kaijuguy19 wrote:Dead Metal wrote:So I decided to watch the two pilot parts.
As a stand alone show it's OK, looks fun, but as the follow up to TFPrime it sucks.
The animation is still incredibly ugly and choppy, it looks like one of those poopy Steam games people play on youtube. The frame-rate is atrocious and the cell shading effect looks more like it's supposed to hide crappy low grade models and a nonexistent budget rather than an actual style.
Looking at the animation at RID15 I think it's actually cool if you accept it for what it is. It's trying to go a style that's similar to that of Tron Uprising which I think in some respect it does rather well in capturing a cell shaded look. I know it's not to be appealing to everyone but I like it all the same.
I don't think it tried to get this as its style, the cell shaded look is so poor that I believe it's due to budget constraints. This way they can use crappy low detail models that don't even transform. On top of that the animation is really choppy, something that if this was an actual style wouldn't be necessary. I've seen this kind of cell shading look too many times in low quality games to not be cynical about it. I could accept it more, if it wasn't so choppy, the choppiness of the animation just makes it look even worse.
kaijuguy19 wrote:Dead Metal wrote:The world and comedy absolutely do not fit in with the feel and atmosphere of Prime. The writing is OK, not as good as Prime, but serviceable. Again, as a stand alone show it's OK, but the fact that this is supposed to be the follow up to Prime just drags it down.
I don't get this. This is a show about Bumblebee's role and arc as being a leader and Bee's normally known to have a friendly light hearted character so why shouldn't the show reflect that? The reason why Prime has a more dark tone was because Optimus is a much more serious minded character that's been through a lot during the war. Bee despite being in the war doesn't have the same personalty and characteristics as Optimus and really he shouldn't be. I can understand this reaction more had Prime suddenly took on a more light hearted approach during it's production but it didn't. I say it's good that RID15 isn't as dark because it wants to be it's own thing despite being connected to Prime.
It has nothing to do with it being focused on Bumblebee or Optimus, BB had plenty of episodes that focused on him, as well as being the defacto leader in Predacons Rising. And none of those instances had RID's tone, in fact they were some of the darker ones. Prime also didn't really focus on Optimus Prime, each character had episodes that focused on them, BB having the most because he was the link to the youngest character.
This BB had his voice box destroyed, his TCog ripped out and destroyed, confronted Megatron on multiple occasions, got brutally shot to death, came back to life and offed Megatron. This BB wasn't a juvenile guy like Animated BB was. In fact Prime even pointed out how deeply scared this BB is.
kaijuguy19 wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Grimlock should be renamed, that's not Grimlock, not only does he share no visuals cues (other than maybe the shoulders) with Aligned Grimlock, but he is a completely separate character. Yeah, sure he's a "Dinobot", but he doesn't fit his depiction in FOC or the Prime comics. In those he's an angry warrior who has problems thinking straight, and never backs down, someone who's life's been completely ruined and devastated and can'T go back. This guy here, is a more kid-friendly and toned down DBZ Abridged Goku. He's too cheerful and friendly, and not as violent or determined.
Seeing as how FOC Grimlock's story ended in FOC who's to say that somehow before RID15 Grimlock lost his memories and got some upgrades and somehow got recruited as a Decepticon before the events of RID15 where he became an Autobot again? The show didn't explain yet where Grimlock came from so the history I've mentioned is possible.
As it's been pointed out, he was in the comics that took place during the Prime cartoon, and in those he actually ruled over a city and had people all over Cybertron coming to him seeking for his help.
kaijuguy19 wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Sideswipe also does not fit with his previous incarnation.
What was Sideswipe's previous incarnation in the Aligned universe like exactly? Because I don't recall him doing much other then in FOC being a pilot. Also there's a possiblity of RID15 Sideswipe just sharing his name which is pretty common in IDW.
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He was one of the main characters of a level in WFC, he even pointed out how he was older than BB, whom he then gave the nickname Bee. Here he comes across as a reckless teen whose younger than BB, whom he only knows because he gets himself arrested.
As for it being a different character, unlikely.
One this is not IDW, so that being common there has zero effect on this, in fact looking at Grimlock, not even the comics that are supposed to be in continuity with this show are factored into this. Heck, this just proves the point I made ages ago, that the idw Prime comics are worthless since they (just like the prequel graphic novel) will just be ignored or retconned. And just like with the GN, it's the person that wrote the comic that's doing it.
On top of that, Hasbro has already proven to us that all the characters who have G1 names, are ancient. The Covenant of Primus brings them all up and how long they've existed, heck Perceptor's responsible for the way Cybertron looks! Nobody in this universe ages or matures, the book even describes Ratchet as being old and cranky way before the war started, in fact the way the book is written, it's likely he was born old and cranky.
The longer this "Continuity" goes on, the more it becomes apparent that Hasbro doesn't know what Continuity means, heck, this Aligned universe is even less coherent than the Star Wars Expanded Universe.