Transformers Rewatch Original Season 4B

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Rebirth Part 2-

“Prepare to merge.” And now he’s arguing with his own head. Dude, this is messed up.

One of the green guys sounds like Bumblebee’s old voice. That is going to get distracting.

So, why is having someone driving the Autobots better than them on their own? Because they’re Morons, perhaps? 

So, Daniel’s exosuit now turns into Arcee’s head AND is keeping him alive. Carly is gonna be SO PISSED!
The first thing they do in battle is separate their heads? Maybe they should have let the Autobots attack on their own first instead of ruining the headmaster surprise.

Decepticons have captured the MovieThree. Hey kids, have some afternoon torture.

The Decepticons are stymied by the attacking Headmasters, where their heads are like cassettes but manned. Why is this better?
Back on Cybertron, Optimus Prime is going into Vector Sigma (which I thought shut down) with the broken Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Sure… why not?

There is SO MUCH SHOOTING happening on Cybertron, and the action is good. But, still, all I can think is, “Who the heck are all these guys?”

Back on Nebulon, one robot excavator captured all the Decepticons. That’s just sad. The Constructicons would not have stood for this. 

GAH! The Hive is threatening forcible head removal. 

Cyclonus, once more the only one with a clue, says it will only be the heads of the animal Decepticons. That… shouldn’t matter for Cybertronians, but whatever. 

Nifty! He invents Targetmasters on the fly (where the organic person is in the weapon of the Transformer, not their head), giving the Hive their guns.

On Cybertron: inside Vector Sigma- Dang it worked! Alpha Trion! He used to only know the past, now he’s yapping about current events and prophesies and how Vector Sigma gave the Key to Galvatron on purpose.

Alpha is insanely insistent about not being questioned. I’m pretty sure that’s not really him.
Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus- Truck bros! Optimus has to run and leaves Ultra Magnus in charge. So… we’re just going to totally ignore how the Matrix rejected Magnus then. Fine.
Wonderful, the Decepticons now have guns that talk… and are really annoying. 

We get a roll call, anyway....And the names are even stupider than anything we've heard. I am not listing them.
Um… the animals still have their animal heads, just not their robot heads. Shrewd move Cyclonus. 

That vampire guy is creeping me out.
Time for the big Autobot Headmaster versus Decepticon Targetmaster fight! 

So… the Targetmasters have to throw away their weapons, which turn into tiny guys with tinier weapons. I must ask, yet again, how is this helpful?
The Gorilla and Vampire Bat are Headmasters AND Triple Changers with a jet form too. This is too much. The Vampire guy’s name is Mindwipe. I think I’ll keep calling him Vampire Guy. Though I probably won't call him anything as there are so many characters here, he likely won't do anything of note.

The Decepticons have the Key! Great job Autobots, nicely done. You’d lose your heads if they weren’t… oh. 

Meanwhile the Decepticons are now arguing with their own guns. 

How did Scourge get competent? Must have been when he had the Matrix. And then died. Perhaps not.
The Decepticons get away because even with ALL the lunatic changes that the Autobots have gone through… they still cannot fly. Sad.
They needed to scan the Decepticons to make Targetmasters? You just reformatted your friends’ heads to be removable, Spike. How hard is a gun?.
Roll call time! The movie guys became Targetmasters. (With equally stupidly named Nebulons.) And some others I have no idea about. This is difficult because one out of every three green guys sounds like Bumblebee. Maybe that was his reward for the whole Goldbug fiasco.
Optimus shows up, learns about the green guys infesting his friends and demands to know, “How did this happen?” You and me both, Prime.
Attack time! Optimus- “Nothing you serve up could ever humiliate an Autobot, Scourge.” You tell ‘em Prime. That’s the big change in leadership they needed. (‘Cause the writers hated my boy Rodimus.)
Arcee and Daniel get the Key, because of course they do.

Holy crap! Scorponok is way bigger than Trypticon. 

Scorponok used to be the Hive City. Why are there so many cities that easily can be updated into “giant robot format?” 

The Autobots are all gonna die, aren't they?

Rebirth Part 3-

Gah! Spike saw Daniel eaten. That’s a turnabout. Now they’ll both need therapy. 

Scorponok is flying the Decepticons to Cybertron. This will be fine.
Meanwhile, Optimus is having a trippy, rainbow, Alpha Trion vision. Hey, Prime, get it together and find some transportation.

On Cybertron, the Autobots already lost. Whoah. That was quick.
Ultra Magnus and Galvatron face off as proud warrior… oop. And Skorponok is there. Welp, bye everyone. 

