The Key to Vector Sigma Parts 1 and 2, Aerial Assault, and War Dawn Review

Hello and welcome to the 13th episode of the

TFG1 podcast, recorded April 17th, 2009. I am

your host, Michael Blanchard, and today we have

a special guest. Hey, this is Steve slash Megatron

of all things Transformers and PredaconEmpire

.com. Yes, Steve is making a second appearance

right now for episode 13, so let's get right

to it. Today I am joined by my awesome all things

Transformers co -host Steve slash Megatron and

we're going to discuss some excellent G1 episodes

So how you been Steve? Good. How are you? I'm

doing pretty good actually had a little Surprise

for the TFG1 listeners this week on Monday Which

is today we will be releasing or well either

Monday or Tuesday depending on when you get the

editing done I decided to interview Mike the

Birdman Dodd from This Week in Geek because I

didn't actually know how they came up with This

Week in Geek so Mike and I spent about an hour,

a little under an hour discussing a whole bunch

of stuff so that should be out before this episode

actually See the really only g1 news is and normally

I don't do news is that The DVD set is coming

out from Shout Factory They're doing a season

1 25th anniversary set and then in a story that

came down the pipe late very late on Friday Shout

Factory has also been signed on board to do a

complete series later on this summer as well

as a G .I. Joe complete series. Now, the article

does not say whether it's G .I. Joe Sunbow and

Deke, or if it's just the Sunbow series, because

apparently Rhino had the rights to G .I. Joe.

They lost them before they could fulfill their

release schedule, so a lot of those episodes

were never released on DVD. Yeah, I remember

I was looking for them, couldn't find it, but

Yeah, that's awesome news that they're going

to have the complete series come out later this

summer. Yep, and I'm going to wait for that.

I'm not getting the Season 1. No, I'm just going

to wait and get the entire complete season box

set of G1 Transformers and GI Joe with all the

special features and it says that they're even

remastered. Yeah, that'll be great. That's exactly

what I was talking about when... broke news that

they were re -releasing Season 1. I was like,

hope they come out with a remastered and sure

as shit they did. Yep, yep. Yeah, there really

isn't too much else going on. I saw, just to,

I normally don't do shout -outs, but Gogdog,

one of the hosts of the TFW podcast, he did a

little 20 second YouTube thing about purple animated

shockwave is what he used and he showed off the

hip joint and it's like 20 seconds long you think

it's gonna be longer he just like moves the hip

in and out and he goes thanks Derek J Wyatt and

it just stops so that was pretty funny I've been

twittering like, man, it's just, it is unbelievable

how just besides the fact that it's a social

networking tool, it's just a great tool to advertise

stuff as well. Yes, definitely a great networking

tool. Plus they, uh... If you need customer support

done, it's a great place to get it done because

they actually take care of you. Yeah, Mr. Comcast

over there. Yes, and they took care of it and

they paid my bill, which I didn't expect. They

actually called me, the guy from Twitter called

me the day before. said that okay well that we're

gonna get this fixed and had him look into it

and then the tech guy came out while I was at

work and fixed it then the next day he calls

me and says are your speeds back up where they're

supposed to be does it work and everything I

says oh yeah and he said well just so you know

we're gonna take care of your month's bill this

month and the amount of and blah blah blah and

they paid my entire bill and I was like awesome

yeah that's great I didn't expect that. I was

just expecting them to say, okay, your stuff's

fixed. There you go. Yeah, I'm trying to think

what else is going on. I mean, we've already

really talked about all the future projects,

so I'm not going to go into that again. No emails

this week. Don't know I mean I Like I said in

a GTF 19 I get a lot of feedback on Twitter and

stuff like that I will most likely be having

a Co -host to another coast with me another one

of our Twitter friends Pican CT Michael we will

be he's a huge transformers fan. He's been to

a lot of bot cons and he has got to be the Probably

the only person I know with a transformers collection

that takes up almost an entire basement I mean

he has if he has almost everything It just boggles

me I saw a couple of panoramic pictures that

someone took of his of his shelvings in the basement

and It's just amazing how much stuff he's got

for transformers So he may be joining me on episode

14 17 and 19 18 and 19 and then Steve of course

you'll be back for episodes 23 24 so yes yes

so let's get into some episodes today already

Why have you done this thing? You must give personalities

to the Stuntacons! They're cybernetic creations

like ourselves! Fear them with hatred for the

Autobots, and all that the Autobots stand for!

