Glad to see this series wasn't dumped.
I was beginning to worry, when she stopped at episode 7 of her (I believe) 12-part series.
But heck, it's not like her videos made in the meantime were bad. I love me some Lindsay Ellis. Doesn't matter the subject.
She was one of the best things to come out of the garbage bin that was TGWTG
These videos have really shined a light on both how much of a dumpster fire the movie franchise is, and how great other incarnations of Transformers are in contrast. I want to believe the Bumblebee movie can right the course, but I understand why she is skeptical - Hollywood seems to be fundamentally unable to approach the Transformers on their own terms, rather than as expensive CGI accessories to the human characters. Even if Bunmblee ends up being a decent kids film and features human characters that aren't all complete assholes, I question whether it will actually be a good Transformers film - it certainly won't be if the robots are still extras in their own movie.
I kinda want to see what would happen if Hasbro got Shinji Aramaki to make a CG Transformers movie/series. I feel like he'd have no problem letting the cybertronians be the main characters considering how much he loves mechs and robots.
I don't blame Lindsay or anyone really. While the trailer looks nice and gives us what we want since the first trailer back in 2006, it feels too good to be true. All of the trailers barring TF2 were like mirages in that it makes you THINK it's going to be a big sweeping action flick with giant shape-shifting robots and cutesy moments with the R2D2 archetype. Then you get lost in confusion and anguish when the final product is not what the trailers made it out to be. I had my hopes up with TF4, but man it was just an awful spiral of being dupped over and over with the same shit. It's like a giant red and blue cupcake dangling in front of you on a stick only to taste like Styrofoam. Bumblebee is hitting all of the right check boxes more than the last four films, but I hope it to all be true in the end. SDCC is coming out soon and the new trialer is confirmed to be there on the 29th, so I'd wager we eagerly wait for it to drop to make further judgement (despite me keeping tabs on the whole production).
Given Paramount's track record and Hasbro's dumb handling of the property to other companies, something tells me they'd let the franchise die in their hands before handing it out to someone else if it means they can't ear back milk it some more.
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