TWar for Cybertron:Transformers: Siege
An anime with many names made by Netflix and watched by me. I’ve found myself enjoying Netflix shows. Well the few I’ve watched anyway and think good things when I hear about them making something (Loved Voltron Legendary Defender). Netflix recently debuted Transformers Siege the cartoon and I watched it. Below is a summary of my feelings.
It was a thing that I watched.
Really the show wasn’t terrible by any means, but it wasn’t good either. Coming off the corpse that was the Power of the Primes cartoon (THAT was a bad show), it’s kind of hard to go downhill, so you could say I was looking forward to this one.
6 episodes of about 20 minutes each. Essentially a movie, challenging, but by no means impossible. Brief summary of the story is it is Autobots vs. Decepticons before the Autobots try and escape Cybertron. Er, so like the WFC/FOC games then? Why yes! But different.
It uses the actual computer models of the toys in it which was pretty cool, but then also allowed me to have a decent look at the tetra-jet seeker shape and yeesh, it really is a folded up robot underneath the angled wings. I also realise that their character roster is therefore limited because of that, but that’s cool. Beast Wars had a limited character roster and that was a cool show. Also some really awesome movies have a very limited character roster and have been good too.
Essentially though this show feels like fan fiction. There are too many Macguffins, characters are (on the whole) annoying and some incredible leaps of faith are required from the viewer. While I do understand that I am watching a show about living robots in space, I also believe that plot points need to flow from one thing to another with a reasonably logical sequence.
WFC Transformers Siege, an anime manages to make one too many “Happy coincidences” and one too many “suspensions of disbelief” for me to take.
Now for the spoiler section.
