Beastro wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:25 am
I actually liked Season 2 of Shadowraiders because it got more mature and settled in. I didn't like how abruptly it ended with the story around the prison planet fragment, but I appreciated the ending where the protagonists for once "win" by simply surviving, not attaining victory. That makes the Beast Planet all the more intimidating.
The writers did what they could, but just the premise of "oh it turns out every one of this planets has a giant rocket engine on it and now we're going to literally fly them around" (with zero consideration for what that would do to tides or temperatures or whatever) was just... really dumb.
It was fine for the *beast* planet to do that as that was its built in threat, it was *made*, not an actual planet. But...
I know that's what the playsets were about but still.
Beastro wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:46 am
I wish they'd done more with Depthcharge.
Him being a loner combined with how the series got went towards the end didn't allow for much room to show depth (heh) to his character beyond single-mind revenge.
The entire third season suffered a little from the "make things into new toys" mandate they had. In season 2 they upgraded all the characters in one fell swoop, but season 3 they had marching orders to make the new toy a specific focus... and it shows a little bit given that almost every single episode in the final season is about upgrading/introducing 1 character. Optimus, Depth Charge, Dinobot 2, Cheetor, Black Arachnia, Megatron, Tigerhawk... a full 7 out of 13 episodes are given over to doing upgrades and it affects the pacing.
(This was much, MUCH worse In the other mainframe shaow, War Planets/Shadow Raiders season 2 where it is SUPER obvious the toy company demanded the insane premise be incorporated more so the story about characters and drama turned into a thing with planets that had engines and moved around and got really really dumb.)
And of course, the most important episode where Ratrap fixes Dinobot got cut for being too dark and we got the worst episode of the series, Go With the Flow instead.
I actually liked Season 2 of Shadowraiders because it got more mature and settled in. I didn't like how abruptly it ended with the story around the prison planet fragment, but I appreciated the ending where the protagonists for once "win" by simply surviving, not attaining victory. That makes the Beast Planet all the more intimidating.
Yhe only issue was that there was so much more to do with the premise of traveling around and it could have gotten darker. They could have wound up becoming like the crew of the Lexx and just led the Beast Planet around finding planets to gobble up inadvertently making its job easier in the attempt to gather forces to fight it.
I also liked season 2. I do wish we'd gotten more but at least we did get a decent ending. Could be better, could have gotten more, but it worked.
