I sometimes get tired of the fan assetion that Transformers would be better without human characters. That might work in situations where the robots transform into animals or alien ships, but if the robots transform into semi trucks and ambulences, humans should be involved. Sure, they may not be as interesting as the Robots in Disguise, but it would seem very odd for giant robots to be duking it out on earth and not run into a human every once in a while.
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Answers the question, “Giant compared to what?”
Well, I guess it could be giant compared to trees or mountains or something, but that doesn’t have the same appeal.
Besides, you need the screaming, running characters to carry on about how exceedingly big/fantastic/unbelievable they are….Transformers usually aren’t that vain.
Exactly.
ah, but did they need so much of those humans?
Depends on what you’re talking about. I haven’t seen the new transformers if that’s what you mean, and to be honest, I haven’t seen that many episodes of the original series. So maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. I did think that Transformers Animated had the right amount of human characters.
It’s not that it needed human characters, it just that it didn’t need to outnumber the Giant Robots…That’s where Bayformers fails…
New Animated series is good.