>>106087481>I liked RID better than Prime for this reason. Animated also did it very well.I liked Animated too, but they very deliberately used human villains for a lot of episodes because they didn't want to cheapen the impact of the Decepticons.. but RiD didn't get that.
They used the Decepticons every week, so it DID cheapen them and make most of them seem like jobbers, even "The Pack" which was supposed to be the serious reoccuring enemies were composed of mostly incompetent or joke villains like Thunderhoof or Clampdown. Sure Lugnut and Blitzwing were kinda joke villains, but they were at least OP to make up for it, Clampdown's power is that he's... slightly less autistic than the other crustacean car robot?
>My ideal transformers series would be a motley crew of autobots fighting randos every week, and then having a big name baddy show up on the season finales.>Megatron should be talked about in hushed tones throughout until he finally shows up.That's kind of how every action cartoon is structured these days, so much so that I preferred how Rise of TMNT introduced Baron Draxum up-front, reveals he's kind of a nerd, and then sidelines him for the first dozen or so episodes. You can only build up a super-serious evil overlord who waits and watches in the shadows so often before people get disappointed that they don't live up to the hype, shit even Hot Streets made fun of that cliche in its first season. Megatronus in RiD is another bad example of this.
I think their problem was that they didn't balance the cast enough, you just had one-off villains that nobody took seriously, The Pack, who are mostly goobers led by Steeljaw, who we're TOLD has great ambitions but like, every season he just fucking ends up working for whoever the designated Big Bad is, and the Big Bads were barely characters.
Have Cryotek as a Predacon crime boss who's using the beasties to do his dirty work, have Bludgeon show up leading a kung fu death cult, actually fckn use Soundwave.