Present them to me! I'm... I'm Breakdown. I'll

obey too. I am Dragstrip. I live to obey. I'm

the Wild Rider, and I wanna bust something up!

Right here. What are you doing? I am a first

-generation product of Vector Sigma. We share

the same computation matrix. My power supply

can merge with it, reactivating it. Alpha! No!

Have you forgotten that you are my creation,

Prime? You need these planes. You may not get

off this planet alive without them. And what

of the safety of the people of Earth? Now, let

me do what must be done. Victor Sigma. I am Victor

Sigma. Before Cybertron was, I was. Who reactivates

me? I, Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots.

Why are you here? To give life to these machines.

He gave himself up just so we could have some

jets. That's nuts! No. One Autobot gave his life

so that six could be born. He made a choice.

The kind of choice I hope they'll be able to

make when the time's right. Vector Sigma, give

these machines personality worthy of him who

created me. Let them think for themselves, to

grow in knowledge and wisdom, and let them always

value freedom and life wherever they find it.

But, um, now I think I'm Silverbolt. And I'm

Air Raid. Geez, what is this place? Who are you

guys? Who are you? Oh, right. I'm Fireflight.

I'm Skydive. I'm Slingshot. Used to be a speed

shuttle. Now I'm the fastest, smartest, hottest

jet you ever saw. Now let's get back to Earth.

Optimus Prime. Alpha Trion. I am now one with

Vector Sigma. And I have learned something. The

key to Vector Sigma, which Megatron took back

to Earth, may doom the entire planet. But how,

Alpha Trion? On Earth, its energy may have a

radically different effect. More I cannot say.

So what are we waiting for? First up today we

have... The key to Vector Sigma, and according

to the little booklet that comes with the DVDs,

Megatron wants a Decepticon road force to better

combat the Autobots, and so he builds the Stunticons.

The Stunticons lack individual personalities,

so the Decepticons bring their new sub -team

to Cybertron in search of Vector Sigma, the supercomputer

that gives all Transformers sentience. To activate

Vector Sigma, Megatron must find its key, and

only Alpha Trion has it. I should make note that

this is key to Vector Sigma part 1. I did not

say that before reading that little blurb. Let

me see here. That's that. Let's see, the Autobots...

I've actually made these into bullet points.

I actually took the synopsis and broke it down

into... like one or two line sentences. But I

had already written it up. Uh, the Autobots are

accompanying a convoy of super fuel to protect

it from the Decepticons. But, uh... That doesn't

make any sense. That does not make any... What's

there does not make any sense. The Autobots are

accompanying a convoy of super fuel to protect

it from the Decepticons. But I think it's supposed

to be they attack and the Autobots must evade

them Megatron threatens to blast one of the fuel

tankers when smoke screen comes to the rescue

Megatron's plan is to even the odds on the roads

against their foes the Decepticons steal five

vehicles and Megatron has them rebuilt rebuilt,

but he must take them to Cybertron to give them

cybernetic personalities Vector Sigma, the computer

that gives all Transformers life, is the only

thing that can bring life to Megatron's new car

group. He calls them the Stuntacons. I think

I have no... I forget. I'm trying to think if

I have the names listed here. I know I do at

some point. The Decepticons head to Cybertron

to give the Stuntacons personalities. The Decepticons

arrive at Alpha Trion's base and steal the circuit

key to Vector Sigma. This is the first time in

the overall arching storyline has added something

to the TF history. I believe the Which would

be alpha try and I think this is his first I

think this is the first one of the first episodes

that we see him I don't know. This is the second

episode because we had the one last episode the

search about the search for alpha try on whoops

The new thing that was added was the Centurion

droids as far as them protecting Vector Sigma

and Megatron realizes he can control the droids

with the circuit key because it is a part of

Vector Sigma. Megatron sends the droids after

the Autobots, which they have arrived on Cybertron

to stop the Decepticons. The Decepticons are

born. Dragstrip, Dead End, Wild Rider, Motor

Master, and Breakdown. The Autobots are still

fighting the droids with drone robots now that

overpower the droids. The Autobots get to Vector

Sigma Chamber Optimus Prime has a plan to rebuild

the shuttle ships that they saw in the hangar

into Earth -style jets. Basically, close to the

end of the episode, right as it goes into Cliffhanger,

they had to double back in fighting these droids.

And they doubled back into a hangar with a bunch

of old Cybertronian shuttle ships. And that's

where the idea for the aerial bots comes about.

