Transformers Rewatch Original Season 3H

Call of the Primitives

This creepy, unseen, raspy and squeaky voice guy made Torbatron (?) which is some kind of energy being. Whatever, back to Autobot and Decepticon battles. Hey, nice to see some good art. The shading is excellent in the “everyone versus everyone” trench battle. Ooh, a bunch of them move even, and Rodimus Prime is finally holding his own. Cool!
AAAH! GIANT SPIDER! I think it’s the energy thing. It sure drains energy from the Autobots, leaving them gray like Optimus when he died. That’s not a good sign. Oh, correction, the spider drained the entire planet.
His name is Formatron. (*Later look up* apparently Tormatron. Why not just name him Phil or something? Now it should be clear why I always need subtitles when they are available... which they are not here.) 

Wow, the creepy, raspy, squeaky guy built Unicron? Drop that LORE!
Woo Dinobots! Nice to see them! And the Terrorcons? (Decepticon combiners that are all mythological based monsters) Who merge into Abominus.

Where’d they come from? I thought the whole planet died. I guess that was a different planet because they’re still fighting here. 

Sky Lynx challenges the city sized Trypticon. Good luck with that.
A call to the Primitives, which are all the animal Cybertronians… and the dinosaurs… and the mythological creatures. I don’t think that’s how that works. 

Hey Ravage! Good to see you, cat! And two new Decepticon cassettes. They’re just throwing new characters out now. It’s like they don’t care.
Tormatron, or Phil or whatever, drained the rest of the Autobots, wherever they were. Took out the Decepticons too, along with two whole planets. This season is crazy.
Go get ‘em Dinobots, haven’t seen you in combat for a while. 

Meanwhile, the, what are their names? The mythical Abominus forming guys. They decide to fight everybody, Autobot and Decepticon. Who ARE these guys?
Trypticon is the only one who listens to Sky Lynx, which is weird, since the Decepticon city and Autobot shuttle... thing, are rivals. 

Wait. How the hoo hah heck does Trypticon fit in Sky Lynx’s cargo bay. For reference, when Trypticon is back outside, Sky Lynx comes up to his knee. It’s like they don’t care.
I see. Unicron was built by a little annoying Goblin. Fine.

Grimlock fell off a cliff! Presumably because he forgot that he can fly, yet again. Sad.
Oh Lord Sky Lynx is annoyingly arrogant, why do they focus on the annoying ones so much?
Woo! LORE, courtesy of the Shiny Rainbow blob thing.

Primacron (the annoying little Goblin guy… I think) built the primitives first, then Unicron millions of years ago.
Dude, I saw the Dinobots built in 1984. Were those “Dinosaur Electrons” Grimlock sensed passed down or something. 

Hmmm. Primacron’s assistant looks an awful lot like the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. And yet no one says anything. It’s like they don’t care. 

I think the art and shading is so good here because everyone stands still A LOT.

Now Phil the Energy being is a dragon and Trypticon is down. They’re so screwed. 

Grimlock gets smooshed by the falling giant because EVERYONE forgot they could fly. Well, Swoop remembered and whatever Predacon Eagle’s name is remembered, but they flew in a straight line, eight feet off the ground, which didn’t help. 

Whoah! There goes Sky Lynx, so much for the big guys. Now Phil is a Tiger absorbing all the cassettes from both groups. My guys Laserbeak and Buzzsaw were too smart to be sucked into this foolishness and didn’t show up. 

Make up your mind, Phil. Now he’s a giant robot to defeat Predaking. 

Sure, I’ll give you turning into a hydra to attack the new Abominable Mythicons or whatever they are called is apropos, Phil.

Dinobots are the last ones standing! Oh... nope, Phil as a different dragon de-energized them too. Alas.
Woo! Grimlock freed himself from under Trypticon! Surprise!
Sorry Goblin boy, you do not get to be shocked that Phil betrayed you too. Granted, him doing it as a ginormous, planet sized, Wizard of Oz face does lend some startlingness to it. Man, the artists really went nuts on this one. Too bad they didn’t spread it around more.

“Grimlock here to save universe!” Oh, we’re so screwed, again. But wait! Grimlock pulls the reverse switch the Goblin forgot he had. I guess not using your equipment for over Nine Million years will do that. He reversed the polarity, didn’t he? Yes, yes he did.

Not the best of endings. Why is this creepy little guy so old? Will we find out after the commercial?
Nope, Cassette LORE. That’s all we get. How about weird little goblin guy lore? 

Stop over promoting Ratbat  (Bat cassette from the Movie) just cause he’s new. Don’t diss my Laserbeak. Didn’t you watch the early episodes where he should have been running things? 

They created new Autobot cassettes.” How? Vector Sigma blowing up ring a bell? It’s like they don’t care.

Grimlock's New Brain

More Dinobots! WOO! I missed you big lugs!
We’re installing another new power generator on Cybertron. Hey, what could go wrong? You almost all died twice. Third time is the charm, I guess. 

