Amph The Transformers. More than meets the eye!

See, the thing is, we were supposed to, since WFC/Exodus originally had nothing to do with Prime...until Hasbro decided to make it a prequel, despite stating it to be the start of a new G1 canon.

 

Well, that's it for the intro mini-series. I think that's it until next February? At least it set up things, and was pretty good on its own. The Optimus vs. Megatron fight was pretty good, especially with how Optimus was mainly planning to just distract Megatron long enough for them to blow up the space bridge, and of course the immortal epic line of "one shall stand, one shall fall", and unlike the first live-action movie you can actually hear the line easily.

I like Fowler well enough, after the last movie glad to see someone from the government who isn't the friendliest but seems pretty competent too. Still don't really care for the kids much, but oh well, they're part of most Transformers stories. I'm liking Starscream well enough so far. Ambitious, but not quite as outright treacherous as Animated, and even when he flew away at the end, his reason (no way are they going to survive that explosion!) made sense.

Nice to see Cybertron, even a dead Cybertron. While most continuities usually have a depleted Cybertron (after millions of years of war), usually don't see a completely dead planet, usually there's still some survivors up to something. Or if there's anyone still alive there, hope the zombies didn't get them.

Ratchet's probably my favorite character so far, I like the grouchy old 'bot, although the aren't too bad, but Optimus is still classic Optimus, which is great. I just still wish Bumblebee talked in this continuity. Wonder where they'll go from here now. Whether it'll just be an energon race, or if some other more specific goal will show up. And of course Megatron will be back, but its kind of funny hearing them all pronounce him dead. Starscream is one thing, but Optimus probably shouldn't dismiss his survival quite so quickly. Just hope it won't have to wait until the end of the first season, unlike the last series.

 

Optimus Prime dies and comes back. Megatron is said to have died and comes back. Such is the way of things in Transformers.

 

If it is I wonder how long it will take for him to end up humping someones leg.

 

On the Malazan fourms they are saying that in TF2 Megatron goes to a Decep. ship on the moon or a moon somewhere in our Solar System. I thought he had traveled back to Cybertron? Can someone shed light on this for me?

 

Got to admit I was pleasantly surprised at the 3D quality of the trailer. Last night at work we snuck it on our midnight show of Narnia even though we weren't supposed too >.>

 

How do you sneak trailers in and make them into 3D?

 

The distributors tell us what trailers they want us to play on their films. We added Transformers onto Narnia, the trailer was already formatted for 3D.

 

Oh Damn I bet the crowd liked that then....

 

According to the prequel comics, the Decepticons set up shop on Mars, which is presumably where the Nemesis crashed.

 

So, this is Shockwave... yeah... though if he's voiced by David Warner all will be forgiven

 

That. Looks. AWESOME!!!! The toy looks great, too.

 

Just prayer the rumor that they were getting David Warner pans out. We couldn't get Corey Burton, but getting the actual guy he based Shockwave's voice on could be even better.

And it's just the chest that looks bad really, I mean they might be able to do some last minute fixes to it, like they did with Megatron's face.

 

I can't see Shockwave now without thinking of a hardcore band called Shockwave that used clips from Transformers in almost every song they did. In fact, they did an intro track to their record in which they just changed "Shockwave" and had soundbites of Megatron and Starscream throughout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KPQ1kfPZM

 

Well, since I rather liked Megatron's design, I see nothing wrong here. And there was nothing wrong with Megatron's design, either.

 

And apparently the gold bearded transformer from the Neil Armstrong trailer isn't Alpha Trion, it's Sentinel Prime.

 

Yeah it does look like All Hail Megatron, or should that be All Hail Shockwave? Looks like the Autobots leave the humans for lying to them, or maybe they are going back to Cybertron for reinforcements. But it looks like Earth will be fighting the Decepticons alone for a good part of the movie. Which means once again we get no Autobot characterization.

I don't care about Sam, his parents, his girlfriend issues, the soldiers are bearable as background characters. I do care about Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet, Arcee, Bumblee, ect... you know the actual Transformers who these movies are named after.

 

The only hope for this movie is that it isn't written by the *#@% __________ (genetic defectives) who made the first two scripts.

Still, with Bay at the helm, this is still definately a 'wait for the DVD' as far as I'm concerned.

 

ROTF we got good classic Starscream and Megatron. Soundwave did pretty much exactly what he did in the cartoon. Shockwave hopefully will get some good moments.

But look at Jolt in ROTF, did anyone even notice he was there?