If you're looking for a good Transformers show, and you were placing all your bets on "Armada", I'm very disappointed to tell you to skip it.
I'm not a dedicated Transformer "purist", but even I can't stand "Armada". This series is dedicated to the Transformers hunt for a race of lost robots called Mini-Cons that allow them to "Level Up" when they attach to them. Along the way, the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out over every little thing, while the most moronic bunch of kids you've ever seen gets underfoot every step of the way.
The kids are the absolute worst. Their voiceovers are incredibly painful - I can only liken these people's voices to the ones on Sailor Moon. So naturally, they usually suck up the most screen time per episode. The Mini-Cons are dull, with no personality, and sometimes it seems that their purpose is simply to act as a plot device. The animation is amazingly clunky, especially when compared to the 1984 series (how is it that as our tech gets better, they wind up looking worse?). And just when you think that you can really get into the show, they just pull something out of the anime handbook that makes you want to turn the TV right off.
So I'm sorry to say that our search for a good follow-up to the G1 series continues, as Armada doesn't fulfill. If you like to see giant robots beating the tar out of each other, this ain't the show for you.
I'm not a dedicated Transformer "purist", but even I can't stand "Armada". This series is dedicated to the Transformers hunt for a race of lost robots called Mini-Cons that allow them to "Level Up" when they attach to them. Along the way, the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out over every little thing, while the most moronic bunch of kids you've ever seen gets underfoot every step of the way.
The kids are the absolute worst. Their voiceovers are incredibly painful - I can only liken these people's voices to the ones on Sailor Moon. So naturally, they usually suck up the most screen time per episode. The Mini-Cons are dull, with no personality, and sometimes it seems that their purpose is simply to act as a plot device. The animation is amazingly clunky, especially when compared to the 1984 series (how is it that as our tech gets better, they wind up looking worse?). And just when you think that you can really get into the show, they just pull something out of the anime handbook that makes you want to turn the TV right off.
So I'm sorry to say that our search for a good follow-up to the G1 series continues, as Armada doesn't fulfill. If you like to see giant robots beating the tar out of each other, this ain't the show for you.