Transformers Animated: Transwarped
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andrasteVerdict: made from awesome! There were so many great things in the episode, I cannot possibly squee about them all.
First of all ... OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED BLURR! That was hardcore. First person to actually die in this series of Transformers. (I mean, maybe the Allspark can cure being crushed into a cube, but with the number of new characters they've introduced I would not lay money on seeing him again.
New Deceptions eeeeeeee! Bearing cosmic rust! What a great shout-out to G1 that was.
I hope Cyclonus gets to say something soon, because he looks wonderful. Want. Toy. Now. My favourite of the new 'Cons, though, has to be Strika. She is big and strong and in charge of a bunch of guys!
Many, many new Autobots to the point where I doubt I spotted them all. Perceptor sounds like STEPHEN HAWKING. This is genius in every sense of the word.
... and somewhere in between my squealing there was plot and stuff. The details of Sari's backstory did surprise me - I was assuming that Isaac had built her on purpose, rather than finding an adorable protoform. This explains a lot, especially why the Allspark has always been so keen on her. We still don't know how her protoform came into existence in the first place; it might be easier to guess if we knew where protoforms usually come from. Optimus implies that Cybertronians don't have parents, but beyond that we don't know. Speaking of which, loved the reference back to Sari explaining where babies come from to Optimus *g*.
My favourite part of the plot, though, was Ratchet's angst-ridden war flashbacks. Every time we learn more about the Autobot leaders they end up looking worse, and now we find out that they built a weapon of mass destruction with a 'simple' brain so he'd be easy to control. Ewwww.
I really want a flashback episode about how the war started now. Increasingly, I think that in this continuity Megatron was right about Decepticons being oppressed - given the way Autobot command behaves toward their own people this would hardly be surprising. Not that this justifies Megatron's actions, but it does explain how he got started.
Speaking of Megatron, I loved his interaction with Starscream throughout this episode. And, oh, Starscream. You are just not the lucky one *g*.
In conclusion: Prowl is win. So is this show.
First of all ... OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED BLURR! That was hardcore. First person to actually die in this series of Transformers. (I mean, maybe the Allspark can cure being crushed into a cube, but with the number of new characters they've introduced I would not lay money on seeing him again.
New Deceptions eeeeeeee! Bearing cosmic rust! What a great shout-out to G1 that was.
I hope Cyclonus gets to say something soon, because he looks wonderful. Want. Toy. Now. My favourite of the new 'Cons, though, has to be Strika. She is big and strong and in charge of a bunch of guys!
Many, many new Autobots to the point where I doubt I spotted them all. Perceptor sounds like STEPHEN HAWKING. This is genius in every sense of the word.
... and somewhere in between my squealing there was plot and stuff. The details of Sari's backstory did surprise me - I was assuming that Isaac had built her on purpose, rather than finding an adorable protoform. This explains a lot, especially why the Allspark has always been so keen on her. We still don't know how her protoform came into existence in the first place; it might be easier to guess if we knew where protoforms usually come from. Optimus implies that Cybertronians don't have parents, but beyond that we don't know. Speaking of which, loved the reference back to Sari explaining where babies come from to Optimus *g*.
My favourite part of the plot, though, was Ratchet's angst-ridden war flashbacks. Every time we learn more about the Autobot leaders they end up looking worse, and now we find out that they built a weapon of mass destruction with a 'simple' brain so he'd be easy to control. Ewwww.
I really want a flashback episode about how the war started now. Increasingly, I think that in this continuity Megatron was right about Decepticons being oppressed - given the way Autobot command behaves toward their own people this would hardly be surprising. Not that this justifies Megatron's actions, but it does explain how he got started.
Speaking of Megatron, I loved his interaction with Starscream throughout this episode. And, oh, Starscream. You are just not the lucky one *g*.
In conclusion: Prowl is win. So is this show.
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Date: 2009-03-16 10:14 am (UTC)That really distressed me; jeez, Animated, with all these new characters did you have to go for someone I really liked? (Yeah, okay, by the standards of most Transformers series I should count myself lucky. But ouch.)
I really want a flashback episode about how the war started now. Increasingly, I think that in this continuity Megatron was right about Decepticons being oppressed - given the way Autobot command behaves toward their own people this would hardly be surprising. Not that this justifies Megatron's actions, but it does explain how he got started.
On the one hand I liked Ratchet's flashback sequence (though I wouldn't have played it as Ratchet actually zoning out), but on the other hand I flinch a little more every time the Autobots act badly, because it gets harder to care which side is winning. I know that "oppressed Decepticons have uprising" is not a new thing--nor for that matter is "Autobot High Command are jerks"--but in G1 we're generally seeing the wartorn remnants of Cybertronian society, prewar problems are kind of a moot point, and Autobot leadership has been handed over to a Card-Carrying Good Guy. (In Beast Wars the political situation is probably more complicated, but our heroes are kept isolated from it and whether the Maximal Council are bastards takes a backseat to keeping Megatron from taking over the universe.) Not that I think the Decepticons are good guys--they're really not--but it's a little depressing to think our heroes are just supporting the lesser of two evils. Maybe season three will see Autobot reform? Or maybe we could at least just fire Sentinel Prime? (Seriously, has he done a single thing right so far? Even by his own standards?)
Prowl is win.
It has been pointed out that his raid on Professor Sumdac's computer may not have been, you know, 100% necessary, but I can't actually make myself care. NINJA!