Season 1 Review

Hello, and welcome to the TFG1 Podcast, Episode

4. The Season 1 Recap, recorded January 23rd,

2009. My name is Michael Blanchard, I am your

host, and I just wanted to let people know, on

this episode, I have two different clips for

people. They were recorded at two different times.

One is with myself and Mike the Birdman Dodd

with This Week in Geek and ThisWeekInGeek .net.

He also does stuff on TheGameHeroes .com, and

he does other radio stuff I don't... Remember,

off the top of my head, he works for some radio

station in Ohio. Anyway, the second clip is Steve

Megatron and I from PredaconEmpire .com talking

about and reviewing the entire first season of

the Generation 1 cartoon. Please enjoy. To open

this recap show of the TFG1 podcast, there will

be two different clips this coming week, this

coming Friday when it airs on iTunes. One of

the clips will be... Steve slash Megatron and

I discussing the recap of Season 1. And as a

special gift and guest this week, Mike the Birdman

Dodd from This Week in Geek joins me now, and

we're going to discuss Season 1. Hello, Mike.

How are you? Hey, Mike. How's it going? And thank

you to all the listeners of This Week in Geek

that have migrated over to this show, and to

you, Mike, for inviting me on. Oh, no problem.

It's just a great pleasure having you on, buddy.

Basically, in this little recap episode, I've

got listed several of my favorite episodes. The

More Than Meets the Eye three -parter that started

the series. I thought it was a really good storytelling.

I thought it was a really great way to actually

tell and bring across to the people what Transformers

are and how they came from Cybertron to Earth.

When I first started out doing the podcast, I

hadn't actually watched the DVDs that I have

for a while, and just watching these and going

back through them, it's just amazing how much

different animation was in 1984. Well, yeah,

I mean, Transformers Generation 1 was basically,

I think, the finest example of what animation

was in that era. Now, this is, I think... one

of the first properties to ever be based on a

toy line. But that didn't stop it from having

great storytelling, and a lot of the voice work

in this series was fantastic, especially from

Frank Welker, Chris Lotta, and, of course, Peter

Cullen. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just... It was

just great. Peter Cohen has got to be the best

voice for Optimus Prime, no matter what form.

I mean, he could have done, not to take anything

away from any of the other people that have played

him, like in Beast Wars and stuff like that,

but he could have played any version of Optimus,

I thought. I think the thing about Peter Cullen

is he brought an air of nobility to it, and it

really sold the character for him having a serious

voice, and it really wasn't cartoony in the regards

that it wasn't over the top, except when maybe

he was taken over by somebody and he laughed

like an idiot, which I think happens in season

two. But yeah, there was a lot of great voice

work on this show, and Casey Kasem, he played

Cliffjump. Yeah, he played Cliffjumper. Casey

also played a number of other characters. He

played Cliffjumper. He played Dr. Archiville

in The Ultimate Doom. I'm trying to think. He

was tons of voices in this series. I mean, Casey

has always done, you know, not to take anything

away from his Scooby -Doo days with him being

shaggy, but Casey has always done multiple voices.

of different characters. Another episode that

kind of spoke out to me on the Season 1 set was

Transport to Oblivion. This is the one where

basically Megatron gets a whole bunch of... He

stockpiled Energon cubes, and I think this was

the first episode that they built the space bridge.

They had the space bridges. Actually, they had

captured Spike and Bumblebee, and they were going

to send them over the space bridge to Cybertron.

I actually like seeing the Cybertron stuff more

than the Earth stuff. Now that I'm going back

and re -watching all these cartoons, I actually

like seeing Cybertron more than I do the Earth

stuff. See, some of the stuff on Cybertron, I

always liked how Cybertron had this really weird

sound. design to it oh and what i mean by that

is just it just it goes into this ambient weird

noise you hear this stereotypical satellite sound

that or whatever yep yep i know exactly what

you're talking about um one uh voice actor that

i do have to mention that did not have a whole

lot of speaking lines only he was the narrator

was victor carolli i mean he Just his voice is

narrating that. I mean, I sent you that voice

clip of the intro to the 86 movie where he goes,

it is the year 2005. No one else could have done

that. You know, it's funny you mention that,

actually. Now, maybe you can find this for me.

