Y’all. I’m up to Ep 12 having bought the episodes on Amazon Prime.
Some random musings:
This is the best Transformers show I have ever seen period. This is my favorite TF show. The characters are so complicated, 3-dimensional. and well-written. There’s growth in them. For example, it’s interesting to see Twitch start emerging as the Terrans’ defacto leader. Or at least she’s developing those Optimus Prime-levels of feels of responsibility towards her family.
I love what they did with Tarantulas; it was such an unexpected surprise twist on his character that blended his portrayals in both BW as a scientist and in IDW as a fatherly-type and I am here for it.
Love that crafty introvert awkward panda Nightshade spent their entire time building a base for everyone. Love any enby and this is pretty much what you’d get from them.
Also love how self-assured they are about themself to the point of them not wanting or caring to want an alt mode but only got one out of necessity.
Also trying to figure out what the Earth equivalent coming-of-age cultural marker equivalent is for a Transformer finding their alt mode. The way they wrote Jawbreaker’s dialogue related to him not yet finding his alt mode reminds me either of someone not yet finding their passion in life and it being ok to be a late bloomer professionally; or someone trying to figure out their sexuality and competing against heteronormative standards and not quite knowing how they feel sexually and still trying to figure it out, and the show validating that that is ok too, being a sexual late-bloomer if you are queer in a cisheteronormative world.
Anyway, so well-written. And the fight scenes are GLORIOUS.
Especially that Optimus and Megatron versus the Seekers. One of the top TF battles of all time IMO.
Sooo looking forward to future eps.