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Yeah, pissed me off, I forgot about it until about 11pm yesterday, 3hrs too late. I then checked the schedule, figuring it'd be rerun within the next couple days, only to find it won't be on again until saturday morning.
This time i set my dvd recorder to record it.


youtube.com/watch?v=6gqhN7-yBSQ
At least the opening harkens back to the original, but the damned thing looks like the playskool version of TFs.

I'm watching it now, and the characters are almost as terrible as the artwork. The story so far is nothing special either. I think this series officially trumps Bowel Movement as the worst TF series ever. Playskool to the extreme.

The only fun thing about it is that it takes place around lake erie, and I live near lake erie. (The show takes place in michigan & I'm in pennsylvania, but still...)

That cartoon is NOT friggin anime! I'm really getting tired of seeing people call it that. -Real- anime is extremely good, way better than the vast majority of "cartoons". This kind of crap is just a pisspoor imitation of one exaggerated anime style.
Ever watch the original voltron series (lions or vehicle)? Ever watch robotech? Those were anime (REAL anime). Watch inuyasha or bleach, those are real anime.
This transformers crap is a poor imitation of one type of anime, which was intended for little children, like yugioh or pokemon, and actually owes more to the WB batman adventures, batman & robin, etc than it does to true anime.

Don't look down on anime in general simply because all you've been exposed to is yugioh type crap.


Some aspects are true to the original. Megatron is still the decepticon leader, starscream is still the greedy 2nd in command, prime is still the autobot leader (sort of), ratchet is still the medic, they still come from cybertron.
There are many differences however: 1) Prime is only the leader of this one small group of autobots, and is generally looked upon as a failure (more like rodimus than optimus).
2) Ratchet is an ancient war vet, comparable to kup from g1.
3) Prowl is a ninja.
4) "Bumblebee" has a personality much closer to hot shot from armada/energon than to g1 bumblebee.
5) The allspark (which is a giant box, and generally comparable to vector sigma) opens up, much like the matrix did in the g1 movie.
6) Far from being optimus' brother, as implied in some of the g1 stuff, ultra magnus is much older than prime & much higher ranked. Magnus is the supreme commander (much like g1 prime was), while prime is closer to what g1 magnus was.
7) While most of the TFs' designs could harken back to g1 (is the artwork wasn't so terrible), megatron is clearly based on the recent movie. Not just his alt mode, but his robot mode as well.

One thing that was extremely stupid on their part, is that they show a clip from g1 at the beginning. They're viewing it as a history tape, but all it does it illustrate even more clearly just how terrible the new artwork is.

Much of the storyline could be a continuation of sorts from g1, in the same manner than BW was a continuation. They refer to "the great war" which happened a long time ago (and for which they used g1 footage as a history tape), and ratchet & magnus are currently ancient robots, which could have fought in such an old war. In could be assumed that prime, bumblebee, and prowl are young namesakes of the original characters. The 2 main inconsistancies with g1 are the allspark (g1 had the matrix & vector sigma, but no allspark, and this allspark isn't really like either the matrix nor vector sigma), and the fact that humans have no clue who or what the transformers are. (Although that last bit could be explained if you assumed that the TFs actually landed on some non-earth planet.)