I don't know. There was a clip. Sorry, there

was a song somebody made, and it was all these

Transformers clips set to this year 2005 beat,

and it kept having that guy's voice repeat over

and over again. But it was this beautiful piece

of audio techno, and I really wish I could find

it. If you guys know where it is, feedback at

thisweekengeek .net. I'd love to have that for

my personal collection. But do you know what

song that I'm talking about? No, the only songs

that I know are whatever's... whatever the instrumental

stuff is that's on the cartoon and the soundtrack

for the movie. That's pretty much all I know.

I don't know if this was a completely fan -made

thing, but that's another thing, too. A lot of

the music for the cartoon, yes, it was very bland

in a lot of ways, very G .I. Joe -esque. But

it worked. See what I mean? Yeah, I see what

you're saying, but I have to disagree with you

because now that I'm going back and, like I said,

watching all these shows again, the music actually,

like the instrumental stuff, it actually fit

whatever scene it was doing. Like the best example

that I can give you is in the movie. When they're

doing the battle before Prime gets to Earth,

before Blaster calls Prime. That whole thing

that Vince DiColo did with the Autobot Decepticon

battle. Okay, but I'm talking a TV show. The

music in the movie was awesome. Vince DiColo,

actually, we interviewed him last year on This

Week in Geek. And yeah, a lot of his compositions

are really, really neat. In fact, he was originally

going to compose a theme for This Week in Geek,

but I couldn't afford him. I don't think a lot

of people can afford him. Still, that would have

been really frigging cool. Yeah, that would have

been awesome. But one of the things I did like

was, I don't know, like I said, it's a lot of

the voice acting that really made the series

come alive. It became more than just your standard

Saturday morning action cartoon. And just a lot

of the voice actors gave the characters a lot

of good presence, like Scatman Carruthers as

Jazz. Yeah. Actually, I have a clip. I don't

know if I don't think I sent it to you. I have

one of the clips from one of the episodes of

season one where he's like he's doing like. rap

and rhyme it's really cool i'll have to send

it to you that'd be kind of neat but yeah i mean

overall season one was a great beginning to the

transformers franchise it got a lot of kids hooked

i remember watching this when i was a kid on

tv over the air before we had cable and all that

sort of crazy stuff yeah and it was just it was

a fantastic tv show i want them to re -release

the dvds yet again remastered in hd if that's

possible Or Blu -ray? Dude, don't even get me

started, because then it's just going to be me

bashing Hasbro. Because I actually, when they

released the 20th anniversary 2 -disc of the

movie, it has a... A clip in there that says,

coming in 2007, Generation 1 -2 DVD. Sony and

BMG, who owned the rights at that time, their

division that they had it under was called Sony

Wonder. Well, those offices shut down, and the

rights ended up up in the air. Hasbro spent from

some company. I saw it on TFWire. I heard it

on TFWire. Some company. Hasbro struck a deal

with them, I forget what the name of the company

is, to get half of their library back, which

includes, they spent like $7 .5 billion to get

the rights back to their library. And it's just

sitting there. I mean, how can you have a property

as famous as Generation 1 and as nostalgic as

it is and just sit on your ass and do nothing

with it? You wait until the Revenge of the Fallen

comes out. I've got a feeling you're probably

going to see something. Now, with Transformers,

like I said, it's a franchise. It will never

die. But I think they're almost a little bit

leery because I don't know how well Transformers

Animated is performing on DVD. Because personally,

like I said, on the TFWire, that show sucks balls.

Animated, I like some of the stuff. I mean, this

is way off topic, but I did like some of the

nostalgic stuff and some of the things that they

did with some of the characters like Rekgar and

stuff like that. I did like some of the G1 -esque

stuff, but yeah, animated was just ridiculous.

Yeah, and you see, Mike, that's actually a good

example of 2000 -era storytelling. I mean, if

you look back at Generation 1 1984, for what

it was, it was a toy commercial. But they tried,

right? Yeah. In this one, it was what stupid

situation can we do this week? And this little

eight -year -old girl, or whatever the hell her

name is from the cartoon show. Sorry. Sorry.

