Meet the Cast of Machinima's Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series

Well...he’s not wrong. Bumblebee was released in red as well as yellow

Randomhero wrote:Well...he’s not wrong. Bumblebee was released in red as well as yellow

I found it hilarious looking through the comments on the Facebook page. At least three different self-righteous posts about how clearly he means "Cliffjumper from the G1 cartoon", and how he's not a real fan and should get his facts straight

Oh, Frank knows knows his bumblebees and cliffjumper apart. He's a long time fan... Great guy and fantastic voice actor. Really glad to see him in this role again. I think he's been nailing the starscream voice/character/acting.

You know, oddly enough, Rodimus with a mouhplate...looks cool? I would honestly not mind this as a feature on a future Rodimus toy. At least once, maybe?

While it does make him less distinct from Optimus, I could really see a future incarnation of the character where he has a retractable mouthplate (such as Movie, Animated and Aligned Optimus) as long as his mouthed look remain the default because Rodimus having an exposed face, at least to me, make sense as part of his design because it 'humanize' him (if such thing can be said about a giant transforming alien robot), whereas Optimus can get away with hiding his fear and weakness behind his robo-menpo, which generally fit with modern versions of Optimus as the stoic, fearless, always-serious but tragically-crying-from-the-tragedy-of-the-war-on-the-inside type. Modern Optimus seem to often deliberately have a wall between them, their troops and even the audience, carrying along with a 'sad dignity'. Rodimus' shtick, when he is a Prime, is that he is younger, uproven, even when he's shown himself worthy of the rank and power.

In fact until Transformers Prime there seemed to be a pattern that the more 'vulnerable' Optimus incarnations were generally without a constant mouthplate, with the possible exception of the live action Prime who started the completely exposed mouth look. Before that, an Optimus with a mouth was basically the shtick of Optimus Primal and briefly carried by the Unicron trilogy Optimus in Cybertron, but generally he was in his Super Mode most of the time anyway. It's telling that, to me, the Optimuses (what even is the plural for an Optimus?) who had no mouthplates or some form of exposed mouth who stood out the most to me were Primal and Animated, who were both younger and less powerful. Neither were legendary figures and prove war-heroes and both were simply ship captains who often had to struggle with a disrespectful crew.

Anyway just my rambling two cents on 'should Primes all have mouthplates', I suppose?

Randomhero wrote:

No, you don't understand! If it wasn't in Seasons 1-3 of the original cartoon that I watched when I was a kid, then it doesn't exist and anyone who makes reference to it is patently incorrect and isn't a true fan of Transformers![/sarcasm]

For serious, it is also interesting to note that a lot of people (not on here, but elsewhere) do seem to be under the impression that the CW/TR series are meant to be a continuation of the G1 cartoon. Like, both sides of it: "Oh awesome this is a continuation of G1, I can't wait to see where they take the story from my childhood", all way through to "The characters who were dead/reformatted/etc in G1 are back to normal now and it doesn't make any sense so this show sucks!". Is there something about Machinima's marketing recently that's making people think this, or is it just the nature of doing a cartoon with relatively faithful G1 designs?

Geewunners gonna geewun, man.

Oh, Lord, MatPat, you are... absolutely awesome, man. I love your enthusiasm for the role of Computron and I hope that/fully expect you to kill in this part. I hope this show doesn't kill your acting career.

Uuuuugh. Fine. I'll give this show a chance. At the very least I'll maybe get a few laughs outta Megs again.

Now if they took this Megatron and used his character for the Megatron in the upcoming Cyberverse show, that might quell some of those complaints too

Okay. This show just got way better.

MATPAAAATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!! *flips like a glitched cartoon character*

Qwan wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

No, you don't understand! If it wasn't in Seasons 1-3 of the original cartoon that I watched when I was a kid, then it doesn't exist and anyone who makes reference to it is patently incorrect and isn't a true fan of Transformers![/sarcasm]

For serious, it is also interesting to note that a lot of people (not on here, but elsewhere) do seem to be under the impression that the CW/TR series are meant to be a continuation of the G1 cartoon. Like, both sides of it: "Oh awesome this is a continuation of G1, I can't wait to see where they take the story from my childhood", all way through to "The characters who were dead/reformatted/etc in G1 are back to normal now and it doesn't make any sense so this show sucks!". Is there something about Machinima's marketing recently that's making people think this, or is it just the nature of doing a cartoon with relatively faithful G1 designs?

In addition to the designs (and casting choices for returning actors or soundalikes), Hasbro's initial marketing gushed about how this was further down the timeline than we had seen in animated form before and targeted at adult fans.

