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mechaknight:

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mechaknight:

If you ever hear me talking about how much I love TFP, keep this is mind:

I ignore Season 2 (and now probably Season 3)’s existence. I heavily employ the concept of personal canon, and in my personal canon the series ended after Season 1.

I had to do this because I literally had three emotional breakdowns over Season 2, and for the sake of my mental health had to rip myself away from it.

I feel you. There was so much in season 2 that just let me down, from Starscream’s really ridiculous back and forthing and inability to develop (it felt executive driven, it really did) to how disgusting and abusive his relationship was with Megatron to the point I couldn’t even believe they were getting away with it in a kids’ show, and Dreadwing’s really forced ~honor~ that didn’t jive with how he actually behaved and Breakdown dying in a really bullshit way and TRIAGE motherfucking triage was a shitty episode all around ugh

and the season finale was just. balls. Really really bad.

Season 1 was still flush with promise, there were really strong storytelling opportunities, “bad guy” good guy teamups and cloudy ambiguity in morals and.

Basically I didn’t have any breakdowns of my own but I got really fucking angry that I had invested so much time and good faith into a series that was meandering stupidly and running into walls and breaking narrative promises left right and center

There are still things I like about it but I will never stop referring to it as wasted potential, overall.

For me the bad points are so glaring that the good points barely even register anymore.

Also, the whole fucking ToxEn thing was complete BS. It had no fucking relevance to anything, and it cost us a really cool character for the sake of ‘character development’ for Miko.

I freaking hate when people pull crap like that. If you have to kill of a character to give another development, then you have really shitty story making skills.

I’m hesitant to blame the writers though, since as far as I know it’s the same staff as Season 1. The whole thing just screams Executive Meddling, to be honest. Especially when you see that one interview where the show runners are talking about everything we were supposed to see in Season 2. Maybe I’m wrong, but either way something just feels wrong about the whole thing.

To this day I don’t know why they gave Hardshell a personality and lines of dialogue if they definitely planned for Miko to kill him, it was so much more weighty than they clearly planned (I still like that she realized vengeance didn’t help but overall it was managed really …sloppily for what it was)

I’d most definitely blame the writers since Season 1 was …like basically if someone borrowed money off you and promised to pay you in March and you kept waiting and by May you were like “god damn where is my money he was so nice in March”

He wasn’t actually nice in March / season 1, it’s just you didn’t know he never planned to come through for you. Season 1 only seems good because we didn’t know at the time they were going to leave so many plot threads dangling or meander around like WUT like Airachnid kept changing her motivations to suit the plot and MECH didn’t go anywhere and Starscream x Breakdown’s alliance against Megatron didn’t go anywhere and the synth-en that Knock Out saved didn’t go anywhere and so many things didn’t frigging go anywhere that it was obvious from the start they’d written all their plots on napkins they then threw away, but I was optimistic that they would return to those points to address them, and they didn’t.

Like if the show were divorced from ongoing evolution I’d be okay with it but these characters were supposed to grow and change and from day one that was never in the cards. Everybody backslid and it was really annoying because I trusted them to do better.

That is a very good point.

Also, all of that=why I ignore everything post-Season One. I like to live in my magical little fantasy land where I fix everything and leave it at that. Yeah, I’m in denial, but it’s easier for me that way.

Personal canon keeps me sane. @_@

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Seriously though, what did I miss?

nowherezone11:

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thesunfloweramazon:

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I’m hearing a lot of new things about the Legend of Korra. Anyone mind giving me a short summary of what happened at SDCC while I was away?

Mako is a RC Cop, Bolin will have a new love interest and is captain of the fire ferrets with two new people- one of which is a waterbender who thinks he’s smooth, Asami took over sato industries and is selling bi-planes and her company is on the verge of bankruptcy, Korra uses the avatar state to win races against kids, we’re going to the South Pole for a festival, Kya is an awesome Tunnel of Love hippie type and will be a big character, Bumi is going to be a bigger character, Korra is apparently the niece of the leader of the northern water tribe, said uncle is a spiritual type, she has two identical twin counsins who look creepy, her parents will have a bigger role, and this season will have a big focus on the spirit world and the origins of the avatar.

hmmm

ahhhh

mmm

this pain in my chest what is it

like this all could have been better but no we get this dumb bullshit

Why is Korra suddenly related to Water Tribe royalty?? Where were they when she was living in poverty in the SOUTHERN Water Tribe before she was discovered to be the Avatar? Why is this even HERE? If they needed a spiritual type, WHY DIDN’T THEY GET A FUCKIN GURU LIKE AANG DID WITH GURU PATHIK?? ANOTHER ASSPULL FROM BRYKE OH GOOD

AND OF COURSE ASAMI WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER BECAUSE WOW NO ONE CARES ABOUT HER AMIRITE

WHY IS IT THAT ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE GETTING ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT’S NOT HOW A CHILDREN’S SHOW SHOULD OPERATE BRYKE

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That Tyra GIF sums up all the feelings in my soul. 

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aliceapproved: fannishcodex: fannishcodex: Can I just rewind to the season 1 finale and I had high hopes for season 2? I LOVE ORION PAX. I STILL REALLY WANT TO WATCH THIS SERIES because the animation on the bots is divine Overall I love the show’s animation. Yes to the animation! However, all the missed potential in Season 2… Season 2 was The Season of Wasted Potential for sure. Animation wise season 2 was very good, but the writers dropped the ball quite a bit plot wise.
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fannishcodex:

fannishcodex:

Can I just rewind to the season 1 finale and I had high hopes for season 2?

I LOVE ORION PAX.

I STILL REALLY WANT TO WATCH THIS SERIES because the animation on the bots is divine

Overall I love the show’s animation.

Yes to the animation!

However, all the missed potential in Season 2…

Season 2 was The Season of Wasted Potential for sure. Animation wise season 2 was very good, but the writers dropped the ball quite a bit plot wise.

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The Transformers Prime finale is showing in a few days

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konthelion:

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konthelion:

Does anyone else have a bad feeling that the finale is going to be rushed like crazy? The writers still have a lot of stuff to cover and there’s only 30 minutes in a episode to do so. I love this show, but some of the writers have a issue with pacing so I hope the writers are careful with how they wrap up everything.

I think ultimately I will fully declare this season wildly inconsistent—but, there’ll be a third season.  They don’t have to wrap up everything.  Cliffhangers are good.  I don’t want a Legend of Korra where they act like they’re wrapping everything up sugary sweet when everything’s not really resolved and your protagonist really didn’t have a meaningful change in character.

Good point. Now that I think about it they don’t have to wrap up everything in the finale. There will be a third season so a cliffhanger will be fine. I am just a little worried because look at what the Legend of Korra did with it’s season finale.

Oh I don’t blame you for LoK finale making you apprehensive about TFP finale.

(And after watching both, I actually pretty much liked the TFP S2 finale for the most part, better than LoK’s.)

The Transformers Prime season 2 finale as whole was done very well. The writers did a pretty good job of messing with our hearts throughout most of the episode too. It ended on a cliffhanger, but I thought that was okay especially with what happened near the end. The parts of the episodes that got me the most were the scenes where Ratchet found out about what Optimus did and the ending.

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