In case it wasn’t clear, I didn’t like Transformers War For Cybertron: Kingdom. Should You Watch Transformers War For Cybertron: Kingdom? Including more niche parts of Beast Wars like the Golden Disk is cool! I just wish they did more interesting things with it. But I like I said earlier, if you’re going to bank on using nostalgia to sell your series, actually make the callbacks, you know, good.
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It’s just not as fun as it used to be, and I would have rather they just made them entirely new personalities a la Machinima’s Combiner Wars series instead of this half-baked attempt at “no, but see this is the series you like!”ĭid I want a full on 1:1 remake of Beast Wars? Of course not. It’s not just Megatron, either- a lot of character’s flourishes are gone, such as Dinobot snarling as he speaks, and Rattrap’s Wise Guy mannerisms are also severely dialed down. You can almost see the direction trying to lean away from the campiness of its predecessor, almost as if to brag that “we made it WORK!” when, unfortunately, it doesn’t. The worst offender of this is Predacon Megatron, who sounds like a frat boy, yet retains the original character’s habits of saying “yessss” dramatically. The voice cast was given a script that sounds straight out of Beast Wars, then seemingly told not to ham it up, despite that being literally the appeal of the original Beast Wars. Fanservice But Not In A Good Wayĭespite Beast Wars being almost required watching to get most of these characters, I found most of my distaste for Transformers War For Cybertron: Kingdom coming from aforementioned love for Beast Wars. It’s a problem endemic to Netflix’s Transformers series- while the broad strokes always sound good, the moment to moment is always insufferable, as characters try to cram as much fanservicey dialogue in at every minute, but never commit enough to actually make it feel rewarding to watch. The problem is that’s pretty much where anything about the show stops being good. The Maximals are largely cynical and distrustful of the Autobots- after all, they’re born of a terrible timeline, one directly caused by the Autobot’s failure in their own time. The worst part is I actually like the setup- Optimus and Co land on Earth, having gone through a portal where they meet a new conflict- one fought between the Maximals and Predacons, who are supposedly from Cybertron’s dark future where Optimus failed to save Cybertron.
Follow general shift for Optimus Primal to be this more aggressive and cynical counterpoint to Optimus Prime is actually a welcome change
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