Transformers Rewatch Original Season 2L

Masquerade

Hurray. The Stunticons…again.Motormaster’s (the central Big Rig one) robot form is bigger now. Or in the foreground. At least they don’t fall over when they transform anymore.
How exiting. Another, “collect a bunch of stuff to build a dangerous thing” plot. Really, I would watch G.I. Joe if I wanted that. (But that's next.)
Here’s all the Season Two Autobots… plus their heavy hitters, Spike and Bumblebee.
I’m thinking the Stunticons’ impenetrable coating’s warrantee is over. Warpath punched clean through one of them.

Good idea, have Spike sit on the Hood when Motormaster charges. You’re trying to make him join Chip, aren’t you Bee? RIP, my man.

HEAD ON TRUCK CRASH! But Optimus has another story before he dies.
Oh. He’s fine. So much for the Stunticon indestructible coating. It definitely wore off.
This story really wanders all over the place, what’s the point?
Ooooh! Autobots will impersonate the Stunticons to learn Megatron’s plan. It’s all coming together. And the Autobots will do this by using camouflage paint? Camouflage paint that magically reconfigures them. All righty then.

Woo hoo! It’s the Season One Autobots going under cover!!!!
Even Optimus’s transformation changes. His sentient trailer is now part of his robot form. That’s a hell of a paint job. Now we have robots in disguise in disguise.
Nice to see Constructicons again! Only three of them and as manual labor once more. Sigh.
Starscream knows somethings up. There’s that brain which is why Megatron lets him live. (Until the movie, anyway, he said getting ahead of himself again.)

 Megatron Ignored him anyway, but it’s still useful to get his input. 
The Stunticons escape the Autobot prison by just driving into the bars until they break. That’s one great prison there guys. 

Nice to know the design flaws extend to all their technology.
In case anyone cares, the Menasor merge still sucks.

And now we learn what the multi part MacGuffin Megatron has been touting as his world conquering device is: It’s a laser that makes things it shoots explode. That’s all you got Megatron? Considering stuff in your world often explodes when sneezed on, I’m not impressed.
The Autobots fake being Menasor based on Optimus Prime’s magnetic something or other…
And Mirage generating a hologram. They should have just used the magic paint on Hound. It’s like they don’t care.
Menasor will now use his special powers! It goes “Pew pew.” Not really all that special. Oh wait, he has a sword… That’s cool. Or it would be if it ever happened before or after.

The magic paint also has an off switch. Handy.
Once again, Starscream has the right idea. Let the giant combiner already stomping on the Autobots destroy them with his cool sword. But no, Megatron has to use his new, goofy and unstable gun. AND he never checked the ruby the “Stunticons” gave him.

So, it explodes while the rest of the Season One Autobots we’ve seen in this episode are a drive-in cavalry.
Because earth makes you stupid.
 
 

B.O.T.

Oh look, the Combaticons … again.
Defensor (combining Protectobots, I know, what a shock!) blows him up, still without revealing where they heck they came from. It’s like they don’t even care.

Megatron has a new plan: He’s going to zap away the moon so he can control weather. More proof he’s teaming up with Cobra off camera. Or maybe Gru.

The Combatacons have a headquarters. It is literally some computers in a hole in the ground. I know the animation budget was weak, but really?
Swindle is the only Combaticon who didn’t blow up, and he is now selling his companions for scrap.

Didn’t Megatron reprogram them for Decepticon loyalty? Great job there.
Ah, now we have a better option than reprogramming:
A) Send the Season One Seekers after him. They get stuff done.
B) Instead of reprogramming, they stuck a bomb in Swindle’s head. That’s how you reprogram.

I feel the need to point out that even though the center one on Bruticus is a much larger vehicle, all the robots are the same size again.
Were Spike and Carly busy fooling around in the old Dinobot closet? Why do we have new kids involved in this episode?
These two Jerkwads boosted the demonstration laser to literally shoot through schools. Their chubby teacher, who sounds a lot like Bumblebee, is not pleased. Therefore, he threatens to fail them if they don’t win the science fair and assigns Nerd Girl to work with them. What did she do to deserve this?

Cool, the Protectobots (which came from where? We have no idea!) shoot the ultimate anti-Decepticon weapon. Fire retardant foam!
The Jerkwads and Nerd Girl find Combaticon bits to use for their science fair robot. I’m sure it will be fine. I hate these kids so much. What a sad note to end on. Maybe their Decepticon minded B.O.T. will kill them. I miss Chip.  RIP my man.

They attend Benjamin Franklin Pierce high. Nice M.A.S.H. reference for the Protectobot episode.

Hooray! Ironhide, Gears and Bumblebee back for the end of this time period. And Ironhide uses his odd liquid creation power to make molten lead! 

Ironhide is also the only one (likely in the history of the franchise) to suggest leaving kids behind when driving into danger. 

Nerd Girl turned a speech synthesizer into long distance signal interceptor and player. Chip you would have loved her. RIP my man.
Optimus- “Only Defensor can stand against Bruticus,” Supporting my theory that Omega Supreme exploded again, and they built the Protectobots out of his remains.
Nerd Girl remote pilots BOT after taking out the Combaticon brain using Teletran-One. Chip you would have loved her. RIP my man.
Defensor “stands against” Bruticus with a force field that holds up for approximately ten seconds.
Some protection.
After the Decepticons are stopped, the Jerkwads halt Nerd Girl’s ideas by taping her mouth shut and dragging her off. Chip would not have stood for that. RIP my man.

I hate these guys.
Maybe the writers did too.
“Hey, let’s jump forward twenty years before the next Transformers story so we never have to write them again.”

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