WAR!

Remember I was talking about how kids entertainment should be mature, and deal with relevant issues?

I found one of these programmes yesterday. You will never guess what it is.

Go on, guess.

Yeah so it's the new Transformers. But I promise you, this is not just me promoting something I love for the sake of it. Transformers Animated: Transwarped shows the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons in such shades of grey as never seen before. It's more mature than the live movie by miles. (Like that would be hard, but shush).

I will not go into too much detail about the plot as I do not wish to ruin it for anyone but there is an extremely personal tale about the horrors of war there, and some extremely dubious moral choices made by the previously pure as snow leaders of the Autobots.

They make the choice in this episode to create a huge Autobot, and refer directly to him as a WMD. Furthermore they make the decision to retard his mental capacities so he doesn't question the death and destruction he will wreak upon his own race.

Secondly they took the annoying teenage character (there is at least one in virtually every single version of the Transformers- don't know why, as even as a child I had no urge to see puny fleshlings in my giant robot space opera) and made her pretty cool.



Transformers Animated: Transwarped is amazing. Check it out if you get the chance.