I would love nothing more than to drop a piano

on her, and Bumblebee should be dismembered.

I'm sorry. That show is so horrible. It's funny

you mention that, because on TFY they mention

the human figures that are coming out, the fan

-made projects. You can actually drop a piano

on Sari's head if you choose to buy her. And

for any of you that wish to donate this figure

to me, I will make an epic video, maybe with

a laser, a real laser blowing through SAR. So,

feedback at thisweekgeek .net. Oh, damn, that

reminds me of... Snowball did a twit pic the

other day. I think it was last week. He had done

something with Photoshop where he's got this

pose and he's got lightning or laser beams coming

out of his fingers. It's his attempt to go super

saiyan. Unfortunately, he is only a half saiyan.

Actually, no, I'm wrong there, so ignore that

completely. Dragon Ball, that's yet another show.

Oh, yeah, that was the other thing. that I need

to get you on, that all -cartoon supplemental,

which I wanted to put out by the end of the month.

I think the record, Steve and I were going to

do the record on that, Steve slash Megatron.

I think we're going to do the record on that

for Saturday the 24th. I will see what I can

do to free up my schedule now that you've mentioned

it. Let's see, other episodes that were memorable

for me, the two Dinobots episodes, SOS Dinobots

and War of the Dinobots. I just love watching

them in action. It's just, it's funny as hell.

It is. It really is. Actually, you know what's

weird? Those are the first two episodes I ever

saw on VHS. Really? And the first ones I ever

rented on beta. God, I'm old. Mike, you're showing

your age, buddy. Oh, damn. You kids and your

fancy laser discs. See, I'm lucky because when

I was growing up, I... Beta was just going out

and VHS was just coming in, so... You don't have

to worry about beta. Let's see. The next episodes

that I have on here is The Ultimate Doom, the

three -parter. That was awesome. That was awesome,

but it really gave a lot of character depth,

I thought, too. And I said this in the synopsis,

or in my thoughts for that episode, because I've

already gone through and reviewed those cartoons

on earlier episodes. The Ultimate Doom gave very

much a lot of character depth to Spike and Sparkplug.

Now, I know a lot of Transformers fans are like,

we don't need no stinking humans, but it's like

those two from that, and even Daniel, even though

I know a lot of people don't like Daniel, all

the humans from Generation 1, it wasn't just

like, you know, Kicker from Armada and a whole

bunch of other kids. It was specific people.

that were in the series to help the Autobots.

And they had driver's licenses, and it wasn't

so ridiculous. You know what I mean? Yeah. Actually,

there was an episode that I just... Because what

I've done with mine is I've gone ahead and written...

I've got my scripts written through, like, episode

11. So I've gone ahead, and I'm right now in

the middle of season two, part two, as far as

watching and reviewing and writing down thoughts.

There was an episode where... Bumblebee was driving,

and Spike was in the passenger seat, and the

cop pulls him over and says, is there a problem,

officer? Yeah, your age, son. Oh, but I'm not

driving, and Bumblebee transforms. He's like,

see, I'm driving. I know exactly what episode

you're talking about. Is that where they do some

weird race thing, like they're racing or something?

Yeah, I think it was the Autobot run, but I'd

have to go back and look. Wow, memories there.

But now that we've gone off on a complete tangent.

That's okay. Returning back to the Ultimate Doom.

Yeah, see, I really wish they brought back Dr.

Arkaville because I thought he was a really cool

villain. But they kind of did in the Binal Tech

series. He was mentioned in some of the tech

specs. Oh, really? See, I was always very specific

with what I watched when I was younger. And Generation

1 was it. Once Generation 1 was over, I didn't.

really watch anything else until i had found

actually it was in the middle of 1996 i found

beast wars and i got into that but that's a whole

other topic uh let's see the other last three

episodes i liked were countdown to extinction

a plague of insecticons and according to the

dvd uh set the season ender heavy metal war heavy

metal war i have to say could have Almost been.

