Fallen Comrades
Gasp. A white tiger in the area, Foreshadowing maybe?OK that Predacon map does not match the Maximal’s globe. That is clearly not the Earth. Or are they just morons?
Good plan Optimus. Stand there and watch the slow energy ball hit you. Moron. He just has a big hole in his chest, I’m sure he’s fine.
The bad guy plan is to reprogram the Protoform in the pod as a Predacon. Here we are in the future of the franchise (yet somehow in the past) and there’s still an ocean of Free Will questions.
Ooh, that looks terrible. Maybe ease up on the digital snow? Oh, good. It stopped, it was distracting.
Optimus Primal is in the healing chamber thing, so Dinobot requested his consciousness to be put on screen. Nothing weird about that.
Now Dinobot is talking to a hologram of the Gorilla head, which is not
Optimus’s true form based on the beginning of this show. I have questions.
A purple Tyrannosaurus tippy toeing to
sneak up on the Maximal ship is quite a sight.
Aaand, now Dinobot is down too. At least he activated the cannons to take out the Predacons. Fortunately, they are also big on standing still while giant weapons aim at them.
Dinobot additionally triggered the “programming laser” or something to bounce off the moon and hit the pod. The white tigers in the area act like this is a normal Tuesday.
Now Dinobot has to go in the healing chamber thing because they only have one. Maybe this wasn’t the best ship to go whipping through time in.
The good guys continue to have poor Benefit Risk evaluation skills. Megatron threatens to shoot some local tigers, so the Maximals are going to allow him to reprogram their friend in the pod's mind.
The pod is empty! GASP! One of the
nearby white tigers was actually TIgatron! Double GASP! Maybe he should have
revealed himself a bit sooner when his fellow Maximals were dodging energy
projectiles willy-nilly.
Aww, how cute. Tigatron has little wrist
missiles… That go off like a nuke! Dang.
I see. His identity circuit is damaged, and he feels he is more tiger than Maximal. These new Cybertronian alternate forms seem a lot less like disguises and more like a form of machine Lycanthropy.
Ooh. Another stasis pod falls. Slowly
building up the cast lets us meet them.
Dude, Terrorsaur (The Pteranodon- which,again, means “toothless wing) has teeth. Grrrrr.
And Optimus Primal is dead once more. That happens a lot. Oh, wait. He’s not, but he is on fire. Even worse he’s gone back to saying, “That’s just prime.”
And now Primal is accusing Rattrap of being a traitor. Secret plan or wildly out of character moment?
Meanwhile, Tarantulas scanned a Black Widow for the new Predacon he's making from the pod they recovered. A bit of prejudice I would say. Megatron agrees with me and calls him out on it.
The new Predacon is the VERY female, Blackarachnia. A buxom bad girl with a slinky walk and sultry voice. Yes, she did mess with the minds (and other parts) of many teens in the late Nineties.
Good old Rhinox, always the voice of
reason. And usually ignored. This show can be realistic when it wants to be.
Optimus are you scheming? Maybe to check the obvious communication hack, scheme in a way you’re not sending one of your guys into a zone filled with lava.
Gasp! Rattrap is defecting to the Predacons! What a twist! Huh. All he has to do is swipe left on his symbol.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure Terrorsaur is one
hundred percent based on Starscream. (As I typed that, he ordered Rattrap to
shoot Megatron… I was correct.)
Wait, if it’s so easy to switch between
Maximal and Predacon, why is finding and reprogramming the pods so important?
Wouldn’t a concentrated propaganda campaign work better?
Rattrap’s defection was a ruse. I am stunned. (Was that convincing?)
Ah, he learns the Predacons hacked Maximal communications because of one “Maximal chip” stuck in their machine. This technology is confusing.
One Rattrap shot blew the snot out of Tarantulas, and he’s down for the count. Maybe don’t imprison people who are still armed, Predacons. Morons.
Speaking of getting the snot blown out of people, Waspinator has that happen a lot. Poor little doofus.
