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Transformation Titan: 54: Safe Pair of Hands.

10/1/2020

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It's a new volume and a new continuity this week as Prime takes over the comic.

First, I give a brief overview of the opening of the CARTOON.

Then it's into the new comic, as Bulkhead turns out to be da bomb at training in The Safe and the Failsafe!


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Simon Hall
1/3/2020 04:53:05 pm

Yay Prime! I still think this is a solid show. It's not particularly ground breaking, rather just stewing together all the best bits of previous continuities (hence the Aligned continuity to make sense of the previous 20 odd-years of the franchise and create a singular ' this is how it is' take on Transformers). The characterisations and delivery by the actors are what make the show. Like its CGI forefather Beast Wars, the show recognises its limits and focuses on a small, well developed cast. Yes, the empty Earthen cities are a bit distracting, but its easy to appreciate that trying to create fully populated towns and cities would have blown the shows budget in 5 minutes.

The shows main failings (apart from the deeply irritating Miko who never seems to learn any lessons, even when she nearly gets Bulkhead killed) are its constant quests for various macguffins that never really lead anywhere. The search for various Cybertronian artefacts as pretty dull, and just culminates in them being locked away, destroyed or spent.

The third series with it's focus on Decepticon attempts to re-animate the long dead Predacons I rather enjoyed, which leads to a fitting closing TV Movie climax.

As a whole, it's a show playing on safe mode, with an eye on fandom. It's not as dynamic and fun as Animated, but it's a better show than the lighter sequel series Robots In Disguise. I'm surprised to learn fans are a bit sniffy about it now, which is a shame as it's probably the closest older fans are going to get to something which touches on things they feel are important to be told and see about Transformers. Maybe it just wasn't 'geewun' enough. But having seen how well that turned out with the Prime Wars cartoons, I'll stick with Prime.

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Snowkatt
17/3/2020 06:27:34 pm

quite frankly i dislike prime for wholly different reasons other then the limitations of CGI and season 3.

I dislike it because of the human characters, especially the annoying kids.
Which are involved in everything even though their presence there alone is a humongous liability.
And by all rights they should have been splattered over the walls by episode 2 already.

Instead they get plot armor and are stil there, episode after episode and get more and more and more grating.

and i am honestly tired of the beast wars legacy
of a small cast being the focus and the pivital point in a bigger conflict

i want the return of the massive G1 casts with massive massive armies duking it out and episodes and story arcs focusing on smaller groups but not having the entire series revolve around 15 characters at best.

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