It sort of hits that mark vaguely but the idea that combiners are new is a tough pill. Plus as far as "mature" goes, it feels maybe Toonami level mature mostly due to violence. This isn't Alan Moore doing a Watchmen style deconstruction of Transformers or Garth Ennius level raunch. The Bay movies come closer in both respects.

I was kind of hoping for something closer to the moodiness of The Big O in a clearly post-G1 landscape than Dragonball Z in a "G1 post-humans" kind of thing. Eh. It is what it is. No spite for it. I liked the take on Megatron. Confused/ambivalent to everything else aside from Starscream's big plot which was a cool idea executed poorly. I wasn't going to watch the sequel but it's free and the casting caught my eye.

Overall, my take on Transformers (which formed the core of the G1 toon and hasn't been prominent since Animated) rests on 4 things:

Transformers are the "human" POV characters.
Humans are their tiny alien sidekicks with a lot of heart who aspire to be as cool/brave/evil as TFs.
Alien sidekicks like Ewoks and such are cool to have on hand although the Transformers, not humans, are the ones we empathize with.
There's nothing morally or plausibly questionable in-universe about typical kids being super-heroes who save the day with their wits.

RodimusRex wrote:Overall, my take on Transformers (which formed the core of the G1 toon and hasn't been prominent since Animated) rests on 4 things:

Transformers are the "human" POV characters.
Humans are their tiny alien sidekicks with a lot of heart who aspire to be as cool/brave/evil as TFs.
Alien sidekicks like Ewoks and such are cool to have on hand although the Transformers, not humans, are the ones we empathize with.
There's nothing morally or plausibly questionable in-universe about typical kids being super-heroes who save the day with their wits.

Animated was amazing. One thing I dislike about Transformers shows since then was, as you said, the humans being regular while the Transformers are alien, instead of the other way around. Though, it does work a little better in the movies with them being alien, we all know how bad the movies have been so far in other areas.

The only good thing I would expect is Cullen's voice being used here and the likelihood of a Geewun Redone parody made by Lord Freddery.

You know, G1 is not my cup of tea, and while I was heavily disappointed with watching the entire cartoon, part of me liked reading the Marvel Comics and some elements of Dreamwave (artwork not withstanding). IDW would be cool to read, but I am terrified at how huge the continuity is (plus I feel the artwork gets inconsistent from being patina-like to more soft focus and jovial. What I'm trying to say is that a lot of more expanded G1 stories make up a lot of a G1 style reboot that I imagined in my head, and one where it'd be more like what the Prime Wars cartoon is trying to be. 'Cept it'd be less about obligated nostalgia and more taking cues from current works like the militaristic feel of the Movieverse, a balanced cast like Prime, huge mythos a la the IDW comics, and a mish mash of War Within and War for Cybertron. I appreciate that Machinima wants to appeal to the young at heart, but it feels like a more compromised version of RID '15. Maybe if the episodes were longer and each season were to have a better focus on one certain MacGuffin or event instead of building stuff up and making us wait for the resolution like the MCU, then I'd be down for it.

IDK, we all have different expectations and feelings for this series, but Machinima, don't let us down.

Glad they got Judd Nelson some work so he doesn't have to go back to the homeless shelter

Judd- "After 30 years I get to go Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime again"

fans- "What about TF Animated back in 2009"

Judd- "What?"

o.supreme wrote:Glad they got Judd Nelson some work so he doesn't have to go back to the homeless shelter

Judd- "After 30 years I get to go Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime again"

fans- "What about TF Animated back in 2009"

Judd- "What?"

fans- "Or the script reading at BotCon just last year?"

Judd- "..."

SillyMcGilly wrote:

RodimusRex wrote:Overall, my take on Transformers (which formed the core of the G1 toon and hasn't been prominent since Animated) rests on 4 things:

Transformers are the "human" POV characters.
Humans are their tiny alien sidekicks with a lot of heart who aspire to be as cool/brave/evil as TFs.
Alien sidekicks like Ewoks and such are cool to have on hand although the Transformers, not humans, are the ones we empathize with.
There's nothing morally or plausibly questionable in-universe about typical kids being super-heroes who save the day with their wits.

Animated was amazing. One thing I dislike about Transformers shows since then was, as you said, the humans being regular while the Transformers are alien, instead of the other way around. Though, it does work a little better in the movies with them being alien, we all know how bad the movies have been so far in other areas.