For her premier episode, Blackarachnia is barely in this. But she is terrifying.
Rattrap shoots Optimus after he’s been found out by some Predacons. Maybe we’re taking this ruse too far guys.
Aaand, now Dinobot is down too. At least he activated the cannons to take out the Predacons. Fortunately, they are also big on standing still while giant weapons aim at them.
Dinobot additionally triggered the “programming laser” or something to bounce off the moon and hit the pod. The white tigers in the area act like this is a normal Tuesday.
Now Dinobot has to go in the healing chamber thing because they only have one. Maybe this wasn’t the best ship to go whipping through time in.
The good guys continue to have poor Benefit Risk evaluation skills. Megatron threatens to shoot some local tigers, so the Maximals are going to allow him to reprogram their friend in the pod's mind.
I see. His identity circuit is damaged, and he feels he is more tiger than Maximal. These new Cybertronian alternate forms seem a lot less like disguises and more like a form of machine Lycanthropy.
Double Jeopardy
Dude, Terrorsaur (The Pteranodon- which,again, means “toothless wing) has teeth. Grrrrr.
And Optimus Primal is dead once more. That happens a lot. Oh, wait. He’s not, but he is on fire. Even worse he’s gone back to saying, “That’s just prime.”
And now Primal is accusing Rattrap of being a traitor. Secret plan or wildly out of character moment?
Meanwhile, Tarantulas scanned a Black Widow for the new Predacon he's making from the pod they recovered. A bit of prejudice I would say. Megatron agrees with me and calls him out on it.
The new Predacon is the VERY female, Blackarachnia. A buxom bad girl with a slinky walk and sultry voice. Yes, she did mess with the minds (and other parts) of many teens in the late Nineties.
Optimus are you scheming? Maybe to check the obvious communication hack, scheme in a way you’re not sending one of your guys into a zone filled with lava.
Gasp! Rattrap is defecting to the Predacons! What a twist! Huh. All he has to do is swipe left on his symbol.
Rattrap’s defection was a ruse. I am stunned. (Was that convincing?)
Ah, he learns the Predacons hacked Maximal communications because of one “Maximal chip” stuck in their machine. This technology is confusing.
One Rattrap shot blew the snot out of Tarantulas, and he’s down for the count. Maybe don’t imprison people who are still armed, Predacons. Morons.
Speaking of getting the snot blown out of people, Waspinator has that happen a lot. Poor little doofus.
For her premier episode, Blackarachnia is barely in this. But she is terrifying.
Rattrap shoots Optimus after he’s been found out by some Predacons. Maybe we’re taking this ruse too far guys.
Oh, but
now he shot Terrorsaur’s head clean off. Wow, they really upped the damage in
this show. Not like that’s a big problem, he’s popped it back on. Oh... nope Megatron
knocked it off again. Decapitation for comedy. These guys are resilient.
Man, why is Dinobot so darn big? It makes Optimus look bad.
Note- there are some order issues with
the next three, I think only based on the Rhino DVDs. Also Note- I do not care.
Blackarachnia has designed a bomb,
because the spiders are builders, I guess.
Man, why is Dinobot so darn big? It makes Optimus look bad.
A Better Mousetrap
The Predacons are installing that bomb
in a cavern deep beneath the Maximal base. Don’t the Maximals have scanners? I mean,
the Predacons are fighting… again… so they should have time to find them.
Rhinox is showing off the new non-lethal base defenses.
Rhinox is showing off the new non-lethal base defenses.
Oh, and there is an alarm, which detected Waspinator after he
flew far away from being underneath their base. Quite a security system
Nice. To prove the non-lethal methods would work, they turned the system on Dinobot, who rightfully called that idea stupid. Not only didn’t it stop him, but him breaking free damaged the console. Now the system is attacking the Maximals. Really excellent job there everyone. Morons.
Optimus Primal spooks the detected Waspinator, causing him to run back to the location his fellow Predacons still are… where they weren’t detected. They’re all morons.
