>>6578417I think the problem in here is the fact that Hasbro doesn't seem to realize how their target audience, both older fans from the G1 era and newer Bayverse ones, have grown up into actual old and young adults for the past decade. Kids that watched the 2007 movie when they were around the age of 12 - aka, the primary target demographic that actually really loved Bumblebee when he was freshly revived - are now 22 and probably grown way past one dimensional characters primarily conceived to sell toys and merchandise, and as such, they're most likely not going to watch this brand new show that's obviously oriented towards a far younger demographic than them on the premise of nostalgia alone, especially if you're at a age that's primary characterized by abandoning your past and embracing adulthood instead. It was by doing the exact opposite of this that Beast Wars worked so well back in the 90s: it had the basic premise of Transformers and the storyline was very vaguely connected to the original but it was also a completely new show with entirely new characters on an entirely new setting with episodes that actually had at the very least some form of interesting drama and nuance, at least enough to bring back the kids who watched the original and were now young adults by then. Had it not been for the improved writing and tone, had they just gone with another recycled G1 revival like they would nowadays, it's probably safe to say Transformers would have struggled to survive through the decade.
So yeah, I'm not pulling a DC here and saying that the new shows must be necessarily darker or grittier, but they urgently need to stop being child-oriented remakes of G1 with light Bayformer elements sprinkled onto them, because they're pandering to an audience that no longer gives a fuck about child-oriented. What about trying a little harder and giving us something with a brand new tone and some actual substance instead?
