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I’m a *HUGE* G1 fanatic, but even I’ve got to admit, the new show makes enough homages to G1 to make me happy, from the Dinobots and Soundwave, to the "Headmaster" villian and the mutant "transforming" humans that looked suspiciously like certain Pretenders… The new theme isn’t terrible either, to be dead honest…
As I realized with the live-action film, as long as you come to terms with the fact that it just *isn’t* G1, no matter how many homages they make, it’s still quite palatable;
(And do give "Robots in Disguise" another chance, albeit in Japanese, where it’s known as "Car Robots 2000", roughly… The US version was horribly mutilated, replacing the kickin’ guitar rock battle songs of the japanese version with bland thumping cheap techno-esque music, right down to replacing the awesome japanese theme, "burning overdrive" with a baaad bland song….)
~WalkingTiger
If it’s anything to the fans, the first episode did feature snippets of the G1 cartoons of old during the first minute or so. Even G1 Megatron could be seen here.
Personally, while the art style may cause most people to turn away from the show, I applaud them for their efforts in putting THE ENTIRE franchise into one convinient package, even Beast Wars!
It’s fun just trying to pick through all the possible references!
Just give it a chance, m’kay?
Example: Cybertron involves Unicron’s essence and how it’s his fault the black hole exists. Galaxy Force on the other hand has absolutly nothing to do with Unicron, nor is he even closely ever mentioned. All Galaxy Force has in common with Micron Densetsu and Superlink is that it’s part of what has been called the Micron Trilogy … NOT the Unicron Trilogy.
Lastly, I said Animated is really the only good American series since G1. I say that because I’ve assumed that Beast Wars is actually not American but Canadian (Mainframe is a Canadian company). Though Beast Wars was okay, It’s not in my top 5 TF series.