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Date Posted: 16:16:57 09/13/02 Fri
Author: Dark Star
Subject: Thoughts after reading all the comments on Armada...
In reply to: Icon 's message, "Well, I only got it yesterday but..." on 15:04:05 09/13/02 Fri

Okay...whoever came up with the Mincons beeping, well they really need to lay off the cola. Sounds like the Honkers off of Sesame Street; the muppets that bap their noses and a bike horn sound comes out. :P

If the kids are simmaler to what you discribed...I shudder...yet another dumbed down version of teens. Ugh.

Moving right along then....

>>I thought it was pretty poor.

"Transformer-mon", without the intelligence of even Digimon.

The humans are annoying, and making them the focus takes away from the honking great big robots we all know and love.<<

I suppose that the reasoning behind this is to make the robots more accessable to the younger group. You know, "Oh look [insert-carbord-kids name here] has a robot that turns into his skate board. How cool is that? Wow!" *Shudder*

>>The Minicons beeping is going to drive me nuts before long. Having a major portion of your cast only ommunicate via beeps seems completely silly, they're going to come across like tin plated Pokemon.<<

I chose you Optimus Prime! Prime says: Op Op Op Op, Opt-imus-Prime! [This done while releasing a thunderbolt at Megatron, who gets burned to a crisp and is blasted off into the air, ending in a tiny star thing.] Megatron: "Looks like I'm blasting off again!"


>>The whole plot seems weird. Ages ago both sides agreed that the Minicons should be left out of the war, now both sides are scrabbling for them, wouldn't it make more sense, now that both sides

And having a three part opener didn't work, because they spent several minutes of what would ostensibly be the third episode, recapping the plot of the first episode that everyone had seen not half an hour before!!<<

I'm guessing that they plan on re showing the trio as differerent episodes on different days.

>>We see lots of lovely G1 flashback characters, lots and lots of them. So far Megatrons army consists of three robots, not counting himself, and Optimus's army consists of two. What? Did the Minicons get discovered during the holiday season or something?<<

Ah the old, push your cast down to the barest group so that you can only deal with those three until a later time. That way you can concontrate on the different characters relationship. (ie. The kids and the Minicons.)

>>We have the Season 3 G1 problem too; The Decepticons haven't disguised themsleves as anything, they just look like alien vehicles, some disguise! At least the Autobots make some attempts in that direction.<<

Well of course Megatron can't be smart enough to do the right thing and change his looks. He's the bad guy, and bad guys are all ways doing dumb thing. [Look at Team Rocket, or, shudder the incompetant baffoons Boris Badenouf and Natasha Fatal.]

>>The aniamtion is scrappy. Some of the hardware shots are very nice, but they can't even be bothered to give the Hispanic kid whites in his eyes. That smacks of cheapness.<<

Sadly Sunbow isn't doing this, and without Marvel's money...well...yes it's cheapness. And name one product from Japan that's a kids cartoon that has the spanish kid with white eyeballs. I don't think there is any.

>>And though it normally doesn't bother me, I just don't like this Optimus, with all the extra head pipes and his weird segmented face plate.<<

He looks better in the comics. And the story line actually makes more sense over there. (Come on Hasbro, give the Dreamwave Team a chance to come up with a decent plot line...Please!)

>>Sorry, but this one just didn't do it for me. I appreicate it wasn't meant to, but this certainly wasn't Beast Wars, or Beast Machines. :(<<

Beast Wars, and Beast Machines this isn't, this isn't even G1, and G1 had some pretty freaky plots as well. But I'm really getting sick of all these Japaness Cartoons on the air. That's why I'm happy to see at least a new Scooby Doo cartoon.

Ah well At least you can't say that they don't give us what we want....;)

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