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tiamatschild) wrote2018-03-01 07:59 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2018-03-01 07:59 pm
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Over the last several days I've rewatched "Darkness Rising", the five part pilot for Transformers: Primer. And also "Masters and Students" the first episode after the pilot, the one with Skyquake and Soundwave thwarting Starscream's scheming.
I really like this show. I really really do. I love Raf and Bumblebee's Platonic Soulmates At First Sight thing (Bumblebee spontaneously breaking out into a cheer for Raf on the space bridge when Raf disrupts Soundwave's navigational targeting is so incredibly dear), and Arcee's kindness and grief and anger, and Fowler's utter badassery and patriotically themed PG rated creative swearing (although this early in he has not come out with his better ones). And Soundwave's beautiful design and quiet menace and elegantly incisive intelligence. And Megatron in full horribly charismatic bombast, and Starscream's totally unfounded conviction that he counts as The Sensible One, and the way this show plays Megatron's violence towards Starscream as ominous and disturbing instead of for humor (all those foreboding little bits of music when Megatron is being threatening) and as part of the major dysfunction of what the Decepticon movement has become over the eons.
And Ratchet is so great, and the bit where Bulkhead tries to shield Miko's innocence and pretty much fails because Miko is a terror and a half and really is not listening to him and Miko glomming onto him just. Every. Single. Time. Ratchet flapping his hand at Arcee, "Your physcian says you're fine!" The several times Optimus saves Ratchet's life with a well timed shot or punch - - -
How seriously Optimus treats everyone, how his gravity is not that he takes himself seriously, but that he takes everyone else seriously -
*bwees and rolls around in narrative*
I really like this show. I really really do. I love Raf and Bumblebee's Platonic Soulmates At First Sight thing (Bumblebee spontaneously breaking out into a cheer for Raf on the space bridge when Raf disrupts Soundwave's navigational targeting is so incredibly dear), and Arcee's kindness and grief and anger, and Fowler's utter badassery and patriotically themed PG rated creative swearing (although this early in he has not come out with his better ones). And Soundwave's beautiful design and quiet menace and elegantly incisive intelligence. And Megatron in full horribly charismatic bombast, and Starscream's totally unfounded conviction that he counts as The Sensible One, and the way this show plays Megatron's violence towards Starscream as ominous and disturbing instead of for humor (all those foreboding little bits of music when Megatron is being threatening) and as part of the major dysfunction of what the Decepticon movement has become over the eons.
And Ratchet is so great, and the bit where Bulkhead tries to shield Miko's innocence and pretty much fails because Miko is a terror and a half and really is not listening to him and Miko glomming onto him just. Every. Single. Time. Ratchet flapping his hand at Arcee, "Your physcian says you're fine!" The several times Optimus saves Ratchet's life with a well timed shot or punch - - -
How seriously Optimus treats everyone, how his gravity is not that he takes himself seriously, but that he takes everyone else seriously -
*bwees and rolls around in narrative*
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Optimus. <333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
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Smokescreen is SO DELIGHTFUL??? Like, I like him SO MUCH??? He's so interesting and sweet and determined and such a contrast to all the other members of Team Prime. And I love the way Bulkhead and Arcee in particular rally around him with a mix of protective affection and general exasperation (in varying degrees depending - Arcee is always more exasperated than Bulkhead, that's just a fact of their personalities). and he's so SMART in a sideways Seeing The Problem From Fresh Angles kind of way, especially when he slows down and considers for a moment. I like him a lot. (I enjoy that he's got some loose archtypal relationships to various Roddies but is really not much like Roddie at ALL. ...less terrifying gallows humor and less likely to hide up at the reservoir fishing, for two things).
Nemesis Prime is wonderfully creepy - I don't remember those episodes as well as I should.
Predaking is a delight. Traumatized messed up extremely young mechanism who nonetheless is trying to build himself a future. He's so ambitious and determined and smart. I appreciate his caution. His Wait And See And Consider, and the way when he needs to he makes quick decisions and then commits to them absolutely. He's got some of the same general personality make up as Optimus in that very specific way, and I wish there was more of them together in S3. (I also think he's an interesting contrast to Smokescreen in his whole approach to the world and would like to see that you know, turn into an actual relationship to be explored, too.)