tankace
Firstly I grew up with the Transformers series (namely Armada, Cydertron, BeastMachines (I didn't manage to see Beast Wars),a little of the G1 series and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001)) and the movies more or less broke my heart .Granted when I was 14, I though that were good, but when did a teenage had a fully formed sense of taste and as a adult,I think of then a a disgrace to the Mythology of the Robots in Disguise!And then I hit by accident more or less this series and I am "for real?" ,then I watch it and my next take was "Why didn't the films have the quality of this series?". The series had great animation, nice voice cast (Megatron and Optimus amazing) ,the story arc of each character either Cybertronian or Human is handle in a pretty mature way of a kids television series. I am not making fun of you guys (ok , maybe there are girls also, but lets be real 90% of everyone reading this review is surely a male) at times you forget that this is series about robots battling out, which by the way is fantastic when it happens. I have to admit this one is if not the best Transformers series ,then it is easily in the top 3.This quality at the same time fills me with joy and anger for years before, the feature films could be so good, they had bigger budget and the best technology at the time, but no Micheal Bay and Paramount made them in to the abomination they are today :(. Despite I manage to remind myself that it isn't the technology, the budget or the names in the project that made it great , it is something smaller and yet so significant attention the the characters, a good story and understanding what you can do with both of that.Over all if you also feel betrayed from the movies or you have kids or both then watch with them these Transformer, 100% certain that you will enjoy it.
mikeloeven
I have been following the transformers series since i was a kid and i can say transformers prime in terms of animation puts beast wars to shame but that isn't very difficult to do in this day and age of advanced computers. overall the stories are well written and do have a much darker and more serious tone however there were some flaws mostly due to aspects that they copy pasted from the movies.The biggest annoyance in my opinion is the mute bumblebee. personally i liked the g1 and transformers animated versions better. The snarky full of himself attitude has always been his signature. Even in the movies he could communicate by playing sound bites through the radio and the official story was that his voice processor was damaged in combat. but now ...... he sounds like R2D2 and has little to no personality.the second issue i have with the show is the obvious one the kids are too stereotypical. Raphael i am guessing is supposed to be similar to Chip from G1. Miko is supposed to replace Sari Sumdak from transformers animated, and i am assuming Jack is supposed to be an analogue for Sam Witwicki.on a side note I think they should bring back Sari Sumdak from Transformers Animated, of course there would need to be some back story rewrites for continuity. As far as human companions in transformers series go, Sari was the most well developed least annoying and oh yeah she was half robot. Plus as someone who has dabbled in creative writing a bit I can see a potential dynamic between Miko and Sari that would give Optimus one hell of a processor ache.Aside from the nit picks i would have to say this is the second best TF series since G1
