Money Is Everything, The Face of Nijika, and The Burden Hardest to Bear

Hello and welcome to the 22nd episode of the

TFG1 Podcast. I am your host TFG1 Mike and I

am joined by Steve Megatron and Michael Wilson.

Hello guys. Hey how's it going? Cheers. Yeah

and we're also joined by Beast Wars Megatron.

Cheers. And the brain. Yes! Oh god that was a

very bad impression of the brain. You are not.

Maurice Lamar. Alright, this has been recorded.

What is today's date? I don't even know. It's

Thursday, July 16th 2009. Yes, this is in stereo.

We are back with episode 22 after being delayed

a week thanks to Mr. Wilson over there. You are

so throwing me out of the bus on this, aren't

you? Yes, I am very much so. Yes. Yes. Why don't

you explain to everybody what that quote unquote

conference was that you went to last week that

you couldn't record? We went to the National

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Conference. It was

a two -day deal and we talked with and learned

from speech therapists about childhood apraxia

of speech It's very interesting and educational

and you know, we actually went there and stayed

in the resort and They found out that it was

our fifth year anniversary. So they bumped this

up to the honeymoon suite Very cool. It's awesome

Excellent. What else has been going on with you,

Mr. Wilson this week? Recently, I got Energon

Omega Sentinel. Oh no, we didn't talk about that.

I think I mentioned that in the as of yet unreleased

episode 22 intro. Actually, that intro you're

talking about, this has been done to it. Deleted!

I had to clear space, so it's gone. I deleted

it on my end, too. I didn't think we would end

up using it. No. But I did mention it at that

time. But yeah, I was excited about it then.

I'm excited about it now. I managed to find the

Superion combiner at Target, the repaint. I'm

real excited about that. Is that a movie figure

or is that something else? It's a movie figure,

but it doesn't exist. Exactly. It's a movie figure.

It doesn't exist. It's a repaint from Energon.

Superior superior on Maximus. Okay Yeah, so and

I will go last. So what have you been up to this

week? Mr. Megatron? Yes It's an all you have

to say Have you done anything yours? Okay. Well

good years Yeah, I got the GI Joe and transformer

things from shout factory which I've plugged

in numerous episodes thus far. Yes. And I'm in

process of reviewing. I still have to watch,

but I'm just going to review what I can get out

of the case and all that for now. And then I'll

probably give away the more than meets the eye

disk. Yeah, we can do that in some sort of contest,

but I would like to just because I haven't seen

it in so long I would like to see the GI Joe

stuff. So whenever you're done send it my way

It's all on YouTube no, no, no screw you I think

it would be cool to see the extras. Yeah We do

we do need go ahead I was going to say, if the

G .I. Joe stuff is nearly as nice as the stuff

that they're going to put out for the Transformers

stuff, then it would be worth listening or watching

just for that. Yes, I think all that they have

sent us so far is the bare bones, more than Transformers,

more than meets the eye disc, and the G .I. Joe

Season 1 .1 set. They did not send us the complete

series stuff. No, but they also sent... the mass

device, which is the first five episodes ever

of G .I. Joe. Cool. And we should give a huge

shout out to Shout Factory and Dana for allowing

Steve to get this stuff. This is super cool.

I didn't think we'd ever, you know, become since

obviously TFG1 is part of the GeekCast radio

network. I didn't think we'd ever become, you

know, something that gets review copies of stuff.

So that was really awesome. You've now hit the

big time. Yes. That's very cool. Also hit the

big time in another way, even though off air

Mr. Wilson disagrees. We are now members of the

Twig crew, which is exciting for us, I guess.

It is a cross -promotional agreement. Yes, yes,

yes. We're not going to get into the logistics

of that, and I will be plugging some Twig stuff

at the end of the show today. Me, I've had a

rough week. If everybody has listened to, well,

by the time this airs, hopefully everyone will

listen to Tooncast episode 7. In that episode,

I was basically bitching and moaning that my

bank account was negative such and such dollars

because of fucking eBay taking out their fees

automatically, and I didn't know it was set up

for automatic takeout. That has since been cleared

up. I'm fine. I don't have to sell any of my

BotCon toys I was like I was like scrambling

I was getting ready to sell BotCon Rodimus, which

is one of my favorite toys And don't even bring

up the fact about the $20 issue you posted on

Twitter you bastard Yeah Without that was directed

toward me. So yeah, exactly. I had said, you

know, don't go giving him away for 20 bucks But

you know, it has precedent with you. Yeah, whatever

anyways So we've had a lot of releases as of

late just this week. We've had this past Saturday

We had M wires premiere episode with the back

to the future with Steve snowball sailor We've

had toy cast episode 6 Decepticon randomness

and then tune cast episode 7 silver hawks That's

pretty much what's going on with us. Do you guys

have anything else you'd like to share in the

general chat? And silence I'm thinking bird because

you had Twitter Actually I was thinking it's

been a long time since I've seen silver hawks

that might be worth watching again. Yeah Did

remember I you know, I did go to YouTube and

I watched like the first three episodes but because

Kevin and I'm Michael's over at Tooncast we have

a Running gag of arguing of which one's better

Thundercats or Silver Hawk because they were

both done by the same production companies Yeah,

very similar I do remember watching Silver Hawk's

I don't remember it as much as say Thundercats

Transformers He -Man stuff like that But I did

remember it and I and I did enjoy it Okay. Even

though I don't have the DVD as of yet, if anyone

would like to donate it, they can email me at

TheFG1Podcast at gmail .com. I have vague memories

of them, you know, pulling musical instruments

out of their ass. That was bluegrass, yes. Okay,

yeah, and I don't really remember it all that

well, but they were all, it was kind of like

Thundercats, except they were made out of metal

and they were all bird themed. Yeah, it was partly

metal, partly real, and they were all hawk themed,

yes. Why did he have to be named? uh... bluegrass

we're going to be green grass kissy played a

banjo see yes so well no it pulled out of his

ass well this year this year call them blue ass

or something point god but i don't think that

would have gotten past the fcc or the mpa or

whatever regularly and an extra ass it wouldn't

be a here it is If it weren't for the fact that

my wife's sleeping, I would do my Cobra Commander

impersonation, but... Is it too loud to wake

her up? Yes. I was doing it at work. Be very,

very quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. I'm hunting

wabbits. Don't let my wife wake up. Bluegrass

wabbits. Bluegrass wabbits. I'm hunting in the

bluegrass for the wabbits. Christ and on that

us full of surprises. Hey, no problem. I'm just

glad you guys helped prepare Lazy Sue. She looks

almost as pretty as you. Captain Fairborn, we

just got word from the EDC vault. Those crits

we took from the Quintessons, they're gone. Dirk,

you didn't. All right, we are gonna talk about

money is everything first and according to the

booklet the synopsis says Shut up, I can find

it for crazy Money is everything, this episode

was written by Carla and Jerry Conway. Dirk Manus,

a dashing scoundrel of a space traitor, is under

attack by Terra Con leader Hun Gar. Marissa Fairborn

of Earth Defense Command and the Technobots save

Dirk, but soon discover he is in communication

with the Quintessons, the five -faced villains,

want the re -creator, a matter alteration ray

gun from Dirk. Will he sell out the Autobots

and his own species for profit and adventure?

First of all these first two episodes suck balls

in my opinion. That's my overall opinion of them

I don't like either one of money is everything

or face of Nijika just because They're not as

good as some of the other episodes. As it was

said earlier, this episode starts with Dirk getting

shot down by the Terracons. He is a free trader.

