Airs on The Hub November 26th, 2010

Here's Seibertron's spoiler-filled review of Episode 1: Darkness Rising Part 1!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/new...g-part-1/20245/

Why the bug bear over Animated? I agree this show is looking to do something's better, but it's not like it makes Animated look terrible. I'd also warn people to be wary of this 'dark love child of Beast Wars' comment I'm quickly seeing repeated. I can understand the comparison but so far for me, Prime is really standing out on its own. No need to compare it to a series which is often overrated anyway.

Anyone care to post the review here in spoiler tags for those of us who are blocked from the page? Pleeeease?

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Arcee/Cliffjumper OTP!

Not This OTP, I hope...

Seriously though, what does OTP stand for?

One True Pairing

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otp

A part of me was thinking Bee/Arcee, but nah. To the Fanfic Mobiel!

Now I can't get the mental image of Dwayne Johnson with Susan Blu out of my head. Though I know, she is not voicing Arcee here. Who is her voice, btw? I still laugh out when she says "Not so fast, Cons!" in her official trailer-teaser, because she keeps pronouncing "Cons" like "Khans". KHAAAAN!!!

So what time does it air today?

Sumalee Montano voices Arcee.

And yes, mental images are fun to put in the brain.

God Only Knows: It should air in the afternoon in your Eastern Standard Time. Sorry, I live in Australia and the only way I can look forward to TFP is by watching it on youtube or get my dad to download it for me via bit torrent. *crosses fingers*

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she uses 'Scrap' as a censor friendly swear, with an amusing number of situation specific variants.

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Eh, that's nothing new to Transformers writing. They've got a long way to go to beat out great epithets like 'numb nodes'.

about an hour until it airs.

currently watching the hub world transformers special.... ugh... its a little painful to sit through.

I know it's not really new but the way they do it is much better then the Beast Wars and (especially) Animated style of 'We're going to overcompensate with robot versions of human sayings'. The VA really sells it.

it's starting

D:

They wouldn't waste the money on a cgi model for just that, would they?

I'm going to assume not.

bumblebee still cant talk? meh.

shows alright so far though :}

I'm glad I don't live in a town with population 3.

Hoping a viewing option for those of us without Hub access will be available before long.

so thats one episode down

oh snap.

spoilers -


war for cybertron reference, and the big U ?

So we're already not really fitting in tight with Exodus or WFC, as they act like Dark Energon is new to them.

Can't say I'm surprised.

ok, I really like Meg's voice.
pure evil.

well that answers that.

Ok. Not happy.

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So they get my boy The Rock to do a voice on the show, only to kill him five minutes into the first ep, tease a revival, turn him into a Unicron-powered Zombie, then cut him in half and toss him down a hole?

Color me pissed.

geez, i already want this as a WFC style video game. XD

I pretty much expected that since he probably costs way more than normal voice actors. Having him aboard, even for a little bit, brings validity to the series for the general mass public.

Oh, I understand the intention.

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But keep the possibility of a guest spot out there.

Know what I mean?

so far i really like the writing

Yeah, the writing, animation, fight choreography, music, production design, characterization, tone, and pretty much close to everything was just absolutely awesome.

The overall story is a little bit inaccessible and tosses us a tad too much right in the middle of things without any real introduction. For non-fans, this isn't going to be an easy sell, I think. Also, Optimus is WAY too overbearing in his delivery. Cullen's style from the movie has clearly carried over here, but he really needs to start approaching it in a more relaxed and natural way. Not every single line needs to be spoken like it's his last.

But I really like what we're seeing here, I think it's possible that this series could turn into something really special if some of the later episodes come with a tighter story and plot. But there's a lot about this show that is really genuinely cool, and I'm excited to see what happens over time.

I kind of got the idea something like this was going to happen due to the lack of CJ content in the stuff before the show.

yeah, he wasnt in any of the preview stuff aside from a breif clip of him here or there.

maybe he'll show up in flashbacks? who knows...

im kind of annoyed that bumblebee is still tied by his movie representation. i dont like the mute bug-eyed skull face version of him, and it seems like thats what we're getting here...

arcee is a favorite so far. her lines are very well written and delivered

still not sure i like the decepticon models, but megatron is a convincing threat. starscream has a lot of character about him, and seems to be actually competent for once

i like that theres some logic behind the kids being involved this time around. and they seem fairly tolerable.

kinda sad that its going to be a while before we can see eps 3-5

It kinda bugs me that Starscream was the same height as Cliffjumper, but maybe he'll go all Dark Energon too and grow to an acceptable jet to car scale.

Yay! Sony still uses the three screens of credits before the first break.

D'aww. Cliffjumper's design was by far my favorite. Grim stuff!
That's my only complaint. Well, that, and the fact that Bumblebee can't speak. Again. The rest was pretty solid. The voice acting is damned good, Prime and Starscream were excellent, and Welker's deeper Megatron voice surprised me. I really like it.

Yeah, I thought it was fantastic. This is already my favorite series. We've come a long way since 2001.

Here's a bit of advice: if you're not good at lip-synch animation, then stop doing so many close-up shots.

Modeling may be improved, but Mainframe circa 2000 could still kick this show's ass with character animation.

Who does the animation for this show? Is it anything anyone here would have heard of?

At least with episode 1 color me unimpressed. This just doesn't appear to be a finished product.

It's done by a Japanese CGI studio called Polygon Pictures. Wouldn't have been my first choice, but whatever.

I look forward to being able to view this show at some point, through some means. Considering I don't get Discovery Kids/The Hub...

I thought it was great, top notch stuff! Love the characterization.

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Poor Cliffjumper, I hope some how he comes back.

Wait, that character's dead? I thought he was a main character. Also I had no idea this was airing today :/

EDIT: Oh wait, it'll encore in an hour.

Aaaaaaalternative means of viewing? Anyone? The internet.... hello?

http://www.youtube.com/user/FTransformers

EPisode 1 is up on Youtube, as is the first part of Episode 2 - the second part should be up shortly.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FTransformers

Too slow