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Originally Posted by Goji_tron
There was one bothering thing between the connection of Dark Awakening to Hate plague: Optimus was damaged while he was trying to ram a ship into the asteroid, yet in Hate plague, he was good as new and there was no quintesson firing in that scene. What is up with that?
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If we consider the difference in animations (poor for Dark Awakening and fantastic for tRoOP), it's easy to accept that any tiny explanation will do to link these 2 eps.
Since Prime's ship was close to the sun, I always accepted that his body got 'fused' back by the heat.
A great explanation? No.
But given the differences in these eps, even a sub-par explanation was enough for me.
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Originally Posted by Supernova
I think it's important to note that The Return of Optimus Prime was not originally in the season 3 plan. Dark Awakening was supposed to be the last we were to ever see of Prime as he sacrificed himself one last time to save the Autobots. It was only after seeing how upset the kids were that Hasbro decided to bring him back. But, by then, season 3 (or much of it) had already been produced.
There are two versions of Dark Awakening: The first was during the original syndicated run that did not have the voiceover at the end telling the viewer that Prime would return. The second with the V/O was aired directly before TRoOP (some time had passed between the airing of the rest of season 3 in its entirety and TRoOP).
As for the bit of continuity mess that this caused between the two episodes, it's really best just to let it slide since the writers had painted themselves into a corner (let's face it, he done blowed up real good, no two ways about it), and there was no way to go back and change Dark Awakening to match what would happen later. Besides, they probably figured that the kids would just be happy with their hero back, and not be too worried about the details.  |
The original run was missed by many as ABC stations running Transformers aired an ABC afterschool special instead. So many fans such as I, only saw the voice-over version. Which I'm kinda happy about as it helps the continuity.
Given the backstory you gave, I think the writers did a great job to start tRoOP just before Prime's ship hit the asteroid and the sun went nova.
I guess they did such an outstanding job, that I never had to question the details.
