Honestly I haven't been excited by a new Transformers show since Beast Wars so I don't know why I had any expectations for this, but the trailers made it look like this could be something special, but sorry, just having the characters look like the good old G1 days isn't enough for me when everything else about it is so disappointing. They're nice to look at when they're standing still, but they have a pretty low range of articulation in motion, which leads to some weird robo fist fights that feel like you're watching a game of Rockem Sockem Robots. When there is action it feels pretty clunky, which isn't all that surprising considering the big blocky designs of the characters. Mostly just a bunch of melodramatic posturing. There's a lot of standing around very slowly talking about what's going on and what they're going to do, but not much actual doing. The pacing also has a kind of Dragon Ball Z feel to it (not a compliment). The guy doing the voice of Optimus is kind of painful to listen to because he starts out trying to play the part with a Peter Cullen impression, but he can't seem to hold it for more than a few seconds at a time and just keeps slipping into a normal voice most of the time.
The guy doing the voice of Starscream was the only one that seemed to be giving it any effort. For that matter, the dialogue itself feels off sometimes too, disjointed and awkward as if there's been some kind of poor translation from another language, but.there hasn't. Characters have a tendency to speak very slowly too, sometimes leaving huge awkward pauses between words for dramatic effect I guess, but they do it sooooo often, most of the time when there isn't anything particularly dramatic being said, that it's just unpleasant. Almost all of them sound like they're about to fall asleep. A lot of the characters sound almost identical. This is some of the most lethargic voice acting I've ever heard.
Obviously the visual design is great, but that's really the only nice thing I have to say about it.
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