#tfp liveblog

[brobotsbro]

rewatching tfp and GOD Starscream really is THE poor little meow meow. Like girl what you are doing!!!! This mofo zigzags back and forth between plans so fast omfg. Go to get the Iacon relic yourself on your shitty scooter. Get captured by Dreadwing and try to appeal to him. Get captured in turn by Optimus Prime and try to appeal to him. Get into a fight with both of them???? Get knocked to the arctic sea floor. Start walking. HES UNKILLABLE. LIKE A COCKROACH. Learn you can make clones. Do so instantly, no hesitation. Send your clones to kill Megatron. They fail instantly. Kill your last clone to steal his organs since you lost yours in one of your many loyalty swaps.

LIKE GOD. HOW MUCH TROUBLE CAN ONE MAN GET INTO. I love him. He's so dumb. God.

[esteebarnes94]

"All hail Starscream!" With THAT hip sway?!

[velvetwyrme]

I think in one of your asks you mention you haven't seen Transformers Prime yet? Do you think you'll ever watch it? :3c

i absolutely intend to!! uh. eventually,,,,

part of the reason i got into tf in the first place was because i got so unwell over tfp soundwave that i was like FINE ill check out what transformers is all about (and then. went off to read. the IDW comics instead)

i remember telling one of my irl friends abt this like a month in or smth, and she was like "I'm disappointed on your blorbos behalf. you haven't even watched thw show he's in yet?!" and now its been almost a year and i still haven't watched TFP yet HDKFJGKDFHDK,,,

[yaptimusprime]

Ya know I'm starting to think this man has never been to med school

[lovinggreeniehours]

guys 🥺🫶 i forgot 🥺🫶 i love s1e7 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

[just-absolutely-super]

side note, i've always loved how beautiful Arcee's painjob is in tfp

[headlessstar]

my hyperfixation on transformers prime got so bad I paused my season 2 binge watch right before the finale and just absorbed everything else from the fandom. now I spoiled myself on everything but I WILL go back and rewatch this show properly and simp even more for optimus prime

[brobotsbro]

Optimus and Arcee out in the Arctic while unbeknownst to them scraplets are destroying the base lmao.

Optimus: well, Arcee, Ratchet isn't responding to our radio signals. I think he's just finally decided to end my bullshit once and for all. I didn't think he'd take you down with me but I guess he considered it a necessary sacrifice

On a less comedic note:

Arcee, joking: I hear Miami is nice this time of year

Optimus, my brother in autism: the nearest temperate climate is not within walking distance

[esteebarnes94]

Ratchet laughing at the cat meme makes me certain he would love Garfield.

Also, that he would use Facebook.

[obscuremechala]

alrighty then

apparently i misremembered megatron's entrance bc i thought he was already on his deathbed on ep 1 but nope (i havent seen this in at least 5 years)

also very much throughout the whole ep im just like "my guys!!!!! :DDDDD" to every single character bc i havent seen this show in forever

will have to draw some of the guys this week but nothings guarenteed bc gotta do finals prep

anyway see y'all next week for ep. 2 (also i forgot that we started with a 5 parter, the cliffhangers im gonna have to endure during my math test)

alright i am going to begin my rewatch of transformers prime

may reblog this with reactions even tho i know what happens idk

episode 1 here we go

[orions-hound]

ive been meaning to do a liveblog rewatch of tfp sometime but idk if i could stomach operation: breakdown and crossfire. actually devastating

[autobot-ratchet]

I think I'm gonna do another liveblog of mtmte and lost light (and probably also empire of stone and the Drift miniseries), same like I did a second tfp liveblog for my second watchthrough of it. granted, this isn't my second reading of mtmte/lost light I have definitely read it a million times when it was still coming out, but it has been several years since I've looked at this comic and I wanna experience it again after having taken such a big break and talk about it freely now that I care so much less about potentially getting attacked by fandom assholes lmAO

I'm just gonna tag it all with "mtmte retrospective", I'm not doing "[insert series here] reread" tags for every fuckin series, it's all the same shit

[yaptimusprime]

I love that they keep gossiping in front of soundwave even tho his #1 hobby seems to be immediately repeating that to whoever they were talking shit about, real hater energy

[silverior968]

Okay, this was supposed to be a quick continuation of my Grimm liveblog thread, but it turned into me trying to analyze why the show's structure sometimes bugs me. No clue what the word count is but it's pretty long.

I've realized that the reason why I sometimes feel like Grimm is exhausting to watch is because it has a somewhat abnormal season structure. This is not a critique of the structure itself, but more of an analysis on why it doesn't fit my personal tastes and some possible causes for why that might be. It's more of an analysis on what I like and dislike in a story structure if anything.

The standard season structure, at least in my experience, is that a season starts out light on the overarching plot, with maybe a few hints of what's to come. Then about halfway through the plot kicks into gear, with the inciting incident and rising action happening somewhere in the last quarter of the season and the climax and resolution happening in the last few episodes. By the start of the next season everything is once again lighter, with the characters adjusting to the aftermath of the big event before moving on to the next thing.

