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Okay. So this is my spoiler-free review of Transformers: War For Cybertron, Ch. 1. It's very well-done and I think it's pretty clear that everyone worked tremendously hard on it. That said, the new series didn't take a single risk and, in that, it lost me.
WFC, Ch 1 is an exceptionally faithful and updated retelling of the first 10-15 minutes of the first episode of the G1 cartoon. That's not a spoiler, that's the trailer. It does so much more than that, obviously, but not as much as it could have.
I don't blame the showrunners (or anyone working on the show). It's become more and more clear the last few years that Hasbro wants to play things as safe as possible which means trying to freeze this IP in 1984. That's not giving new life to a franchise. That's death.
There were so many moments where the screen was yelling at you "HEY! MEMBER THESE GUYS FROM THE OLD CARTOON! WE HAVE THEM! JUST LIKE YOU REMEMBER. THEY'VE NEVER CHANGED AND THEY NEVER WILL."
It's fun, but joyless.
It's fun, but joyless.
Transformers is ABOUT change. It's about The New. The irony is that the company that owns Transformers wants to freeze it in one form, locked on shelf, never to change again. Transformers, as a franchise, has become the Action Masters: Transformers that can't change.
I look back to Cyberverse, Prime, and Animated and each of those shows strove to do something new. We'll never get a show with the polish of Prime again (it was an EXPENSIVE show), but you need a huge budget to try something new. Look at Cyberverse! That show exuded joy!
Anyway, I don't think we'll see anything very new in Chapters 2 and 3 (I could be wrong). I will certainly watch them, but I'm already more eager to see what comes next for the Transformers.
I want to see risks.
I want to see change.
I want to see risks.
I want to see change.
Do not respond to any of my thoughts here with explicit or implicit spoilers and/or specific plot details. I won't respond to you.
