Sunday, June 15, 2014

Transformers: Prime (Season 3 Beast Hunters: Episodes 4, 5, 6)



Rebellion

The Autobots, led by Ultra Magnus, storms Darkmount and the resulting episode is a grand fight.  While no one important dies, a lot of Vehicons do and we get to see Ultra Magnus in action.  Predictably, and thanks to the many hints such as the DVD cover... Optimus returns with an all new body form (thus distinguishing him more from Ultra Magnus’ body type) and shows off his awesomeness as he comes to save the day.  Optimus gets a flight pack which is cool.  Predaking makes an appearance but becomes underwhelming.  This episode is more show and less about thought and calculations.  The humour interspersed throughout the episode is good and makes it an enjoyable one.

Project Predacon

As hinted by the title, this episode is centred on obtaining a piece of Predacon “CNA” in order for Shockwave to clone more.  By the point, nothing can surprise me in how the writers retcon Transformers history with Earth, I mean, Earth must be pretty much the playground of Transformers, what with Predacons roaming millions of years ago and the Earth itself being Unicron.  This felt like a somewhat slow episode and it takes a while before it gets into it.  We get to see Soundwave in battle which we haven’t had a chance to since a while back.  There were a lot of references in this episode so it was amusing trying to pick it all up.

Chain of Command

This episodes occurs concurrently with the previous, following Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack and Bulkhead in their task to retrieve the Predacon fossil.  So it would seem, following Season 2, that fetch quests are still a significant plot device.  Predaking makes an appearance here, which seems weird when he was instantly frozen before and now, after a while, does he break free by breathing fire.  Miko’s rebellious actions get a positive result (not really a good moral here), gaining the apex armour and saving the day.  Starscream’s cowardice will star to get on your nerves (if it hasn’t already), especially when he keeps going on and on about how he had defeated Cliffjumper.  Once again, this feels more like a filler episode than anything that truly pushes the plot forward.

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Further Transformers:  Prime episodes review can be found here.

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