Minus One
Soundwave once again
has considerable screen time but we get a surprise when for the first time in
the whole series, we get to hear his voice!
Other than that, this episode isn’t too remarkable. The Autobots capture Soundwave and we get the
usual scenes of an Autobot team investigating an area, a gunfight ensues,
Predaking arrives to overpower Optimus and ending in a cliffhanger.
Persuasion
An unremarkable
episode, it feels as if Ratchet has been persuaded to help the Decepticons
before, so it isn’t terribly interesting.
The fact that Starscream was so easily fooled by a paintjob and ONLY
destroying on hangar was hard to believe.
By this point, it is evident that the Beast Hunters title doesn’t play
throughout this season as we haven’t seen any hunting of beasts (and probably
never will). Anyway, there is a lot of
monologue and characters explaining the obvious.
Synthesis
Not a bad episode at
all, as the season nears its finale, the events speed up and becomes more
exciting. Predaking finds out Megatron’s
treachery from a few episodes back in which the Predacon protoforms were
terminated and we get to witness a fairly epic fight. It does feel as if Predaking is overpowered,
any Transformer that goes one on one with him effectively will always
lose. Knockout retains his humorous charm;
he stands out a lot (in a good way) throughout this season.
Deadlock
The final episode in
the season (excluding the TV movie) and it is suitably epic. It presents a conclusion to the whole Prime
universe and was one of the more interesting and better finales out of the
other continuities. At least it presents
more of a closure. You would go into
this episode thinking that there will be a grand final fight between Optimus
and Megatron but prepare for disappointment.
While it wasn’t a bad thing, it just felt like a missed opportunity. The writers did try to present some twists
but straight after it, you can guess at what is about to happen. With that said, the writers of the series did
have the courage to kill off major characters.
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