You pay him and he'll tell you what you want

to know. Marissa is smitten by him but doesn't

trust him. Dirk is not honest. What? What? Doesn't

trust him. He's like, trust me through the whole

damn episode. How could you not trust a guy like

that? Yes, really. Do you want to give your opinion

on what you told me off -air about Dirk who he

is or who he's supposed to represent? Oh Yeah,

yeah, of course. Dirk is Dirk is part Han Solo

and part Lando Calrissian He's a he's the dirty

scoundrel, but at the same time he's like you

truly belong amongst us here in the clouds Dirk

is not honest with Fairborn and she finds out

that he is gonna lead the Technobots into a trap

Fairborn finally gets free and she and the other

Technobots go after the traitor and find that

he's fighting off the Taracons. The traitor and

the quints double and triple cross each other

and the Sharktacons go after them. I do have

to give him credit, even though I don't like

the character of Dark Manus, I do have to give

him credit with tricking the Quintessons because

it's not that often that anyone tricks the Quintessons.

They got it all planned out too well. Manus double

-crosses the Autobots in Fairborne, or so it

would seem, and he uses the Recreator to heal

the Technobots' injuries. The Quints send the

Terracons after the Technobots. After the Terracons

are defeated on Earth, Marissa tells Dirk that

they don't pay rewards and everything when Lightspeed

comes up and tells her that someone stole the

creds that they took from the Quintessons. But

she double crosses him with mimic dust as his

reward in the episode ends It's like this should

be a drinking game every time somebody double

crosses somebody else you have to drink Oh, yeah,

it's like oh wait that he just double -crossed

fairborn take a drink. Oh wait What the quintessence

just double -crossed him you take a drink. Oh

wait, but he just double -crossed by the end

of the episode you're on the floor What do you

have any thoughts on this Steve like I Don't

remember much of this episode because I didn't

really care for it. I can't sit through it I

can't either, but I did anyway just for the sake

of having you have to you run the show Well,

yeah, but this beside the point. It's not like

it had a blur and wheelie in a nebula cloud or

something Oh Christ we're not getting into what

kind of nebula cloud they're in They're in their

own bodily fluid nebula cloud Do you have any

that this was very much a computron episode.

Oh, yeah Yeah, well in a sense. Well, I should

say the Dirk Manias and and Marissa Fairborn

were the you know lead characters but this was

probably one of the first times since their inception

that all of the technobots actually got Show

off their own personalities. Yeah, they got good

screen time. Yeah purpose Yeah, well, I think

the idea was we got some more toys and they all

need their own individual personalities So we

all get to know them a little bit better throughout

You know the episode yes, let's be honest who

wants to own a drone I Mean if it's a scramble

city drone, I'll buy it. I don't care Was gonna

say I'm sure Michael has about 5 ,000 drones

in that closet of his that he has yet to clean

out Do they come alive at night like anything

in the cupboard? That's why I keep locks on all

the cabinets just I just hope for one day that

Megatron wakes up Well, that's already got you

one prime so He's not gonna be able to keep Megatron.

Masterpiece. Masterpiece. Anyways. The other

thought I had was the Terracons. They each had

a speaking role as well, but it wasn't as if

they delved too deeply into their personalities

like they did with the Computron. No, not at

all. I mean, Abominus' main thing is, I must

crush Computron. That's pretty much it, so. Yeah.

What were you going to say, Steve? I was going

to say, don't you love it when they have really

crappy dialogue like that? Yeah, pretty much.

Like all the robots are supposed to be dumb and

brooding and Yeah, they're just it's retarded.

You mean like this Like that but worse They don't

even taste it they just like inhale it Was it

crunchy? I don't know you have any other thoughts

on the plot Michael that about covers it for

You know, the synopsis. Alright, we're gonna

move into our thoughts. Alright, now it is our

time for our thoughts on, uh, what the hell is

this episode? Oh yeah, money is everything. Uh,

so what'd you think? I liked it. You liked this

episode? You know what, I dig Dirk Maness. I

think that, uh, I think that he would have made

a cool recurring character if there had been.

Season four aside from just rebirth. It would

have been neat to see him come back Just to put

the moves on Marissa Fairborn all over again

And even at the end she's like I've got a feeling

he'll be back It's like yeah, I know you got

a feeling you're gonna go rub one out. Oh I didn't

I didn't start this one. So don't even I'm not

even going there, but he's the one that started

it racy things on this show so I have to admit

I'm a little jealous because I got a thing for

Marissa yeah I think it it didn't really kick

in until the kiss play came out and then you

could see her in her little bikini but after

that it's like oh Marissa yeah okay other than

your boogling over Marissa do you have any other

relevant thoughts to the episode? Just some of

the personalities that they gave to the Computron

crew, like Strafe and Afterburner, are just so

incredibly hot -headed. They're just like, I

just want to kill everything that moves, show

me some action. And I don't really feel that

that's appropriate for the Technobots, considering

that they all combine into this giant, emotionless

thinking or super -intelligent you know, thinking

machine. Well see, I think that balances it though.

They all individually have personalities that

differ from the just mundane, monotone, computron

voice type deal. And then you take that monotone

voice and then you deepen it. Yeah, well... Yeah,

when you put it that way, that they balance each

other out, because light speed and nose cone

are the calm, let's talk about this, let's see

how things are going to play out. And then their

leader is kind of like in the middle. Probably

leaning toward hot headed, but more middle -ish.

So yeah, that makes sense that when they all

combine, they kind of even each other out to

the monotone, not really. you know betraying

any emotion voice yes very much so um what else

you got for notes uh you know i was having too

much fun checking out demarissa again so i don't

have a whole lot of notes here all right so just

just the star wars comparisons yeah between uh

you know dirk and i mean dirk is ripped right

out of star wars oh no doubt yeah the luke oh

wait i meant the force is strong with this one

i said the luke Fuck up! We'll fix that in post.

Wait, wait, wait. No, we won't fix it in post.

Wait, go back. Do that again, Steve. That one

sounds even less like Beast Wars Megatron. I

don't know, he was supposed to be doing Yoda

there. It didn't even sound like Yoda. That was

Yoda! Didn't sound like Yoda. Yeah, that was

Yoda. Dude, it sounded good. Anyways, we're moving

on to the next episode Perceptor's last communication

originated here in the mountains, just outside

the city of Tosin. Charter guns! You will proceed

to these coordinates and retrieve the Autobot

Perceptor. Is that clear? Who asked, I'd answer.

Mechika, I bring you a gift. Your own countenance.

The face of Nijiga. I sense danger, Sky Dancer.

I will be back. If not for this one lousy, rotten,

measly, crummy, substandard strut, we'd be outta

here! You know that, I know that, cause that'd

get us outta here! Wham, zip, intercar mode,

zoom, push, gone, we'll never have to think about

- Go find Perceptor. You fix him, maybe he can

fix me. I'm not sure we should leave him. I'm

not sure we have any choice. Tell me more about

these devils. It was long ago that they came.

In the days when our city of Pozin itself shone

bright as a star, and our guardian, Koduri, had

not yet descended into slumber, my ancestor,

Nikodon, had invented a flying tower. The Zamorgen

people will take their first step to the stars.

I wished to ride the tower myself, but Ivaris

would not allow it. So, Nikodan has also created

our... of Koduri. Alright, we are - moving on

to the next episode which is the face of Nijika

and of course according to the booklet this episode

was written by Mary Screens and Steve Skeets

okay I wonder if they're married Wow that's that's

ironic and weird anyway battling over a quadrant

locked disk Autobot Decepticon and Quintesson

forces cross a rip in space and become trapped

there uh... landing on the planet zimojian zimojian

yeah i think that's how you say it an inhabitant

named caduceus yeah i don't know whatever i wrote

all this down too because i didn't forget good

well no it's not that i forget i'm reading it

right here in the book i can't fucking pronounce

it moves perceptors autobot i think that's supposed

to be signal and uses it as the head and face

for an ancient robot named It's actually ninjika

wait this no, it's nishika. No it in here. It

says the face of ninjika Oh, they pronounce it

nijika. Well, yeah, I know I don't know Explaining

it resembles the missing face of this broken

defender But what is Quenna sans connection to

the hidden planet and why do they fear ninjika?

