But, but where is my season 3?

[seiberwing]

The Transformers: Animated season 2 finale, "A Bridge Too Close", finally came out on Canadian TV, and summarily came out on YouTube later that evening. Like any impatient fan, I watched it.


And I am here to proclaim it Most Awesome. The fight at the end was a bit of a clusterfuck, but it was interesting to see how they pulled together a lot of plot threads from earlier episodes (Blurr, the Constructicons Bulkhead's space bridge and art talents, Sari's exact nature, Shockwave, etc.)

Megatron's at his manipulative but powerful best, and Starscream's following his usual trend of cobbling together a really good plan but having it fall through in the end anyway. I did like that they didn't pull the usual 'you saved my life so I'm going to be noble to you for a while'--Megatron used Optimus as a living shield barely three minutes after Optimus saved his life.

Was spoiled on Omega Supreme's existence, but not on the fact that he was actually the ship, so that was kinda awesome. I hope we at least get a message from him in Season Three so Ratchet won't be so upset. OTP of cute and hurt/comfort, yes?

Sari...once again Sari shines as a human sidekick by staying out of the way of the battle. I liked that they gave her an important and useful position as key-wielder and Bulkhead comforter, but didn't have her do anything outside reasonable boundaries for her character. And the robot thing...damn you, writers, for making us wait for an explanation until next season. We all knew what she was, but I want to hear the exact explanation for it.

And, of course, the bit with Starscream getting in touch with his feminine side cannot be overlooked. Is it a move by the writers to yet again follow fan trends by hinting at his homosexual/transgender/transsexual status? Does she represent his anima as proposed by Jung? Or does her existence as a manifestation of his cattiness/snarkiness indicate a reverse to traditional gendered ideals of personality? Is it possible I am overthinking this?

Comments

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

The fact that snarky, competant female is a position that must be 'filled' by a single person is a very sad thing indeed.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Well, most scripted TV shows, especially kids' shows, tend to have fairly standard character types and one character for each, unless there's a team with an overarching theme. And TF:A has a fairly small cast anyway, so they tend to be even more separated.

Even the gender of a character doesn't really matter - there will only be the one, male or female, unless the theme is 'matching male and female teams'. Beast Wars had Blackarachnia - Dinobot wasn't anywhere near as snarky, Rattrap was much less violent most of the time, Tarantulas wasn't so much snarky as creepy, and Megatron was more about the power than the snark.

(In Beast Machines, I'd cautiously pick Strika, or even Jetstorm, as the character for this role, as BA became a much more generic warrior type.)

Really, I only added 'female' before because it was another point that matched for Blackarachnia and FemmeScream, making the potential character-space interference even more obvious. Perhaps the writers will get around it by having one or the other fade into obscurity, or work on emphasizing the differences between the two? FS hasn't really had much of a chance to be fleshed out yet.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

FS is probably going to be a bit character like Wreck-Gar or the SUV, appearing only a few times every season at the most.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, if her toy gets a slight remold from Starscream's, she'll be able to form the base for repainting into every fanSeekerfemme ever...

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Better deal than BW Blackarachnia ever got...

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Mmm, point, although she did stick around long enough to get her own TM2 toy (and, technically, a TM1 toy, although that never made the show).

And she became massively more popular than the first character to use her original mold design, which has to count for something.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Counts for fanboy appeal more than anything else, really.