Now for our thoughts on this episode. Stop. Where's

the stop button? Alrighty. Let's see. In this

first part I thought that the storytelling was

excellent and I'm glad to see that they're bringing

more combiner teams into the show. The animation

was solid and I didn't notice too many flubs.

There wasn't really anything off -model or just

plain bad. I think the animation for this episode

was fairly solid. I think outside of the concerticons,

Devastator, the Aerialbots, Superion are my favorite

combiners. The voices that they chose for these

guys are just awesome. I'm sure if I had looked

them up on IMDB, they'd be people I know. Probably.

From other characters, yeah, probably. In the

series, there are a few issues that I have with

this and part two of the episode. In season three,

there are a ton of characters that are introduced,

but they never have to go through the process

of having Vector Sigma creating cybernetic personalities.

Hmm. Weird, of course. Then again, some of the

historical videos that play at the end of the

episodes in later seasons say that these characters

already existed. Overall it's a good episode.

It's definitely better than some we reviewed

in the last time I was on Yeah, but yeah, it

was cool to see them actually create some new

combiners to battle instead of just using the

same old Constructor cons and everything else

Yeah Yep, alrighty then, on to the next episode.

The key to Vector Sigma part 2 is up next and

according to Little Booklet To help the Autobots

create new troops of their own Alpha Trion merges

with Vector Sigma and warns Optimus Prime of

the keys powers if used on Earth. Having returned

to Earth, Megatron begins using the key to transmogrify

organic material into inert metal thus enabling

the creation of a new Cybertron. Let's see, where

do we start here? As I just said, on Earth, the

Stuntacons break into the rocket fuel base from

the first episode, and they steal the super fuel.

The humans believe them to be Autobots though,

because they're driving. Actually, that was supposed

to be... Wait a second. Oops. That was supposed

to be in the... The Autobots on Cybertron build

the Aerialbots. They have Vector Sigma give them

personalities. Silverbolt, Skydive, Air Raid,

Slingshot, and Fireflight. Optimus learns from

Alpha Tron, who has now merged with Vector Sigma,

that the key Megatron stole may doom the planet

Earth. Shockwave eavesdrops on this and he alerts

Megatron. The Aerialbots get their first taste

of action by out running uh... the droids semitronian

droids when the other was get back to earth omega

supreme interrupts optimus by telling him that

he's gonna explode this was actually a funny

scene just the fact of the way that omega talks

the the the bizarro type talk uh... and i really

thought that was funny of course then he blows

all the pieces and that's not so funny but yeah

uh... so ratchet in the others must repair omega

supreme the autobots arrive at the base where

the super fuel was in the humans attack them

and because they think that obviously the cars

from before autobots and they're not and they

realize that it's megatron's new car group and

uh... yeah some of the humans in this cartoon

really stupid the aerial bots are very arrogant

especially slingshot and this is something that

i almost stopped watching these episodes because

of this the aerial bots yeah i know they just

got born and built and everything else but these

guys i think all of them other than silverbolt

who eventually becomes the leader they are just

so arrogant of course it takes them a time traveling

trip in a later episode today that to realize

that they you know, need to be a little bit more

humble. The Autobots meet the Stuntacons and

the Aerialbots join the battle. Silverbolt is

afraid of heights. He's a shuttle ship. He's

supposed to be able to go into outer space. How

the hell is he afraid of heights? Megatron calls

back, oh, Megatron actually calls back the Stuntacons

because he never actually sent them out. But

the Aerialbots think they beat the Stuntacons.

Optimus makes Silverbolt the commander of the

aerial bots to take his mind off of his fear

of heights. The Decepticons are still running

tests on the key, which eventually what happens

is that Soundwave trips over a rock, he drops

the key, and apparently there's a button on one

side of the key that you can press that activates

the energy and Megatron realizes that it turns

everything. into metal, which goes back to the

whole trans -organic thing. So they were doing

trans -organic stuff even in G1, which is surprising.

The Autobots arrive where the Decepticons are

in a battle between the Autobots and Stunticons

begins. We find out that the Stunticons can merge

into Menasaur. The Aerial bots arrive and join

the battle. After the Stuntacons merge, Optimus

tells the Aerial bots to merge into Superion.

The two giant robots have a battle and Omega

Supreme finally shows up just in time to save

Superion. Silverbolt overcomes his fear of heights

and goes after Megatron who still has the key.

Silverbolt destroys the key and Slingshot saves

him ending this episode. Now for our thoughts

on this episode The one thing that really pissed

me off and I mentioned this in the little synopsis

thing in the second part Of Keta vector Sigma

after the area bots are born and everything there.

