...and write reviews/reactions to each episode kink of picking them apart, both individually and in the context of the series as a whole.

I adore the breakdown of Starscream's character that Eatingcrow did, so I wouldn't just want to rehash that or copy it with one of the other characters

but instead kind of explain why certain things work or (more often) don't work for me, the often-unintended implications in scenes, and the way that sometimes it's...

really obvious what the writers are trying to do, but they don't succeed because of xyz.

It'd also be interesting to rewatch now that I'm thinking differently about some of the characters.

Because my first time through, I really WANTED to like Bulkhead, and Ratchet, and even Optimus, but it was just... utterly impossible

so this way I could talk about what scenes work for them (because I think some do!), but how other scenes just kill their characters entirely and ruin the earlier, good scenes by association.

(Predaking, too. I really did attempt to like him before the movie, but... yeech.)

And my first time watching through I loathed Wheeljack, Smokescreen, and Shockwave, and I couldn't figure out how to feel about Soundwave at all.

Now that I've rethought their characters (thank you again Eatingcrow holy shit), it'd be interesting to go through everything again watching carefully and talking about them.

NGL I have been feeling a familiar urge

*simikar

....damn it phone ANYWAY

YES THIS, my opinions on so many of the characters changed so much over the course of series that I suspect it'd be interesting to watch--

the whole thing in the context of a finished body of work.

Yessss, like, on the one hand, it's kind of sad to watch earlier stuff knowing what's coming later, but on the other, I like rewatches/rereads of things when I know the whole picture, it just adds

a whole other element to it, it's like a totally different experience C:

...........also, because I am way to lazy to make a whole other post about this, I just keep making posts with headcanons about how bad Makeshift is at things.

It's endearing me more and more to his character, and he barely even is a character. Go self!

Ah yes, what I like to refer to as 'the Blackout phenomenon' (Blackout, of course, being the first character I did that with.)

/HI-FIVES

Isn't it fun?

Something just makes you think about the character more and you just go

"........wow"

And in Makeshift's case, with me, it's like "wow, you'd be so much less interesting if you were actually good at your job, but you're REALLY NOT......"

DON'T WORRY ABOUT REHASHING

I love your thoughts and you've helped to enlighten me on so many things