I guess I'll go into the synopsis notes that

I have This episode obviously is a Perceptor

one -shot. The Autobots and Cyclonus get transported

through a warp that the Quints have opened. We

find out that the warp that the Autobots passed

through was a quadrant lock halting the people

of the planet that they landed on and getting

to the stars. These primitive people think that

the Quints are devils, but with Perceptor's universal

emulator in the Ninjica face, comes through as

the voice of the robot. The primitives have Blur

hanging above the lava pit and Cyclonus and Quint

have joined the crowd. When Perceptor is Ninjika

appears and explains everything however this

doesn't work at first until the Autobots show

up. The Quints are defeated and Perceptor is

restored to his body. The planet stars return

to it in the episode ends. I really didn't really

care for this one at all, I don't know why, I

just didn't enjoy it. Even though the animation

is, it's pretty good, I just didn't like the

story. I do have to bring this up, I should have

gone back and grabbed the audio, I didn't, but

this episode marks the only time throughout this

entire series, well, since the beginning of the

third season, since Blair was introduced in the

movie, that he actually talks normal without

Speed talking. Oh He was in pain. I know he was

in pain, but I Don't know he's like ow. Ow. At

least you didn't get turned into a cube Derek

J Wyatt He was very close though. Yes. It's also

mercy only episode where blur has an orgasm Okay,

I'm not going there. What? No, yeah, I'm really

really surprised you didn't record it Not going

you see his bottom spatters. Yeah, his bottom

spasming. I'm not there was pelvic thrusting

involved. Oh Perceptor was in front. Oh They

have blur hanging over the the lava pit and they

drop a minute and He's he's working out the kinks

literally, especially in his foot He's he's you

know, his foot suddenly is healing basically

in the lava and while he's in there. He's making

these noises This sound a lot like somebody who's,

you know, getting their rocks off there. He's

like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh -huh. There it is.

There it is. And I'm thinking, yeah, you know,

he's really enjoying himself. And sounds an awful

lot like an orgasm. Oh, my God. All right. Do

you have any other thoughts on the actual plot?

The plot? Yes. One thing that I noticed is that

the Zemojin were civilized and on their way to

what the Trekkies would call first contact. They're

all ready to put their first astronaut in a spaceship,

Nijuka, and send the little tiny Nijuka Geisha

doll out into space. But then the Quenissans

come along and they literally hobbled their evolution.

By putting them in this quadrant lock so that

they they they're blocked off from the stars.

Yes and You know, so they've you know crippled

their evolution They they're no longer on their

way to becoming a space -faring species and they

literally regress Into the savages that you see

when the Autobots first land they're like space

Mongols at that point, you know and Mongols in

a sense of like Angus Khan So basically the last

episode was all about Star Wars ripoffs this

one's all about Star Trek ripoffs Well To be

fair first contact wasn't even a term until much

much later You get that I don't think there were

any 40 foot tall space models in Star Trek Not

to my knowledge not mine either But that was

something that I had picked up on that was like,

wow, this is really interesting that this emotion

where literally on their way to their first journeys

into the stars, almost I want to say on par with

our civilization now, where we're just now venturing

past our own atmosphere and kind of moving on

toward Mars and such. Communicate with our giant

Buddha statue and we'd all revert back to savages

Or you know more to the point you take away our

electricity and suddenly we'd all revert back

to savages It'd be like Mad Max and we'd be pummeling

each other with baseball bats with nails in them

for the tiniest bit of gasoline You have any

thoughts on the plot Steve no, I don't like this

episode He probably didn't even watch it. No,

but I don't like it anyway. Anything that doesn't

center around my favorite villains or heroes

I don't like, pretty much. So I guess that means

he didn't watch the next episode we're going

to be talking about. It's like Mike is saying,

all these episodes suck ass because they don't

have Prime. Oh, but wait, he's coming back. I

only thought the next episode was alright. Yeah,

Burden Horde is pretty good, but I mean these

two are just like throwaways. Yeah, they're just

filler. I guess we're gonna move on to our thoughts,

because do you have any notes for this, Ms. Olsen?

Because if you don't, we're gonna straight move

on to the next episode and say screw our thoughts.

Heck yeah, I got thoughts. Alright, so we're

gonna move on to our thoughts. All right, we're

gonna move into our thoughts and Steve I have

no thoughts on this episode. So take it away.

Mr. Wilson. That's right. I will carry you guys

on my shoulders That's time somebody. Oh, thank

you show besides me. Oh One thing I picked up

on here early on was the writers the writing

team the married team Living in sin perhaps,

but they have the same last name Don't have the

same last name it's Mary screens and Steve skeets.

Oh, it just sounds like they have the same. Yes,

so they are living in sin Anyway, what it come

down to is it sound like they they really? Wanted

to come up with their own language There's a

lot of words here that pop up that we've never

heard before like a quadrant lock a universal

emulator The this emoji and are all stuck in

quadrant X It's like what's that worth? Where

is they they pulling this out of their ass from?

Yeah, I mean it's interesting it would it would

be neat if if maybe These terms got picked up

in the genre and later on down 20 years down

the road somebody says ah The whole planet was

trapped in a quadrant X lock, you know something

along those lines But you know, I've never heard

them before universal emulator You know kind

of is a common term kind of or I should say the

trickiest use universal translator But so again

this first episode today was a Star Wars ripoff

and this one was a Star Trek ripoff Well, no,

not at all. I mean the fact that they called

it a universal emulator Yeah, well doesn't sound

very very Star Trek like at all I mean it's like

they were trying to come up with their own language

and hoping that it got picked up so that You

know 20 years down the road they can say. Oh,

yeah screens and skeets coined to the term universal

emulator back in 1986 It was interesting, you

know, but but I just wasn't really sure where

they were coming up with all this stuff from

yeah probably the same place they pull out the

The other thing I've noticed is that Perceptor's

whole personality is in his insignia. The quote

-unquote universal emulator is his personality

chip. They tear off the face out of his chest

and suddenly his body is no longer Housing his

his soul. Let's say it's in it's in the insignia

and then they just plug the insignia into the

geisha and It's a it suddenly becomes perceptor

Hmm. Yeah, I guess I don't know this is one of

those weird episodes as we've said a second ago

It's pretty much a one -shot. Yeah, but I think

if by this point they've already established

Well, maybe not I want to say they've already

established the spark chamber Unless you're talking

about the Matrix bear, probably not. Oh, so maybe

that came in Beast Wars. Yes, that came in Beast

Wars. So that's what I would assume is like the

insignia is almost like the front of the spark

chamber, and you yank that puppy out, which he

did surprisingly easily. Yes, very much so. Yeah,

I mean granted, you know human beings keep their

their entire stock intelligence in their skull

Which is easily removed from the rest of the

body If you were a robot and could configure

yourself in any way shape or form You would think

that you would want to put it somewhere a little

less easy to pull out You know, I'd want to keep

it. Well, yeah, I guess you'd want to keep it

right in your chest. I Don't know I'm just saying,

you know You think that was so many dirty thoughts

running through my head right now I can't even

I can't even mention any of them because they're

so vulgar. It's not even fun That's right. I

keep my brain in my crotch. I curl up in a fetal

position. I'm protecting it What else do you

have for this episode that reminds me Johnny

gets your gun the black and white movie They

mentioned that you know the soldiers a lot of

times the only part that's recognizable after

a bomb hits them in the foxhole is their groin

because they curl up in a fetal position which

is basically a position that protects the groin

and Your head blows off your arms blow off and

you get massive burning over 90 % of your body

What does that have to do with this episode?