They're nothing but ingrates They first I mean

after a while they learn though, and they'll

learn in future episodes That we'll be talking

about today. I don't really have a lot of notes

on the second part on all I liked it The animation,

as I've stated in past podcast episodes, it's

getting better and better as time goes on. Also,

I think the cartoons really have held up over

time. What about your thoughts on this one? This

one, I'd have to say, is pretty good considering

this is the first time you see the Keta vector

sigma in them. Well, I mean, you see it in the

last part of the episode, but you see it in this

one too. And then transforming organic matter

into techno matter, which later becomes a plot

point in Beast Machines. Again, calling back

from this very episode. Yeah. Yeah, it was overall,

I mean, if I had to rate it, I mean, if I was

actually doing a rating scale, I would probably

rate... the overall both parts i would probably

rate it an eight out of ten it does have its

its moments where it's like oh god no they didn't

do that um so let's see here all right and that

oh crap anyway So you and Megatron could rule

the world together. I think we oughta... Maybe

we should let Prince Jamal deal with him. Yeah,

if we can find him, which may not be so easy.

And then again, it might be easier than you think.

Now, what do you know about Prince Jamal? Hassan!

I -I can't see the brat in the bazaar! It was...

Me, Prince Jamal. After you drove me from the

palace, that was my disguise. I didn't know what

you were up to, but thanks to my friend Slingshot

and the rest of... Slingshot, what's the matter?

I just remembered, your car. Are you gonna...

gonna want it back? My friend! I thought you

knew! My hobby's rebuilding old junkers! Oh,

great! Cause I really like... Hey! Did you just

call me a... Up next is Aerial Assault and I

apologize on the end of the last clip there because

my brain just went dead. So we have Aerial Assault.

We start this episode off in a middle eastern

bazaar where a young boy is trying to steal a

tire. There are men everywhere with beat up cars

that they are trying to fix. One of the men catch

the boy, but the youngster gets away. The aerial

bots are flying over the area and they are trying

to find out why there have been so many planes

disappearing in the area. They get a distress

call from a canyon up ahead, but it's an ambush

the combaticons are waiting for the aerial bots

and a battle begins I will most likely have something

to say about the combaticons being in this episode

at the end when we do our thoughts because Yeah,

they're they should not even be in this episode

seeing as how they haven't even been built yet

by Starscream Yeah, talk about an out -of -order

episode or something or other The rest of the

Autobots arrive just in time with Optimus Prime

to help out the aerial bots. Slingshot has gotten

trapped in a cave where he crash landed. The

combaticons retreat and the other Autobots help

get Slingshot out of the cave. After they get

Slingshot out of the cave, the Autobots head

for a nearby hangar to repair Slingshot. Skydive

says that the planes have been disappearing from

the base. Their base in shit. What the hell was

I doing when I wrote this? Scott I basically

says that the planes have been disappearing from

the military base that they're at as well He

wants to go undercover as a regular jet to see

what he can find out Silverbolt says that it's

a good idea and slingshot joins him as well So

the plane nappers arrive and take skydiving slingshot

apart with the rest of the planes Slingshot tries

to contact silverbolt, but his radio transmitter

is disabled, too The young man that got thrown

out of the bizarre earlier is sleeping under

a pile of old Clothing when he awakens to the

thieves moving planes and cars around He sees

a worker using a blowtorch and wants to help

but the same guy that caught him before throws

the boy into a pile of tires. The young man follows

them because he thinks that there is a big secret

in the laundry truck. We see Swindle transform

and the caravan of vehicles drives off. The young

man gets on his little motorcycle scooter thing

and follows them. He gets right behind the laundry

truck and jimmies the lock and then he guns his

bike to crash into the back of the truck. He

finds skydive and slingshot in the back. Well,

parts of them anyways. The young man tells them

that he isn't a plain thief and that he wants

to help them stop Ali, who is the guy that told

them to go away earlier. We find out the young

man's name is Hassan at the palace where the

Decepticons and Ali have de -placed the he -

they've - displace the prints so that they can

manufacture plane drones. Blastoff asks where

the other two planes are and he finds Skydive

and Slingshot in the laundry truck. But Slingshot

short circuits himself out because obviously

if Blastoff put enough of Slingshot or Skydive

together they would realize that it's an Autobot

jet. This annoys Blastoff and he tells the humans

to junk them. Skydive and Slingshot are put back

together with a few missing parts. Skydive asks

Hassan if he shows him his weapons console that

he could find Slingshot 1 just like it. Hasan

sneaks aboard the Griffon airship that Megatron

has and attempts to find Slingshot a suitable

weapons console. Meanwhile, the other aerial

bots arrive and the Decepticons start fighting

them with the drone army they have created. As

well as the fully operational Griffon flagship

that Megatron has built, the evil leader has

Soundwave fire the Griffon at the aerial bots.

