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NEWS: Netflix Debuts Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy - Earthrise Series on December 30




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MrSatyre



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:40 am Reply with quote
Hard pass.

I've never understood Transformers' appeal. You're a race of super-powerful machine AI, and you choose to look like trucks and boom boxes? And you just sit around doing nothing until you're needed by a puny, squishy human?
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The Not so Chosen One



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:43 pm Reply with quote
MrSatyre wrote:
Hard pass.

I've never understood Transformers' appeal. You're a race of super-powerful machine AI, and you choose to look like trucks and boom boxes? And you just sit around doing nothing until you're needed by a puny, squishy human?

That's a pretty dumb and reductive take.
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lostrune



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 4:53 am Reply with quote
MrSatyre wrote:
Hard pass.

I've never understood Transformers' appeal. You're a race of super-powerful machine AI, and you choose to look like trucks and boom boxes? And you just sit around doing nothing until you're needed by a puny, squishy human?


Well like many of these franchises, it depends on the iteration. All the good series give a reason why they have alt forms, mainly as camouflage or transportation. But yeah, some of the lazier incarnations just make it out to be a Cars situation if they don't care.
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