Transformers: The Last Knight Mini Dinobot Pre-Bowl Screencap Gallery

Baby. Frikkin. Dinobots.

I love them

I don't care what anyone else thinks. These things are adorable and I want them. Give them to me now.

Hmmm I can't see them going all G1 5 faces with this! so it'll prob be like something along the lines of the borg queen but with multiple personalities

She'll have five sexy faces.

... or she's just voice acting for a CGI model. Given that she's a voice actor and all.

Im calling it now shes quintesson in name only, shes organic not mechanoid (maybe some borg parts but not a robot) and there will be no face changing. This is the bayverse remember they dont care about what came before only what they feel like doing now. How many times have they just slapped a name on a character for the hell of it, going to be the same deal here. There may be some half assed homage to the original quimtessons but thats about it.

Nexus Knight wrote:Quintessons! Being this feels a bit more official, I can be happy about it! Season 3 of G1 was my favorite, with the Quintessons being a big reason for it.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Im calling it now shes quintesson in name only, shes organic not mechanoid (maybe some borg parts but not a robot) and there will be no face changing. This is the bayverse remember they dont care about what came before only what they feel like doing now. How many times have they just slapped a name on a character for the hell of it, going to be the same deal here. There may be some half assed homage to the original quimtessons but thats about it.

Whoa... salt much? This is one thing I don't understand. Why is "new" or "different" considered "bad"? I actually appreciate the Movieverse's different interpretation of classic characters. If they had to be limited to the characters' original designs and be stuck to only the original ideas, it would suck a lot of creativity and imagination out of the movies that make them fun, IMO. The movies may not be incredibly great, but at least they put enough effort to give us new interpretations of characters we love.

There is a difference between "a new spin on an old element" and "being completely new and just re-using the name of something popular to skate by". Captain America's World War II costume in the movies is an example of the former. It kept the recognizable elements of the classic design, but used more grounded, realistic materials and tailoring. The entire 1998 Godzilla movie is an example of the latter.

When a property gets translated into a live-action movie, fans want to see the same things they love, but with a new twist. Optimus Prime's design in the first three movies is a fairly decent example, even if the radical aesthetic departure took some getting used to. But most adaptations in this franchise tend to skew in the direction of being like Skids, a totally different, inferior character that just has the name of a classic character. It's the difference between Anne Hathaway's Catwoman and Halle "I just vomited in my mouth a little just thinking about her" Berry's Catwoman.

Bay and company have treated our franchise with just about as much respect as the Nazis treated the lost ark in Raiders. It's a means to an end to them, and nothing more.

So yeah, it's understandable that fans would be pretty salty and jaded at this point.

And I reiterate, it would be one thing if those new characters were as good as, if not better than, the originals. But going from

to

or even from

to

feels more like a downgrade than an update.

That's
my
point.

Sabrblade wrote:

Black Hat wrote:Yes, because G1 Skids was such a deep and developed character...

JazZeke wrote:That's
my
point.

If you find someone on the internet that gets the difference between sarcasm and realism, that'll be a minor miracle.

I seriously think it's unfair to harp on the designers that have to put TFs in a "realistic" (ha ha ha) setting, while keeping up with the fans. Do most people even know who the names of the designers? At least they have to put work in their um... work and keep it interesting. Or they purposely design the characters to make some people rage just so their work will be remembered.

EDIT: And for those of you not smart enough to tell the difference between sarcasm and not, that last sentence was sarcastic.