I'll just say it if you're gonna keep your personality

somewhere the safest place to have it would be

on your crotch Again as I've said in almost every

episode now the DFG one podcast and the geocast

radio network are not Responsible for anything

Michael Wilson says on these podcasts All right

fine. Do you have any other relevant thoughts

to this episode? Let me go out on the list here

Weird words that they made up space Mongols blurs

orgasm Yeah, one more thing. Mm -hmm. You have

this race people who are basically xenophobic

they're worried about devils coming out of the

sky and yet in the back of the crowd is a forty

foot tall cyclonus and a quinazan who is in fact

one of their devils sitting in the back of the

crowd saying bad him he's a witch and nobody

notices yeah i thought that was a little dumb

that was just a little dumb bad plot hole it

was a huge plot hole You know, hey, we got -

we got, uh, Perceptor Geisha out of it. You have

any, uh, thing to add, Steve? No. You have nothing

to add to this discussion? No. Okay then, we're

gonna move on to the next episode. What's eatin'

you? I don't know, Cup. I feel... boxed in. Like

the weight of the world rests on your shoulders?

Yeah. Like you wanna run away? And how? The responsibilities.

Hey, Rotomus! We've got a problem! Earth Defense

Command needs... Not you too! Gimme a break,

will ya? Since when am I the only one who can

solve everybody's problems? But... but you...

Just leave me alone! What's with him? Giri. Giri?

Japanese word. It means the burden hardest to

bear. Alright, up next is Burden Hardest to Bear.

And according to the booklet, this episode is

written by Michael Charles Hill. Booklet. Shut

up. Rodimus is worn out by his responsibility

as Autobot leader. Shirking his duty, he goes

out for a joyride, but unexpectedly runs into

Dead End and Wild Rider and loses the Matrix,

reverting to his Hot Rod form. The two Stuntacons

bring the Autobot Amulet to Galvatron, who is

overcome by its power and orders Scourge to destroy

it. Will Hot Rod step up to his duty before something

terrible happens to the Matrix? You bastard.

I love this episode. This episode is awesome.

What? It's awesome, dammit. You have to explain

yourself because, you know, as far as I can tell,

it's Rodimus Prime being, once again, the worst

leader ever. And not only is he making bad decisions

and everyone else has to suffer for it, but now

he's totally shirking his responsibilities. He's

like, eh, I don't need it. He throws it away.

Yeah, basically he's like, oh yeah, the entire

race of Autobots, yeah, screw them, fuck them

in their ear. Alright, so this episode starts

out with Autobots and Decepticons fighting throughout

Japan. There's a Japanese training dojo nearby

that almost gets attacked right before the Autobots

arrive to stop the Decepticons. The Imperial

Palace doesn't want the Autobots in Japan because

they're basically destroying everything with

their battling the Decepticons. Rodimus is having

a hard time dealing with his leadership Rodimus

runs off to blow off some steam Cup tells Marissa

what's eating Rodimus and this is where we hear

about the yuri and all that other yuri yeah Rodimus

Rodimus needed some iron seed love and That's

what he really even get me started bastard at

least at least it isn't concerned Springer shut

the fuck up Springer's not involved. Not yet,

man. He's gotta get his gear -y on. Oh, God.

Optimus Prime, who could live up to him? So anyway,

Marissa tries to talk to Erotimus. Dead end and

wild riders show up because they're spying on

the Autobots. They begin a race with Erotimus.

They ambush him. They damage him while this happens.

Erotimus loses the Matrix. Galvatron puts the

Matrix inside himself thinking that he can use

the power the Autobot leaders come out of his

gun and tell him to return it. Galvatron gives

the Matrix to Scourge and tells him to destroy

it. Scourge then possesses the Matrix because

he believes it is ultimate power and it corrupts

him, obviously, because everybody that has ultimate

power gets corrupted. Absolute power corrupts.

Absolutely. Yes, exactly. For real. No doubt.

For reals, lolz. God. Let's not go into internet

lingo. Oh my god, what the fuck barbecue? Shut

the fuck up! He then attacks Galvatron and begins

a revolt on the other Decepticons. Only Galvatron

leads! That was a quote from the episode when

Cyclonus said something stupid to Galvatron.

It's kind of like the whole thing of, you know,

you keep going back to the, what was it, Gary,

not Gary Shanley, Gary Oldman thing. Everyone!

Yeah, we're not rolling there. I can't do either

of them. Yeah, so after damaging Galvatron and

Cyclonus, Scourge leads the other Decepticons

to Earth to destroy the Autobots. Hot Rod, okay,

well, we shouldn't mention that after... And

I didn't grab this but I should have anyway,

um After they find Rodimus slash hot rod and

they put him back on the on the table at Autobot

City He wakes up and they're all like he's like,

what are you all staring at? It's like you've

seen a ghost Magnus puts his hand on his shoulder.

We have hot rod. Well, yeah, I felt something

was missing. You no longer possess the matrix

He knew it yeah, it's like It's not How do you

feel or you know what's going on? It's like you

would think the first thing they would do is

Smack him upside the head and say what the fuck

you totally lost Nine million years worth of

Autobot wisdom. We don't have these things growing

on trees We've only got one and you what dropped

it on the side of the road I thought it was a

penny So, after Rodimus gets fed up, he heads

off and goes back to the same dojo that was going

to get attacked, thinking about what he must

do. Of course, the Sensei talks to him and he

realizes that he has a lot to think about while

the Decepticons are still heading to attack the

Earth. Since they calls him a giant puss. Yeah

Hot Rod shows up actually the Decepticons have

shown up and they're attacking everybody scourge

with the matrix is going after the The human

man and the old woman the man was one of the

dojo students And he realizes that scourge possesses

the matrix and he takes it back from him Rodimus

is back and leaves just before Galvatron and

cyclonus get to scourge And when Galvatron and

Cyclonus get discouraged, they won't fuck him

up. And the episode ends with Rodimus telling

the others of his realization. Do we have any

thoughts on the actual plot of this episode that

are somewhat positive? I like negativity. It's

all freaking negative. I thought it was cool.

How the whole episode is in general it actually

was pretty decent considering Rodimus has been

basically Was the entire Season yeah, and it

showed him actually, you know Get to being more

of a leader than just a bitching whining brat.

Yeah Just in time to not be the leader anymore.

Yeah just in time and said that he bled that

long being a complete fuckup and now he's finally

getting it in his head oh maybe i shouldn't be

such a fuckup maybe i should live up to my potential

and not let down the entire civilization what

did you say steve he's a little bitch god he

needs us spanking you rotamous haters i don't

know i did Okay, I didn't say you hated it myself

so we have one at least I I was wondering as

far as synopsis Galvatron gets the matrix and

he tries to put in this chest he tries to use

it You know and this is you know, the second

time he's tried to use it, you know first time

being like in the movie It didn't work this time

either But, you know, he hands it to Scourge,

Scourge puts it in his chest, and he becomes

Scourgimus Prime. Scourgimus Maximus. Scourgimus

Maximus, our Scourgimus Prime. It makes me wonder,

though, what if Galvatron stuffed it in his chest

and it worked? What if we end up with Galvimus

Prime? I mean, he couldn't get much crazier.

Oh, Christ. He would have become Unicron, a big

Galva Unicron, and he would have reverted back

to Megatron form. That would have been cool.

That would have been cool. Because the power

of the Matrix would have reverted the Unicron

power used on him to turn him into Galvatron

so that he would have become Megatron. Yes. You

fuckers just want Megatron back, that's all it

is. Of course! Who doesn't want Megatron back?

