The Hub's GI Joe, Transformers, and My Little Pony relaunches...

[Ragnorok64]

Man these episodes are/were all out of order. We finally get a masked Destro though.

[StoneGold]

Man these episodes are/were all out of order. We finally get a masked Destro though.

Yeah, but whatever. In some ways, I'm glad, because the Homecoming episodes were better than some of the earlier ones.


Also, Serpentor! More or less.

[Red Lotus]

Man these episodes are/were all out of order. We finally get a masked Destro though.

I know Wikipedia is wrong a lot of the time, but their episode list for the right order of the show seem pretty right to me.

[Charles RB]

The moral of the last episode: don't mess with Cobra Commander...

[Captain Librarian]

I saw an episode of My Little Pony the other day and it wasn't actually nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

The producer is Lauren Faust, wife of Craig McCraken (Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab), so that's no surprise.

I do like the A-Team feel of the new GI Joe cartoon, though something about the animation seemed off. I actually think the MLP cartoon has better animation.

[sun tzu]

I saw an episode of My Little Pony the other day and it wasn't actually nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

Freakin' awesome is what it is.

Shameless plug time: I did a tongue-in-cheek episode-by-episode review of the original My Little Pony, then started doing reviews of the new one as soon as it came out (...around post #100). I've actually be surprised by the positive reception.

[Sean Walsh]

The people making this show seem to really like G.I. Joe the movie. They've got Tunnel Rat in the main team plus cameos from Jinx and Law and Order with Duke's younger brother being a nod to Lt. Falcon. The only newbies from that movie who haven't appeared are Chuckles and Big Lob.

Well, Tunnel Rat seems to be a fave of recent Joe creators. I believe he had a decent role in the RESOLUTE 'toon. Plus, he was created as a tribute to Larry Hama in the first place, so I'm sure that's been in the minds of any other creators who's ever worked on GI Joe.

Sad news - Renegades' character designer Clement Sauvé has passed away.

I can't believe I didn't recognize his influence on the animation here earlier.
RIP Clement.

Man these episodes are/were all out of order. We finally get a masked Destro though.

I'm rather surprised by that. Normally, an uncaring network shows things out of order and forces the show to deal with it (the last season of the DREW CAREY SHOW was ruined by ABC airing things out of order and the show reworking and refilming things to accomodate). So given that this network - owned and run by Hasbro - is doing this to a show based on one of their most significant properties......is just ridiculous.

[nervmeister]

The producer is Lauren Faust, wife of Craig McCraken (Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab), so that's no surprise.

Okay. Now I've got to check this out (cant believe I just said that about My Little Pony).

[Ragnorok64]

I'm rather surprised by that. Normally, an uncaring network shows things out of order and forces the show to deal with it (the last season of the DREW CAREY SHOW was ruined by ABC airing things out of order and the show reworking and refilming things to accomodate). So given that this network - owned and run by Hasbro - is doing this to a show based on one of their most significant properties......is just ridiculous.

Fortunately, this show is very episodic so it hasn't been too adversely effected by the episodes being out of order. I guess they really wanted the Christmas episodes to line up though.

[Ragnorok64]

Also, is it just me or are the Transformers Prime episodes awkwardly paced?

[Charles RB]

Well, Tunnel Rat seems to be a fave of recent Joe creators. I believe he had a decent role in the RESOLUTE 'toon.

It's possible he's in Renegades because he was in Resolute - have in characters that were recently prominent. (Hence a black Ripcord as the surprise death: killing, say, Gung-Ho wouldn't be as big a shock as killing the guy in a film)

[Joe no Sleep]

Also, is it just me or are the Transformers Prime episodes awkwardly paced?

It's almost like the first season of Beast Wars, where it feels like each episode has a "drinking game" repetiveness to it and sparse, underpopulated environments. We got a little something about Unicron early on, but for now, its all about the kids meeting these robots and the audience has to pretend they're being introduced to these characters for the first time.

[Ragnorok64]

It's almost like the first season of Beast Wars, where it feels like each episode has a "drinking game" repetiveness to it and sparse, underpopulated environments. We got a little something about Unicron early on, but for now, its all about the kids meeting these robots and the audienceI never has to pretend they're being introduced to these characters for the first time.

I never really found Beast wars to be repetative. Also they made up for the environments with great characters. In Prime, thus far, the episodes have been Michael Bay-esque action sequences sprinkled with some plot. It's honestly getting annoying.

[Caswin]

Come to think of it, I get the feeling that GI Joe: Renegades is kind of unfortunate in getting set up against My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The former is an exceptional cartoon, from everything I've seen of it, but it's been overshadowed by our favorite little ponies. Bad timing, Duke.

I haven't seen much of Transformers Prime, so I can't make any proper judgments about it, but... well, at the least, you can't fault the actors involved. I saw a short clip of Frank Welker and Peter Cullen on Youtube today, and Cullen seemed to be genuinely emotional about the new show, which kind of sets off whatever shortcomings it might have. (If that's the right way to phrase it.)

[StoneGold]

I never really found Beast wars to be repetative. Also they made up for the environments with great characters. In Prime, thus far, the episodes have been Michael Bay-esque action sequences sprinkled with some plot. It's honestly getting annoying.

Keep in mind, it is also a kids show. Mindless action is kind of the call of order.


And frankly, best voice cast since the original.