griftimus prime wrote:wow. no. i expect big budget cuts on visuals and look at how they say halo is a great show. all out.
Yep. I don't see how they can make it 'live' action, because they'd have to CGI all the Transformers, therefore it would NOT be a 'live' show. What that says to me is that (IF this is true), it would be an all-human perspective dope opera type show, similar to the Bayverse movies, but with even LESS transformers. Cost limitations would throttle the amount of time any Transformers appear, on screen, in robot mode. Most of the time they would probably be kept in alt modes, and 'talk' through their communicators, and be used as mere sounding boards for the human characters, who would be the REAL focus of any show they make.
Among my many other gripes about the Bayverse movies is that they rely too heavily on the human characters for artificially injected drama. It's supposed to be about Transformers - living robots with real feelings and emotions of their own. Yet that doesn't get properly conveyed. In each instance, the Transformers are made almost secondary characters in the films, with the humans front and center.
I know it's tough and stretches belief to get audiences to emotionally invest in robot characters based on their performances. But if Hollywood can't do that, then it says more about their own lack of skill as writers and entertainers. If they were half as clever and professional as they pretend to be, they would try, and find a way to make it work. Instead, we get 'live action' Transformers that are some of the most soul-less, ridiculous, cardboard cut-out stereotypes that can be imagined. I find the fake 'personalities' that Bayverse slaps onto most of the Transformer characters to be an insult to my intelligence.