Much of this episode is Rattrap, feeling
guilty for screwing up again, running obstacle courses around their base
defenses.
Tigatron has found the cavern the Predacons were in. At least he isn’t surprised by hologram technology, unlike his ancestors. I feel some surprise is warranted as I thought the holo-projector was a space heater.
I’m seeing a lot of transforming without saying anything. So, they just yell their names for fun?
How does the damaged ship have enough energy for all this defensive crap, like energy beams and nets, and force fields, and whatever that electrified liquid on the floors is?
Nice. To prove the non-lethal methods would work, they turned the system on Dinobot, who rightfully called that idea stupid. Not only didn’t it stop him, but him breaking free damaged the console. Now the system is attacking the Maximals. Really excellent job there everyone. Morons.
Optimus Primal spooks the detected Waspinator, causing him to run back to the location his fellow Predacons still are… where they weren’t detected. They’re all morons.
Tigatron has found the cavern the Predacons were in. At least he isn’t surprised by hologram technology, unlike his ancestors. I feel some surprise is warranted as I thought the holo-projector was a space heater.
I’m seeing a lot of transforming without saying anything. So, they just yell their names for fun?
How does the damaged ship have enough energy for all this defensive crap, like energy beams and nets, and force fields, and whatever that electrified liquid on the floors is?
Aside- I know the good guy's ship is called
“The Axalon” I’m going to start calling it that before they say so in the show,
as I’m likely to miss it, or maybe that was only in behind the scenes stuff.
“Tigatron Maximize, stealth mode” What? His transformation was exactly the same as other times, but he whispered and then walked tippy-toe. I don’t think that’s voice command controlled.
Man, how many “run from an explosion that’s our fault” endings do these episodes have?.
Blackarachnia’s bomb barely hurt them, I guess it needed to be in a really specific location to damage the Axalon.
“Tigatron Maximize, stealth mode” What? His transformation was exactly the same as other times, but he whispered and then walked tippy-toe. I don’t think that’s voice command controlled.
Man, how many “run from an explosion that’s our fault” endings do these episodes have?.
Blackarachnia’s bomb barely hurt them, I guess it needed to be in a really specific location to damage the Axalon.
Optimus and Cheetor hear the explosion and Primal says, “Battle mode.” That is
literally the same transformation they do when he says “Maximize.” They are
clearly messing with me.
Something else that is clear. This outing is clearly two unconnected ideas they had that weren’t long enough for a whole episode each.
The first plot is done, but Rattrap is still dodging the base’s attacks, including that HUGE gun, which looks pretty lethal there, Rhinox.
Making a big joke about how everyone is
sad Rattrap died when he’s really fine seems in bad taste when characters will
actually die with alarming frequency later on. (I’m getting ahead of myself.)
Optimus Primal is out gathering plants
cause he’s an explorer not a military man and that was the original point of
this trip. (Note- this trip was to chase after Megatron who stole the Golden
Disk. Apparently, whatever this planet is also makes you stupid.)
Dinobot is pissed that Primal is wasting time with this because he’s not a moron. Oh wait, he’s just a more belligerent moron. He annoyed the Audrey 2 looking plant and got and got a thorn ball in his neck for it.
Scorponok’s hand (claw) missiles are really variable. These don’t seem to do anything, yet other times they look like they could take out a city.
Oh, Dinobot, the combat expert is down because a
boulder fell on him. A tactic that didn’t work on the old Autobots is viable
now that they’re smaller I see.
A rare victory for Scorponok, he nails Optimus with a bug (that looks like an actual fly, for those bad a metaphors) infected with a virus. However, he then tumbles over an enormous waterfall. Maybe not a complete victory there, scorpion boy.
Analysis shows the bug is also an enormous bomb, because we can never have enough of those in this show.
Man, Rhinox’s head is way too shiny. I
know they were excited about doing early digital reflected surfaces, but it’s
hard to tell if his head is supposed to be reflective or translucent.