Even though Slingshot has no weapons, he feels

he must do something to stop the Combaticons.

Again, combaticons, what the fuck? Slingshot

eventually gets the weapons module he needs.

The other aerial bots show up and they unite

and disappear and fight with the combaticons

unified form of Bruticus. God, I can't talk this

morning. The aerial bots defeat the combaticons,

the Decepticons, and back at the palace, the

Autobots find out that Hassan is actually Prince

Jamal. Slingshot is worried that the prince wants

his Rolls Royce grill back, but the royalty states

that his hobby is fixing old junkers. The episode

ends with Slingshot saying, hey, did you just

call me a junker? Now for our thoughts on this

episode. As I said before in the little synopsis

thing, the biggest problem with this episode

is the fact that the fucking combaticons are

in it. I mean, what the hell? What the hell were

they thinking? Who knows. Oh my god. How can...

That's like... I don't know, I don't even know

what it's like. It just, it... It pisses me off

to the point where it makes me speechless and

that... It's a very rare thing. Um... I think

this episode is out of order, anyhow. Yeah, it's

possible, but then again, when we get to War

Don, which is next, it brings back some mentions

of this episode. I think it maybe is the fact

that they jumped the gun on the combaticons and

they didn't realize the story of Starscream's

brigade and the revenge of Bruticus. But anyway,

I don't know Let's see they oh yeah, I already

said they haven't even been built as far as episode

one goes Other than that I really don't the aerial

bots again are very much jerks throughout this

entire episode Slingshot has an attitude much

like Cliffjumper did which I should mention Even

though this is season 2 still Haven't seen cliff

jumper in almost any episode that I've watched

lately of season 2 He's just not there that could

have something to do with him and the Writers

getting an argument to yeah, that could be it

So what are your thoughts on this one? It's an

okay episode it's not one that I'd sit there

and watch over and over but it's And it's pretty

retarded how the two aerial bots let themselves

get all torn to pieces and thrown back together.

Which is kind of retarded. Yeah, that was pretty

stupid. I mean, at that point where they started

taking them, you know, trying to disassemble

them, they should have just transformed and said

alright, knock it off. But, of course, there's

got to be some down point. Yeah, that's true.

I don't know. On to the next episode. So much

for those buzzards. Yes, but now we've got real

trouble. The aerial bots are trapped somewhere

in the distant past of Cybertron. How far in

the past? Judging by these coordinates, I'd say

nine million years. Isn't there some way we can

get the aerial bots out of the past? Our only

hope is to repair these time controls. How about

it, Wheeljack? There might be some spare parts

in this dump somewhere. I suppose it can be done.

Then let's do it. The Aerialbots nine million

years in the past. Whoa! That was before the

war. They must be somewhere in the Golden Age

of Cybertron. You guys! Are you here to help?

Uh, no. Uh, not exactly. Never seen you guys

around before. I'm Orion, Orion Pax. I'm Silverbolt.

And I'm Slingshot. I'm Fireflight. And that's

Air Raid and Skydive. What do you do here? We

unload the energy shipments from the power plant

upriver. Hello there! I'm Megatron. What's your

name? Orion, Orion Pax. It's really thrilled

to meet you, sir. That was Megatron flying over

the energy docks. I'm sure of it. So what's the

big deal? Wow. Are all those yours? Yes. You

see, I've been looking for a place where I could

store my wares. I was hoping this hanger might

be available. Hey, who's that with Orion? Oh,

wow. It's one of those flying robots. What do

you store here? Raw materials or energy? We only

store energy here. That's just what I wanted

to hear. Decepticons, attack! You can't do this!

Out of my way, swall! I suggest you take him

to the next city. Oh, you gotta help Take a look

inside They've been pouring in since this morning.

I had been developing a way to rebuild our robots

to fight the Decepticons But now please just

take a look at him I do detect a strong spirit

within him. I'll tell you what I'm going to attempt

to rebuild him entirely. All right He's not the

only one. There are others back at the hangar,

his girlfriend Ariel. Please, please, one at

a time. Perhaps I can help her too, if my plans

work. How much longer are we gonna have to wait?

