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@kitoconnell Yeah, I know. It's hard to convey how off everything feels.
Ok, I just got a bit of help from the next scene. The shark was chasing an explosive through the air (it makes swimming motions through the air) and fire truck Optimus fired the explosive and the shark into space with his two very powerful water streams.
I'm not doing a very good job at making this sound terrible, am I?
I guess the right amount and type of mind-altering drugs would help me appreciate it.
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we ran into http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Robots_in_Disguise_(2001_franchise) on YouTube. Man, it's bad in entirely new ways compared to G1.
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Optimus Prime engages in cocky banter. Ugh.
Megatron has merged with a bunch of predacons for reasons, so his alternate mode is a two-headed predacon. He transforms by standing on his hands and splitting his ass into two dragon heads. He will sometimes do this mid-conversation while shouting "BEAST MODE!".
There's an invisible flying shark.
It's very Japanese, with attack announcements everywhere, spiky-hair anime kids, a kawaii AI hologram running Autobot HQ, and half the show is transformation sequences.
Hm. When I put it that way, it sounds awesome. It isn't.
Prime is a fire truck. That's kind of fine. But one of his attacks is a flying fist launched from the ladder.
There is more than one bot, including Prime, that has fixed cannons on their back and will bow to the enemy to fire it.
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> The eldest brother is X-Brawn, a rough-and-tumble cowpoke whose strength is his wild outdoors nature. Meanwhile, Prowl is a strict, by-the-book cop who has a full-time job keeping his brothers in line, especially the youngest, Side Burn who loves nothing more than slacking off and ogling sexy red sports cars.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot_Brothers
Together they fight Decepticons.
Side Burn is *weird*, apart from being creepy.
Also, in this timeline Ultra Magnus is originally proud, bitter, jealous and reckless.
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@kitoconnell Sky-Byte just sang the Toreador Song from Carmen, while flying into the sunset. There were drawn notes coming out of his jaws.
Moments later came the little outburst quoted at http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sky-Byte_%28RID%29#2001_Robots_in_Disguise_cartoon .
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@kitoconnell This thing is getting to me. I hated it this morning, but I don't anymore. I just feel sorry for Sky-Byte being so disappointed with his accomplishments all the time, and so hungry for recognition.
And the useless dialogue with "I'll get you next time, Optimus!", "Not so fast, Megatron!" and "The universe is mine for the taking! Mouahahaa!" everywhere is starting to feel like I could enjoy it as spoof, even though I'm pretty convinced it's conceived unironically.
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@clacke Is this one targeted at 4-8 year olds or older audiences? I think the original #Transformers TV show from the #1980s targeted a very young audience, so that sort of thing would be believable.
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@lnxw48a1 @clacke Obviously, it was a huge toy advertisement.
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@dwmatiz @lnxw48a1 Wow. Suddenly we have binged through the whole thing. You can do that in a long day, apparently (39 eps, less than 20 mins each).
There was no real story anywhere, apart from a very drawn-out arc about children's power of belief saving the world through city-sized robots.
I was happy to see Sky-Byte have a happy ending!
In the meantime, I have almost solved my current issues with #racket2nix.
It is a huge toy advertisement, but I am comparing it to Robots in Disguise 2015, Prime and "G1", the original TV show, and they are all much better as entertainment, with better story, better characters, better actors and less then a tenth the cringe. I quite like them, although G1 is more cult than good. Still more genuinely good than RID 2001.