Me, dammit! Galvatron's much better. Oh please,

Galvatron is... You know, Galvatron is not a

very good leader. Flamer he's he's purple Hey,

where is Bernie? Where is G1 Megatron? You know

he he he had a lot of trouble getting his Plans

to work in which case they never really worked

But at least he had plans and whose fucking fault

was that it was Starscream's fault that his plans

didn't work half the time In many cases. Yeah,

but I mean in this case, you know, if Galvatron

had used the matrix Scourge went crazy insane

He just went batshit crazy. But I mean, Galvatron's

not going to get much crazier. He's already pretty

much batshit. And if he became even more powerful,

that would put him on par probably with, well,

probably Optimus at this point. Because Rodimus

is now Hot Rod again. Hot Rodimus is an easily

whippable ass. I will whip your ass, boy. Let's

not go there. And we've already discussed Galvatron's

madness in fucking Webworld, so we're not going

back to that episode, either. Yeah, it's already

safe to say he's pretty well crazy. And, you

know, you could argue that, oh, he had a plan

in Rebirth, or he comes up with a plan in Rebirth,

but honestly, I don't think Rebirth was very

well written. I don't think Galvatron should

have had a plan. We'll get to that next week.

Yeah, yeah, of course. He went cuckoo for Cocoa

Puffs. Oh, Christ. Continuously. Overall, between,

you know, seeing as how these are, you know,

burden hardest to bear, and then the return of

Optimus two -parter, the last three episodes

of season three, I am glad that they kind of

intersect to each other, even though they start

off, like, this one starts off as a one -shot,

and then the return of Optimus part one starts

off as a one -shot, but it kind of brings up

everything that went into Um burden hardest to

bear almost and I and I did like that. I mean

overall I Mainly because it's a hot rod slash

Rodimus episode. I like burden hardest to bear

So, I don't know. Do we have any other thoughts

on the actual plot? No, okay. We're gonna go

on to our thoughts then It's time for our thoughts

on the burden hardest to bear uh... me personally

because you know i don't know it's i'd just remember

loving this episode mainly because it was a rodham

is episode and they did have a good story behind

it uh... so with the lack of notes you can't

empirically prove that you like this episode

it's going on uh... basic memories of a time

time long long ago when ever so they'll be star

wars fairly possible that you could have forgotten

and made this up Watched it like three days ago.

You dumbass. Are you recreating memories? No

no I'll give you fabrication What did you guys

think of this episode? I guess I guess we'll

let Steve go first seeing as how he didn't say

anything in the first two fucking episodes Yes,

cuz those fucking sucked. Anyways, um, yeah,

I like the episode I like tell Rodimus Decided

to be a bitch and throw away the matrix like

it was a bed penny and then Scourge comes and

picks it up, you know, like, oh, it's a penny.

I need a penny. And so he goes and takes it to

Galvatron. And, you know, Galvatron's scared

of it because, you know, he can't use it. So

Scourge is like, hmm, I guess I'll keep it and

throws it in his chest. And so I like to help

Scourge became Megascourge or Scourge of His

Maximus or whatever the hell you want to call

him and decided that he was going to Basically

kick everybody's ass till it became too powerful

and yeah So overall I like the episode just because

scourge got to play a bigger part Yes, and what

about you over there mr. Wilson I like I like

the dead end and wild writer appearance where

they managed to beat the snot out of Rodimus

Prime. Now, this is two Scramble City combiner

limbs beating the snot out of the leader of the

Autobots. Scramble City didn't exist until after

the show ended, damn it. Well, I could just easily

say just Stalt combiner limbs, but you know,

I think Scramble City combiner limb is a better

description. My favorite part of that app was

the lion. He done blow up real good. And he lost

the matrix. Cause he's a dumbass. It was his

penny. It was his penny. I thought you said bedpan

-y. No. Bedpan -y. It's kinda shaped like a bedpan

with handles. Oh god. That little blue thing

in the center is robo -shit. That's right. Okay,

that's it, that's it. You both get one of these.

HEADSHOT! You need to chat, good son. Some of

the things I liked about this episode was, again,

the counterparts squaring off. You've got Broadside

versus Devastator. You've got Defensor versus

Bruticus. I was really surprised that they didn't

bring out Caputron versus Abominus again, you

know, they just had him recently, but you know,

they had everybody else in there. Yeah. I thought

that would have been neat. And then lastly, I

like the whole sensei thing. They just happened

to be in Japan and Rodimus just happens to get

his head screwed on by a sensei in his dojo.

And I was wondering, you know, what year did

Karate Kid come out? And Karate Kid was 84. So

I'm thinking they were either borrowing heavily

from Karate Kid here, or perhaps the sequel,

which actually took place in Japan, in the dojo.

Yeah, it's probably the sequel. It's Karate Kid

Part II. Waiting for Steve to pop up and tell

us when the sequel came out. Headshot! Karate

Kid. There, you have me now? You found it. The

sequel came out in 86, so yeah. This was probably,

uh, you know, the whole sensei in the dojo thing

was probably directly pulled from Karate Kid

2. And then Karate Kid 3 came out three years

later. No, no, no, no, this is Karate Kid 3,

not... And then they had, and then they had 4

come out in 94. Yes. There was a 3? The 3 was

with the original cast, and then the next Karate

Kid was the fourth one with Hilary Swank. But

anyway, we're... That would be awesome. That's

right, so do we have any final thoughts on the

burden hardest to bear? I got a lot of Gary on

we're not opening that can of worms So that is

all I got for real booyah booyah Every time I

hear that stupid saying, all I can think of is

Ron fucking stoppable. Anyways. Who? Ron. Anyway.

Big Ron stoppable booyah to ya. For real? HEADSHOT!

What did you say? What did you say? No, this

is just a straight up murder. Anyways, we're

moving on to the next episode. This is his fault.

No, Gregory, it was that other Transformer. Optimus

Prime is an Autobot. A good robot. If you don't

want to help me save him, you can stay here.

All robots are alike, Jesse. Why do you insist

on risking your life? We only have five minutes

to get back aboard the Solaris before... Ka -boom!

spores are definitely alive the spores are a

virus that manifest hatred they're trying to

destroy each other it's incredible when we write

our reports reports dad don't you see how crazy

this is get rid of those spores shoot them back

into space if they contaminate people they could

make world war 2 look like a schoolyard brawl

honey I think you're remember we have their leader

we have the body of optimus prime all right next

up is the return of optimus prime part one and

the booklet says this episode was written by

is that an iron l i think it's sherry wilkerson

and marv wolfman which marv actually did the

treatment for beast machines i did not know that

he was included in the original show here until

I actually saw this episode a couple of days

ago, which is kind of cool. Synopsis says, testing

a new heat -resistant metal alloy, human scientist

Jessica Morgan and her partner navigate their

space vessel near a star going nova. Surprisingly,

a nearby ship contains the body of legendary

Autobot leader Optimus Prime, and the two bring

it aboard, revealing that Prime did not perish

at the climax of Dark Awakening. Sometime later

the two Terracons steals the supply of the alloy

from Morgan's father's laboratory on Earth and

Jessica is injured. Vowing revenge on any and

all Transformers, Jessica's father releases space

spores discovered during the Nova experiment

infecting two Decepticons with violent madness.

Soon the hate plague spreads across Earth tainting

Autobot, Decepticon, and human alike. First of

all, it goes without saying yay optimus is back

i mean you know about damn time um and as i just

said in a little synopsis jessica and uh gregory

uh save uh optimus's body when the sun goes nova

their ship is covered with these weird spores

once back at their lab they realized that the

spores create a hate plague uh Gregory and what?

