War For Cybertron: Siege -- That Sure Happened

(In the show's defense -- that could have definitely been worse.)

Y'all remember the first five episode starting arc of Transformers: Prime? Remember how dense and kind of aimless that felt, when the goal kept changing every episode and new information was constantly being established about the situation in a way that felt a lot like standing in front of an exposition firehose? And how you kinda got through that because the moments of character acting pulled you in, made you see these characters as people and got you invested?

WfC:S is... kinda that, but for more episodes, and with worse characterisation. Worst of all, since that is the entire season, that's all the arc we're gonna get for most of them.

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All in all -- not bad! But only really "not bad": I can't see this getting popular or having a big fandom, because there's just not much here unless you're already into the franchise, and the things that are done differently aren't gone into enough detail to really sell them. This would be a bad place to start if you wanna get into TF, but as popcorn entertainment, it's plenty.

(I also still think the actual game of War For Cybertron also did the majority of these plot points better.)