Transformers and More @ The Seibertron Store
![Visit shop.seibertron.com to buy "CHROMIA Transformers Legacy United Deluxe Class Hasbro 2024 New"](https://www.seibertron.com/images/ebay/legacy/united/deluxe-class/chromia/t-DSC06602.jpg)
Calling all Transformers fans! February 18th is a BIG day!! It's the series premiere of Transformers Rescue Bots at noon ET with two back-to-back episodes! Plus, the three-part Transformers Prime season two premiere at 8:30 p.m. ET! AND the network premiere of Transformers: The Animated Movie at 9 p.m. ET. Roll Out!
El Duque wrote:In addition to the premieres of Transformers Prime season 2 and Transformers: Rescue Bots on February 18th the Hub will also be airing Transformers: The Animated Movie at 9:00 PM ET. February 18th is shaping up to be a great day for Transformers fans! See the quote below from the Hub's facebook page:Calling all Transformers fans! February 18th is a BIG day!! It's the series premiere of Transformers Rescue Bots at noon ET with two back-to-back episodes! Plus, the three-part Transformers Prime season two premiere at 8:30 p.m. ET! AND the network premiere of Transformers: The Animated Movie at 9 p.m. ET. Roll Out!
DarkEnergon wrote:Yes! I've never seen the movie, and have even tried buying a dvd on ebay that turned out to be, Korean and half-functional. sigh.
I've been catching bits and pieces of the third season, and am fairly confused.
DarkEnergon wrote:Yes! I've never seen the movie, and have even tried buying a dvd on ebay that turned out to be, Korean and half-functional. sigh.
DarkEnergon wrote:Yes! I've never seen the movie, and have even tried buying a dvd on ebay that turned out to be, Korean and half-functional. sigh.
I've been catching bits and pieces of the third season, and am fairly confused.
Delicon wrote:DarkEnergon wrote:Yes! I've never seen the movie, and have even tried buying a dvd on ebay that turned out to be, Korean and half-functional. sigh.
I've been catching bits and pieces of the third season, and am fairly confused.
I'm not sure how old you were in 1986 or if you were even around, but for those of us who were big Transformers fans and didn't get to see the movie right away, it was horrible. I knew Transformers left and right even then but had no freakin' clue as to what was supposed to be going on.
Mat001 wrote:While I was fortunate to see the film before season three, going by "Five Faces Of Darkness" if you hadn't seen the film, it wasn't that hard to figure out what was going on. The first nine episodes fill in the gaps pretty quickly.
Delicon wrote:Ummmm...no???
I don't think they ever fully mention in FFoD that Optimus is dead (he does speak within the Matrix), who Rodimus Prime is, how Megatron became Galvatron, where all of the other missing Autobots are, what the Matrix is and so many other things.
It's sorta like...here's this futuristic place with all these characters and things you don't know
Delicon wrote:You make fairly good points when viewing as an adult, but not for the average 5-9 year old. Even when they establish some of these things, they really make no mention as to how/why they happened which left the average elementary school kid more than a little befuddled.
You also have to take into account the way things were before that, with everything being set present time besides a few obvious flashback episodes and absolutely NO deaths. We saw Optimus Prime chopped up and made into an alligator and then brought back, so as a kid it was pretty hard to imagine how he could have actually died, even if I knew from the brief bits and pieces that they mentioned that he had.
I think the only time they ever address Galvatron's origin is with one sentence from Motormaster that was easily missed. That's almost criminal when you consider how important that event was.
As for knowing who was alive and who was dead, heck the people making the show didn't even seem to know, as evidenced by characters that briefly pop up that shouldn't have.
Beyond that, a few characters are mentioned as being dead in Dark Awakening, but one in Huffer wasn't even shown dead in the movie and most of the rest just simply "vanish" and are forgotten.
Like I said, they could have done a much better job of transitioning season 2 into season 3, especially for those kids who didn't see the movie. I think a lot of why the cartoon faded quickly after is because of the way they alienated their young base.
Mat001 wrote:The details of Prime's death didn't need to be spelled out. Your average kid would be smart enough to know that Optimus and Megatron fought to the death, with one dying and the other being rebuilt. The specifics didn't matter.
Mat001 wrote:No, it was also from Astrotrain who said that things were different under Megatron and Cyclonus corrects him with Galvatron's name and then Astrotrain said that they're the same guy. Plus, Optimus knows who Galvatron is.
Mat001 wrote:It was obvious that death was possible as evidenced in "Divide & Conquer", "The Key To Vector Sigma" and "War Dawn". If it wasn't, then we wouldn't hear Megatron and Starscream talk about it so much during the first two seasons.
Mat001 wrote:Animation errors which were the fault of Akom. Hell, I didn't even notice a lot of those errors the first time around and only now years later. Of course, the earlier episodes of season three can be cut some slack as the origins of the new Decepticons was changed midway through production. Hence the errors in the film regarding Thundercracker, Skywarp and the Insecticons, along with the latter in "Five Faces Of Darkness".
Mat001 wrote:Just because it wasn't shown in the movie doesn't mean it didn't happen off screen.
Mat001 wrote:Or that they grew up and didn't it was worth watching anymore. They could've done a better job at introducing the rest of the 85 cast, but they didn't. They just said, "here, deal with it".
Return to Transformers Cartoons and Comics Forum
Registered users: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, Majestic-12 [Bot], MSN [Bot], Yahoo [Bot]