TF Views

Almighty Unicron wrote:One thing I really hated about this episode- and a pet peeve of mine in all Transformers shows- is that I felt this show didn't leverage the fact that the titular characters can fucking transform. It was a bog-standard closed-circle zombie story, complete with slow-ass zombies shambling around. It could have been so much more interesting if the lurching zombie-cons transformed into cars within the nemesis, or were unleashed on a human town and used their zombie-bite to turn human vehicles into zombie-cons like the Allspark in the movie/animated 'verses, only with a thirst for energon.

I think they did transform and blast away from the situation once, ran into a wall or something equally lazy. You have interesting ideas in there, but I don't see how they would have had room to cram them into a single 22 minute episode with a usable resolution.

Almighty Unicron wrote:One thing I admit I don't know jack diddly about is TV production: is the reason they keep taking so many hiatii because they're behind on making the episodes, or is this more the hub spacing out the season to coincide with toy releases? As a kid I always hated when a character debuted on Transformers or any other toy-related show before his figure was on shelves.

The show generally is well into post-production, I believe, by the time it gets close to airdate. Generally, shows are at the very closest 6 weeks ahead of airdate. I doubt it's about toy releases, those have pretty wide windows these days thanks to shipping and distribution being so wonky, so I think it's more about The Hub not having enough content, trying to keep viewers interested for as long as possible until they can get to the next season's programming.

JediTricks wrote:

Almighty Unicron wrote:One thing I really hated about this episode- and a pet peeve of mine in all Transformers shows- is that I felt this show didn't leverage the fact that the titular characters can fucking transform. It was a bog-standard closed-circle zombie story, complete with slow-ass zombies shambling around. It could have been so much more interesting if the lurching zombie-cons transformed into cars within the nemesis, or were unleashed on a human town and used their zombie-bite to turn human vehicles into zombie-cons like the Allspark in the movie/animated 'verses, only with a thirst for energon.

I think they did transform and blast away from the situation once, ran into a wall or something equally lazy. You have interesting ideas in there, but I don't see how they would have had room to cram them into a single 22 minute episode with a usable resolution.

Almighty Unicron wrote:One thing I admit I don't know jack diddly about is TV production: is the reason they keep taking so many hiatii because they're behind on making the episodes, or is this more the hub spacing out the season to coincide with toy releases? As a kid I always hated when a character debuted on Transformers or any other toy-related show before his figure was on shelves.

The show generally is well into post-production, I believe, by the time it gets close to airdate. Generally, shows are at the very closest 6 weeks ahead of airdate. I doubt it's about toy releases, those have pretty wide windows these days thanks to shipping and distribution being so wonky, so I think it's more about The Hub not having enough content, trying to keep viewers interested for as long as possible until they can get to the next season's programming.

I agree,Clearly the reasoning behind the Hiatus breaks are to make the BH 13 episodes & maybe the BH Movie last/stretch out almost through the summer.

Transformers: Prime Beast Hunters Evolution Promo Clip
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... lip/27620/

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Shockwave announces The cloned predacons are ready to be deployed. Also Predaking transforms into his robot mode for the first time. This seems like a plot tied must see epic episode.

Why does that promo say it's new this Friday? It's not scheduled to air until next week.

My comments/spoilers regarding todays TFP/BH episode #9 titled "Evolution"

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The only good thing about this episode was seeing preadking transform,talk & act smart/competent in this episode,everything else was downhill. This was a SHOCKING episode in a AWFUL way,The writers got rid of two MACGUFFINS in one singular Episode.Macguffin #1, Predaking broke the "Solus of Prime Hammer,so now the transformers need to find another way to restore Cybertron back to it's former glory. Macguffin #2,The Predacons clone army that Shockwave was creating was all destroyed.

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My guess is Macguffin #1 is fixed by Optimus Prime & maybe Megatron giving their sparks+energy to Cybertron in order to fully retore it to it's former glory,Similar in Fashion,the Way BM ended.
Macguffin #2,will be solved by probably one of each of the predacons clones species managing to survive & then re-grouping with Predaking. If not,then Maybe Predaking takes shockwave hostage & forces him to create more predacons clones.

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The writers wasted most of season 3 on trying to find the Predacons fossils,Then the clones get all destroyed. This boggles the mind. Did Hasbro decide to pull the plug on TFP/BH & refuse to pay anymore in the cartoon series CGI? Will all the predacons be in the BH Movie after the 13 episodes of BH season 3 wraps up? Will the Takara GO series continue where BH left off & have most of the predacons toys exclusively in the DVD Magazine sponsored cartoon series?? That poilce car/bot In GO is that character suspose to represent TFP/BH Smokescreen's newer updated mode?

