Sound of Fury, Lost and Found, Survival of the Fittest Animated: Sound and Fury Review

I got a vibe tells me I should be sitting in

on this scene for a while. and I'm jiving to

this episode of Transformation Animation featuring

Mike Blanchard, Steven C. Phillips, and Michael

Wilson. Hello and welcome to episode four of

Transformation Animation Podcast. I am one of

your hosts, Steve Durin -Mike, and joining me

is Steve Megatron. Hello. Yes, sir. And Peagon

Court Michael. Hey, how's it going? It's going.

So what's going on with you, Steve? It's going.

Um... Other than that I've been working on voice

crap lately trying to land at least one paid

gig which it's proving difficult but and Like

the other voice actors the real ones say You

can't get discouraged. You just have to keep

going You may get one you may not whatever just

keep auditioning. So that's the plan Besides

that I Rented more so a a book on how to actually

act and improv at the library So that I can actually

you know kind of put my marbles where the voice

is so Yeah, you totally need that. I mean you're

good with the voices. I think you really need

to work on your improv Yeah, cuz when I get put

on the spot. I'm kind of like And so yeah, that's

that's part of it. And then other than that,

the teaser poster for Beast Wars Darkglass was

released two days ago. I saw that. And my response

was. You didn't see my response? No, I didn't

know. Oh, I said released in 2016, you better

produce harder. That's what she said but um They've

well they've been knocking out the modeling of

the characters and trying to get the biped so

they transform Over the last year. It's been

yeah, it's been a year or so since you first

told us about this from now until 2016 that's

a long time to do stuff so I'm sure it is but

the problem is we only got three people that

can actually do the texturing and animation so

that in between doing their normal like real

-life jobs and their families and all that so

it just kind of is you know they want to get

it pumped out faster it's just there's not they

don't want to disappoint people kind of like

how Duke Nukem did Oh, we're coming up 1999 13

years later, you know, so they're setting up

they're setting a farther target date so that

If it does get done sooner 13 years later and

we still give you a shitty game Yeah, so that's

why that's why we set, you know, the the date

so late is so that uh Because all the voicing

is in everybody's approved except for our fucking

rampage So if I don't hear back and the backup

won't do it, I'm going to recast that role because

I'm getting tired of waiting. I've been badgering

for three months on this. Everybody else has

turned their lines in. You know, so, yeah. But

yeah, really, five years and it ends up looking

like ass. And, you know, well, that's what they

want to make sure that it looks mainframe quality.

Just pound that shit out in a weekend, put it

out there. i don't think this is going to happen

this is coming from the guy that won't do any

youtube videos because he says it takes too much

damn work to do them i want to do it right and

alright going back to you okay you just said

it michael these guys they want to do it right

if it takes them six years to do it right and

it takes them six years to do it right. It might

be six months not six years. In six years technology

is going to be so advanced that in that field

that you know it shouldn't take six years to

do it. Well it's not going to be six years. There's

tools now that do all the animation for you.

I mean it's going to be five but no it may come

out in 2014 though it's just They're targeting

it because it's the 20th anniversary of Beast

Wars by then That's true and I mean like I said

15th anniversary of Beast Wars Yes, thank you.

That's this year. It's not gonna come out this

coming weekend at TF con With everybody's names

on it Yeah, I saw something like that for it

was Associated with TF condoms like dark glass.

