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The Scooby Doo eating sound effects really don’t help.
"Ruh Roh Roptimus!"
I wondering if Grimlock is planning to consume all of those bots sat on his back?
free them
Frankly, it was the dropping people he'd eaten into acid vats at the end that got me more.
That, and I think just my general fear of being stepped on by something so utterly humongous (in movies, anyway) as well, with him just standing on Cybertron at the end.
Or when he brings his giant hand down, come to think of it.
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Man, what kind of horror are you into that none of this stuff bothers you?!?
This was before he was drained evil and recharged good or Alpha Trion rebuilt him with Decepticon parts.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SAFE SPACE
Kidding aside... there's definitely a horror element to G1 Unicron but outside of that opening scene it's really not what I'd call "cosmic" or "Lovecraftian."
There are scary elements sure, but Unicron ultimately ends up as an obstacle who wants the MacGuffin.
Armada Unicron, by contrast, is presented in this eerie sort of way. He has a "herald" who comes off as possessed or otherwise mad and yet also duplicitous. He's controlling a salt plant with unnatural looking metal plant life and a
When he finally makes his move the mood over Cybertron is almost eerie and disconcerting at first. He drives Thrust mad while ultimately not even caring about him or realizing he's there. His insides, like '86, have a very non-Euclidean feel to them, but whereas '86's time spent inside was the climax of an action adventure, Armada spends a lot of time with the characters trapped in this eerie space just trying to figure things out. Rad has dark prophetic dreams.
And while we eventually do get our action adventure climax (Armada has the best Optimus/
'86 Unicron is great, but Armada Unicron leaned as far into the idea of Unicron being this Lovecraftian elder god as a kids show reasonably could, and I love it.
Hmmm...
I apparently did not watch enough of the armada cartoon...
I apparently did not watch enough of the armada cartoon...
Armada is a tale of two halves. The first half is very formulaic and riddled with a lot of errors on the VA side because of how rushed the dub was.
The show finds its footing once Unicron starts to become a bigger factor, though.
All in all there's a lot I adore about Armada and I feel like it gets unfairly maligned.