Now, I know that they wrote, that the writers

and creators and everything wrote the movie in

the first season, but that's probably where they

got the battle for Prime and Megatron in the

movie because the battle that they did with all

the Autobots and Decepticons watching was just

horrendous. It was just knock down, drag them

on. Of course, Megatron cheated by creating this

machine that... All of his Decepticons gave him

their powers, but it was just really, really

weird. The Constructicons were in that episode,

and I like the Constructicons, I like Devastator,

but... The origin stories, it's like, oh, my

God, what were these writers thinking? There's

an origin story in season one where they're built

in a cave. Megatron says, we did a good job building

you in the cave. And then, like, another episode

down the line, it's a different origin story.

And then another episode down the line is a different

origin story. It's just like... What the hell

were they smoking? I mean, come on, get it right.

Stick with one thing. Now, I can see maybe it

was a reboot, and they wanted to give the Constructicons

more of a story. Like, in the episode, I just

wrote up The Secret of Omega Supreme. I actually

like that origin story for the Constructicons

the best, where they were friends of Omega on

Cybertron, and Megatron got a hold of the Constructicons

and turned them bad. And they destroyed everything.

And that's why Omega talks the way that he does.

That, you know, bizarro type talk. He doesn't

talk like a normal Autobot. And it was just really,

really... It just really irks me about the Constructicons

that they don't have a specific origin story

that it varied so much. Well, yeah, like I said,

that was the weakness of producing cartoons in

the 80s because no one took the art form seriously.

There wasn't usually a level of continuity that

you could really connect with. So when something

better came along, they just retconned themselves

and they could get themselves out of that corner

because it was a better story. Yeah. Let's see,

other notes I have. The Season 1 DVD set of Transformers

Generation 1 cartoon was very good. The storylines,

like we said, were really thought out. You know,

if you really look at it, a lot of those 80s

cartoons had some good life lessons in them.

I mean, other than the fact that He -Man had

a good public relations message at the end of

every episode, but that's another topic. I've

noticed a lot of animation flubs. I mean, a lot.

There was one episode where... multiple things

that keep occurring is the jets, all the Seekers

like Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker.

In one scene, you'll have Starscream talking,

and then Thundercracker will walk up next to

him, and he'll be the exact same color scheme

as Starscream. He won't be his blue and yellow

and gray and black. He'll be Starscream's colors.

See, that's why I'm hoping if they re -release

this series, they go back and fix these. It's

a possibility. It's not likely, but it's a possibility.

I want to talk about the menus and the special

features a little bit on the set. I know you

don't have the set or you haven't seen it in

a while. I've got a Chinese bootleg of this series.

It's quite good, actually. So do I, but it has

no special features. But anyway, as far as the

box set goes, it... It's really cool. The outside

of it is basic. When you're looking at it, just

like holding it in your hand, it's basic silver,

and it has the classic 80s Transformers logo.

You open it up, and you get an image of Megatron

on one side and Optimus on the other. You open

it up, another panel, and you get part of, I

think it was when we were in More Than Meets

the Eye. The, what the hell is it called? The

oil rig fell on them. You got, I think it's Jazz

or Wheeljack standing on it. And the DVDs themselves

have really held up over time. And there's a

whole bunch of imagery underneath the DVDs. The

special features, I wasn't that impressed with

it. I really wasn't. It showed like... A preview

of BotCon 2002. I think it was one of the very

first BotCons. The rest of it is like original

scripts. The bumpers, like for the commercials,

I don't like any of those. Those images, I don't

like anything because it'll show Jazz and Victor

Corolli will go and Transformers will be right

back or however the hell it's said, and I just

never really liked it. See, but it is good to

have those because those can get lost. in any

number of television stations because they got

those to play before the episodes. So it's a

good piece of Transformers history. Could something

have been done with it? Oh, yeah. But you see,

a lot of cartoon series usually get gypped when

it comes to special features. However, that's

not always the case, though, because I looked

at the new Batman Deanimated Series box set,

and that had some really nice stuff in it. But

Transformers should have got a lot more, though.

Yeah, don't make me turn around and pick that

up, because I have it sitting right behind me.

