I've Seen A Lot Of People Saying That An Adult Iteration Of Transformers Wouldn't Work, Because "oh Look

I've seen a lot of people saying that an adult iteration of Transformers wouldn't work, because "oh look at Bayverse and the Netflix series" and like. Yeah they fucking SUCKED but that's not necessarily because they were more mature.

You can make a mature Transformers show without racist jokes and the word "balls" every 5 seconds and tons of death, that's not what makes something a mature story.

Ideally, the show would be able to walkthe line between funny and lighthearted and tragic. That's what the franchise has always been. You have all these fun characters and goofy dialogue and interactions and standalone episodes with weird premises, but underneath all that, there's this story about trauma and revenge and how much suffering war brings on. You get that even in G1 if you think about it for a moment. The Autobots and Decepticons have been stranded on Earth, in stasis, for millions of years and left everyone on Cybertron to fend for themselves, not knowing what happened to their leaders and loved ones. That's fucked up.

This is one of the few areas in which I think TFP succeeded. It managed to be both relatively funny and lighthearted but also show the horrors of War. And it didn't do either perfectly, there are a lot of issues with it, but it still managed to mix the two at least decently.

I feel like if you're gonna make a transformers show that's for adults, it should retain the humor and lighthearted nature and the weird B-plots about the human allies trying to sneak into a museum or the mecha learning about Christmas or whatever, because that's a big part of the franchise, and the mature themes should work with that, not be the first priority.