Hmm, the virus was supposed to cause cowardice but instead has made Primal psychotically violent. Well done Scorponok. Moron.
This is fine. Luckily, Rhinox is significantly more massive than their leader too and restrains him. Speaking of that, why does Cheetor call Optimus “Big Bot” when half the team is larger than him.
Optimus and Cheetor come in to convince everyone he’s got it under control and can steer his rage at their enemies. Oh sure. Complete control. Primal just shot out every light and alarm in the base while screaming like a nut. This will go well.
Ah, Optimus Primal's weird open mouth mask closes for
battle. That has not been really obvious.
Everyone thinks the “Send crazy Optimus to attack the enemy base” is a peachy idea, except Dinobot. Man, when the team member who was evil until two weeks ago is the voice of reason, they’re screwed.
Then again, none of the Predacons are even slowing him down. Psycho Optimus may end the show here.
Megatron- “Waspinator stop Optimus now.” Yeah, that’ll work. Primal pulled a Robocop wall grab and blasted the snot out of the poor little doofus, again.
Maybe I was a little hasty. Optimus looks really banged up and… bloodstained. What came out of him to produce those stains, exactly?
Wait, he pulled the bomb/ virus fly off, just stuck it on Megatron, and ran away. That was an option? Couldn’t he have done that with, I don’t know, anything? At least he got the antidote there.
Once again, the explosion which went off IN THE FACES of Megatron and Scorponok was FAR less than promised. Then again, we have repeatedly established that Scorponok is incompetent.
Awww. Dinobot is sitting vigil by the
damaged Primal. And he brought him the Audrey 2 looking plant. He does care. Dinobot
is a Maximal after all.
AWWWWWW!
Something else that is clear. This outing is clearly two unconnected ideas they had that weren’t long enough for a whole episode each.
The first plot is done, but Rattrap is still dodging the base’s attacks, including that HUGE gun, which looks pretty lethal there, Rhinox.
Gorilla Warfare
Dinobot is pissed that Primal is wasting time with this because he’s not a moron. Oh wait, he’s just a more belligerent moron. He annoyed the Audrey 2 looking plant and got and got a thorn ball in his neck for it.
Scorponok’s hand (claw) missiles are really variable. These don’t seem to do anything, yet other times they look like they could take out a city.
A rare victory for Scorponok, he nails Optimus with a bug (that looks like an actual fly, for those bad a metaphors) infected with a virus. However, he then tumbles over an enormous waterfall. Maybe not a complete victory there, scorpion boy.
Analysis shows the bug is also an enormous bomb, because we can never have enough of those in this show.
Hmm, the virus was supposed to cause cowardice but instead has made Primal psychotically violent. Well done Scorponok. Moron.
This is fine. Luckily, Rhinox is significantly more massive than their leader too and restrains him. Speaking of that, why does Cheetor call Optimus “Big Bot” when half the team is larger than him.
Optimus and Cheetor come in to convince everyone he’s got it under control and can steer his rage at their enemies. Oh sure. Complete control. Primal just shot out every light and alarm in the base while screaming like a nut. This will go well.
Everyone thinks the “Send crazy Optimus to attack the enemy base” is a peachy idea, except Dinobot. Man, when the team member who was evil until two weeks ago is the voice of reason, they’re screwed.
Then again, none of the Predacons are even slowing him down. Psycho Optimus may end the show here.
Megatron- “Waspinator stop Optimus now.” Yeah, that’ll work. Primal pulled a Robocop wall grab and blasted the snot out of the poor little doofus, again.
Maybe I was a little hasty. Optimus looks really banged up and… bloodstained. What came out of him to produce those stains, exactly?
Wait, he pulled the bomb/ virus fly off, just stuck it on Megatron, and ran away. That was an option? Couldn’t he have done that with, I don’t know, anything? At least he got the antidote there.
Once again, the explosion which went off IN THE FACES of Megatron and Scorponok was FAR less than promised. Then again, we have repeatedly established that Scorponok is incompetent.
AWWWWWW!
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