date: Wednesday Mar. 26th, 2008 at 5:39pm subject: Television... Rules the Nation...?? security grid strength: Public status: mellow tags: ramble, random, transformers

For just about the first time ever, I wish I had cable TV.

There's this new Transformers Animated, and I really want to see it. The episodes that have aired so far are up on YouTube, but it's not quite the same as watching the episodes on the TV. And, I have to wait longer to see the episodes on YouTube, since it takes time to edit and post videos.

THE SERIES JUST GOT TO A GOOD PART TOO AND I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL AT LEAST SUNDAY TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. And that's only if someone posts it on YouTube right after the episode just aired. GRAWR. Stupid Cartoon Network for being only on cable...

Transformers Animated is a kid's show. So what?! I like it. G1 Transformers is still awesome, and always will be, but TA is coolness. I'm not particularly partial to the animation style (I just don't think it works for Transformers; too stylized and curvy/human-like for alien robots), but the characters are fairly fresh and interesting.
Unfortunately, it seems (to me at least) that the people making TA were overly worried about whether the Decepticons would still be the evil bad-asses that everyone remembered, and didn't put as much effort into the Autobots. I dunno, the Autobots are still cool, it's just... they seem too much like the happy-happy-yay-yay bumbling heroes that are in just about every other show these days. I like them, heck yes (especially Prowl, he's awesome), but... I just don't feel the whole Autobot vibe with them like I did with the G1 Autobots. I don't like how they seem too much like wannabe's; G1 Autobots were never like that, they were serious about their goal and serious when it came to protecting the innocent. And they were far from bumbling, either. The TA Autobot characters just aren't as... original and inspiring as the G1 Autobots were.

I'm an Autobot at heart, but... the TA Starscream and Megatron KICK ASS. They are FREAKING AWESOME. The TA Decepticons are FREAKNG AWESOME in general. Blitzwing is just hilarious. I love him, he's great. Starscream is awesome, as always. They captured his G1 character perfectly; I wouldn't change anything about him in TA. He's still the whiny, backstabbing, sexy Starscream everyone knew and loved from G1. And Megatron... I don't even know where to start. He's just kick ass, man. He's still the wonderfully diabolical Megatron everyone loved from G1, only, somehow, even better. I don't know how they did it; they did an amazing job with Megatron's character. The voice they got for him was just, perfect. He's just so, bad, it's great. And boy, he's one smooth talker, hehe. I don't even know how to describe it... The TA Megatron is just so evil. You don't get very many good villains like that with TV shows these days. Megatron is just so bad ass, I can't help but love him.

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