reviews

this is just gonna be my longer form writing, so it could be reviews or opinions on characters or plots or apps or. anything really! please watch out for typos, bad grammar, and poor thought flow!

friday october 31, 2025 - I've just started to listen to the transformers cd i took out from the library! something will hopefully come out of it XP

transformers cyberverse

November 25 & 26, 2025

by the way i don't have any of this planned im just winging it XD.

I recently re-watched Transformers: Cyberverse, and because I'm working on this website I thought it might make it easier to actually write something. Here we go!

first off: a simple rating. I have to give Cyberverse a 11/10 cubes of energon.

I really enjoy the show (which probably doesn't tell you anything, but bear with me here!

We don't start off particularly strong with season one. Its only 18 episodes long, thought, so I think that it's best to simply watch it in one go and head on over to season 2. You get a basic intro into the universe and the style of the show through Bumblebee and Windblades' perspectives.

The rest of the show (seasons 2, 3, and 4) doesn't put near as much focus on Bumblebee. We instead switch over to a larger cast of autobots, and the group ends up as a cross-factional group.

I'm not going to say much more about the plot and instead move on to some of the good stuff that stands out to me.

the characters.

undoubtedly a very self explanatory choice, but nonetheless: I really like most of the characters in the show. There are a few that stand out to me, wether because of their design, personality, or attractiveness. I (predictably) find Megatron annoying, but he's not quite IN YOUR FACE about it. The balance (moreso game of seesaw) they manage to play with characters like Optimus Prime (who can easily switch from humourous to serious) is very appealing to me. Some of the characters I like most are Thundercracker (RIP), Hot Rod (especially a fan of his emo paint job), Soundwave, Clobber, Meteorfire, and Arcee (she's so badass!).

the world building

You heard me right; the world building.

I feel a little insane saying this, to be honest, since canon worldbuilding is usually something that pisses me off. But I think that Cyberverse did a great job of it!

I often take issue with the fact that 1) Primus is (usually) so integrally connected to the creation of Cybertron (a can of worms I should address at a later date) and 2) The fact that so often Cybertron is a singular biome. This coming from a guy who likes TOS! Almost every planet is one biome!

I think a key difference is how they treat the biomes. Star Trek provides a logical explanation: there are different classes of planets, and there are a variety of biome-planets within those classes. (I'm specifically thinking about Class M planets.) But Cybertron isn't often paired up with other biome planets! Cyberverse deals with this quickly and efficiently: there are multiple biomes on Cybertron. They never really address the "god-status" of the Primes, or Primus, but the fact that there are multiple biomes is good enough for me.

To not leave you hanging if you haven't seen Cyberverse: there are the typical cities (like Iacon), there is the Argon sea (a sea of gases with its own life forms, distinct from those you would find in Iacon), the "wild west" (technically known as Cobalt Springs)(which, admitedly, we dont see much - or any of? - of except in that episode about Wild Wheel), the valley of repugnus (which is located in "prehistoric" cybertron, near some actuall honest-to-primus forests and energon rivers).

There's diversity in that! Its a believable world that can sustain life! Because despite the transformers being made of metal, they are alive! The more diversity is present, the better chance. Also it's just straight up funner.

after that the reasons i can think of right now (12:33 am...) are much "smaller" reasons so I'm just going to list them here:

i like the way the characters look, the animation style.
i like the plots (they're equaly unhinged and earnest), and they take some fun different approaches to certain things that don't always happen.

also that they don't bring up unicron at all? i really appreciate how low on their priority list the whole religious shtick is.

they bring in some really fun likeable background characters, they have yuri, they have some cool "unusual" characterisations (thinking of jetfire here), and they kill drift. sorry drift fans XD

SO! I'm going to wrap it up there, since I should be heading to bed now and I'm loosing track of what I've already said. This was fun so hopefully I'll get around to adding some more. I think the "write it directly into the neocities editor" is a good method for me to work with.

Transformers Robots in Disguise 2015

December 1st, 2025

I just finished watching RID2015 (litteraly yesterday XD) and I miss it already.. Figures writing a review/opinion thing might fill the void in my spark! So I've got my music going and I'm about to lock in (and hopefully only check tumblr after I finish this!

