in fiction where guys get efficiently overthrown or killed. Starscream should have built up to a moment to grab power or to start his own faction.
- Cybertron appears to be devoid of population in the Cartoons. Solution: Upsize it to the comic size and fill it with highly populated citystates. This gives rise to plots that involve military campaigns, mulitple (neutral) factions, etc.
- Overly complicated timetravel stories, I'm looking at you Furman. Some stories leave fans guessing on what's what for many (read more then 20) years. Although it was pretty fun when it first got introduced.
- The lack of classic comic only characters in Dreamwave's books. Come on, emirate Xaaron and Impactor are two of the coolest TF's ever.
- The Cartoons always turned animal/dino/monster TF's into retards. What a waste of potentially good characters. Comic Grimlock is one of the coolest TF's around, whereas his cartoon counterpart is mostly remembered as his clownish season 3 appearance.
- Wheelie, he should have been killed by Galvatron or something.
- Violence, there's a WAR going on. Treat the series as such.
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- Crowbarring in new gimmicks/subgroups/characters. It was only cool when the Aerialbots and Stunticons showed up. Furman's current approach to this in the IDW comics is the best we could have ever hoped for.
Just my 2 cents.
ZeroZero wrote:Watching Predaking get beat down by Sky-Lynx. Now that was crap.
Tekka wrote:What she doesn't realize is that Springer actually loves Rodimus.
It's also a kids TV show.Saber Prime wrote:1. It's a war treat it that way.
Mm, like G1? Yeah, I like that idea.Saber Prime wrote:2. The war is between Cybertronians, from Cybertron! Why does every series start off on Earth and then show Cybertron later on twards the end of the series. It should be exactly the oppiste, if they're going to come to Earth at all it shouldn't be till at least the second season.
Yes. Yes. And more Yes.Saber Prime wrote:3. Humans really gotta stop saying "I wanna help you" when they know they can't and aren't going to do anything but get in the way. Really now what's an 80 lbs flesh bag going to do to help a 216 ton robot? Absolutly nothing, and that's exactly what they do, nothing.
Well, aside from those being the pilot episodes in which it wasn't established that only Decepticons could fly.. Could be said that Prime was just too energon depleted?Saber Prime wrote:4. Plot lines, really really horrible plot lines. Can someone please pay attention to the diolog and action and make them actully match.
Optimus Prime: Side Swipe I need your jet pack.
Side Swipe: No you don't we all just saw you fly here.
Optimus Prime: But Autobots can't fly.
Side Swipe: Oh right... HE'S A DECEPTICON ATTACK!
I quite like the extra characters. But yeah, I like em more when I see em on screen in the background. It expands the animated universe in that, when we see a character in the background who we know of by their toy, we can appreciate there's probably loads of sides to the war that we ARENT seeing where other characters are involved, like the new IDW Beast Wars comics.Saber Prime wrote:5. Keep the cast small please. Only use as many main characters as you can give screen time too. It's a war but you don't and shouldn't have to focus on the entire army. Just focus on a small unit. Yes have backround characters but don't even bother naming them because the audience won't care about them anyway.
Along the same lines, stop making toys of characters that don't exsist. Hell for all I care you can use those misc. toys of non-show characters to fill up the backround as long as they're actully in there. Why would I wanna buy toys of characters who don't exsist? (Except that some times I like the mold) Just don't bother giveing them names or descriptions because all I'm going to see is "Nameless backround character number 6"
Just to make a point, how many people can actully name every single character who appeared in G1 without looking them up? You'll probly name all the main cast but forget about backround characters that had little to no screen time.
Haha, I saw that clip and I loved it, was an amazing reference to her (even though she came later. Its brilliant!)Saber Prime wrote:Think like Star Trek here. They show a single ship with several people on board but only 7 main cast members. Of course they do some times mention names. An episode of TNG mentioned an Ensign Janeway. (Janeway who'd later be Captain of Voyager)
See, it's not fair on kids today that they will be expected to look back at a cartoon series from 20 years ago to understand whats going on now. Things need to be rebooted to keep up with the new generation of kids. And lets face it, G1 had some massive plot holes, if I were in charge I'd love to start over and get things RIGHT.Saber Prime wrote:6. The whole multiverse thing. I really hate that RID, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron really have no conection what so ever to G1. G1 came first, all the shows should just follow in the same time line not start all over again in a new universe.
Or at the verry least if they are going to place a story in an alternate universe they could do a crossover episode where the characters get I don't know sucked through a warm hole or something that drops them in the G1 Universe. (And this would be cool because then G1 Namesakes could interact with their G1 counterparts.)
So? They're allready showing violence anyway at least make it realistic violance.Meverix wrote:It's also a kids TV show.
So many things wrong with what you just said here.Meverix wrote:See, it's not fair on kids today that they will be expected to look back at a cartoon series from 20 years ago to understand whats going on now. Things need to be rebooted to keep up with the new generation of kids. And lets face it, G1 had some massive plot holes, if I were in charge I'd love to start over and get things RIGHT.
Delicon wrote:I transform my toys like an angry child.
Tekka wrote:What she doesn't realize is that Springer actually loves Rodimus.
tf dutchie wrote:If there is one thing I don't like, than it's names.
Why not the Japanese names?
Roadbuster is so more better than Ironhide (Energon) for example.
What about Mudflap? Was Hasbro running out of good names
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