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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 10:28:10 GMT
Overlord living on his fan reputation then. Is the Mistress supposed to be super powerful? Does she exist in any other fiction?
This does show that this wasn't conceived as a trilogy. These too-powrrful combiners that were clearly leaving to find their own path have just become rank and file now.
Part 5 begins!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 10:41:00 GMT
There are some comedy mistakes in this. They clearly took the voice casting criticism to heart and upped the stakes. They must have thought getting Judd Nelson was a real coup, without realising his voice is too old now to play Hot Rod. Don't get the faceplate though.
"Ain't I a fan favourite." Ahahaha. Stop.
Just realised the wiper blade sticking out of Hot Rod is the first use of humour in all of this. It's all the same dour, portentous tone right the way through.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 10:44:04 GMT
Rain? Oh, easy atmosphere, right.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 10:56:51 GMT
I'm trying really hard to see this positively. Thinking about the constraints on it from a production viewpoint, thinking about its purpose, but there are some really daft things like the combiners combining.
If the titans are basically colonisation vessels, why are three hanging around on Cybertron? What is Fort Max doing sat up at the North pole? There's also more about the 13 Primes in this than there is about the Titan Masters.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:02:53 GMT
This has the dead world with a handful of left over robots feel that the G1 cartoon Cybertron episodes had. You have to wonder if there are only a dozen robots left that the whole save the world thing is a bit unnecessary.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:07:19 GMT
Episode 8!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:09:48 GMT
I am quite surprised that this whole series seems to be about stopping Trypticon.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 14, 2018 11:18:32 GMT
I love you, Pinwig.
I'm off to work in a bit... Will Pinwig still be alive in the morning...?
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:18:33 GMT
This whole series is epitomised by Trypticon. It takes too long to get anywhere.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:19:46 GMT
Episode 9. Nearly there.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:26:30 GMT
Mind control?! Where did that come from?!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:29:55 GMT
Oh lord. Max is using Metroplex's animations to attack Trypticon.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:31:08 GMT
LAST EPISODE.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 11:52:56 GMT
Well I don't know what to say. I've tried really hard to look for the positives in this, and I do think there are a good number, but ultimately that has to go down as a fail. Classic example of an unexpected sequel trying to bolt itself onto a self-contained story to continue it, knowing a third installment is going to follow. It's the awkward middle child. Trying to tidy up the left overs from CW while setting up the POTP series and losing its own identity in the process.
As has probably been pointed out hundreds of times, you can't have a series about Headmasters without the flipping Headmasters in it. Loads of spots in there promoting toy functions and features, yet the line's main selling point is entirely missing.
I also realise I can't even remember at what point Hot Rod disappeared or why he's now Rodimus Unicronus. Overlord just seemed to spend the whole series waiting for his role in the next one.
I think the creators are trying too hard to guess what fans would want to see - loads of little homages and references visually and in the dialogue to the original cartoon - but they don't have a clear enough vision of what they're trying to do. It's all half ideas and some slight of hand to disguise the fact they haven't actually pinned down the purpose of making it.
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Post by blueshift on Jan 14, 2018 12:06:29 GMT
Did you like the special guest villain at the end???
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 12:38:12 GMT
That was very like the Megatronus appearance at the end of RiD Season 1. Same kind of premise. But why was he so big, when the toy will be a Titanmaster? Surprise reveal next season that Megatronus is actually in... a Pretender shell?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2018 12:49:01 GMT
I still have no clue what happened in the last episode. Incoherant.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 12:53:33 GMT
It's certainly disappointing that the threat of Trypticon is present through episodes 2-9 as the unstoppable force that must be overcome, but as soon as Perceptor uses the Matrix to bring Starscream out of his body he just keels over. If that's what happened. And then because the Matrix and the Enigma have been brought together, Megatronus decides to step in and tell everyone off for messing with forces beyond their ken.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2018 13:21:54 GMT
But where did Megatronus come from??? Was he hiding inside Trypticon?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 13:46:08 GMT
No, I think it's like RiD. He arrives from another plane of existence. RiD spent a season setting that up - Prime was there after the end of Beast Hunters in his ghost form, and he returns to warn Bumblebee that Megatronus is on the way. Megatronus appears in RiD in a similar way through a vortexy type thing. Why this one has chosen this moment to return to get the Enigma and the Matrix is presumably part of the set up for Power of the Primes.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 13:49:41 GMT
Just realised Prime has a hole in his chest like the Pottop toy. Wonder if that's relevant.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 14, 2018 18:37:43 GMT
I doubt it.
Nobody uses their gimmicks in the two series so far, no reason to expect he will use his in the third.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 15, 2018 7:42:35 GMT
So...
Pinwig... lives...?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 15, 2018 8:47:20 GMT
Who knows. Could be a delayed reaction.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 15, 2018 8:56:18 GMT
Ratchet is fixed and ready for Emergency Action.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 15, 2018 10:02:27 GMT
Woo Woo Woo Woo!
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 15, 2018 17:35:26 GMT
And that's just the noise I make when I stick my head out of the window!
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Post by legios on Jan 15, 2018 19:21:59 GMT
"Not so wounded as we were led to believe.... So much the better." - Khan Noonien Singh(atrbd), Battle of the Mutara Nebula. Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 15, 2018 19:31:16 GMT
It was something I wanted to do. I have to say I don't *hate* the series, but it certainly has many obvious flaws that stop it being a good cartoon. Its most fundamental problem is that it hasn't properly identified a target audience, so it doesn't know how to pitch itself.
Which, I thought afterwards, is like Generations itself. A toyline with a demographic Hasbro believe is kids 10+, but pandering to older fans of the original series in its figure choices.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 15, 2018 20:15:27 GMT
Still alive...? ...my old friend....?
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