>>7862459>not in the service of good storytelling but "woah this ain't your dad's transformers!"Yeah that's about right. The one that fucking killed me was blast off and onslaught, it just seemed like a total asspull, not a subversion just straight up stupid. Stuff like the scavengers and wreckers were great that goes without saying, but whenever I'd check in on it 8t seemed like they were just being "subversive" for the sake of it
>Optimus is a totalitarian?Stuff like a repentance arc for Megatron was a good idea but him becoming a full on autobot struck me as a bit much.
Personally I'd like to see a return to the relatively low key stuff of the -ations era of scale. Honestly I think what threw me the most from the second phase was how much of a clusterfuck it felt like