OMG! it was all told from the bot perspective, when you sit back and think about it, Tho the first 3 episodes were a lot from Spike's perspective and bumblebee. The 1st movie did have such aspects woven in. much of G-1 is in the movies. Cybertron comes to Earth...another one

I suppose you could say, there are aspects of G1 in all Transformer series.

Well, I might be crazy, but part of me felt that Judd saying that he's back felt like it was used to lure fans who never saw post G1 TF series (not even the first movie) in watching this show as itf it was a grand return. That or he meant to have referred to G1 Hot Rod and not other roles in general.

Fellow robot-lovers, the day has nearly come. Tomorrow, on the go90 video streaming platform (in the US at least), Machinima's Titans Return animated series - the follow-up to last year's Combiner Wars - will make its debut for all to see. If you're just now hearing about this series, or have forgotten some of the details, here's a brief timeline of the major news leading from its announcement nearly a year ago, all the way up the the show's debut:

- Nov 29, 2016: Machinima announces two sequel series to Combiner Wars - Titans Return and Power of the Primes;

- Jul 18, 2017: New cast for the Titans Return series is announced, featuring Peter Cullen, Judd Nelson, Wil Wheaton, and more (including internet personalities like MatPat and returning cast members such as Jason Marnocha and Abby Trott);

- Sep 10, 2017: Machinima announces that the series will have 11 episodes, and will feature both Trypticon and Overlord (betcha forgot about that tidbit, didn't you?);

- Sep 11, 2017: First official poster for the series, and a few screenshots proving that the visual style will remain similar to Combiner Wars;

- Oct 18, 2017: Behind-the-scenes video listing many of the major roles, and showing our first preview of the show in motion (much the same as its predecessor);

- Nov 5, 7, and 12, 2017: Preview clip of the show, full-fledged trailer, and a meet-the-cast video leading up to the final release date...

...Which brings us fully up-to-date, with less than 24 hours to go until the premiere of this definitely-anticipated series! Check out the latest two bits of promotional material from Machinima's Facebook page below, and chime in with your thoughts in the Energon Pub. Come tomorrow, don't forget to catch the Titans Return series on go90 in the US, and of course stay tuned to Seibertron.com for our very own coverage of the series too!

The first two episodes of Transformers: Titans Return are available TOMORROW on go90.

Perceptor makes a startling discovery in the very first episode of Transformers: Titans Return. Watch tomorrow on go90.

Perceptor must use his tank form in this series,
I'LL be damned if he's gonna transform to Tank mode

Huh I actually did not know Overlord was going to be in this, that's actually kinda cool.


At the very least I already like this series more for the more variety in cast compared to the few last time (Optimus, Megatron, Windblade, Starscream, Rodimus, Mistress of flame, the Combiners and Metroplex's arm)

This time around we have most of them combined with Overlord, Perceptor, Fortress Maximus and Emissary, the full appearance of Metroplex, Trypticon, the Seekers Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm and someone else that was colored like a G1 Slipstream.

Honestly I'm surprised that neither Bumblebee or Soundwave are not in the show at all but besides that I'm presently surprised there are so many characters that don't get much appearances in Transformers cartoons such as Perceptor I mean when's the last time he's been a main character in a Transformers show?

The best thing about Combiner Wars is thanks to all the various time zones across the world, each episode was released over night for me.

Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

An apt place to watch it as it turns out.

I will be doing the same for Titans Return. Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

Episodes 1 AND 2 are both now on go90:

https://www.go90.com/videos/2NhyXKyeaJh

https://www.go90.com/videos/8Ebc1KREnea

It seems the time has come! With the arrival of November 14th, the first two episodes Machinima's Transformers Titans Return series have been released!
Following the previous Machinima-produced Go90 series, Combiner Wars, Titans Return picks up roughly where the Combined Wars series ended. It includes reoccurring characters like Optimus Prime (This time around voiced by Peter Cullen), Megatron, Windblade, and Hot Rod (This time voiced by Judd Nelson, returning to his classic role.)
To catch up on what details you've missed on this series, check out the recent piece by Seibertronian news crew member Qwan, who does a great job running through all the announcements and specifics we've gotten since the announcement of the series.
You can then find the first two episodes over on Go90's website, or through their app if you prefer mobile, and share your thoughts in the forum boards below.
Even then our coverage of the premier doesn't end, as you can expect our official review of the two episodes out in the coming hours.
Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for those reviews, and to partake in the discussion surrounding this new series!

well...*sigh* looks like I'll have to wait til someone posts them on YouTube! + it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with? coz Machinima has their own channel on there, but YES!!! I'm sure it'll happen, give enough time

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Those two episodes were worth it. I wish they would do a full length movie with a G1 script. Wishful thinking.

Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Wow.....while the voice talent is better.....and the animation is ok....that's about it. It's not as awful as the Combiner Wars cartoon, but there are still plot holes galore and cringe-worthy dialogue. It doesn't bode well for the rest of the series.

So... any option for the 7ish billion people who don't live in the US?

Omegatron. wrote:So... any option for the 7ish billion people who don't live in the US?

Not yet AFAIK. If it's done the same way as the CW series was (and all signs point to this being the case) then we'll just have to chill out until Machinima decides to put it out on their Youtube channel.

But hey, bright side, we get to enjoy a few more suffering-free hours than the US viewers do! (Okay I should really stop bashing this series until I've given it an honest-to-goodness try, shouldn't I.)

Stuartmaximus wrote:and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

If I may step in with my trying-super-hard-to-sound-knowledgeable tuppence: branding deals or whatever. As best I understand it, Machinima/Hasbro/whoever is getting a pretty penny directly from go90 in return for their service being the exclusive carrier of the show within the US (and I'm sure, if go90 could have been bothered in the last nearly YEAR AND A HALF to expand their service beyond the US, it'd be exclusive to them in those countries too).

That's also why when the CW episodes went up on Machinima's Youtube channel (originally at least), they were region-locked so viewers in the US couldn't watch them - hence they have to use go90, exclusive distributor, more money for the folks behind the series, it all comes back around to that extra money. It may not seem to make sense for us, the viewers, but it sure as shootin' makes sense for the people deciding how the series will be distributed.

Qwan wrote:we'll just have to chill out until Machinima decides to put it out on their Youtube channel.

or someone else? coz it doesn't HAVE to be Machinima that puts in on YouTube, no doubt others will post it there too!(& YES I know that if they do that, they run the risk of it getting taken down! but that's the kinda world that we live in today).

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Just in case you've forgotten, you're ignoring me remember.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

It’s called contracts dude. Go90 probably helped finance the series so they have exclusive distribution of it for now. If you wanna throw a fit and say YouTube remember they have their own exclusive service too, YouTube Red which you have to pay for so if YouTube was contracted like go90 than guess what? It’d be on youtubered and you’d be throwing a fit you have to pay to watch

Watching the episodes, I was pleasantly surprised. Sure, nothing amazing, but so far things aren't that bad.

do you think that using a proxy would bypass the region lock?

I'd like to see the episodes, but hey, I'm one of the rest-of-the-world people who doesn't live in the US.

Y'know what? It was okay. It's not going to win any awards but the longer runtime allows for just a bit more character interaction than CW did. The acting is stiff and someone needs to tell the voice mixer that, if a character is interrupted, the other character should be SPEAKING right away. Awkward pauses abound. Buuuuuuuuut. It didn't suck.
Also apparently they still haven't made any more character models for the combiner components except those 3 Constructicons, so they're just going to stand around being giant all day as if they're permanently fused.
I won't say I'm looking forward to it but I'm not dreading it either. It's going to be an okay use of 20ish minutes each week.

So far, the worst I can say about is that the Mistress of Flame still have some pretty terrible acting to the point that it almost feels like a parody of old bad English anime dubs. Lots of random pauses in her dialogue and bizarre emphasis on certain syllables in her words here and there.

Other than that, everyone else either sounds just okay at best (Windblade, Optimus) or bored at worst (Rodimus/Hot Rod, Metroplex, Perceptor). Megatron's just a cameo in the first episode and doesn't get any lines, so that's a shame so far. Windblade, at least, is no longer determined to kill everyone, so there's that.

The animation looks unchanged though the framerate, while still pretty poor, admittedly does not look quite as horrendous (for the most part) as it did in Combiner Wars.

As far as what little there is of the story, things so far just seem to be happening for the sake of happening. Little is really explained (which was par for the course for Combiner Wars) and the most bonkers thing of Starscream coming back in Trypticon's body was already spoiled by a trailer,
so there's less of a surprise to that here.

As of now, it doesn't seem to be quite as poor a first impression as Combiner Wars' beginning, but nothing too special yet either. Mostly just mild mediocrity at this point. We'll see how things play out in the weeks to come.

Sabrblade wrote:Episodes 1 AND 2 are both now on go90:

https://www.go90.com/videos/2NhyXKyeaJh

https://www.go90.com/videos/8Ebc1KREnea

i appreciate the links
thank you

Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Just in case you've forgotten, you're ignoring me remember.

aren't you?

