Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Rodimus Prime wrote:I would start with the first episode in the series, it's the one intended to introduce the story and characters. Of course, if you're going for instant wow-factor, you should pick a highly dramatic/action-packed episode, perhaps toward the end. It would probably get most new viewers to watch the rest of the show to see how things got to where they are in that episode.
Sabrblade wrote:For Beast Wars, "Dark Voyage" is my pick.
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
IMHO, "Dark Voyage" is the quintessential episode of Beast Wars.TulioDude wrote:Sabrblade wrote:For Beast Wars, "Dark Voyage" is my pick.
Anything that stands out for you in particular in this episode?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
I wouldn't say that. I mean, it's basically written with the idea that its audience is already familiar with what's going on and who its characters are. It does not tell us who any of its characters are (beyond Megatron and Cryotek getting namedropped), what the Golden Disk is, why it's important, or why the characters are trying to steal it. And it even ends on a cliffhanger that is only properly concluded in a comic book that saw very limited distribution, so it's not even the whole story.TulioDude wrote:I would add the Theft of the Golden Disk,the animation is not the best,but tells a very sleek story.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
I dunno, I feel like you have to know a lot of preexisting info about Beast Wars to really get that one.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Bad Spark - If we're talking very good stand alone stories that don't need context. Rampage's debut is one of the highlights of Season 2, which is the pinnacle of Beast Wars itself.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Bad Spark - If we're talking very good stand alone stories that don't need context. Rampage's debut is one of the highlights of Season 2, which is the pinnacle of Beast Wars itself.
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
TulioDude wrote:Changed the thread title again,just because I think comics and manga have plenty of stand alone stories worth discussing.
Special mention to Transformers #13(Marvel)
In my opinion,this issue has best use in fiction for Megatron's gun mode.
Oh, but as that story shows... it never ends.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Peace - from the 1989 Transformers Annual.
For me, this is the only way the story of the Transformers should end. The story of the end of the Cybertronian Civil War ala Autobot victory. Better than any resolution, later media has portrayed.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Oh, but as that story shows... it never ends.
I have to disagree with "Shooting Star" being the least interesting. Out of that stretch you mentioned, "Plight of The Bumblebee" was the lamest in my opinion.Whifflefire wrote:TulioDude wrote:Changed the thread title again,just because I think comics and manga have plenty of stand alone stories worth discussing.
Special mention to Transformers #13(Marvel)
In my opinion,this issue has best use in fiction for Megatron's gun mode.
This issue was actually the first Marvel TF comic I read. It was the first in a collection called "Cybertron Redux", which consisted of issues #13 - #18. It was one of the first pieces of Transformers media I was ever exposed to, back in 2006 when the Cybertron cartoon was all I knew about the franchise. I remember reading Optimus Prime in Garry Calk's voice because I didn't even know who Peter Cullen was yet.
I found "Shooting Star!" to be the least interesting of the bunch, however. Mid-life crises of miserable wash-outs are not themes relatable to a six-year-old, though it was pretty funny when Joey Slick accidentally revives Megatron and gets told off. It's probably this issue that made me accept Megatron turning into a gun, even though "my" Megatron was a space-car. But as a piece of Transformes media, I don't know that it really represents the premise of the franchise, as it's very light with Transformers themselves and doesn't portray Megatron as particularly competent. The subsequent issues were what really excited me - I loved "Rock and Roll Out" where the '85 cars are introduced and have to save a rock concert audience from Decepticons - that could work as an introductory piece because it provides plenty of moments of exposition for the premise of the series, such as when the Autobots initiate Jetfire, as well as when Bumblebee explains their story to the new recruits.
Rodimus Prime wrote:I have to disagree with "Shooting Star" being the least interesting. Out of that stretch you mentioned, "Plight of The Bumblebee" was the lamest in my opinion.
I do have to say I have special connection to both "Shooting Star" and "Rock and Roll Out" as these were the 1st ever 2 Transformers stories I read, except I read them in the 80s when I was a kid. I was hooked immediately. From then on I got all the comics that came out and later went back and got the 1st 12 issues that I missed.
As for best standalone story? There are so many to choose from, I couldn't begin to pick one. And "best" is a subjective term anyway. I think picking "most memorable" stories might get better results.
And for some reason the Lost Light issue where some of the Autobots become miniatures and get inside Ultra Magnus's mouth comes to mind. That was a great story.
Rodimus Prime wrote:
As for best standalone story? There are so many to choose from, I couldn't begin to pick one. And "best" is a subjective term anyway. I think picking "most memorable" stories might get better results.
Whifflefire wrote:
Not scarring at all
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
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