There was a discussion on the fact that in season 2 of Prime, the writers seem to have inexplicably forgotten everything they know about narrative cohesion, character consistency, or, you know, pacing. Feels like different characters, a different show, no momentum, no forward motion...basically it really was like talking about 5Ds
THERE'S a show I could use the 'worse than Exodus' tag for...But it finally occurred to me what the REAL biggest problem with Prime's writing is. I mean overarching. Both seasons. This is actually something that was bitched about for Bayverse, which is funny because it happens on so much smaller a scale there.
AS OF SEASON ONE, Random Cybertronian Flotsam that has washed up on earth includes but is clearly not limited to:
-Unicron's giant severed robot god head (around which our planet is apparently formed)
-Huge miles-long deposits of Energon and its zombie-making counterpart
-At least one well-established colony of literally thousands of fourty-foot robot bugs
-No fewer than four derelict alien warships
-Energon extractors disguised as Greek artifacts
-Various sundry experimental alien weapons
-Various sundry alien religious artifacts that moonlight as potential WMDs/WMD generators
-Quake'n'Bake (Alas, poor Skyquake, we hardly knew ye)
-Horrifying giant colonies of metal-eating alien parasites
-Hugeass metal data canisters clearly not originating on earth
-giant robot battlefields full of giant robot corpses
While some of this is underground, all of the alien ships so far have been seen to be...pretty much just sitting there. Out in the open. In canyons, sure, but pretty much completely out in the open. As was the battlefield full of dead Cybertronians Megatron raised as zombies. And these are all things, mind, that are stated to have been on our planet for millions of years or more! Add this to the fact that the Decepticons are clearly shown to have several large-scale mining operations going on--that means industrial equipment, drilling, and tons of guards and miners who all happen to be twenty-umph foot giant alien robots--and that they perform their pickups on these operations with their miles-long warship and its tractor beam elevator by bringing it right down to the surface...
I am kind of left wondering two things.
1) How in the living fuck are we supposed to believe NO ONE ON EARTH HAS EVER NOTICED ANY OF THIS AT ALL. This sprints past Bayverse and leaves it blinking in confusion on the 'there's no way to cover that shit up' front.
2) What school of screenwriting it is that says 'if you want an interesting alien trinket or something to show up in an episode, just drop it in a canyon somewhere on earth. It's cool.'
Lazy bastards.
I still miss season one, where I could look at the variety of things washed up and bullshit crack theories about earth being intended as a prison/mining facility. And characters actually being distinguishable from each other. And actual coherent story direction.I'm still looking forward to the next episode too because asldjflsdf Nemesis you are such a sexy ship Also YAY FOR MORE ROBOT ZOMBIES![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small}
