I liked it more than I thought i would. The story is the same old setup Autobots stuck on Earth and Decepticons trying to kill them for energon. What I liked about the first five episodes is that the directors of the show didn't try to cramp the plot into one episode instead building up the characters and their respective relationships. Also the show uses the three children Miko Nakadai, Jack Darby, and Rafael "Raf" Esquivel to ask questions such as why are the Autobots on Earth and why they can't go home? This provides the audience with details needed to understand why the Autobots do what they do lastly, it gives an emotion moment when they destroy their only way home trapping them on Earth. The bad side of the story is that it's nothing new form previous cartoon of the same name. The Autobots are still stuck on Earth and out gunned by the Decepticons. Somehow three kid get entangled which the Autobots even though nobody else has seen them, for the most part the plot was predictable. Even with a predictable plot the saving grace was the character relationships first is Optimus Prime and Ratchet old war buddies that have a pretty simple relationship which was shown best through the actions they take instead of the words they share. Their relationship works well for what is, Ratchet is an old bot set in his ways who sees human as nothing more then a problem. On the other hand we have Optimus who can't afford to be stubborn having to think about the safety of humans and Autobots alike. Having Ratchet someone who is most like to shot first ask question never as his second in command keeps Optimus honest. Like I said their best scenes is when they don't need to talk their body language says everything. Miko and Bulkhead have a great relationship simply because he's a ten ton war machine but yet she runs him and makes in look easy without ever making him look spineless. Bumble Bee and Rafael's relationship works well because Raf forms an instant connect with Bumble Bee, plus he's the only human that can understand Bumble Bee. Final reason is during the plot it is shown that Bumble Bee is the kid of the Autobots and now finally he has someone to play with that won't look down on him cause he wants to chill and play some video games. Last but not least is Jack and Arcee my favorite team up both characters are going though a serious change in life so you get to see how their leaning on one another just to get though. Plus the voice actors really make the characters come to life by bringing their A game and showing emotion depth. Jack hates his life most likely has some father issues with a single mom at home, form the beginning the show shows that Jack wants to be normal he wants to be having fun rather then having to work now comes the craziness of the Autobots to make his life even more complex. Arcee has just lost a partner with the death of Cliffjumper she's anger, pissed and now has to play babysitter a human that she views as an pain in the ass. After sometime Arcee starts to warm up to Jack to the point that she likes having Jack around on the flip side Jack can't handled being shot at hoping to be saved by her every time his in harms way. Arcee asks Jack not to quit and he comes back with iffy feelings still, which completely changes when he sees that she was nearly killed on a mission. Basically showing that if his not going to stay for himself he'll at least stay for her sake. All in all the plot episodes really have me looking forward to the episodes to come.
My rating: I wasn't bored and looking forward to watching more Transformers Prime: 7.4/10
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