Maybe Galvatron really isn’t crazy anymore. Megatron always was a purist and Galvatron is REALLY offended by the idea of Decepticons sharing control with the Headmasters and Targetmasters. 

He’s also back to wildly over the top plans, with almost no time for he and his troops to escape. Example- putting a giant rocket engine on Cybertron to slam it into earth, THEN opening the Plasma Energy Chamber to kill both planets.

The Autobots give chase in a handy Nebulon ship. 

Spike stayed behind with Cerebros and tells him he can’t be a pacifist. Welcome to the Eighties.
The Decepticons are now torturing a child on afternoon television, until his headless giant robot girlfriend caves in. Well, that was unsettling.

Optimus Prime is still hallucinating en route to Cybertron… which is gone. Nice Alderan, homage there. 

Side Note- Optimus has a bigger, weird, gray thing on his helmet now that messes up the “baseball cap” line.
Cybertron has significantly shrunk in the wash since the last time it was next to Earth. 

The rocket engine is powered by a big pile of (possibly dead?) Autobots with their power drained. Have a festive afternoon, kids!

Ah, Spike has deduced that since the Hive wasn’t always telepathic, their abandoned city will have remote control machines he can use to rebuild it and take on Scorponok. When or where he learned to do all this, I have no idea.

Of course, Hot Rod knows Alpha Trion, he’s been in The Matrix. 

Optimus, you’re getting needlessly messianic once more, but thanks for leading the rebellion.
Oh, never mind, all the Autobots got caught, including Prime. Maybe it was The Matrix making him awesome after all.
Cyclonus just doesn’t sound right. RIP Harry Mudd.
Huh. It’s not just both planets. The Plasma Energy Chamber will take out the whole solar system. That is a problem, that is.

Luckly here comes Fortress Maximus! Nice job Spike. He’s a double Headmaster. (Spike, in his exo suit,  now becomes the head of Cerebros, and he becomes the head of Fortress Maximus. I’m sure having three consciousnesses working together with radically different moral codes won’t cause issues.)

Spike tells Cerebros, you can be a pacifist after we kill everyone. I don’t think he understands what that word means.
Y’know, through these three plus seasons I have seen a large number of oversized Transformers… So when I say, “DAMN THOSE ARE BIG ROBOTS!” You can take that to the bank.
And Maximus is losing already. But wait, never count out “Super Dad Spike” who is saving his son before the whole solar system.

Optimus Prime’s sparkly, Vector Sigma, vision quest is telling him to close the Plasma Vault. Vector, then why you did set up this whole plot that caused it to be open?
Oh well, everyone’s dead now. The Decepticons try to escape in Scorponok but one of those “shoot you across the galaxy” plasma blasts smacks them FAR AWAY.
The sun is overloading. This is fine. 

Only organics are immune to the Plasma Energy Chamber. Looks like Spike is saving the universe… again.

“Reverse the Polarity” love the classics.

However, this is a different classic. Reversing the giant engine Galvatron built means that Cybertron has gone from “blow” to “suck!” 

The meaning of that is Cybertron reabsorbs all the energy that was inside it anyway. Maybe next time just shunt it from room to room. Whatever. 

Cybertron is gold again due to…. Plasma Magic?

Hey, Bumblebee is back! (Sometime the Art Errors are in our favor.)

Daniel and Arcee continue to creep me out.
Cerebros- “If I can’t be a pacifist, then kill me.”

Spike- “Wait look at the shiny gold planet” 

Cerebros- “Ooh, shiny. I guess I will help you tame Nebulos, and once we’ve killed all the bad people, I can be a pacifist there.” 

– I’m paraphrasing.

Then there’s this beauty:
Daniel- “It’s good to be together again. Arcee? I just want to say… Arcee? I… I…”
Arcee- “You don’t have to Daniel. I feel the same way too.”
Me- “PLEASE DON’T SAY IT!!!”

Galvatron is starting over, building a new base. And there is NO WAY he’s going to share power with the green guy, Basically, Megatron is back! (Or he would have been if they didn't cancel the series.)

Aww. It’s over? I really wanted to see Spike’s call to Carly, Bob Newhart style:

“Hi Hon. It’s Spike… good good, you know, saved the universe again, the uszh.

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Daniel? Yeah, he’s fine. Got savagely mauled by a robot monster so he’s a cyborg now.

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Yeah, also he’s the head of the giant robot girl he’s in love with. 

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No, she doesn’t care that he’s twelve. I’m sure you’ll like her. 

So *deep breath*

I wanted to let you know we’ll be needing to move East Jabib across the galaxy to kill some green people for a while. 

An ambassador’s life is never dull. 

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Anyway, see you at dinner...  love you too.”

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