I'm completely skipping the plot summary for this one, so beware. there might be spoilers in here. There probably will be.

The show focuses on the Cybertronians: Bumblebee, Grimlock, Strongarm, Sideswipe, Drift, and by extension: Jetstorm and Slipstream, who are Drift's pupils, and the humans: Denny and Russel Clay, and Fixit is there too. I knew of Sideswipe before I really knew the show, I think thanks to a screenshot blog on tumblr. I thought he would be cool (this is unexpected.) so I was already pretermined to like him. I had actually drawn Strongarm before I saw Sideswipe, I think, but in the end it didn't really do much for her.

Regardless of all that, I quite like the cast. I don't like Drift very much at all, but I ended up warming up to this Drift. Same with Grimlock, I think G1 gave me a bad impression of him, because I liked him in RID2015. Bumblebee was ok, but there really isn't much to note here. As already mentioned, I liked Sideswipe, and Strongarm ended up pretty closely tied with Bumblebee. The humans actually did much better than my expectations. I suppose I never expect much from humans in Transformers, and I tend to hope there arent any in whatever it is that I'm watching or reading, but again - I didn't mind them. Sure, they can be annoying, but same goes for the Cybertronians!

I caved and checked tumblr.. thankfully I'm back, and on the grind.

The show has a lot of ups and downs, to be quite honest, but overall I did like it. Because remebmering what I dont like is easier, I will talk about that first. (Also the main draw was in fact Sideswipe.. and you probably don't wanna hear me talk about him.)

I think the singular most annoying thing about the show was that it's in the alligned continuity. Yeah. I'm sorry if that's your favourite continuity, but I really can't stand it. (Ok admitedly I mostly take issue with TF:P. I'll shut up about that now.)

We mostly stay away from TF:P, but on occasion we get. Soundwave. Or you know, Bulkhead. Or Ratchet. Or Starscream. Which is ok, in the end, since I'm not the one writing the show. But I think that I would have enjoyed the show more if it was less tied in, like how Rescue Bots is.

I'm realising my main issue is straight up with TF:P... there ain't no playing around going on here, let's just move on.

I found Steeljaw to be quite annoying, mostly because he sticks around for so long? Like it makes sense, but also won't he just give up! I was kinda hoping that he wouldn't be annoying when I first met him, but.. that hope faded fast.

My next issue (complaint is undoubtedly a better word, since. that's exactly what it is. a complaint) is actually with Windblade. Now I know that it's an unfair complaint to have, since I don't actually really have an issue with her. I have an issue with the writers agenda pushing so hard for Sideswipe to have a crush on her. Look. Could we not just have a NON-ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A GUY AND A GAL???? FOR ONCE????? PLEASE FUCKING PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP????

When Windblade first appeared I was exited. I like Windblade. She's cool and badass. But unfortunately for me I like Sideswipe. So that kind of.. lense, I guess. makes it hard to remain positive. I think maybe it's because Windblade basically ended up being the person/personality (with a margin of error) that I would have had my oc be. Sucks to suck, I guess. I just ended up making a different oc, lol.

I think Windblade is a cool character in RID2015, but I've been blinded by jealousy. Essentially XD. She kinda reminds me of Princess Leia? I don't know they kinda both have that simmilar vibe or something... and they're both pretty cool.

Uhm that's a lot of thinking on my part so I'm just going to put this thing here then. Probably talk about Sideswipe. Sorry guys.

I found Optimus Prime annoying at first, but then he didn't do anything for a while so it was ok. Then he kept telling the crew what to do and I got annoyed at him again. That's Bumblebee's team? Why are you trying to take command of them?

Ok now onto Sideswipe. As we should.

Dude I'm so fucked I like him too much.

Down bad is genuinely the only way I know how to convey how I feel about him. He is my light, my sunshine, my everything. I love him. He is amazing and cool and awesome and unbeatable and

Oh you want concrete reasons why I like him? With examples and references? uhh. I'll see what I can do..