Transformers Rewatch Original Season 3C

Madman's Paradise

Woo! The whole Witwicky family dressed super spiffy in their space tuxedoes. (I think I used that picture for a different episode. Oh well.) Spike is Ambassador to Cybertron, allowing him to interact with all the weird aliens! Again, Woo!
There is a giant, hieroglyphics filled chamber with a teleporter in it right next to where the ambassador’s meeting is. Nicely scouted Autobots.
The teleporter connects to another fantasy world, because there has been a severe drop off in magic this season... and apparently centaur plant monsters as well.
Meanwhile, back on Cybertron, Carly is clearly smartest one. RIP CHIP! The search team gives us a nice focus on Blaster’s Autobot cassettes. 
In the weird fantasy world, there's a quick reveal of a tentacle. Is the Red Wizard a Squid? His back story claims he came through the same teleporter and stopped the evil Golden wizard. How evil can he be with a cup on his head? I’m calling Quintesson giving us back story as an unreliable narrator.
Even Grimlock sees through this guy, once again, stupid but right.
Back on Cybertron, the cassettes are kind of useless and Ultra Magnus takes the lead. He does that a lot, once more undermining Rodimus Prime. Bad writers.
The Red Wizard disguised himself as the same guy he ended up locking Daniel in a cell with. Moron.
In other news, Daniel has a lightsaber pocket knife.

There is WAY more violence this season, as demonstrated by the bird people setting the wooden guys on fire. Also this season, while the character designs are really cool, they cheap out on a lot of transformations. More like a *pop* than a mechanical change.
The Autobots find their lost friends, and also a giant fantasy battle where they immediately start helping the evil Wizard. That’s embarrassing that is. To add to that embarrassment, I’m pretty sure Ultra Magnus just straight up killed those guys.
Daniel being the best leader the Autobots have, needs to straighten everyone out between good and evil. They rescued the golden cup on head guy, and he turns out to be a Gold Dragon! Did the Witcher steal this plot!

Yup, Red Squid Wizard was a Quintesson. He was exiled for learning sorcery on Cybertron. Wouldn’t that have been helpful? 

The Gold Dragon uses Blaster and a microphone to amplify his spell. I don’t think magic works that w…

HOLY CRAP HE JUST VAPORIZED THE QUINTESSON! This show is nuts. And also, short since we’re getting a back story on Decepticon LORE before the end credits. Neat!
 
 

Webworld

Written by Len "Swamp Thing, Wolverine" Wein and Diane Duane! (She worked in Mental Hospitals and had a few things to say) I remembered this being a good one, now I know why.
Galvatron hangs out only with the other Unicron created Decepticons… and Soundwave. That figures.
The Sweeps are mostly useless and pure cannon fodder. More evidence they used to be Insecticon clones. 

Galvatron has become completely unhinged now and shoots his own troops in battle. He’s kinda fun honestly.
Soundwave and Cyclonus listen to Galvatron, but Scourge is more uppity. No wonder he gets treated like just another Sweep. The Combaticon and Stunticon leaders bring up grievances against Galvatron’s lunacy. Hey, maybe if you guys didn’t hide during the big end battle from The Movie, he wouldn’t be in this mess? 
Quintessons reach out to Cyclonus about healing Galvatron. I gotta wonder if the Unicorn reformatted Decepticons were modified to be more likely to ally with their creators?
Whoah, you know it’s bad when overly loyal Cyclonus dupes Galvatron into attending an intervention.
Huh, an insane little troll toad and a three headed weirdo. The creative team is just having fun with this one. 

Hey! Cat doctors. Is Galvatron being treated on New Earth? Oh, never mind. They are monkey doctors. But Cybertronian sized humanoid monkeys. More evidence that humans are the runts of the Universe.
The payment is in consciousness units. That sounds bad. I’m sure it will be fine. 
AAAH! Giant separating centipede for no reason. Ok then, keep having fun there, artists.
Dang, the Monkey Doctors have pistols that knock out Galvatron in a single shot. Good thing they didn’t mount an army.
There are so many so many weird beings on this planet. Cyclonus and Scourge are just there for the show. Therapy is an Improv class with a bunch of the weirdest aliens. I’m sure that will work. 
Oh, Galvatron has been shot so often on his first day he’s developed a tolerance to the immobilizer pistol. That is a design flaw, there.
The hospital is here because the planet is alive. Oh boy, that can’t possibly come back to bite everyone in the butt. 

Meanwhile, we’re getting commentary from evil robotic galactic conquerors on the ethics of a lobotomy here. 

They’re using the living planet to calm Galvatron’s mind, and it has driven the planet insane. This will be fine.
Cyclonus has finally and fully realized his boss is completely crazy. Yet, he is still loyal. I’ve been there, Cyclonus.
Nothing will reach the heights of the Megatron-Soundwave-Starscream interactions, but the new Decepticon command group is still fun.
They continue to give Galvatron a stronger rivalry with Ultra Magnus that with Rodimus Prime. That’s another big part of the problem with the new Autobot leader. Give my boy some respect.
Ooh another short one with Autobot back story this time. Well, actually its more of movie character introductions…  And Sky Lynx. They really wanted to sell the expensive toys.
 
 

Carnage in C-Minor

Galvatron put rockets on a comet in the Oort Cloud to smash Autobot city. He’s nuts but creative. Luckily, Perceptor saw it. I don’t think they understand what a microscope is.
Good thing they brought the Autobot that turns into an Aircraft Carrier. He’ll be useful in space. Oh, never mind, he transformed and fell on Devastator. Nice work.
Another Galvatron and Ultra Magnus rivalry? They should have just given Magnus The Matrix and been done with it.
Shooting the comet stopped it. That’s interesting. Wait, no. It blew up musically. Because some multi colored, fantasy setting, cosplayers showed up out of nowhere.
Aircraft Carrier Man is pissed about his paint job. Who is he? They don’t introduce the new guys anymore. Ah “Broadside” Thank you, Magnus.
Good thing Blaster was on this space mission where they stumbled on a whole planet based on musical harmonies. Blaster is translating for the alien, but since he’s just singing in English this is a very Galaxy Quest moment. 

Yes, it is a stupid concept, but the planet and people are cool looking.
Galvatron is working with Soundwave, instead of the other new Decepticons. He’s nuts but creative, AND a good judge of character. Wait, why is Galvatron twice as big as Soundwave?
This same word translation of the singing is officially getting annoying.
Oh, Soundwave grew back. That’s good.
I’m going to shoot these singing aliens soon.
Soundwave is doing the giant radio form now. He never did that before.
RADIO GUY FIGHT!!
Oh crap! Blaster fell on that singing guy, who I neglected to point out is Human sized. He’s pancaked now. Ah, he’s fine. Because singing heals too.
Are the Protectobots here? Who are they the extra white ones I don’t know?
Nicely done aliens. You gave Soundwave all three parts of the killer song.

Singing heals Cybertronians too. That’s pretty fancy.
Autobot City can transform in its own now, must be that Cog. Here’s another little guy in the city I have no clue who it is.
Art is so bad in this story I must mention it. Not only is it constantly off model, but off perspective as well. Everyone looks distorted. Ultra Magnus wielding a teeny-weeny gun is laughable. (Sad note… that wasn’t an error, the huge semi usually wields a teeny-weeny gun.) The confusion of who was who came from inclusion of dead characters and combiners standing next to their component individuals.

Are they all short now?
Here’s Quintesson lore, citing their five sided heads as the source of their name… Except they have only four faces.

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