It is well worth it, as you well know. No, I

know. So that about wraps it up for this clip

of Episode 4. I'd like to thank Mike for being

on here with me. It was a great pleasure having

you. Love This Week in Geek. Go to the website

thisweekingeek .net and just listen to all the

stuff they have over there. They're doing wonderful

stuff over there at TWIG. So thank you, Mike.

Awesome. Thanks a lot. Plus, if you want to hear

more of my video gaming stuff, you can go to

www .thegameheroes .com where I do another podcast

with handsome Tom Hanley over there. And I'm

also featured on 1150 AM WIMA in Lima, Ohio.

So check me out there as well. So anyway, guys,

thanks a lot and live free or die hard. See ya.

Megatron must be stopped no matter the cost.

shall fall. Why throw away your life so recklessly?

That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron.

Now, I'll crush you with my bare hands! CENSOR

SHIT This is Michael Blanchard with the TFG1

Podcast. This is Episode 4. This will be the

second piece of audio that the listeners will

hear today. I am with Steve Slash Megatron of

PredaconEmpire .com. Hey, Steve. Hey. What's

going on? Not much. It's just way too early.

In this second part of the episode, Steve and

I are going to be doing the same thing Mike the

Birdman Dodd and I did yesterday. That is talking

about Season 1 of the Generation 1 cartoon on

a whole. Just recapping it and just giving general

thoughts. I know you don't have the DVD sets,

do you? No. I do, and I've said this before.

I spent $300 and something to get them back on

eBay. Rhino releases, and the first thing I want

to talk about is the actual packaging. When you

first pick it up, it's silver. It actually says

the original Transformers on it. Why the hell

it says the original, I have no idea. I don't

know why they just didn't put Transformers Generation

1. But anyway, it was made by Rhino, so go figure.

It's basically silver, kind of like metallic

looking in color. And on the spine it has the

name, and on the back it has all the episodes

listed and special features. When you open it

up, you get a picture of Megatron on the left

and Optimus Prime on the right. You open it up

again, you get a picture of Wheeljack. And then

I believe there is pictures under... No, there's

just colors under the actual DVDs where the DVDs

sit. One of the good things about this set, they

all come with, actually all the Rhino sets come

with episode booklets describing what each episode

is. And they also, it was a special thing, they

also came with two animation cells each. So the

entire series, the five DVD boxes, you get two.

animation cells each, and I actually took all

of them out and I framed them all. So, because

I figured, well, I don't want to get these messed

up or get them, have fingerprints all over them,

stuff like that. So, to begin the recap, the

episodes that I have listed for as favorite ones

of mine were... The More Than Meets the Eye three

-parter, I thought that was a really great way

to start out the series. It was a good way to

introduce them to people. I always, and I'll

say this again when we get down to the Ultimate

Doom ones, I always liked the Cybertron scenes

in G1 more than I did the Earth scenes, because

it has that really eerie music when you first

see the planet, and it's like, oh, what are we

going to do? What are we going to get out of

these people? Let's see. Another one of my favorite

episodes was Transport to Oblivion, which was

the first episode in which Megatron and the Decepticons

built a space bridge because actually they caught

Bumblebee and Spike spying on them and they were

going to send them over the space bridge. Another

one was the two Dinobot episodes, Always Make

Me Laugh. I watched those for an earlier episode

of the podcast here, and it's just funny as hell.

Because in War of the Dinobots, the second Dinobot

episode of Season 1, the Grimlock, Slag, and

Sludge go berserk, and they basically don't want

to do anything that the Autobots say and everything

else. Well, Optimus has Wheeljack and Ratchet

build two more. build two new ones. So you actually

get to see the two new Dinobots fight the original

three Dinobots, and I think that is the only

time we ever get to see them fight each other.

Yeah, I think so. I think that's the only, at

least in Season 1, and I'm in the middle of Season

2 now, writing up stuff, and I didn't see anything.

Next ones I have listed is the Ultimate Doom

three -parter. This, was just fucking amazing.

