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Originally Posted by Locke

unlike Beast Wars for example, which was a show I loved as a child but it's aged so horribly in the last ten or so years I find it unwatchable as an adult.

That's ridiculous. Beast Wars is still alongside MTMTE and Animated as the pinnacle of Transformers quality. While the CG quality is obviously not as good as some recent shows, it is in no way ugly or distracting and does not even nearly effect the brilliant story-telling present throughout the series. I watched it for the first time last year and I am baffled by how somebody could think it hasn't aged well if they gave it a chance, because it definitely has and is definitely worth every second of it.

Still, even with it not being totally up to today's standard, Beast Wars CG characters had eight times the emotional range of the CG Transformers in Energon and even Prime.

As for AOE. It was OK, definitely a distinct improvement on DOTM and ROTF, but it was far too long for what the plot deserved and that really detracted from the overall experience. Plus, while significantly less offensive then ROTF and DOTM in terms of humour, it still suffered from the usual Michael Bay human dialogue that stagnated and repeated and furthered the plot in no significant way and there were a lot of pointless scenes that only existed to boost the film's length. I enjoyed it, although I was the only one in the group of six I went with that did, but I can honestly understand the critical panning its receiving due to franchise fatigue and just more of the same. Good big budget action movies are more common then bad ones lately and Transformers just isn't up to the standard of its competitors in terms of story, action and character which I think is a shame because Transformers could be up there with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men franchise, Planet of the Apes franchise and even the Amazing Spider-Man films if they tried (and had a different creative team).