War for Cybertron is the series. There's Siege and Earthrise that are currently out, with some remolds done just for the show.
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Transformers: War for Cybertron - Netflix Series Trailer
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War for Cybertron is the series. There's Siege and Earthrise that are currently out, with some remolds done just for the show.
There's no way they're doing the alternate timeline story around Rung right? Is that what you're referring to?
I thought it was okay. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. I had no issue with the voices, but it was weird having the fake Peter Cullen voice. Also, the planet seemed so empty. Did everyone get killed off? I mean it's a planetwide war right? There doesn't seem to be that many robots left.
I thought the spoiler was in the hidden text (no idea why they had to obscure the whole box for that) which is basically about the
death of Ultra Magnus
Rooster Teeth Studios (a new division of RT) is in charge of production for this, which explains a lot. I wonder what the division of labor is like, because Polygon Pictures can do better on the animation front.
Just started watching. Love the Gen 1 aspect.
Why is it no one can mimic Gen 1 Megatrons voice anymore? I'm not even sure Frank Welker can do it anymore.
Why is it no one can mimic Gen 1 Megatrons voice anymore? I'm not even sure Frank Welker can do it anymore.
I think it was a very, very cack handed attempt to
represent the Alpha Trion protocols. A3 in Bumblebee's vision looked a bit like Rung with a different head, and it's the same colour.
Stark contrast to Gen 1 Optimus.
Rewatching the first 3 episode so the original series, he's very much a John Wayne character. Even sounds like him.
And looking up design info is what they were going for and Cullen knew that and thus the Prime voice.
Rewatching the first 3 episode so the original series, he's very much a John Wayne character. Even sounds like him.
And looking up design info is what they were going for and Cullen knew that and thus the Prime voice.
These guys are not getting any younger, and there's been lots of other Prime and Meg voices. I'm fine with letting other actors at it.
Well Cullen and Welker were both apparently more than up for it, but weren't even approached by Netflix, who instead went with cheaper non-union actors.
I'd be more ok with it if they stopped trying to get the new actors to do impressions of Cullen and Welker. Let them be their own things.
Megatron wasn't that bad, but it sounded like they really wanted the guy playing Optimus to get as close to Cullen as he could.
Megatron wasn't that bad, but it sounded like they really wanted the guy playing Optimus to get as close to Cullen as he could.
I wonder if all that is just from the first few episodes. They need to get to Earth and take on earth alt-modes at some point.
Haven't watched Earthrise yet, but Siege was such a let down. The knock off voice cast I could get past if the writing and delivery was better.
Well out it this way, you'll miss the voice acting and frenetic pace of Siege.
They really need to drop Machinima because this animation is such horrible shit. Some designs look but overall it looks so bad and they took the "make it look like the toys" to such a literal degree everything looks so bland and ugly.
This will never not be hilarious and the fact that the animators think this makes sense makes it even more so.
Sometimes, I suppose. But you gotta admit that they very rarely transform in this series compared to every other Transformers show.
Not as much as this new series. In G1, Prime and crew generally "rolled out" to locations although admittedly the 'cons flew in robot form.
But this new show they do tend stay in humanoid form even when travelling from location to location on whether seems to be super wide roads and over passes.
I suspect it's a budget reason. Prob too expensive to animate vehicle models for all the characters. Just as it seems to expensive for new models where as recolours of Reflectors mold.
ugh, this series has been super disappointing.
It's really weird to me that it would be for budgetary reasons. You'd think they would only have to animate each transformation once and then they could reuse it. And animating a vehicle moving would be easier than animating walk or run cycles.
I actually enjoyed Siege more than I expected to, but I thought Earthrise doubled down on all the worst parts of Siege and was damn near a disaster.
I'm all for good old fashioned stock transformation sequences. I thought they worked well in Animated.
I find it bizarre that these new shows have budget issues for transformation when older CG transformers shows managed to pull it off just fine. I'm sure Prime had a higher budget, but Energon and Cybertron too??
That was my guess but I dunno why they refuse to actual have Transformers transform.
I haven't watched the new season but for the first season, they had major characters that didn't have a Cybertronian mode, mainly Bumblebee and Wheeljack, which is why you never see them transform. It's still ridiculous in that early episode when the Autobots run away on foot, and the Decepticon jets land, transform, and follow them on foot.
Also those seekers holding their null rays or whatever in their hands still bugs me.
Also those seekers holding their null rays or whatever in their hands still bugs me.
Kingdom is out today on Netflix - didn't realize it was so soon.
Look, it's basically more of the same. If you didn't like the other two parts in the series, you won't like this.
Like the other two parts, I feel there are one to two episodes that could be cut entirely.
That said, if you're a Beast Wars fan, this is fun! As a fan of both G1 and BW, it's a lot of fun to see both generations of Transformers interact with each other.
Note that the voice acting - and personality types - for the BW characters are different from the original. They do not emulate the original actors.
The CG is actually a little better than the first two, in my opinion.
Regarding the story, I thought it was decent, and it wove the lore of the original shows plus the trilogy pretty well.
Look, it's basically more of the same. If you didn't like the other two parts in the series, you won't like this.
Like the other two parts, I feel there are one to two episodes that could be cut entirely.
That said, if you're a Beast Wars fan, this is fun! As a fan of both G1 and BW, it's a lot of fun to see both generations of Transformers interact with each other.
Note that the voice acting - and personality types - for the BW characters are different from the original. They do not emulate the original actors.
The CG is actually a little better than the first two, in my opinion.
Regarding the story, I thought it was decent, and it wove the lore of the original shows plus the trilogy pretty well.
- Dinobot - They did him justice.
They deserve credit for that, but it didn't have the impact of the original Dinobot death as you only had 3 episodes with the character. - I like the idea that the events of the entire trilogy were orchestrated by Unicron.
- The last couple of episodes were pretty fun. Rhinox vs Megatron, Primal vs Megatrons, Maximals vs Galvatron - good stuff.
- I was not completely surprised by the Ark being a Transformer as I had seen the toy, but that uppercut to the Nemesis was pretty awesome regardless.
- Ending of Episode 5 - I was honestly expecting this to be the ending. Maybe it should have been.
- Episode 6 was unexpected. Optimus Prime vs Megatron + Galvatron + Nemesis Prime? BW Megatron vs Galvatron? Oh my.