Sabrblade wrote:Arcee had her moments, such as whenever she'd be sarcastic or a smart aleck ("You're a human, Jack. an you build me a small intestine?") or when her emotional intensity proved to be justified like whenever Airachnid went after her friends or when she thought Megatron had killed Smokescreen. But whenever she'd let her negative emotions overcome the rest of her character, she did come off as being irritable and uncharacteristically rude.
I think her pretty blunt nature came from her time from being tortured by Airachnid back on Cybertron which does make sense for her to be at least a little uptight. I mean yeah she didn't always say the best words to help the situation like telling Bee about the "Pity party" in the Operation Bumblbee arc but I don't think it's the case of her being rude because she's annoyed as it may be just her not knowing that those words cause more hurt then good as a personalty flaw because as we saw on the show she does care deeply for her teammates a good deal even if some guys like Smokescreen get on her nerves a bit. I liked that while she's a good hearted bot who does have her soft side she still has issues and flaws that she sometimes get the better of her. I'd honestly find her more boring and stiff if she was just like how she was in G1 and Animated or like Cheetara in the 2011 Thundercats series where they're pretty much almost perfect mother figures who don't have much going on for them other then their main personalty trait.
I am curious to see how Strongarm will do as the show's newest main fembot since a lot of people liked Arcee in Prime and I'm glad that she has a different body build then Arcee and that she's more on the likes of Ultra Magnus. Makes me wonder if Strongarm's a fan of Arcee as well.
Sabrblade wrote:Bulkhead, however, I felt could have been a lot better a character had he been allowed to have fun more. His best moments were whenever he was interacting with Wheeljack or in the entire episode of "Toxicity". For the most part, though, he was just kinda there, like Bumblebee. Neither appealing nor unappealing, just an indifferent character.
I think Bulkhead's generally a jolly bot. I mean yeah he has his serious moments but it wasn't like on the levels of Magnus,Arcee and Ratchet levels of serious. I imagine him to be like if Animated Bulkhead had more of a rough life but still kept his friendly and gentle giant moments. It's a shame that he wasn't able to make amends with Breakdown and to see how those two came to dislike each other a great deal. I've heard some people say they don't like him as a Wrecker and yeah he's not like how he was in Animated but I view Bulkhead in here as having different elements to him to set him apart form Animated Bulkhead while still keeping his gentle giant and clumsy personalty.
From what we know Grimlock in RID is said to be clumsy as Bulkhead but I'm worried that Grimlock might be too much like Bulkhead however as we've seen from the clips so far Grimlock doesn't take kindly to bots leading him something that Bulkhead never did. Would be pretty interesting and funny in a way to see Grimlock and Bulkhead meet up and them having a clahs between how they do things. lol
Sabrblade wrote:But I am very much look forward to Bumblebee in this series, after having seen how capable he was in Predacons Rising, thanks in no small part to Will Friedle's wonderful performance. That guy emanates with an air of natural charisma and awesomeness. Virtually every character he plays has some degree of likability that one cannot help but be drawn towards. It happened with Eric Matthews, with Batman, with Blue Beetle, with Ron Stoppable, with Lion-O, and now it's happening with Bumblebee.
Yeah the voice actor chosen for Bee was indeed a great choice and it'll be fun to see him try to adapt to being a leader of his own right like how Optimus did in Animated. I'm curious to see if the main Decepticon villain if there is one will be similar to Animated Megatron when it comes to see Bee as being a worthy foe to him every time they fight? Also would we see an arrogent A-hole Autobot clash with Bee like TFA Sentinel Prime?