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Originally Posted by UltraPrimal
I enjoyed the episode even though it totally felt like a toy commercial.
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I think that people are missing the point. These ARE just toy commercials. Fun, little, 1/2 hour toy commercials.
I know that there is very little "artistic merit" in the most recent episode, but it was still a worthy offering.
I don't see how this was worse than recent episodes, or historical offerings. I completely fail to see how many people just LOVED Animated. That show was chock full of high-pitched whining characters and comical morons. Yet it was roundly liked.
AND it was still a toy commercial.
There wasn't exploration of deeper meanings, AND there were plot holes and (OMG!!) scavenger hunts for the allspark fragments.
Scavenger hunts are what these shows are all about, they've been doing them for YEARS, in every continuity that I can think of:
Armada - minicons
Energon- duh - energon
Cybertron - planet keys
Animated - allspark fragments
G1 - energy sources
Beast wars - even here there were stasis pods falling from the sky every other episode.
These guys LOVE scavenger hunts. Almost every season is:
"FOUND SOMETHING! ---> ACTION ACTION ACTION ---> Autobot or Decepticon succeed ---> End of episode"
That's how you appeal to kids and SELL THEM TOYS!
I promise, this it the last rant on the subject you will hear from me. I just needed to get it out.
