Annnd I’m necroposting. Sorry about that.

I disagree there. Changing his voice would have just been for the better. Him using the radio even though he could talk was… kind of awkward… There didn’t seem like much of a point to it. He does it because people liked it in the first one not because the story calls for it. As much as I dislike the three movies for various reasons, him not talking in the first one was probably a plus. I didn’t like it at first but looking back it was for the better thematically. But them writing it off with “OH well he likes this way better!” in two was just awful. He likes talking in a manner that involves him having to search for his words on the radio? A way that takes a lot of effort? I just can’t buy it.

In writing mute can work sometimes, and sometimes it can’t. It worked with movie Bee okay because of the radio and the fact that it was slightly important to the films plot. It doesn’t work well with Prime Bee because he’s not mute. Movie Bee can be called mute since his audio came from an external source, but Prime Bee has his beeping voice. The viewer just can’t understand him. Only the bots and Raf. It just leaves one wondering… WHY? What’s the point? It works okay in cuter character and when used for lighthearted scenes, but Prime is trying to be a tad darker. It ends up limiting him greatly as a character because the mute thing isn’t played with well by the writers. He’s in a show that’s trying to be serious and doesn’t seem to want a character making silly beeping noises.

See Soundwave makes it work. He’s silent and in the background replaying those clips and looking all creepy. He quickly became my favorite version of the character.

Bee shows up every now and then goes BEEP BEEP BOOP and just contributes nothing like he’s not even there. Operation Bumbleebee was great but it seems by the end nothing’s changed. Ratchet seemed to get more out of it in the end… It’s just so upsetting to see a perfectly good character go to waste because the writers give him a gimmick they seem to have no idea how to work with. Or maybe Hasbro had them do it. Whichever, its being handled poorly. And I’m upset to see it being carried over into Fall of Cybertron simply because if that game has any cast reprises Bee’s would be number one on my list.

JYB made me gay… I liked hearing him as Bee…

…I’ve been rewatching Prime recently and I just had to get all that off my chest somewhere sorry…

The most recent two episodes of Transformers: Prime dealt with this.

And, how does everyone get those avatars?