Transformers Prime

.....In the words of The One, 'Whoa.'

Best episode yet, probably. Intensity was off the charts here. Arachnid might be the most formidable foe brought on the show thus far, the way she tricked MECH at the beginning had me smiling. In fact, she probably would have beaten the protagonists if she had bothered to use her webbing while battling Arcee......Why didn't she bother again?

Arcee has long been my favorite autobot on the show, and now....I think she always will be. She really shined this episode. Likewise, Jack is hands down my favorite human, as neither of the other two even come close to comparing. He faked the "Please don't hurt us, please!" reaction so he could pickpocket his captor. Not major in the grand scheme of things, but for an adolescent human in a Transformers franchise? Huge.

edited 26th Jun '11 4:13:46 AM by WannabeAuthor

Still think Jack's mom is getting a new car

I hope that she does indeed become Ratchet's 'partner'. That would be awesome.

I hope by "Partner", you aren't suggesting they add the Headmaster and Targetmaster tech.

Also when will jack steal MECH tech and use it against the cons

Jack's a pretty quick thinker, got to give him that.

Actually, Jack's mom is a nurse, and Ratchet becomes a Ambulance. There may be so logic to that. Also, he needed time to warm up to humans.

Once again, I want to applaud Prime for giving us a Transformers Designated Girl Fight for the first time in the series long history.

edited 26th Jun '11 2:55:10 PM by HandsomeRob

And agent Fowler is with Prime (leaders of thee species)

Unless I missed something, nurses don't operate out of ambulances.

But at least Ratchet gets to visit.

Certainly another solid episode, Airachnid earns a lot of points by being such a sadist and Silas/MECH is proving to be a legitimate threat in their own way as well (certainly more than the Transformers Animated human villains ever were). You can almost feel the diabolical wheels turning in his head with every episode. And it also added a bit of Paranoia Fuel how easily they were able to track down where Jack and his Mom lived through a facial scan and a Facebook-esque site. And I also agree that Jack is proving to have a good sense of improvization and usefulness that most human characters lack in Transformer shows.

It also brings up something I had been thinking of since the pilot episode, what effect has the "science fiction club" been having on the kids? June brings up that Jack was struggling with school, work and arriving on time for curfew. I can imagine similar things with Miko and Raf, but they don't seem to have a home life that really cares that much about what they do.

And Jack bringing her to the Autobot base has the appropriate sense of awe and wonder for her, much like the kids in the pilot.

Best line:
Fowler: Mrs. Darby, I'm Special Agent William Fowler, it's time you knew the truth. For the past few months Jack has been... interning with me at the agency...
Jack: Agent Fowler, Mom's not going to buy it...
June: He's got that right.

edited 27th Jun '11 8:54:23 AM by KJMackley

you can't bullshit a bullshitter

Good to see Jack being useful, Silas being competent, and Airachnid being creepy (and getting her altmode). Wonder what MECH will end up doing with all that data on Cybertronian tech they're gathering? Nothing good, obviously, but it'll be interesting to see what flavour the nastiness ends up taking.

A Mech, perhaps?

Too Obvious

Is it just me, or is Megatron actually getting upstaged in the "pure evil/asshole" department by both Airachnid and Silas? I know that neither is as powerful as he is, but for someone who's supposed to be the ruthless conquering leader of the Decepticons, he's starting to look like a nice guy compared to those two.

Megatron clearly has plans, and we already know that his plans involve things on a grand genocidal level. He hasn't done really anything since his return from the robo-coma, but we'll see soon enough. By comparison Silas and Airachnid are very small-time enemies, dangerous on their own but not the primary threat.

Hasn't Airachnid already committed genocide (many in fact)?

In short, they've jointly replaced Starscream as The Heavy whilst Megs gets his grand masterplan under way in the background.

Genocide by definition means extermination on a grand scale. There's no doubt Airachnid is a sick individual but I don't think she would be able to commit genocide while also indulging in her "hunting people for sport" fetish.

Starscream has his sadistic tendencies, but more often than not he is Even Evil Has Standards compared to Megatron. That was basically the whole purpose of the pilot miniseries, Megatron is flat out omnicidal when it comes to defeating his enemies while Starscream is actually looking to rebuild the Cybertronian race.

Airachnid hunts endangered species. When there aren't any of those around, she does the endangering herself. Hence, genocide.

Megatron not only made Cybertron uninhabitable, but he also turned every corpse on the planet into his mindless servants. That's pretty high up there in sheer evil.

He's not as sadistic as either Silas or Airachnid, but he's done damage on a much higher scale than either of them ever could.

Indeed so. Which is why he's the Big Bad to their Heavies.

I asked Hasbro that once as part of one of their Q&A sessions through TFWiki. They said it's to make the Transformers more human-like. And that's all we're ever going to get out of them.

Also what's to say that their Sparks just happen to correspond to we perceive as male and female?

edited 30th Jun '11 3:35:45 PM by Worlder