Evolution
Megatron and Starscream arrive at an abandoned energon mine where Starscream believes Megatron is about to terminate him (referencing an episode from the first season) for screwing up so badly in the previous episode, but this turns out to be Shockwave's offsite laboratory where he is cloning the Predacons. Knockout delivers the synthetic energon he'd created when Predaking roams into the lab and finally reveals his ability to transform, which apparently no one knew he could do, including Predaking himself who explains he only recently learned he could do that himself, having been watching the Decepticons. He further explains all he was aware of was battling and doesn't know his origins, which is why he's sought out the Predacon cloning project to explore who and what he is, and seems excited that he will no longer be the only one of his kind.

I find it hard to believe Shockwave wouldn't know the Predacons had the ability to transform. I mean, I could buy the excuse of having no evidence from the fossils, but this is the second army of Predacons Shockwave has cloned and had plenty of time to study the living specimen he created when he was stranded alone on Cybertron. But whatever. Predaking pledges his loyalty to Megatron, but in return, asks to lead the Predacons as Predaking. Megatron fears if the Predacons figure out they are stronger than the remaining Decepticons, they will revolt and decides they must destroy the Predacon clones. In order to keep Predaking from turning on them in retribution, Starscream suggests they let the Autobots destroy the clones for them.

With the Autobots energon reserves so low, they cannot pass up the opportunity when they detect energon, which of course the Decepticons are using to lure them to the lab. With news of the raid, Predaking goes to face off with the Autobots himself, to protect his kind. Wheeljack and Ultra Magnus team up and take out the lab but are no match for the enraged Predaking, who destroys the Forge of Solus Prime. Optimus is able to save the two and retreats. Megatron promises Predaking they will make the Autobots pay while Shockwave reports that none of the clones survived the explosion but there is something Megatron must see for himself. In the explosion, the CNA from the Predacon protoforms mixed with the synthetic energon to create "pure Cyber Matter", like what once covered ancient Cybertron and recently had been used on Earth to create Megatron's citadel...

So after spending all that time collecting Predacon fossils and building up the Decepticons making a Predacon army... the army gets blown up, leaving Predaking as the one and only Predacon in the show. In other words, this episode throws the entire plot of this season right out the window with only 4 episodes left to go. But hey, at least Predaking finally transformed... and talks fairly eloquently. It's not at all what I was expecting for his character. Not sure what they're going to do with the remaining episodes at this point, but I figure the "Cyber Matter" at the end of the episode will be a 'Cyberforming' macguffin as a means to restore Cybertron or turn Earth to metal or some such. There is also a minor element to this episode with Ultra Magnus becoming a part of the Autobots family on Earth rather than just another "cog in the machine", but frankly it felt tacked onto this episode with how little the Autobots actually appeared in this episode. Nice to finally get some real plot progression from an episode, but it felt really rushed and pretty much made that entire fossil scavenger hunt a waste of time.

The Forge of Solus Prime lost all of its power bringing Optimus back to life. It was literally just a big hammer, that's why Magnus was using it as a weapon. They wouldn't have been able to use it to restore Cybertron anyway, and it was no longer a "MacGuffin" after the beginning of the season.

Spoiler description for BH Episode 13 is here:

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http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... sis/27723/

S03, E13 (First Aired: July 27, 2013) "The Autobots face the Decepticons for a last showdown."

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chances of their being A BH Movie with all new footage seems likely. It won't surprise me a bit,if Hasbro uses the Takara GO Magazine direct to DVD episodes & then splices them together into one fluid BH movie that will air on the Hub & be sold on DVD

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A TF GO episode trailer basically let loose a huge spoiler concerning the end of the TF/BH cartoon series. BH Optimus is giving orders to the GO Characters in a GO Episode Trailer. So the spoiled spoiler is Optimus doesn't die at the end of the BH cartoon series. I was hoping BH Optimus & Megatron would both die at the end of the series in a climatic no holds barrel battle like BM Primal & BM Megatron died in the last BM episode.

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I had hopes that BH Optimus would give up his life force energy that he got from the Solus of Primus Hammer,In order to revive Cybertron to it's former glory. I had hopes that optimus would give the matrix to smokescreen before he sacrified himself to save cybertron.

I really wouldn't count on Transformers GO being all that tight with the continuity of Beast Hunters. The plot of Transformers GO is that the combiners stay on Earth to take care of the remaining Predacons, which at this point, it looks like there will be no Predacons besides Predaking in Beast Hunters.