Every time I hear the Transformers Prime opening I want to cry because it’s one of the best cartoon openings ever imo. Not just song wise, but the entire animation too.
It’s a battle march that starts off with the main instruments (can’t quite tell what it is but it sounds like lower strings mixed with some sort of horn) sounding sorrowful but intense, while the video is very blue and dark (introducing the autobots). Then the main bit crescendos into the second part, which is higher, lighter, and overall has a more hopeful feel to it. The marching beat all but fades away. The animation is colorful and bright, focusing on greens (hope) and just the slightest bit of red (passion) as they introduce the kids.
THEN IT HITS THE DECEPTICON PART and it’s strong and intense and downright wrathful. The beat is more intense, more focused, more of a sprint than a march, and the instruments are low and heavy. Likewise, the animation is vividly red (passion and anger) and dark, fitting the music perfectly.
Also: the camera follows the movement instead of being fixed and letting things move. Just look at when Optimus transforms or when Starscream flies by. Everything flows into each other.
And just like that, they’ve managed to set the emotional tone for the overall plot and each of characters (Autobots, humans, and Decepticons), all in less than a minute.
TLDR; the opening might be my favorite part of Prime judging by how much I just analyzed it and it’s really fucking well made from a sound design and scene composition point of view.
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You know how people will sometimes
hit a malfunctioning machine to make it work right? Megatron basically does that to Starscream.
Starscream: “crimes against me”
Megatron, an intellectual: “percussive maintenance”
Why doesn’t bayverse prime trust bee to be alone at the base unsupervised?
huh?
Cause he’s just a little bay bee
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I know that usually, unless Shockwave is involved, “aligned” continuity Transformers/Cybertronians are born
from the Well of AllSparks
fully functional and adult-sized. There is no procreation and no physical growing up.
But Transformers do acknowledge differences between young and old, which are based on
time spent alive and
life experiences, and it’s normal for them to have mentors and students.
Since they can also form relationships like friendships, analogies to human families, and even feel love, I guess loving couples could technically just loiter around the Well of Allsparks until it creates someone they can adopt?
man sometimes i think it must be a trip and a half for non tf fans looking at tf blogs
cause you’ve got content from the g1 cartoon, which features characters talking about tinfoil turkeys and booby traps that catch boobies, and then you’ve got comic panels featuring those same characters, with very similar designs, discussing political maneuvering and ideology while dealing with all manner of complex mental issues
and then you have those same comic characters saying things like “looks like his derring-do… is derring-done.”
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me, going through a hundred posts in my drafts and tagging everything: I now fully understand why Orion Pax wanted to quit his job as data clerk and start a revolution but not badly enough to actually start shit by himself
Transformers Fans: why aren’t there any girl transformers?
Hasbro: lol silly women. they are robots. alien robots. they don’t have genders. why would there be girls? lol
Transformers Fans: so they’re all boys?
Hasbro: Yep
Transformers Fans: does this mean that transformers are all boys that have romantic relationships with other boys?
Hasbro: …
Transformers Fans: [draw fanart]
Hasbro: shit shit SHIT SHIT QUICK MAKE FEMALES MAKE FEMALES
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There is no official art of Dr. Cogwheel and that’s a real shame.
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cyclonus: tailgate is one of the kindest, most tender, most wonderful mechs i have ever met. the more he is pushed away, the harder he tries. i am truly honored to know and love him.
tailgate: i love my boyfriend cyclonus he plurble
How's it hummin'? 