Yeah, basically is what it is Gregory and Jessica's

father Gregory and Jessica's father want the

spores to infect all Transformers They have misconceived

notions about the Autobots Jessica betrays her

father and warns Rodimus about the spores. However,

it's too late for Ultra Magnus and the others

Gregory and dr Morgan set a trap for the Autobots

Rat bat spies on the Autobots mission to save

optimus's body soundwaves voices off in this

episode actually This is one of the episodes

where the vocoder was not used So it was basically

dr. Claw like in the movie anyway I wonder bud

see I was saying I wonder what it whether they

fixed that or not in the New shout factory ones

not sure We'll have to find out from somebody

that's got the whole set Don't think Kevin's

watched his yet. I know he is he and I know he's

got it But and if I have enough money left over

from bills come August 1st, I'm definitely ordering

it I'm a poor bitch. I don't have any money.

Also home for bastard myself. So that's beside

the point Hell we should get mr. Eminem transformer

dispenser over there to get us a couple of sets

and get myself i know i know the decepticons

show up as the plague has broken out rodimus

warns galvatron but the evil doer doesn't believe

him at first he's like i remember this scene

it's a maddened plague galvatron if any of those

red transformers touches you you'll be infected

you're mad you're lying it's a trick stay here

if you want be your you know be your funeral

or something something like that uh... so there

are effective transformers everywhere magnus

is after rodimus but retgar saves him unfortunately

magnus turns retgar and i'm sorry i have to play

this where is it uh... let's see magnus uh...

turns retgar into a pepper as well uh... and

and then uh... good michael I was going to say,

what kills me is everybody since the movie, right?

Anytime anybody's injured, they just wheel in

Rekgar and he fixes them or the junkyards come

in and repair them. Everybody except Optimus

Prime, who they allow to die. We've gone over

this multiple times on and off air. I know, but

what I'm saying here is in this episode, right

when you're just about to have Rekgar fix Optimus

Prime, finally he gets turned into a cootie monster.

Yeah, that's true. It's like, oh, he's red now.

He's got cooties. Don't let him touch you. Like,

oh, man, he was about to get all shiny like everybody

else. So then Rekgar in turn turns Rotimus. To

over to the hateplug as well skylinks gets the

quintesson that Rodimus had demanded he get They

get back to the lab to restore optimus. They

finally get him operational ending this episode

Do we have any overall thoughts on this plot

here? And it was good it's good it's good Yeah,

I have to agree I'll concur there primes alive

finally and now we can cancel the series and

be happy about it. Oh Lord I'm a Sun Transformers

fan be so fucking negative Well, it's like okay,

you know when you've had a really really good

day and it's like this is a good day to die You

know because it can only go downhill from here

That's about what? Well, by the time we get into

the second episode, which we haven't covered

yet, but by the time we get to the end of the

second episode, it's like, OK, Prime is alive

and it's a good day to die. It can only go downhill

from here. And no force in the universe can stop

this. Exactly. As he says a long time ago in

a galaxy far, far away, because he used the force.

Did he? I don't know. I don't know. 28 days.

He went super sane, he turned white. Oh yeah,

that's right. 28 days. 28 days. No, just the

first one. 28 days. The spores, the space spores

kind of work like the rage virus. Yes, zombie

bots. Zombie bots where they all do the red eyes

and they they they run and they run and chase

you They're not like shambling zombies. They're

like running up on your shit and eat me face

You know, the only thing is missing from this

episode is is a shitty thing zombie That but

the Dweller crunchy oh no none of these episodes

have space herpes no no no we are not getting

into that we're not getting into that discussion

again let's just go to our thoughts on this one

because yeah we're not getting into the whole

space herpes thing again so move on to our thoughts

Alright, it is now time for our thoughts on the

return of Optimus Prime part one. So what do

you guys think? Excellent episode Yeah, yeah,

you can't you can't Disparage Optimus Prime no

Peter Cullen's return. Yes. Yeah, no matter how

You know derived it is it's like oh by the way,

he didn't actually die The first time oh and

then he didn't actually fly into the Sun the

second time. We kind of rescued him both times,

and now he's back? I think? The one thing I have

to wonder about this, and I'm sure it's just

because they wanted to be able to... They wanted

to be able to bring him back in pristine condition,

but as we all know, Dark Awakening was the last

time we saw him. And when we saw him in the ship,

going into the sun, he looked like... He wasn't

looking too hot. Well, he looked like shit. He

had an eye popped out, he had an eye overexposed,

half his face was ripped off. Well, that was

the shattered glass version. No, no, no, it wasn't.

And this is the alternate universe. No, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I don't

know, I thought he said it to the Fallen at the

end, but I don't know, whatever. Anyway, we're

getting off topic. Well, yeah, speaking of that...

No, he says, I rise, you fall. You didn't say,

give me your face? No. One shall stand. One shall

give me your face! Alright, anyway, getting back

on topic here... In your face. Uh, shut the hell

up! Uh... Most humorous episode ever. No, that

was 19. I think 19 so far has been our best episode

yet. Mmm, extra crunchy. What? Was I in that

one? Yeah, duh. Cool, okay. Anyways, so... I'm

funny. Are we gonna actually talk about this

fucking episode? Were the throttle pots introduced

in this episode, or did they appear earlier?

They're introduced after... this they're going

to do the next episode I believe. No they were

just they were in here. Rebirth. No. Oh the Throttlebots

were. The Throttlebots are introduced in part

two because Gold, uh, Bumblebee hasn't been turned

into Goldbug yet. It's after Prime Contact. Right,

but the rest of the Throttlebots. Um, I don't

know. I would assume that this is their first

appearance. Yes. Yes. Well, yeah, you don't actually

see gold bug until later But I think the rest

of them were shown here and I'm pretty sure this

was their first appearance. Yeah the The rage

virus Appears on I don't want to say quintessa,

but it appears on the the quintesson world Because

you've got all these shark decons chasing after

this quintesson It was actually just a random

moon. Quintessa's already been blown up, remember?

That's what I'm saying. I don't want to say Quintessa.

It's not Quintessa, but it's a planet with a

Quintesson on it. With one Quintesson and about

a thousand Sharktocons. Yeah, does he really

need a thousand Sharktocons all to himself, honestly?

But, uh, unless he's feeling a little randy and,

uh... That's how he gets his kicks. So basically

we have this perverted quinazote all alone on

a moon with a thousand charticons who have all

managed it to give themselves VD because they're

running around trying to eat these quinazote.

We've already established that the space spore

virus is a venereal disease. So I'm just gonna

run with this. The unwashed masses being always

the first to spread disease. That's basically

what we have here. Is, uh, you know, the, uh,

the shurikans who live in their own filth. Honestly,

it's like a giant pool. Who knows what they're

doing in there. Uh, and spreading diseases amongst

themselves. Yeah. I think we should start up

a collection. No. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, not at all.

Uh, prevent crotch, crotch mist rust. That's

right. Where is Sally Struthers when you need

her? Oh, good Lord. How did we end up on this

turn again? I don't know. It's probably his fault.

It's all my fault. Did you notice that Rodimus

Prime is a vampire? Yes. He casts no reflection

in the monitor. He can see other people behind

him in the monitor, but he can't see himself

in the monitor. In Prime Super Saiyan? Because

he's the ultimate badass? He is incontaminatable,

if that's a word. Which I created it. He's the

most Otto Botley creation. Otto Botley, that's

my word. It made a comeback, I told you. Don't

call it a comeback, it's been here for years.