It had great animation. I thought it really did

great with the storytelling as far as character

development, especially with Spike and Sparkplug,

with the whole, you know, your father is a slave

now, and no, Dad, save me, and this, that, and

the other thing and everything else. So I thought

that was really cool. And, you know, most Transformers

fans that I've heard other podcasts from don't

like humans. In the cartoons or whatever. But

at least with Generation 1, at least they made

Spike and Sparkplug two centric characters as

far as character development. It wasn't just

like throwing a bunch of kids in there like they

did with Armada. Yeah, I definitely like the

humans a lot better from Generation 1. They don't

bother me. They actually fit. into the flow of

the story, whereas in later generations of Transformers,

basically from right on, the kids in the show

were the most annoying part besides the fact

that they tried to do it Pokemon -style Transformers.

I have never seen R .I .D. I've never seen that

show. I saw two or three episodes of Armada and...

Two or three episodes of Energon and two or three

episodes of Cybertron, but I will not watch those.

I just won't. Well, I actually suffered through

a couple episodes of each series. The only one

I actually watched more of since RID to Cybertron

was Energon, and I think I only watched until

Megatron came back, and then after that I didn't

watch anymore. You Megatron stalker. Yes. The

next one that I have listed on here is Countdown

to Extinction. I believe this is the one where

this takes, yeah, basically instead of naming

this like the Ultimate Doom Part 4, they just

named it Countdown to Extinction because it basically

takes up where the Ultimate Doom left off. the

part three left off and it, you know, so they

were doing really good in this first season as

far as overall storylines, as far as keeping

continuity throughout the episodes. Um, next

one is a plague of insecticons, introducing the

insecticons, which, you know, insecticon episodes

are like, The Decepticons have a plan to do something.

The Insecticons come in, they double -cross them,

or the Decepticons double -cross them, and the

Autobots have to clean up the mess. Basically,

that's the way I view that. And as I said to

Mike in the other clip that the listeners heard

on this podcast, the way that I separated the

episodes for TFG1 podcast was I looked at the

back of the DVD box and I looked at what... what

order they were listed in, and I just counted

them off. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, split. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

split. So according to the DVD, Heavy Metal War

is the season finale of Season 1, but that's

not how it's listed on IMDb as airing. So I don't

know if the list on here is by production or

if it's by air date. I don't know. Frankly, I

don't care. I just went by whatever. I just went

by whatever was on the DVDs, and I just separated

them into five episodes. It's actually between

four and six episodes per podcast, like the season,

or season, episode three, the episode that came

out last week, or two weeks ago, actually. for

when this goes up on iTunes, it'll be two weeks.

It was actually six episodes to get season one

out of the way. Heavy Metal War I really liked.

I think that they got, now I know the movie was

written in the first season of the cartoon, but

I really think they took a lot of cues from the

battle between Prime, the ultimate battle between

Prime and Megatron in this. Even though Megatron,

the dirty little bastard, cheated and took all

his Decepticons' powers with some device, some

power chip transfer, some crap like that. But,

I mean, when I was watching that episode, it

just seemed like it was just like the movie.

I mean, you know, it had some of the same actual

animation looks as far as the way Prime and Megatron

were fighting each other. As I said to Mike in

the clip that we did, the Constructicons are

in this episode, which I like the Constructicons,

I really do. But what pisses me off so much is

the writing that happened for them. Because you

have, in one earlier episode in Season 1, you

have Megatron specifically saying... We did good

building you in the caves. And then I believe

an episode that they're in in season two, they

say that they're, you know, another completely

different storyline. And then I had just watched

and reviewed The Secret of Omega Supreme, where

the Constructicons were actually on Cybertron

and friends of Omega until... Megatron got a

hold of them and turned them to evil, which The

Secret of Omega Supreme is the only time in the

entire series that Omega Supreme does not talk

like Bizarro. And it gives a back story for Omega

and the Constructicons, and I actually like that

origin story the best. I understand retconning

everything. You know, maybe the writers didn't

feel that they had a good enough story for the

Constructicons in the first place as far as origin.

But, good lord, three different origin stories?

That's just ridiculous. Yeah. The special features,

move on to the special features on this. It's

nice to have them on here. It's nice to have

them as far as, you know, the Generation 1, you

know, history, timeline stuff. I never liked

the bumpers in Season 1. Like the commercial

out and ends, like, we'll be right back. You

know, they mainly used Laserbeak, Optimus, Jazz,

and Starstream for the bumpers as far as imagery.

