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Post by Benn on Aug 7, 2020 23:46:21 GMT
On the Megatron thing, I liked that he wasn’t interested in going after the allspark until Prime went seriously for it. It was a nice little bit of accidental threat escalation on both sides.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 8, 2020 7:13:47 GMT
I dunno guys, it sounds like you quite liked it.
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Post by Benn on Aug 8, 2020 7:59:19 GMT
I liked it for what it was, a couple of hours toy commercial. It has problems, the pace was a bit slow to begin with, the voice acting was questionable, and not just the direction, like I actually laughed when Shockwave spoke ("He SOUNDS LIKE THAT?!"). I suspect that Hasbro will claim they didn't have the budget for Union actors and as this likely had only just the budget to squeak it onto Netflix and not some two bit streaming site that's probably true. Hasbro will have seen this as little more than a marketing exercise and judged like that this was way better than it had any right to be.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2020 9:48:51 GMT
Netflix will take anything.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 8, 2020 10:53:40 GMT
Shockwave reminded me of the War for Cybertron game version - the one in the aligned continuity. He was a much smaller, more weasily mad scientist than Shockwave should be. I thought at the time perhaps because his toy was a Deluxe, but then I think all the bigger characters were at that point. They fixed that with him when that continuity got as far as Beast Hunters, but to start with he was an awful version of Shockwave.
I remembered something else that made me smile with this series:
11. Sneaky Blade Runner reference with the 'Tarn'hauser Gate bit.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2020 15:07:13 GMT
It was hardly sneaky. They smacked the viewer in the face with it!
Worst cartoon I have ever seen.
-Ralph
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Post by Slack on Aug 11, 2020 13:10:56 GMT
I really enjoyed it, not a patch on the G1 cartoon but I thought it was good. I do however have pretty low standards and like a lot of obviously rubbish TV.  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 19, 2020 10:50:08 GMT
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Post by Jim on Aug 19, 2020 11:28:46 GMT
Awful article, pretty much lost my good will at the old-stuff-good, new-stuff-bad title but somehow went downhill from there.
It's from that terrible school of low-grade online criticism which, among other things, sees an as-yet-unresolved plot thread as a "problem". And:
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 19, 2020 12:03:19 GMT
CBR is a shitshow of a site now, a hollow shell of what it once was.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2020 12:12:39 GMT
I rarely look at it is these days. No proper articles or journalism. Just puff pieces and clickbait.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2020 23:14:54 GMT
My word, there's some bobbins being spoken here by Hasbro's CEO. “Transformers: War For Cybertron is a fan-oriented television series in animation on Netflix and it’s really driving engagement. I think we’re at a place for the audience to understand where streamed content has now reached such a pivotal point of inflection; where there’s enough content consumption to drive merchandising success. We always believed that we would arrive at this point of inflection and that’s why we had worked on getting more capabilities in storytelling.” news.tfw2005.com/2020/09/11/hasbro-comments-on-their-future-entertainment-slate-2021-and-beyond-419237#more-419237Have you arrived at your point of inflection today? |
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Post by Toph on Sept 12, 2020 0:03:38 GMT
Indeed. I couldn't even decipher what the hell they're talking about.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2020 7:30:55 GMT
I think what he's saying it's that the cartoon is popular enough to drive toy sales and that he's excited because this hasn't happened with Transformers for a while. Oddly he's using 'inflection' to say there's a change in mood in toy buyers because of the show.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2020 8:23:33 GMT
My mother told me that if I inflected too much I'd go blind.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 12, 2020 9:56:42 GMT
I think what he's saying it's that the cartoon is popular enough to drive toy sales and that he's excited because this hasn't happened with Transformers for a while. Oddly he's using 'inflection' to say there's a change in mood in toy buyers because of the show. That's what happens when you choose a partner who only airs your show one time a week, at 5am, and barely if ever repeats episodes (choosing instead to just take it off air completely and rerun something else). |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2020 10:30:04 GMT
It would be nice to think that's true and not just marketing spin. Imagine a cartoon making people buy toys! We're living like it's 1985!
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Post by Toph on Sept 12, 2020 12:11:59 GMT
I think there may have been a small uptick in the sales of the netflix line and Siege/Earthrise, but I can't see it being very significant.
But Cartoon Network's terrible treatment of NuRiD and Cyberverse definitely had to be detrimental to the brand as a whole. Stateside both shows were only aired pre-dawn (as was the Unicron Trilogy): 6am eastern, 5 in my time zone, 4 and 3 mountain and pacific. Once a week.
Cyberverse never aired repeats and was taken off the schedule entirely when there were no new episodes (but it did get commercials!).
NuRiD got more consistent showings and got to air repeats, but it never got advertised.
In contrast, The Hub (formerly Discovery Kids and currently Discovery Family) aired Prime late Friday afternoons, and paired it with GI Joe Renegades while that show was a thing.
CN aired Animated saturday mornings at 8am eastern which was the best treatment TF ever got from CN.
When three quarters of an entire continent can't watch your cartoon, it can't be good for your toyline.
Bad as it is, WfC is actually accessible on netflix. So I do believe there is an uptick in sales.
I honestly don't understand why they went back to CN.
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Post by chrisl on Sept 18, 2020 8:50:35 GMT
Probably in a minority here but I actually enjoyed this series far more than TF Prime, the Titans Return or other recent shows.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2020 20:53:42 GMT
SFX are with you. Their 4/5 review this month makes the series sound amazing. I've no idea what they were actually watching.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 18, 2020 21:52:50 GMT
It does seem to be very marmite. While I thought it was the worst cartoon I have ever seen, plenty of folk love it and that is fine with me. I'm glad some people enjoyed it!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2020 22:33:38 GMT
I'll definitely give it a second go before part two comes round.
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Post by Benn on Sept 19, 2020 7:46:56 GMT
Maybe the last episode, I'm not sure I feel like watching the whole thing again on my own.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 19, 2020 13:03:44 GMT
Ah g'wan.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2020 13:59:29 GMT
No, Pinwig, no.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 19, 2020 14:04:03 GMT
g'wan, g'wan, g'wan.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2020 14:27:47 GMT
No, Pinwig, no.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 19, 2020 14:37:20 GMT
Ah, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 19, 2020 15:36:15 GMT
BAD PINWIG!!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2020 16:16:48 GMT
No, Pinwig, no.
-Ralph
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