Mama said Nike, you out! Alright, I'm done. Yeah,

I got one good episode left in me. Do you have

any other thoughts? That's it. What, you expect

me to think? Well, yeah. I'm carrying this whole

damn thing. Oh, what the fuck ever. Did you have

any thoughts, Steve? Mike? Well, I guess since

Steve hardly ever talks in the episodes anyways.

At least the episodes he actually stays for.

Bitch. I really did. I can make you say anything

I want in post -production, so be quiet. No,

you better not. You better not. I'll kill you.

I thought it was very, very strange. And I'll

bring this up in the next episode, but... You're

still talking? Yes, I'm still talking. Can you

hear me now? Good. uh... i thought it was very

good it but yet strange that they ended right

as optimus is is coming back at first when it

first when i first watched about a couple days

ago when scaling says our leader is back i thought

it was going to end right there i didn't i didn't

remember that optimus sat up and said yes skylinks

i'm back and no force in the universe can stop

me it's very no force not at all that's not even

these doors megatron Well, this is what this

is what Optimus would do to Beast Wars Megatron

Headshot No, I believe Megatron dealt that blow

to Prime He dealt that blow to Ironhide No, Beast

Wars Megatron did it to G1 Prime. Yeah anyway,

oh You have any other thoughts on the return

of Optimus Prime Part 1 before this episode really

goes into a giant rat hole and no one listens

to the show anymore? Let's get to the second

part. Let's get to the second part. Let's get

to the second part. Yeah, we got opinions. Alright,

we're gonna go on to the next episode. How long

have I been gone? Too long. We are all in grave

danger. Tell me all that has happened. It all

started when you were rescued by Jessica Morgan

and Dr. Swofford. Their experimental spaceship

shielded your body when the star went nova. But

their spaceship was covered with solar spores.

Swofford brought you back to his laboratory on

Earth where he and his partner discovered that

the spores induced hate. They sought to infect

your lifeless body with the virus. And when that

failed, they used you to lure the Autobots to

their lab. And there they infected Ultra Magnus

and the others. It was Autobot against Autobot,

and then Decepticon against Decepticon. Even

the Quintessons were not safe from the madness.

I rescued this Quintesson to try to revive you.

That was Rodimus' last instruction before...

Rodimus, what happened to him? I'm afraid that

he has been infected as well. You're our last

hope, Optimus. You rescued me? You? Aquinasan?

I had no choice! The entire galaxy is threatened!

Have any of the Autobots avoided contamination?

Not many. And those that have were injured battling

Superion. They may be damaged beyond repair.

Who? Tell me. Cop and Wheelie, Blur and Steeljaw,

Bumblebee. Then let's find them and get them

into the repair bay. We'll need your help. I'm

finished. They're all restored. I see you're

no worse for wear than I was. Optimus, you're

alive! You're alive! I don't believe this! I

don't believe this! Do you guys believe this?

It's Optimus! Optimus Prime! My gosh, is it really

you? I must be dreaming! No, this is real. I'm

back, and now so are you. Back? I'm better than

ever! Look at this new paint job! I've gone beyond

being just plain old Bumblebee. I'm a gold bug!

That you are, Bumblebee. So from now on, that's

exactly who you'll be. Alright and finally the

last episode of today is the return of Optimus

Prime part 2 and this episode again was written

by Sherry Wilkerson and Marv Wolfman. All hope

is lost the hate plague has spread across the

galaxy. Uninfected Skylinx in a lone quintesson

attempt to resurrect Optimus Prime hoping his

great wisdom can stop this creeping onslaught.

The operation is a success and Prime reasons

he must travel into the Matrix to search for

answers, but the Matrix lies within Rodimus Prime,

yet another victim of the plague. Alright, let's

see, what are my thoughts? This episode starts

off with Optimus coming back to life. Skylinks

fills him in on everything that has been going

on. Optimus has the Quintesson repair the remaining

uninfected Autobots. bumblebee is now gold bug

a fact which dan gilvazan really really hated

he liked playing bumblebee better than gold bug

but i don't see how we could hate that because

um gold bug is only in well it's the same voice

but gold bugs only in two episodes well he's

in he's in the beginning part of of rebirth part

one which will be uh episode 24 of the tfg1 podcast

i don't think he's in after part one I don't

know, I'll have to watch it again. Yet another

Optimus Rodimus battle way cool. I actually have

the the animation cell from this when Rodimus

is Optimus is basically on top of Rodimus and

Rodimus has that that I think it's Many blowtorch

gun. I don't know what it is. It's some sort

of laser thing firing his laser God Let's not

go there, that's a whole other Birdman prophecy

thing. So, Optimus gets the Matrix from Rodimus

and then he travels into it to find out how to

cure the world. The Touch! Fucking awesome! The

Touch, I did not - Well, I hadn't watched this

- all the way through in a long time before I

even started doing TFG1 podcast. I watched all

these DVDs, the Rhino sets, when I first got

them off of eBay, but I hadn't watched this since

then. So I was just kind of like super shocked

and I actually sent a very complimentary email

to Stan Bush after I saw this I couldn't resist

Optimus releases the energy and wisdom within

the matrix hot rod says that the matrix is empty,

but optimus says that they must fill it up again

from this on the episode ends with the famous

last words and the Autobots turning into the

camera and The famous last words are also it's

also my my closing So initial thoughts on the

plot of the episode Let's see, I have a whole

slew of thoughts, but as far as the plot goes,

I was surprised that Prime, he's back, and he's

ready to do his thing, and he goes, oh, I don't

actually have a plan, because I'm missing the

accumulated Autobot knowledge that was stored

in the Matrix, because the Ironomus has it. You

know Rodimus has had it all season and he still

doesn't have a plan Well, Optimus just came back

to life damn it Well, yeah, but he's missing

the matrix well, that's the point though. He's

missing the matrix. He needs the Autobot knowledge,

you know, this wisdom stored in the Matrix so

that he can come up with a plan because he's

always got a plan. He's, you know, he's Optimus

Prime and Rodimus is always saying, oh, I can't

live up to Optimus Prime because he's always

got a plan. And now Optimus is saying, wow, if

I only had that Matrix, I could come up with

something really sweet. Optimus Prime lives up

to him. I mean, but the point is, you know, the

Matrix is nothing but a plot device that was

introduced in the movie. That's all that the

Matrix is. It was a plot device to further the

series in a way to get Optimus Prime to die and

to pass something on to the other Autobots. Right,

so we can, you know, hand the crown over to the

next leader. But what I'm saying though is, despite

the fact that Rodimus Prime had the Matrix all

this time, he's still a major fuck up. Why couldn't

they have written him as, you know, the next

great leader? He could have been spending the

last 20 odd episodes being a great leader and

really, really handing it to Galvatron because

Galvatron is so easy. You know why that didn't

happen? Because they wouldn't have been able

to bring Optimus back. Yeah they could have.

They could have brought Optimus back and he would

have been ten times better anyway. He was ten

times better anyway. Alright Steve, do you have

any initial thoughts on the actual plot of this

last episode today? I liked how Optimus Prime

came back and took command again and ended up

with some old and some new comrades and led the

forces of the Autobots through to getting him

coated with the metal and on through to him battling

Whatever the fuck his name is Rodimus Prime That

is what happened and kicking his ass and then

finally, you know the the matrix and him talking

to Alpha Trion and then finally Yeah, it was

just great how that all went up went through

and how he in Galvatron did a truce temporarily

basically The two work together similar to how

he and Megatron work together in the first and

second season when the knee came Before we go

on to our thoughts and seeing as how mr. Wilson

really doesn't have any other initial plot thoughts

I'm going to play the the coming out of the matrix

clip What is this? Now light our darkest hour.

So, yeah. The end? When they bring out the touch?