Rodimus wants Grimlock to throw the switch? Not the best leadership choice there. Perhaps it is Grimlock’s reward for saving the universe in the last episode? I’m sure it will be fine…
He’s gonna blow up Cybertron isn’t he?
Only Twenty-One Years later and Grimlock is SO much dumber. Meanwhile, the rest of the first season cast was at least Four Million years old, if not Nine. Perhaps Earth-made Autobots wear faster?
Oh, look the cackling bounty hunter alien is back and he’s with Sleezardo. I knew Devcon turned into Blurr. He probably abandoned the lizard guy.
Hey, Hi Cosmos! Long time no see… oop. and he crashed. Oh, shut up, Sky Lynx. Oh good, he’s crashing too. Fun. So… why?

Oooh. Cackling Alien and Sleezardo poured stuff into the generator to mess up the Autobots. Finally, the Decepticons have a decent plan… based primarily on the fact that Autobot security sucks.
Teletran -Two is on Cybertron and doesn’t need Chip to make it work. RIP, my man.
Oh yes, let’s talk up Perceptor’s genius again. How many of those microscopes were stuck on the shelves? Come on, his “electro map” is a compass…

And Grimlock dropped it into an abyss. Who didn’t see that coming? Now the Autobots are lost inside Cybertron. They REALLY should have mapped a bit when they moved in.
Ooh Kup! Hey there! Let’s hear it for old guy support!
The generator messes with Autobots, which is a problem when they find it. Rodimus falls way before Ultra Magnus. Why do the writers hate him so? It has zero effect on Grimlock though. Another effect of being built on Earth with no Cybertonium, maybe?
AAAH! Grimlock got zapped! Is he OK? Yes, but now he’s super intelligent. That is so wrong. He is also super tiny, oops. (Don't mention the art errors, Jeff.)
The cleaners!!!!!!! (Labyrinth reference there!) It’s OK. Grimlock saved Magnus and Rodimus.
The way he says, “I Grimlock” instead of “Me, Grimlock,” is a hoot.
Ratbat’s there! And ignoring non-existent Autobot security. I miss Laserbeak, he had class.
Grimlock is dissing the rest of the Dinobots and acting better than them. This is a Disney Channel movie.
Ah, I see. It was anti-electrons. Is that what affected the Autobots? I’m no physicist but I’ve seen enough Star Trek to know that should result in massive explosions, not Transformation Dysfunction.
Sleezardo sounds like White Fang now. 

Oh Lord. I checked to see if Sleezardo was voiced by Frank Welker (of course he is) and learned Cackling Alien’s name is Suxxoid. I CAN’T with these guys anymore.

Yes Grimlock, use your intellect to take Perceptor down a peg or two.
Oh, Galvatron has new, old school Seekers? Wait, never mind. It’s those Mythbominacons again.
Right, Omega Supreme is “away on a mission.” Suuuure he is. (*BOOM!*)
Sludge- “You no act like Dinobot, Grimlock. Me no like.” Slag- “Grimlock no fun. Come on. We go hunting alone.” You tell him, Dinobots. Now Grimlock sings a sad autotuned, Disney Junior approved ballad, right?
Decepticons need more anti-electrons so they’re going… Wait, why are anti-electrons in Unicron’s brain? *whispers* Did the goblin put them there?
I have accepted Hasbro's obsession with combiners but these Mythabominacons look stupid.
What the….? Grimlock just created Nosecone in ten minutes, no Vector Sigma, no Alpha Trion. Nothing. Wheeljack wasn’t even that good. Maybe just build a drill next time, instead of sentient life?

Um? Anti-electrons come in purple liquid form from a glass flask in Unicron’s brain, because of course they do. 

YES! Cyclonus just threw Galvatron under the Unicron bus, denying all responsibility. Well done, my man!
Oh, Roger C. Carmel is Unicron now, very much doing a growly Harry Mudd voice. Maybe Unicron really is dead, and Harry is hiding behind a curtain.

Okay, Grimlock made Strafe too. Is saving all the Autobots boring you? Not just Strafe, he made all the Technobots. He built three more in about ten minutes. Holy crap, are they annoying.

Wait, is drill guy part of this team? No, I think Grimlock made six new sentient beings in less “real time” than the episode run time. 

It seems silly to nit-pick this far in. However, there is no theme to these new guys. One is a triple changer, one is a horse headed motorcycle and I'm not sure what the others are. 

Hey, here’s an idea, to sell more toys instead of throwing a bajillion new characters at the wall to see what sticks, why not focus on a smaller number like the first season and get the kids to bond with them and buy more of each? I guess I need to wait for the price of CGI to force them to do that in Beast Wars as well. Sigh.
Combiner fight! Form Computron! Nice merge! Ok, I do see the appeal.
Aww, Grimlock gives Computron his intelligence. ‘Cause friends are more important, and that’s one to grow on.

Though I’m not sure why being smart helps against Abominus. “He’s strong so we have to shake him.” Yeah, high intellect indeed. 

Abominus has dragon face knees. He could be the Gene Simmons one when the combiners form a giant robot KISS. Predaking already has a cat face.

Rodimus is a good speaker if not great at nearly anything else. Why do they hate him so?
“Me. Grimlock say no fun to be genius alla time! Much more better to be good ole Dinobot, Grimlock.”

The wisdom of the ages, my friend.

Ooh Ultra Magnus lore… Comprised of stuff we have seen and already know. Kind of a LORE-ette.

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