[spoilers] Predacons Rising
Apr. 11th, 2009 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seiberwingYou know, I've finally figured it out. The writers got annoyed that Transformers: Animated got canceled, so they set out to purposefully give a generation of children perpetual nightmares.
I mean, this wasn't as much of a mindfuck as some of the other episodes, but it was definitely weird. They did finally clear up the whole Sentinel/Blackarachnia thing and did the inevitable turning of cute little Wasp into Beast-Wars-on-acid Waspinator, and they did it reasonably well, but the writers still met their mandatory mangled body/corpse with rather horrific effects and made me go buh.
I really feel for Wasp. He was still a jerkass, but at that point he just wanted to be left alone and I think he was pretty harmless. Sentinel Prime had no legitimate reason to be chasing him around Detroit threatening the lives of innocent organics and causing major property damage, and I think the only reason he did it is that having his scheme with Lockdown fall through made him all the more eager to find some way of looking good in front of the other Autobots.
Wasp's "blah blah blah" and sneaking off during the Prime dick-waving competition was pretty amusing. I'm not sure what was going on with the animation, though; people's mouths seemed to be looking weird in that scene.
"Don't stand around with your pistons in your servos" rather amused me, because I'm pretty sure I know what it was supposed to be a euphemism for and it is totally not kid-friendly. And Sentinel flying with his head was just hilarious, the guy really has no idea how ridiculous he looks sometimes.
Also...I fully realize that it's completely in character for Sentinel to freak out and be disgusted by BA's transformation, but I still hated him for it. What kind of asshole tells his friend that she'd be better off dead and then tries to kill her? He had a lot of trauma and I could tell he was in denial, but he didn't even hesitate. That's cold, man, real cold.
And as if Wasp's life hadn't sucked enough, now he's a freak. An exploding freak. Poor guy.
Optimus needs to stop being such a freaking doormat. I've been waiting for him to punch Sentinel in the face since the guy first showed up on Earth, but he just constantly takes the abuse. The only time he ever stands up to him is when there's other lives at stake.
And who the fuck made him actual second-in-command. I'm really wondering how the Decepticons lost when their leader makes people like Sentinel his successors.
The little Maximal cameo at the end was cool, but while Waspinator having planzz and pulling himself back together used to be cute, now it's fucking creepy.
AND WHERE THE FUCK IS SARI. IT HAS BEEN FOUR EPISODES. WHERE IS OUR SPUNKY NOT-SO-HUMAN SIDEKICK. I start to wonder whether they realized they'd written themselves into a corner by powering her up and simply responded by writing her out of the series entirely.
I mean, this wasn't as much of a mindfuck as some of the other episodes, but it was definitely weird. They did finally clear up the whole Sentinel/Blackarachnia thing and did the inevitable turning of cute little Wasp into Beast-Wars-on-acid Waspinator, and they did it reasonably well, but the writers still met their mandatory mangled body/corpse with rather horrific effects and made me go buh.
I really feel for Wasp. He was still a jerkass, but at that point he just wanted to be left alone and I think he was pretty harmless. Sentinel Prime had no legitimate reason to be chasing him around Detroit threatening the lives of innocent organics and causing major property damage, and I think the only reason he did it is that having his scheme with Lockdown fall through made him all the more eager to find some way of looking good in front of the other Autobots.
Wasp's "blah blah blah" and sneaking off during the Prime dick-waving competition was pretty amusing. I'm not sure what was going on with the animation, though; people's mouths seemed to be looking weird in that scene.
"Don't stand around with your pistons in your servos" rather amused me, because I'm pretty sure I know what it was supposed to be a euphemism for and it is totally not kid-friendly. And Sentinel flying with his head was just hilarious, the guy really has no idea how ridiculous he looks sometimes.
Also...I fully realize that it's completely in character for Sentinel to freak out and be disgusted by BA's transformation, but I still hated him for it. What kind of asshole tells his friend that she'd be better off dead and then tries to kill her? He had a lot of trauma and I could tell he was in denial, but he didn't even hesitate. That's cold, man, real cold.
And as if Wasp's life hadn't sucked enough, now he's a freak. An exploding freak. Poor guy.
Optimus needs to stop being such a freaking doormat. I've been waiting for him to punch Sentinel in the face since the guy first showed up on Earth, but he just constantly takes the abuse. The only time he ever stands up to him is when there's other lives at stake.
And who the fuck made him actual second-in-command. I'm really wondering how the Decepticons lost when their leader makes people like Sentinel his successors.
The little Maximal cameo at the end was cool, but while Waspinator having planzz and pulling himself back together used to be cute, now it's fucking creepy.
AND WHERE THE FUCK IS SARI. IT HAS BEEN FOUR EPISODES. WHERE IS OUR SPUNKY NOT-SO-HUMAN SIDEKICK. I start to wonder whether they realized they'd written themselves into a corner by powering her up and simply responded by writing her out of the series entirely.
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:08 am (UTC)Sentinel and Ratchet could be support group buds! *squishes plot bunnies*