Yeah, pretty much. Actually, it went on. I stopped

it too early and I can't restart it, but it goes

on to say how... You know, Rodimus is like, oh,

well, or Hot Rod is like, oh, well, the matrix

is empty and Optimus is like, we'll just have

to fill it up again. And then it goes into the

final thing of, you know, Autobots transform

roll out, whatever else. So we're going to move

on to our thoughts. All right, it is time for

our thoughts. And before we get into that, I

meant to actually play the first clip, which

was finding the cure, which I will play now.

So I actually played them backwards. Oh, well.

If any cure to this plague exists, only the ancient

leaders within the Matrix could possibly know

it. I must travel into the Matrix. Find a cure

for the spore plague. Can you help me, Alpha

Trion? If there is a cure, I know nothing of

it. Then I must journey farther back. Be careful,

or if you travel too far, you may become lost

and never find your way back. If I do not try,

there may be nothing to return to. They're looking

for Optimus Prime! I must stop them! They'll

destroy us both! Hurry! Please hurry! The plague

you speak of has visited us once before. A wise

man was able to contain the Spores and send them

into the sun. But no one was able to destroy

them. No one had the pl... Such madness is with

wisdom. Unfortunately, no one person now has

the wisdom to contain the spores, much less destroy

them now that they have spread across the galaxy.

Perhaps there does exist a source of wisdom powerful

enough to destroy the spores and cure the entire

world. The accumulated wisdom that resides within

the Matrix. Optimus Prime! Does this mean the

fighting will continue? Had to say. There will

be no war today, Optimus Prime. You have earned

Galvatron's respect. The wisdom of the ages.

It's lost. No, not lost. We're all a little wiser

now. But the Matrix is empty. It's up to all

of us to fill it again. With the wisdom we accumulate

from this moment on. Autobots, transform! What

I think I did was by accident the clip I played

in the Synopsis was the shortened version for

Stan when I sent him the email because I sent

him a clip of this and Yeah, and this was the

long version the whole final scene Alright, so

what did you guys think of this last episode

of season 3? I have to say that this, along with

the Starscream episodes, would be my favorite

of all of season 3. Yeah, that might be agreeable

to me. Alright, do you have any others? OK, well.

Negative. Oh, wait. Negative on Steve. Heck yeah

on Michael. Bumblebee being gold bug. Yeah. Are

we just trying to sell toys here? Is that what

it comes down to? Because I mean, there was a

battle in the beginning. Yeah. But I don't remember

seeing Bumblebee getting injured so badly that.

That you know he needed to become a whole new

robot It was just a way for them to up the toy

and actually it was I believe that I can't be

for certain Maybe um if optimus scourge listens

to this episode he can correct me I believe it

was because they didn't want to lose the the

Volkswagen license for the toys Oh well, I mean

they Suppose they could always reissue the original

didn't want anything to do with the transformers

after this oh That makes sense. I mean, yeah,

I suppose I'm just thinking of something along

the lines of did they lose the name Bumblebee

all together because they could have just usually

called gold bug Bumblebee the toy I mean and

you know, we wouldn't have ended up with gold

bug He could have been like I'm a gold bumblebee.

I mean I like it I mean a lot of people may not

like it, but I I liked it with the you know Just

the whole Coming up with a new even though he's

the same bumblebee. It's just a new name new

new paint job And all that stuff. I don't know

I liked it some people yeah He said he still

sounds just like Peter Parker and his amazing

friends and played that role I know It's just

like just like in the revenge of the fallen.

It's like wait a minute Soundwave sounds a lot

like we've been over this and Yes, it was the

same guy Did Anybody else notice the the whole

thing with the RC This is another springer thing

This is another Springer thing, huh? What are

you talking about? No Okay, I mean no go ahead

and say you already brought it up you might as

well enlighten us. What are you talking about?

Well, um I'm well, maybe I'm just wrong. Yeah,

I'm wrong. Never mind. Just say it damn it. What

the hell are you talking about? I've got I've

gotten my notes here as far as Galvatron is wondering,

what's going on? Why do you need this metal?

What's the plan? How can I exploit this to my

advantage? And somebody basically spills the

beans. And for some reason, I'm just going to

use the - Oh, you're talking about Jessica Morgan,

not RC. It's Jessica. Oh, OK. Okay, cuz my notes

here actually say oh no, I ran my bitch knows

the secret and I'm thinking When they finally

get to the cavern after going through all these

tunnels Only get the cavern she's like, oh there's

enough metal here to encode you optimus Yeah,

that it it was Jessica not RC. I'm like, wait,

what are you talking about? RC wasn't even in

this episode Speaking of Galvatron Galvatron,

you know for some strange reason he gets this

it's a rare alloy the space metal He really doesn't

know what to do with it. He just knows he wants

it because somebody else wants it first And once

you do with it, he puts it in the bottom of his

dungeon That's that's guarded by spider sorus

and space leeches You know, is it that important

to you that you have to put it down in the 14th

level of your dungeon? Do you have to be a level

10 fighter to get your ass down there to get

it? It's just really sad that they'd have to

go through all this. There's a lot of waste of

time, basically. I can't imagine how the hell

Galvatron got this metal. Yeah, I was thinking

about that. Why are they going through all these

friggin' caverns and giving all this fucking

plot exposition And everything else and it's

like yeah How the hell did they get the shit

down there in the first place? I didn't even

I didn't even know I didn't even know Charlie

went that damn deep He's like oh, you know what

I forgot we actually sent it down the service

elevator and oh I we could have taken the elevator

Yeah, and yeah my final My final thought there

was, the spores are killed with wisdom. So that

means everyone was dumb. Exactly. You're all

really, really freaking dumb. Prime is the only

spry one. Prime is still dumb as a brick. He's

like, oh, I've got the rage virus so I really

can't be counted upon to cure jack and shit.

You smug son of a b - it's it's it's rather okay

drive the only way that i can really explain

that away as far as wisdom versus hatred i mean

i know it was the whole point of optimist being

able to get the matrix back but maybe what they

should have been going for his you know you know

good versus evil instead of hate verses like

or whatever i mean i don't know uh... i was just

happy to have optimist back in All that good,

happy shit. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't matter how

they did it. They got Optimus back. But at this

point, it's not as good and Optimus. We've already

seen that Optimus doesn't have a plan. He's lacking

the wisdom of the ages, the accumulated wisdom

and knowledge of the Autobots. So it's like,

well, yeah, now I'm probably no better a leader

than Rodimus Prime. So you're all fucked anyway.

Sorry. He's a tool. I'm just a tool. No, I don't

have all that stuff. Stop stop stop. Okay, but

yeah first First you guys bitch about them killing

him off in the movie and now you're bitching

about him that he's back. We're not happy Jesus,

we're never satisfied. We're fanboys. We can't

help it But you know we got out from his back

we lost the matrix but we can probably do without

that because we got the time You got touch yeah,

and Galvatron says man last summer I better settle

up a truce real damn quick Optimus hey, let's

bury the hatchet. Okay, cuz this music is I've

heard you say that before yeah yes yes it bears

repeating yeah like you know i i'm i'm about

a hair's breadth away from getting my ass handed

to me i'm pretty sure so hey put it there pal

you've earned my respect prime's like i don't

need your fucking respect get back in your hole

you piece of shit exactly that's right give me

your face I'm just gonna kick your fucking ass

right here. Can I break your teeth, sir? Oh You

know, it's just shocking that it took two whole

episodes to bring prime back if they had only

had a little chunk of the all spark, you know,

boom I Could have just had the GI Joe guys rebuild

them like they like Cobra did Megatron Yeah Or

better yet you can get Derek J. Wyatt's uh...

tf animated scalpel to crawl up on his chest

and say i don't think steve have you seen that

yet steve yes unfortunately and on that note

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