Announced as an adult-targeted animated series to tie in with the collector friendly Combiner Wars toy line, production studio Machinima promised mature storytelling and sophisticated animation, a show specifically for people who wished Transformers had grown up along with them. It’s not difficult to imagine your average eight year old smashing his Optimus Prime and Megatron toys together crafting a more interesting, nuanced story than what Energon serves up.Ĭombiner Wars promised so much. Character motivations change for no real reason other than the writers decided it. ![]() The cel-shaded animation is somehow cruder than Beast Wars and Beast Machines, shows that aired several years earlier. Energon can’t really blame its problems on a bad dub though - it’s terrible in any language.Įnergon’s plot about the Autobots stopping the Decepticons from awakening Unicron ends up resolved about halfway through the 52 episode series, only for the show to undo the plot progress and repeat itself… and at that point there were still 13 nonsensical episodes left. ![]() Like the other entries in the Unicron Trilogy, the series was primarily produced in Japan and dubbed for American audiences. The second entry in what is referred to as the Unicron Trilogy, Transformers: Energon is downright impressive in the scope of its ineptitude.
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