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Originally Posted by GMfan101
Thats why I think the movies are kinda cool in a way that they do pull from a lot of mythos in the huge transformers multiverse.
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Pulling from here and there is fine. Not even having a G1 focus would be fine if thats the story they want to tell.
That said taking a primary character the likes of Megatron and jobbing him out to The Fallen, well thats not a good use of the mentioned Mythos.
Essentially they took
the villian and sissyfied him to promote a virtually unknown character over Megatron.
They made Megatron completely subservient to The Fallen, I mean he wasn't even trying to use the guy or anything.
So in mentioning pulling from the entire Mythos, yeah I like that they did that in many ways. But when a character the likes of Megatron exists in virtually the exact same fashion throughout the Mythos and they toss that in the trash can in favor of whatever, thats a suspect decision at best.
It's like taking Waspinator and making him the leader of the Decepticons just becuase they read his bio and thought he was cool.
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Originally Posted by GMFan
Now now I wouldn't say scrap it, it was the origins of the franchise and has it's merits but I really don't think that it is the end all and be all of Transformers because there is better out there. 26 years of fiction in fact.
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No, feel free to hate on the G1 cartoon. I'm not trying to make you backtrack.
I do think your selling it a little short though by calling it "almost unwatchable". It was different from later series in that it doesn't form a conhesive whole the way Beast Wars or Animated(sort of) did, but there are still a lot of decent smaller story arcs which told fun stories.
It certainly had strengths and weaknesses, just like any series does. But it also formed an incredible foundation to build a franchise upon.
Something like Prime's "Autobots, transform and roll out" is far from bad dialog. It's iconic.
