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Jul. 30th, 2011 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaTRANSFORMERS
Genre: Science Fiction
How much seen: one episode (English)
What it's about: Autobots, Decepticons, robots that can handily transform into ordinary Earth vehicles, here from Cybertron either to destroy the world or save it. Look, if you were a kid of the 80s, even if you never saw the show on TV :cough:, you can probably sing the opening theme.
I would like to point out that this is not Japanese, although it was exported there. Apparently there is, in fact, a Japanese version of Transformers, of much more recent vintage, but the version B had, and thus the version I watched, was the classic 80s-vintage Transformers. Subtlety, at least in the opening episode, was set at naught. (So was 'strategy.' So, apparently, were 'bullets that actually accomplish anything,' as there were multiple instances of bots shooting something, and nothing actually behaving as if it were, y'know, shot.)
Overall opinion: Kay and I spent the first five minutes or so of watching this arguing whether or not this was the lamest of the 80s cartoon openings. (I nominated Thundercats as heavy competition.) Maybe it's just that this is really, really not a series served well by its first episode, but the Autobots came across as both stupid and ineffective, which is never a good thing with your ostensible heroes. Not interested.
Genre: Science Fiction
How much seen: one episode (English)
What it's about: Autobots, Decepticons, robots that can handily transform into ordinary Earth vehicles, here from Cybertron either to destroy the world or save it. Look, if you were a kid of the 80s, even if you never saw the show on TV :cough:, you can probably sing the opening theme.
I would like to point out that this is not Japanese, although it was exported there. Apparently there is, in fact, a Japanese version of Transformers, of much more recent vintage, but the version B had, and thus the version I watched, was the classic 80s-vintage Transformers. Subtlety, at least in the opening episode, was set at naught. (So was 'strategy.' So, apparently, were 'bullets that actually accomplish anything,' as there were multiple instances of bots shooting something, and nothing actually behaving as if it were, y'know, shot.)
Overall opinion: Kay and I spent the first five minutes or so of watching this arguing whether or not this was the lamest of the 80s cartoon openings. (I nominated Thundercats as heavy competition.) Maybe it's just that this is really, really not a series served well by its first episode, but the Autobots came across as both stupid and ineffective, which is never a good thing with your ostensible heroes. Not interested.