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Originally Posted by GMfan
This particular episode was just...bad.
It's pandering repetitive crap. Ooo Shockwave said logic (at an illogical point in a conversation, BUT HE SAID IT OMG), looks like Predacon clones have been on Earth all along, like Unicron, like the Cybertronian artifacts...it's pretty bad when even the writers make fun of the repetitiveness not once but twice in the episode, Optimus mentioning yet again Cybertron and Earth's pasts are linked, and Starscream mocking the whole scavenger hunt premise we're going to see over the next little while...
Needless to say its gonna another season of FOUND SOMETHING! ---> ACTION ACTION ACTION ---> Autobot or Decepticon succeed ---> End of episode.
Problem is this is a short, and last season and the time to dick around with BS like this is slim if you want to make a nice well rounded overall show. Unfortunately it seems Prime will be beating a dead horse till the season finale, which is unfortunate because this show had so much potential....visually it's still stunning but the story arcs, characterization (heh...what characterization), lack of substance is what will make this a meh show we look back on a couple of years or a decade from now and say "ya...that was that..." because when you'll look back and think about it...this show had nothing but style and action, which is nothing memorable.
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Damn GMfan, you beat me to the punch. Overall, this episode was cringingly acceptable
Things that didn't work and stuff I didn't like:
Wheeljack - truly is a rebel without a cause.
Predacons - How can robotic animals leave behind fossilized remains ?!
Dinobots - ughh, couldn't they say "commando squad"
Beast Wars - that reference felt forced in. More like Monster Hunt.
Beast Hunters - Optimus, you guys aren't hunting beasts, more like bone hunters.
What is the point of actually obtaining the fossils if
you don't intend/can't create your own? Wouldn't it be better destroying them ?
Shockwave - catchword : logic and other related words
So instead of reawakening other Decepticons warrior sentinels who are in stasis pods, you guys are gonna clone more Predacons ?! Real f**king efficient.
Why have they not retrieve Predaking ?
The battlefield - Why do the Autobots even need to split up if the US army picked up the Decepticons on satellite ?! Couldn't they just pop into the location ?
Also, wasn't Smokescreen shot at pointblank range by Shockwave? How is he still alive?
Shockwave has a screwed up sense of priorities in battle. Why is Soundwave the only reinforcements ? How was Bumblebee even able to knock Shockwave on his back like that ?
Tug of War - phase shifter inconsistency. Should not even take place.
Mostly everyone had generic lines.
Stuff I like :
Ultra Magnus - i still love his strict, but reasonable military persona. Even more, the writers kept the fact that Magnus led the Wreckers on Cybertron.
Smokescreen's grumbling - What ? Now you're regretting YOUR decision to revive your biggest hero ? You're more two-faced than I thought : )
Optimus and Ultra Magnus - "what's a kilt?", "just nod and move out, it's better that way"
Bumblebee's decision - well I was bland about it. Even if Bee did get promoted on Earth, it wouldn't really matter cause there's only rookie he could command anyway.
LOL
Soundwave - was still too cool for words
Shockwave's decision to stay in the lab - not bad, since the writers want to tuck him back into the background for future episodes