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

ok so just before I went to sleep last night I went on go90 and figured I'd try, as I am on the west coast, and surprisingly they were there!. I'm just posting this morning because obviously, was too tired to post my thoughts. But I will say moving forward...I think I'll just wait until Tuesday Mornings, no need for these episodes to dominate my thoughts, and rob me of sleep on Monday Nights heh..

ok initial thoughts...well its definitely better than CW, but then so is a dumpster fire. Pretty cool they got Victor Caroli to return as the narrator, I wasn't expecting that, though the first 2 minuets recapping CW was as good waste of time.

I thought some of the dialogue was cringe worthy. In some parts it was ok, but then I think at some point whoever wrote the script realized, the script they wrote was the same amount they wrote for CW, and didn't understand they were going to have twice the animation length, so they had to pad it out. Some of the lapses between lines make Bill Shatner sound like Shakespeare. Mistress of Flame would fit right in with the sandy Frank dub of Gamera vs Guiron.

Some pluses- It was nice to see the individual Combiner components actually exist in this world as independent personalities. Also Perceptor, the *new* character for this series was probably the most decent fleshed out character thus far.

As for the story, I'm not sure what the motivation was for 'the gods" as Starscream refers to them, to transfer his spark to Trypticon. Also I'm getting this whole Mothra vs Godzilla vibe when looking at the impending battle between Metroplex & Trypticon (In the original 1964 film, Mathra was portrayed as older and weak, which is why the Twin fairies knew she would not survive her encounter with Godzilla)

The main characters are basically all split up, looks like It's up to Windblade to "Get the band back together"...whch I assume will take up a good portion of this shows story. Also...one wonders how the council got formed anyway...Starscream was corrupt, The Mistress of Flame is incompetent and doesn't know anything about anybody it seems, and Rodimus doesn't want to be a leader obviously...

There are two entries currently on Wikipedia that were not revealed in previews, and were not on TF wiki as of yesterday, for obvious reasons. I always take Wiki with a grain of salt because...well anyone can enter information into it. But there's:

Tay Zonday as the Chorus of the Primes (I can only guess this was who Rodimus was speaking to when he abdicated the Matrix)

&

Robin Atkin Downes as Overlord. This intrigues me a bit. But we have not seen his name in the credits (as far as I know), and nothing has been hinted at toward his appearing in this series. I mean it would be cool to see a few more characters show up, there are still eight episodes left. I'm just not sure with the limited budget it we will get any more surprises.

Since recently obtaining TLK Blu Ray Target exclusive with CW edited together as a movie, I was thinking to myself, when its all said and done TR will be between 100-110 minuets, pretty much a full movie. Watching Justice League Action has taught me, you can do quite a bit in 10 minuets to make a good and fun action packed story with only a few characters. Now I understand TR has probably 10% or less the budget of a cable network TV animated series, but if the pace does not even out a little, we could have the opposite problem we had with CW. Instead of not enough time, there could be in fact too much time, and this could feel like it drags on. I hope things pick up a bit, I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Tay Zonday is the Chorus of the Primes, yes.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tay_Zonday


As for the Overlord voice credit, that strikes me as another of Wikipedia's typical unfounded claims.

Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

Sabrblade wrote:Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

I'll wait until an official non-us channel appears. Watching it in bits defeats the point of having 10 minute episode

Anyone else having trouble understanding what Hot Rod said during his scene with the Matrix and Vector Sigma (?), or whatever he was talking to? I could not understand anything he was saying nor could I understand the "Quintesson"/"Vok" sounding voice to whom he was speaking. I picked up a few words, but most of what they were saying was inaudible.

Seibertron wrote:Anyone else having trouble understanding what Hot Rod said during his scene with the Matrix and Vector Sigma (?), or whatever he was talking to? I could not understand anything he was saying nor could I understand the "Quintesson"/"Vok" sounding voice to whom he was speaking. I picked up a few words, but most of what they were saying was inaudible.

Yeah, the audio quality in that scene was pretty bad, especially for the Chorus of the Primes.

leokearon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

I'll wait until an official non-us channel appears. Watching it in bits defeats the point of having 10 minute episode

Me too pal I'm not watching the bloody thing in icky little bits, a thing btw that's around about 10 mins long each(yes! the runtime may vary for each episode)

Sabrblade wrote:Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

I have nothing to go on other than my ears at this point since there is nothing on any site that I have found. I checked to make sure Victor Caroli was still alive (he doesn't have a page on wiki, but does on voicechasers). If its not him...it's the best impersonation I've ever heard. I hope something definitive comes out soon confirming it.

Do you guys want screen captures from these episodes in the meantime?