What else is on here? We have... The animated

menus on season one, I cannot stand them. All

it is is TV screens inside the arc. That's all

it is. And it's very hard. If you're just going

to watch a single episode or if you're going

to watch just individual episodes, it's very

hard to read the writing, the way that they did

the colors, and the way that they did the...

The titles for that, it's very hard to read.

The animation outtakes. Let's see what else is

on here. Animation slates and tests. Rhino remastering

process. And it also has the Japanese show opening,

which I didn't even look at that, seeing as how...

No. No. I didn't look at that. Actually, I think

I might have when I first got them, but as far

as for, like, reviewing the series for the podcast,

no. No, I didn't really look at that. What else

do I have here in the notes? The animation in

the first season was... There are some episodes

that it was really, really good, but the thing

that gets me the worst is the off -model stuff.

Like, you'll have Starscream on screen talking,

and Thundercracker will walk up, Into the scene.

And he'll have Starscream's colors. There's another

episode where Optimus was completely blue. Like

where his stuff is supposed to be red on his

arms and on his head where it's supposed to be.

You know, there's different coloration. He's,

excuse me, he's completely blue. I just, yeah,

that's not. It's not good. Yeah, I think I remember

seeing that in one of the episodes. Actually,

for the most part, for season one, like The Ultimate

Doom, when I was writing up the synopsis for

that three -parter, I wrote it up and I wrote

it up, but I just found myself just kind of like,

okay, I'm just going to sit here and watch it

now. It was just like sheer enjoyment because

I haven't picked these up. I mean, I bought them,

but I haven't actually sat down and opened them

and watched them in probably six months before

I started doing this. Wow. It had been a while,

so it's kind of nice to see all the new stuff.

So let's see, where are we going to go from here?

Just on the side for all things Transformers,

is there any news at all besides the movie news

this week? Movie rumors. Nothing. Well, Transformers

3 is slated for June 29, 2011. The second one

isn't even out yet, and they've already... And

they got the teaser poster out. Yeah, I saw that.

I'm not too thrilled with that. Well, somebody

apparently photoshopped the teaser poster, and

in it is, let's see if I got it here on my computer,

but they brightened it up. And in the picture,

it shows, I don't know if you listened to TFWire,

but they said that like a Decepticon -ish symbol,

type thing for it. Yeah, I had seen it. Actually,

one of the Earth2 .net forum members had posted

the picture in the Transformers 2 thread over

on Earth2 .net forums, and I had seen it. Yeah,

I'm just not too thrilled with that poster. I'm

not too thrilled with it, but I'm going to give

it a chance and just see how it goes. Come up

with a couple other things first before I start

getting excited about this film. Well, I'm going

to wait until they play the actual trailer at

the Super Bowl. Then I'll know whether I'm going

to be jumping up and down for it. Yeah. So is

that official as far as when the trailer will

be out? It'll be the Super Bowl? Yes. Yeah, because

apparently the companies that normally do the

ads, and I guess the ads are, instead of however

many million they were last year, they're $30

million now. for the ads on the Super Bowl, and

apparently nobody can afford to pay that. So

the movie studio has stepped in, multiple ones,

and I guess Paramount or NBC is posting the G

.I. Joe trailer in there, the Star Trek trailer,

the Transformer 2 trailer, and then various other

trailers from other production companies. Uh

-huh. Well... So we're going to be filled with

a giant movie fest in the middle of the Super

Bowl. You mean... Which gives me incentive to

watch it because I don't normally watch it. You

need to tell me. I have to sit through that entire

fucking game just to see a Transformers trailer.

I love Transformers, but seeing as how the Patriots

aren't even in the Super Bowl, yeah, no. I'll

wait until somebody rips it on a camera phone

and puts it on YouTube. Well, that's the thing.

Somebody's going to have it online by the end

of the day anyway, so you might as well just

sit and wait if you're going to wait. The latest

you'll have to wait is the next day because somebody

will have it on YouTube. Yep. You got anything

else that you want to talk about? Because I'm

going to be looking at something here for a second.

