Sabrblade wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It strikes me as odd how so many like to emphasize the "kids show" nature of RID 2015 when, short of Beast Machines and Prime, every single TF TV cartoon ever made has been just as much, if not moreso, a "kids show" too.
The way i see it, it's harmless fun. Kids = innocence. Innocent fun where you play with the building blocks of the lore.
Adding Combiner force to that makes it really fun, and gives it a chance to have an unbiased audience who simply can enjoy the series no matter what kind of twist happens
Yeah, but, couldn't the same be said of every other show that's come before (save for the two exceptions I mentioned)?
I think it's more or less the juxtaposition of Prime - the show that came before it and what it's supposed to be a sequel to - one of if not the most serious and dramatic Transformers shows to date with elements like Bisk. Which becomes especially more evident the more TFP elements the show brings in.
When Soundwave came back, I found it very difficult to reconcile him being from the same faction and even same universe as the other Decepticons in the show - each show is going for two very different vibes and feels. Which is fine, but when TFP's audience watches this and knows that this came after TFP... it becomes difficult to see it as anything
but 'kiddy'. It's just really difficult to go from Transformers: Prime and see this weird dorky lobster Decepticon making video game puns and giving Bumblebee's team a hard time and believe the two shows belong in the same universe.
When in a vacuum, it's not that much more 'kiddy' or such than a lot of other Transformers shows. But when you bring in the contrast to what it's supposed to be connected to...
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