Rial Vestro wrote:In terms of Plot, G1 story telling lasted for all of an episode or 3 then that was it. The series as a whole wasn't really plot driven. Where as A/E/C Every episode was just a continuation of the last episode.
To put it simply you could watch G1 entirely out of order and it'd still make just as much sence. Non of the single episode plots required you to know what happened in the series 10 episodes earlier to understand their current situation. That was basically how 80's cartoons were, the plot of the week and then done with the occasional cliff hanger.
Modern day cartoons are little more complex than that. You actully do have to watch all of A/E/C in order to even try to understand what the hell is going on. I remember when Armada first started, I missed a few episodes somewhere in the series and by the time I got back to it Starscream had joined the Autobots and I was like "what the hell are you doing there?" then I lost my satilight shortly after and it was only after watching on YouTube I realized why he joined the Autobots and that he was really only with them for all of like 3 episodes and then it didn't make sence why he went back to the Decepticons.
G1 had it's fair share of what I call "unoffical two-parters" stories that ended with a cliffhanger just not a typical one episodes like: Child's Play/The Gambler, Starcream's Brigade/The Revenge of Bruticus, The Big Broadcast of 2006/The Quintesson Journal there is an even an unoffical 3 parter with Theif in the Night/Starscream's Ghost/Ghost in the Machine. While you could watch an episode like The Gambler without watching Child's Play you still wouldn't understand how Optimus Prime, Perceptor, Inferno, Bumblebee, and Smokescreen end up on a giant toy space ship in the middle of nowhere, without watching Child's Play first, but I do agree that you can watch the episodes of G1 out of order but in some cases you might be coming in the middle of a storyline without having a clue about what is going on.
One of the things I do agree with you about is the never-ending serial that is Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron I mean with every episode ending in a cliffhanger you miss an episode you won't be able to understand what is going on.