But in Grimm, what they do is they place rising action or the climax AS THE CLIFFHANGER OF THE LAST EPISODE OF A SEASON. Every season I've watched so far has ended with the rising action or the climax. Naturally that leaves the rest of the drama, followed by the resolution, for the first episodes of the next season, followed by half a season of dilly-dallying until the last 4 or so episodes when the overarching plot kicks into high-gear again. I couldn't tell you why this bugs me as much as it does since I'm watching them as video-on-demand and don't have to wait between seasons or even episodes. This isn't a problem unique to Grimm either, I noticed that while I loved the end of the first season of TFP and start of the second season, they feel really taxing to watch. Although in that case it might just be that you have SEVEN interconnected episodes BACK TO BACK in a show that usually wraps up arcs in an episode or two at most.

I have a few ideas for why it bugs me:

It's just a case of too many interconnected episodes in a row for my liking. I've found that I prefer the shorter conflicts in the show, not necessarily because they are shorter, but because the substance of those conflicts is more interesting to me personally. I didn't particularly care for the zombie outbreak plotline or the Juliette amnesia plotline. I didn't think they were bad, they just didn't interest me as much as the shorter conflicts from episodes like Let Your Hair Down or El Cucuy. It could also be a lack of personal intrigue, as I've found myself very invested in episodes like Red Menace simply because I though the concept of the Wesen featured in it was cool, even if I didn't care much for the actual conflict. These longer arcs often don't introduce anything new for a while, and after a while the conflicts can stagnate. I'm sure some of my favorite episodes would bug me to hell and back if they were stretched over more episodes than they are. I feel like having to make a longer arc can put a lot of limitations on what types of elements you can introduce. Shorter conflicts have the freedom to be more novel.

I also think that there might be something different about how these season-ending conflicts are structured as opposed to standard multi-episode arcs. I'd have to do a more in-depth analysis to actually determine whether this is true or not, but I think that making the rising action or climax of the season into a cliffhanger might affect the way the conflict is structured, as in which parts of it have the most emphasis put on them. This might also have something to do with the fact that I think cliffhangers are kind of exhausting in general if not done correctly. I don't think it's simply a case of disliking a season starting off too heavy, because seasons are more of a suggestion when binging a piece of media, especially when the payoff of the previous season doesn't arrive until the start of the first season. For all intents and purposes you could move The Ungrateful Dead and PTZD from the start of S3 to the end of S2 and no-one would notice that they were supposed to be in the next season. They'd just be the climax of S2. I don't think it's just it being a cliffhanger either, because smaller cliffhangers between seasons don't bother me as much in media. I think that the climax of the main conflict being relegated to a cliffhanger somehow messes with my ability to engage with it, because I didn't mind the cliffhanger at the end of the first season of Arcane. The thing is that while the event they used as a cliffhanger was monumental, it wasn't really the emotional climax of the season in my opinion. The cliffhanger was more akin to the "falling action" stage of standard story structure.

Anyways I think that was all for now, sorry that this is badly formatted and all over the place. I'm just chronically incapable of shutting up and really like analyzing things.

[just-absolutely-super]

You know come to think of it I don’t remember some of you TFP reactions. What did you think of TFP’s versions of Wheeljack, Smokescreen, and Ultra Magnus?

I didn't react because I never liveblogged it. I watched TFP after watching TFO (the...second or third time?) and wasn't sure about posting reactions at the time. I thought something like that would be better suited for if I had decided to watch G1, since it was an older show and could have made for good reaction content

Maybe when I rewatch the show again I can make a few commentary posts here and there

Anyways, TFP's Wheeljack, Smokescreen, and Ultra Magnus were my first real introductions to the characters (TFO Wheeljack doesn't really count here because I quite frankly didn't know who he was at the time lmao), and I enjoyed them greatly. Now that I know them from other media now, I can better give my thoughts on their interpretations

Wheeljack being a wrecker in TFP as opposed to the mad scientist character he usually is, was honestly my jam. He was so entertaining to me, even during his loner moments early in the show. When I started G1, there was a moment where Wheeljack had a bomb and I was just like, "Yep, that's where Prime Wheeljack came from" LOL

I don't have much of an opinion on Smookescreen. He's the typical inexperienced greenhorn, who later grows up. My favorite moment was during the time Optimus was dying and instead of just taking the Matrix, he used the forge to upgrade him. I thought that was rather mature of him to realize he's far from ready to take on that kind of responsibility. I read an opinion that his character would have benefited better for Hot Rod, and while I somewhat agree, I think Prime Smokescreen was just fine as is

And Ultra Magnus is cool. He has a major stick up his ass, but he's cool. I thought him coming into the mix and acting as commander to a team who was already established was interesting, and of course the backstory involving him and the Wreckers was nice to build up on. He's not that much different from G1, though I think G1 Magnus knows how to lighten up more lmao

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