Just cool out. He'll tell us when he's done.

Well, it's finished. You may not recognize him.

He is no longer Orion Pax. Now he is the first

of our new defenders. Optimus Prime. I was wrong,

my friends. I admired Megatron merely because

he was powerful. I failed to see how he used

that power. It's okay. We've all made the same

mistake. These energy packs should give Omega

Supreme enough power to take us home. Hey, what

happened to you guys in the past, anyway? Ah,

not much. We learned a few things about Megatron.

And about you. Optimus Prime, or should I say

Orion Pax? You? So you five were the ones who

saved me. Would somebody tell me what in blazes

this is all about? Ask Optimus Prime, he knows.

Alright, spill it before I go crazy. Well, it

all began about nine million years ago. Up next

is War Dawn. And according to the little booklet,

Wardon, thinking Megatron's evil nature is exaggerated,

the Aerobots fall into a trap set by the Decepticon

leader. He transports them back in time where

they meet an idealistic young Autobot named Orion

Pax and witness Megatron's cruelty firsthand.

We start this episode off, as I said, with the

aerial bots in pursuit of Starscream, Thundercracker,

and Skywarp. Which I think this is the... I could

be wrong, but this is the first episode of the

second season that all three Seekers have been

together. Normally you'd see either Skywarp or

Thundercracker, Starscream and Thundercracker,

or you know, vice versa. I think this was the

first episode I've seen all three of them together

again. They have captured a few humans. A great

aerial battle begins, but the aerial bots can

no longer pursue the Decepticons once Starscream

dumps the chumps, as he says, in midair. So the

aerial bots must rescue them. Back at the Autobot

base, the aerial bots are shooting off at the

mouth about how much they admire the Decepticon

jets. Ironhide goes off on them, but Optimus

Prime intervenes because the aerial bots were

only built a few weeks ago. And they've not been

fighting the Decepticons as long as the other

Autobots have. Teletran 1 interrupts Optimus

Prime, alerting them to a high concentration

energy readings from Cybertron. On the Cybertron,

the Decepticons are repairing themselves and

talking about how badly the Aerialbots beat them.

When Megatron comes in and tells them that unless

the Aerialbots are destroyed, his supremacy of

the skies is threatened. Soundwave, Radios, Megatron.

to tell him that the Autobots have departed for

Cybertron. The leader realizes that they have

detected the energy signature of Shockwave's

work on the Chronosphere. Starscream asks Megatron

what the Chronosphere is and the leader explains

that it is a time machine that he had planned

to use to travel to the area before the war and

steal all the energy that the Decepticons need.

However, now it will make an excellent trap for

the Aerialbots. The Autobots arrive on Cybertron,

and Prime tells Omega Supreme to shut himself

down. And they'll try to scrounge up some energy

for him. Apparently, Omega can't make it between

Earth and Cybertron. And that's another thing

that I don't understand. Like, in... What was

it? The ultimate doom in season one when Megatron

brings Cybertron into Earth's orbit and then

they eventually the Autobots eventually knock

it out of Earth's orbit How far away did they

knock it out? Obviously it would still first

of all it would screw up the entire solar system

of Our little galaxy here if it was anywhere

near it But, I mean, how far away would it exactly

be if the trip is so long and Omega just dies

after one way? I don't know, that's just weird.

The Aerialbots fly off with the Autobots when

Starscream and the other jets attack them. Slingshot

transforms and tells them that they don't want

to fight, they just want to talk. Starscream

is skeptical of this, but the jets land and talk

with the Aerialbots. All but Silverbolt go with

Starscream and the others. The Decepticons lie

to the Aerialbots, obviously, and trick them

into standing where the Chronosphere is. Silverbolt

calls Optimus Prime and informs him of this.

Prime bets that it's a trap. When Silverbolt

arrives to warn the others, they are all sent

back through time. Megatron's plan is to send

them to the beginning of time, but Optimus Prime

and the other Autobots arrive just in time to

destroy the Chronosphere. after optimus prime

in the present oh crap that sucked I don't know

if the mute caught that hopefully it did let's

see after optimus prime in the present time destroys

the time machine Megatron and the other Decepticons

retreat which leaves the aerial bots somewhere

nine million years in the past before the Great

War The Aerialbots realize that Megatron is truly

evil after they meet Orion Pax and his friends.