I need to check the Gmail, which I can pretty

much tell you that there ain't going to be anything

in the inbox. Yeah, there's nothing to mine either

for the all things Transformers. But, yeah, I

won't be recording an episode this week. I'll

probably be doing one next week. Okay. I mean,

if you want me to record something, I can. It

doesn't really matter to me. Just send me the

news stuff if you want me to talk about the news.

There's a little bit of news, but there isn't

a whole lot worth spending time on this week.

But I'm sure that coming closer to next week,

we'll have a little bit more, plus various other

announcements. Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with

the BotCon announcement. I agree with Spada when

he said because the movie's out there and it's

probably going to be cheaper for them to get

the voice actors and stuff since it's out there.

Send me email, people. Damn it, tfg1podcast at

gmail .com. The only thing that's in here is

the welcome to Gmail. Gmail is so much more different.

Yeah, right. They're all the same, in my opinion.

I got my own web server built in with my website

for Predacon Empire. I've gotten, I think, one

email, and that was because I had a section on

the forum called Ask a Character. So, yeah, I

ended up getting some for that. But other than

that, I haven't gotten any questions. Yeah, I

actually did my first forum posting on CafeSpark

the other day. I was pimping out my second evil

Autobot Rodimus BotCon figure. Of course, only

three people have looked at the damn thing. And

nope. Well, I think people have looked at it,

but I don't know if you're going to get much

of a response. But you would think that since

it took me about... three weeks before I even

was into that whole entire set before I even

found that. I just wanted that figure just from

seeing pictures of him and stuff like that. It

took me three weeks to find him at least at a

halfway decent, even though $175 .50 is a horrible

price, but at least it wasn't like $300, $400.

And it took me three weeks to find that. Yeah.

All right. But, yeah, as for the G1 episodes,

I think I like the three -parter of More Than

Meets the Eye, because obviously that's what

started it all, and a little bit of animation

flubs and differences in designs compared to

later in the series, but, again, that's the first

episode, so there's going to be mistakes. Yeah,

I know when Spada was talking about when Mike

the Birdman Dodd was either on TFWire or Spada

and Jesse were on Twig, Spada had talked about

after the movie, Season 3 is kind of where they

went more scientific. I would almost have to

disagree with that because I am in the middle

of Season 2 right now, and it's like very outer

space type stuff. I think the episode that I'm

on now is, where is it? Well, season three is

more so a kill fest. Yeah, that's true, too.

Yeah. I mean, pretty much. I just finished up

The God Gambit, Make Tracks, Child's Play, Quest

for Survival, and The Secret of Omega Supreme.

And the next one that I have to write up a review

for, I started watching The Gambler, which...

And Kremzik will be in the next one that I write

up. It won't be in the next one that I talk about.

So, yeah, I think we're going to end this, folks,

because it's very early in the morning and we're

both very, very tired. And, you know, my neighbors

are just... I'm sorry. Thank God they don't listen

to the show, but they're just fucking assholes.

They just are. I'm sorry. You do not sit there

and play rap music at ungodly amounts of sound,

you know, at ungodly amounts of time in the middle

of the night when somebody has to get up at 5

o 'clock in the fucking morning to record. Welcome

to my room. No, I used to have to deal with that

when I lived in an apartment, but now that I

don't live in one... Oh, it's so nice. I left

the trailer and it's quiet. So, thank you for

listening to the TFG1 Podcast. Please tune in

next time when I'll be reviewing five episodes

starting Season 2 of the Generation 1 cartoon,

those being Autobot Spike, Changing Gears, City

of Steel, Attack of the Autobots, and Traitor.

Email may be sent to tfg1podcast at gmail .com.

Please send me email people. Let me know how

I'm doing with the podcast. I'd like to thank

my guest hosts for this episode, MikeTheBirdman.

and Steve slash Megatron. It was a great pleasure

having them on the show. Hope to have the three

of us sit down and record together on a future

episode. For now, I am Michael Blanchard saying

in the immortal words of Optimus Prime, transform

and roll out. Until next time.