digitaldimensiongamin
My rating would be much higher if this wasn't dubbed "sequel" to transformers prime. It completely ruins the ending of the show with primes sacrifice and the rebirth of cybertron creating so many interesting plot points but no they decide to go to earth AGAIN. An overused and worn out plot by now. Every episode is a character learning a "lesson" and "growing" but than a few episodes later there the same again and it's rence and repeat for three seasons no character changes no character grows nothing even really happens in this show. They hunt a decepticon down they loose because one characters "mistake" they "learn" from it stop the decepticon and that's every episode down to the extremely rushed and lackluster/ un interesting finale that ends with the worst ending outta any transformers show ever this one is just bad bad like bad bad
Reynold Jupudi
Transformers Robots in Diguise is the sequel to the acclaimed Transformers Prime series. And it is a complete disgrace to Prime. One could write a book about everything that's wrong with RID. There is no plot, character development or anything else that would be part of a good show.The plot is terrible. RID promised to pick up where Prime left off but it does nothing to keep that promise. Instead, it drives on a silly plot in every episode and does nothing to expand the Aligned universe as a whole. Unlike Prime, RID is not one continuous series. Every episode is a new plot and the events of the plot have no real consequences. There is no tension or threat to the heroes like in Prime. And the so-called important plots end up being very anti-climatic. For example, in season 3, Soundwave is constantly teased and the audience are led to believe he will be a threat but he ends up being defeated in a single episode. There are many occasions such as this where you're anticipating something big and nothing big actually ends up happening.As for character development, there is none. Episodes mainly focus on characters learning some kind of lesson. However, the lessons learnt don't forward to future episodes. For example, an episode would deal with Sideswipe going rogue and having to learn teamwork but just a few episodes later, he would learn the same lesson all over again. Another instance is when Sideswipe and Steongarm learn to work and respect each other and in the next episode, they would get into a fight again. It seems so silly and makes you wonder if the writers read their own scripts. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee resemble little to their Prime counterparts. The whole Bumblebee feeling jealous of Optimus Prime in season 2 was stupid and annoying. The Prime version of Bumblebee would never act in such a way to defy his leader. It's simply not in his character but yet we are forced to accept these two Bumblebees are the same.I just wish Hasbro had ended the continuity with Prime. RID just ruins the masterpiece that Prime was.
Lauren
My kids can't stop watching it. They are 3, 5, and 8 and it's one of the few shows they will watch together. Anytime I would allow them to watch a show, they all asked to put it on. Even my husband enjoyed it. I hope that they have more seasons planned as my kids keep asking for new episodes.
ontopic123
SPOILERS FOR TRANSFORMERS PRIME, BEAST HUNTER COMICS, AND ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ALSO Transformers Prime kicked off the aligned continuity, and it was a great show. Although Predacons rising was a little bit of a lackluster, I had hope that the next show will be as good as TFP. Robots in Disguise is THE official sequel, and it takes place years about Predacons rising. Cybertron is a thriving planet, and all is well. I was disappointed that Bumblebee is the lead character in this show because he hasn't really done anything in Transformers Prime but make clicking noises,and had billions of toys on the shelves. He's particularly a very bland robot that is adored by kids. It would've made more sense if Smokecreen had the lead role, because in Transformers Prime, HE was eligible for carrying the Matrix of Leadership. But that plot was suddenly dropped, and now he's nowhere to be seen. The plot of this show is that Bumblebee and a rag-tag group of Autobots return to Earth to round up Decepticons that have escaped a prison ship that also crashed on Earth.The animation style is nice, but is a downgrade from TFP. The action scenes suffer due to the slow frame rate, and makes use of those transformation stock footages that we've seen in Transformers Armada and such. The character designs are also unique (especially the Decepticons). The main cast features Bumblebee, a young cadet named Strongarm, a punk named Sideswipe, a minicon named Fixit, and Grimlock- strangely a Decepticon seemingly ignoring the previously established back story for him as a tough, and brutal war general in the Fall of Cybertron game, and the two Transformers Prime comic series that connect significantly to the show, especially the Beast Hunter comics due to the Dinobots teaming up with Team Prime after the events of Predacons rising.The voice acting is also pretty good, and the show is still fun to watch. My main gripes is that the tone of the show is lighter, so that also has an effect on the action scenes. (Hammerstrike literally gets pushed inside a barrel by Bee in episode 3! While Steeljaw is only kicked once and was defeated in the same episode.)Another problem is that it takes place on earth. The first episode heavily featured Cybertron for the first half of it, and had a pretty awesome environment. Wasted potential. The show also has running gags that get stale, and annoying at times such as Fixit's stuttering problem, which I had chuckled at it a few times. Strongarm's gag is reading rules and protocols from her rulebook gets annoying fast. I still like these characters despite this issue. The Decepticons in this show are amazing, funny and interesting. However, some of them are a bit toned down and barely have any screen time. (Even though he wasn't captured, Thunderhoof didn't appeared in his debut episode until the last 6 minutes or so?) And also,the human characters are tolerable. Denny's cheerful and positive attitude makes him alright, while Russel, Denny's son, can get annoying with his angst and almost sudden change of personality every episode. Jazz and Drift makes appearances, and they're fun characters. (Except Drift, who is heavily based off his AOE incarnation. That is terrible and Drift is a jerk and samurai stereotype.) This show is still fun to watch, and it's still early on. Hopefully Cartoon Network won't cancel this show in under a year. Robots in Disguise has a lot of potential, and many plot holes left open from Transformers Prime for this show to give closure. Give it a watch.