These robots are attacked and destroyed by Megatron

and the other Decepticons. The other Aerialbots

take Orion and his friends to a mechanic shop

and the guy says that he will rebuild Orion entirely.

They may not know who he is at this point. That

he is part of the new defenders of Cybertron

called Optimus Prime So we actually get the origin

of Optimus Prime cool Back at the present the

Decepticons attack and try to get the time machine

back from the Autobots Wheeljack has repaired

it and brings the aerial bots back just in time

before the energy stockpiles in the warehouse

explode The aerial bots are brought back to the

present just in time to follow the Decepticons

plans. The episode ends with them telling Optimus

about meeting someone called Orion Pax. Ratchet

wants to know what it's all about, and the episode

closes with Optimus saying, it all began about

nine million years ago. And Ratchet goes, oh,

it's one of those long stories. Thus ending this

episode. Now for our thoughts on this episode

This was one of the best episodes of season 2

and I have that written on my notes in like 16

exclamation points I loved seeing the history

of Optimus Prime and even Megatron before the

war we get to see that regardless of either having

or not having Dammit either having or not having

a war just how evil and diabolical Megatron really

was The animation was excellent in this episode

and it's continually getting better as the season

progress progresses However, there are some glitches

like when the aerial bots fire on the Decepticon

jets their laser fire is purple, which it shouldn't

be All in all I really love this episode. Maybe

now the aerial bots won't be such insolent idiots

anymore What about you? Well for me, I'd have

to say this is one of my favorite episodes of

this season, just because the aerial bots actually

go back in time and see the creation of Optimus

Prime from Orion Pax and see where Alita 1 was

created. Although it doesn't show who Dion turns

into, I'm either leaning towards Ultra Magnus

or Ironhide, one of the two. Oh, was that one

of Orion's... Oh, okay, one of his friends. Yeah,

it's been a while. I didn't watch the episode

before we recorded today, so... I personally

think that it's Ironhide, but that's just me.

But yeah, it was cool to see how Megatron was

causing problems even before Prime was created,

and then Prime was created and that's when it

started throwing problems against Megatron. Yep,

and I like actually how How humble prime is at

first because as soon as after he's created he

apologizes the aerobots He says I'm sorry my

friends. I was blinded by Megatron's power and

and you know wanting to get to know him actually

It's funny. I just realized that one of my animation

cells that I have framed in the other room is

Orion Pax you see him Like when you look right

at the picture on the left, but on the right

is a gray robot shaking his hand With a black

hand and I realized oh wait, that's when he first

met Megatron. So that's pretty cool I'm really

with going back and seeing some of these I'm

really noticing the characters other than the

obvious Starscream Galvatron and cup I'm really

noticing who they actually put in the animation

cells that they included with these That's it

for our thoughts With those amazing machines,

the Autobots will also be participating in the

race! Charities will get an extra million dollars

if we win. Just a minute! I object! These Autobots

have computer brains! They're robots, not regulation

cars! Don't argue, remember? This is for charity.

There's only one charity I care about. Me. I

want that million bucks. Who was that? That's

Orgy Kanay, the top driver in the U .S. The top

mouth? And he's also the man Prime sent us to

protect. Check out his rig. Where'd he get that

thing, Mars? Nah, it was custom built for him

by Simotech Industries, that science firm. Technology's

so advanced, Prime's afraid it might attract

Megatron's attention. And finally today we have

Trans Europe Express and according to the little

booklet Megatron is searching for the weather

controlling pearl of Bahuddin. Autobot and human

alike are competing in the international car

race for charity. Megatron needs a particular

alloy to contain the pearl. The alloy was used

to create one of the cars in the race. Megatron

sends the Stuntacons to retrieve it. Let's see,

where do we start? This episode was basically

the European version of the Autobot Run. I don't

know if you remember that episode, Steve. The

Autobot Run was basically, like I said, an American

version of this. It was also another charity

race Chip Chase had suggested to Optimus Prime,

and that's basically all that this is. The race

is for charity, but the Decepticons have other

plans. They are looking for the Pearl of Bahudin.

Whatever the fuck that is. Because at first we

don't actually know. It just says that it's some

mystical thing and it turns out to be something

else at the end. We learn that it is a Cybertronian

artifact that Megatron wants. The Decepticons

also need the engine from one of the race car

drivers, Augie Kanay. He is the top US driver

in the race. And he is very self -centered. I

mean, this guy is like, ugh. Kanae pulls all

kinds of bad maneuvers and cuts off drivers throughout

the race, then Megatron anticipating the Autobots

involvement in the race as the Stuntacons go

after them. Dead End takes out Sunstreaker and

Sideswipe. which I think this is the first episode

we actually see Sunstreaker and Sideswipe in

from season 2. Again, I could be wrong, but this

is the first episode we see them together. Motor

Master takes out Wheeljack. Wild Rider takes

out Smokescreen. Blue Streak gets injured by

Wild Rider as well, but he gets away. Bumblebee

and Trax figure out that the Stuntacons have

taken out the other Autobots, and they hide from

the Decepticon combiner team. They also realize

that the Stuntacons are after Augie's car and

there are only three Autobots left to win the

race and stop the Decepticons. Motor Master calls

into Megatron telling him that the status of

the Autobots. The leader tells the Stuntacons

to forget about the Autobots and get Augie's

car. The Stuntacons stop Kanae and steal his

car. Blue Streak is driving along the race path

and sees Augie. The American driver gets into

the Autobot and drives away. They head towards

the finish line and it's a three -way tie between

tracks Bumblebee and Blue Streak with Augie driving

Blue Streak Just a little note on Augie this

guy is like Trying to think who I can compare

him to A friend of mine met Randy Quaid once

and she said that Randy Quaid wanted nothing

to do with any of the fans that were at a little

thing that she had went to and she said he was

really you know Like he had something up his

ass and that's basically what Augie is he is

basically out to just for himself could give

a shit less about anybody else and Yeah, they

made it really easy to hate that character They

don't actually stop for anything and head to

where the Decepticons have dug up the pearl The

Stuntagons attack the Autobots and Bumblebee

suggests that they hit them in their weak spot

to which Trax replies that they have none. Then

Bumblebee goes after the pearl and he gets it

away from Megatron. Bumblebee actually threatens

to open the pearl all the way if Megatron doesn't

clear out. the Decepticon leader has the Stunticons

merge into Minasaur to stop the Autobots while

the full power of the Pearl has been unleashed.

On a little side note, I took a screenshot of

when Bumblebee gets the Pearl from Megatron.

he actually jumps up into Megatron's hand and

grabs it. You can actually see, I put it on the

forums, you can actually see the the amazing

size difference between Bumblebee and Megatron.

I mean Bumblebee stands right inside his hand.

Let's see, the Decepticons leave Minasaur to

deal with the Autobots. Augie gets in his car

and seemingly runs away, but he heads to the

top of the cliff and drives his car into Minasaur's

head, defeating the giant Decepticon. What the

hell? Anyway... That makes no sense. Bumblebee

must stop the pearl so he lets the tornado carry

him up and finds the pearl and blasts it, thus

stopping the torrential storms that the pearl

had created, saving the day. The episode ends

with Auggie giving the Autobots the golden shell

that the pearl was held in and the race away.

An announcer is still there awaiting an interview

with the winners as we fade to black. Before

we stop this little piece, before we go on to

our thoughts, the raceway announcer was so funny

because he's like oh the race is over and the

Autobots win and you know we'll stay here and

wait till you know they come back because they

never came back and it was just funny because

he ended up being the only one there at the end

of the episode so yep that's it for this episode

Now for our thoughts on this episode I have one

as I said in the beginning of the synopsis This

was basically a European version of the Autobot

run Optimus Prime is mentioned in the episode

but does not appear I really don't have an opinion

on this episode either way. It's just kind of

there What about you? I don't have much of an

opinion Other than Just some notes that I found

online about this episode. What'd you find? Well

the The fact that sideswipe and Sunstreaker mistake

the stunna cons for normal race cars despite

the giant decepticon symbols on their hoods Yeah,

the map of Europe used to show the races is off

it shows France basically dominating Poland,

Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany. And then Blue

Streak is mistakenly drawn as Prowl for a few

shots during the battle. Yeah, I do remember

seeing an animation difference in that. That

was kind of weird. And then when the Nemesis

crashed, a bunch of dangerous materials flung

out of it such as the insecticons heart of Cybertron

and the pearl oh you're talking about the ship

yeah okay yeah okay I thought you were talking

about something else no but I didn't care for

this episode yeah I didn't either like I said

it was just another way for them to do another

rate I mean Cherry is all you know that that's

all good that they did that but You know and

I understand that the Autobots can only do so

much obviously since their cars and trucks but

yeah, I don't know it was Basically a very subpar

type of episode So I think we are gonna end our

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