I'm thinking well Dirt Glass is not associated

with TFCon. No, no, no. Dirt Glass isn't what

you probably saw, Michael, was the... You saw

the TFCon thing and they used some of the modeling,

like the guys that are doing Dirt Glass had to

take a break from it to do that for John Bailey

who made the TFCon teaser. Yeah, yeah, there

was a TF con teaser with David cave voicing Megatron

again But the model was from the dark the the

Beast Wars Megatron model was from the dark glass

stuff Yeah, you know it probably pounded that

out in a weekend, and it didn't look bad No,

but it also wasn't just them they had the guys

that usually do all the regular animating you

know their God that blaster ink or whatever and

then the guy that does John's normal stuff, and

then they've got some of the other three animators

so uh yeah that's if they could get everybody

on board i'm sure they could pump this out within

a year yeah but it since it's just these three

guys it's probably gonna take a while hopefully

sooner i'm optimistic press on the fingers yes

and what have you been okay then what have you

been up to michael Uh, nothing. I'm just doing

the daddy thing. Who's your daddy? Who's your

daddy? Since I'm in Indiana, it could also be,

who's your daddy? Oh, god. That's a horrible,

horrible joke. That is hilarious. Who's your

daddy? Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy? That's

right. Oh, god. Yeah, so that's what I've been

doing, just taking care of the kids and watching

them grow. And it's, you know, they're adorable

at this age. And oh and Aiden has been watching

Transformers Prime with me Yeah, he likes it

but you know, it was funny because we watched

these three episodes that we're about to review

We watched those together and he loved it for

I'm sorry. Well, I watched three of them with

him He loved it. He thought it was awesome. He

loves bulkhead. He loves bumblebee Okay Watching

transformers prime with him. This is transformers

animated. Well, that's what I'm saying though

We started we watched animated these you know

the first three episodes and then we watched

prime together and He's like he's like who's

that and I said his bulkhead and he goes. Oh,

yeah It's almost like your story of Him watching

Star Wars Yeah, was that for that from today

I believe so about Luke and Anakin. We were reading

a book, it was story time, and he's got a book

called Star Wars Heroes, and each page has a

different character on it. And we did Luke Skywalker

and Obi -Wan, and then there was Anakin Skywalker,

and I said, well, this is Anakin Skywalker. And

he's like, well, is that like Luke? And I said,

well, you know, that's Luke's dad. And he goes,

oh, he's Darth Vader. Yeah, you know I got this

geek pride thing going on Because he put this

together, you know, and he's never even seen

Empire so I don't even know where he got that

from but I thought was funny That is funny And

as for me, I've just been doing the normal stuff

I recorded an episode with animation aficionados

Neil and Ben over there uh... recorded the twig

topic show on captain america that'll be out

that'll be coming soon uh... well so i've been

doing uh... then going through the almanacs a

bit just looking at different stuff in there

uh... and that's pretty much it so i think we're

gonna get into some episodes the autobots illogical

autobots are machines they are traitors who live

to serve the humans Conclusion, Autobots must

be destroyed. So first up today is Sound and

Fury. Megatron creates Soundwave, a robot in

the form of a toy robot for Isaac to give to

Sari for her birthday. Bulkhead is the only one

who finds the toy to be a bad thing and finds

out that the toy is evil. Unknown to Sari, the

more she uses her key on Soundwave, the more

he will evolve into a bigger robot, which Megatron

intends to use as his new body. However, after

using the key many times, Soundwave becomes self

-aware and assembles all the robots in Detroit

to combine with them to create an army. When

the Autobots catch wind of Soundwave's plan,

they try to stop him. Most of the Autobots get

overwhelmed, and Bulkhead goes down to the sewers

to confront Soundwave. Soundwave tries to convince

Bulkhead to his logic. Bulkhead tricks Soundwave

and smashes him to pieces, but Soundwave survives

as a cassette player. Dun dun dun. Dun dun. Yeah.

Now We've had bad human villains so far But but

they're tolerable for like angry Archer. I can

tolerate him nanosec. I can tolerate him worst

human villain ever Professor princess, are you

fucking kidding me? I like professor princess.

I dig it oh my god this is she's here to save

us from awful violent toys okay but all right

hold on all right so you just said that she's

here to save us from awful violent toys yeah

she's here to do that by being fucking violent

really well how violent are you know kittens

shot from a bazooka If they explode they're pretty

fucking fine What kills me those she's not here

to rob banks. She's not here to take over the

world. She's here to trash my stuff I Love that

what better motivation for a super villain the

you know and You can't say she's not a super

villain because she has a flying What powdered

sugar me powdered sugar the flight? What's a

unicorn pony? It's a it's a Transformers my little

pony crossover. It's awesome. It is awesome Did

you see the name of the toy store that she trashes?

Yeah Why its toys why its toys? That's awesome

Yeah, you know if I were making a cartoon, I

would totally have a Wilson toys And I would

have a professor princess fly powdered sugar

in and trash it I thought this was I Don't know

The whole birthday party thing like they've had

a theme to go along with every story So let not

every story of most of the stories like we had

the Halloween episode that centered around black

arachnia We had the what was the other one? The

kind of fourth of July thing that centered around

nanosec and now All of a sudden, it's Sari's

birthday? Sure, why not? I guess, but as we've

said before, time in the animated universes is

very, very weird. Yeah, you know, we haven't

seen a Christmas episode yet. We go from July

to October. That doesn't come until Season 3.

Okay, so yeah, so July, October, and now it's

supposedly springtime again, because you know,

it gets really cold in Detroit. Yeah. But it

seems to be nice and summery here where all the

kids are out in the stadium Yeah, yeah, I would

know how how you know michigan is It sucks Exactly

it's even worse in chicago, I think But uh, yeah,

and that was funny because they're they're like,

of course they came you're their parents boss

Yeah, daniel is there Yep, daniel makes another

appearance. So the question becomes does does

spike work for some deck? No, he works for Sam.

Oh, that's bad. Yeah, sorry. I had to throw that.

Right over my head. I'm sorry. Sam, he's saying

he works for Witwicky. From the movie. Oh, no,

he is Sam from the movie. No, Spike in here is

a hell of a lot better than fucking Shia LaBeach.

He comes into the world twice. You better hire

me, fucker. You know? Carly made an appearance.

Do you think that was Carly? She looked a little

tan. In this episode? Yeah. I only noticed Daniel.

Well, I mean, Daniel, it's obvious he's front

and center. I didn't notice if Carly or Spike...

Carly wasn't in this one. Carly showed up in

Headmaster, I believe. Okay, because she yeah

because bulkhead was busy trashing the the area

and he tore the arm off of the reporter bot oh

That's that's right. We'll get yeah. Yeah. Well

Danny was crying and then somebody ran over,

but it didn't look much like Carly I thought

this was a really interesting way of creating

and bringing Soundwave into this animated universe.

Instead of just having him be there, like already

existing, you know, I thought this was really,

really cool how they did this. I like the giant

walkman. The giant walkman grows legs and walks

away. Because it's a walkman, so he can walk.

I just thought that was funny. It was neat that,

I mean, it was only Soundwave's box, but it was

cool how they, you know, put that cameo in there.

Yep. Soundwave controls all robots. Soundwave

is the Pied Piper of robots. Ain't that, I was

hoping for a Pied Piper reference in the episode.

I like how all the robots become Bender. Yeah.

Die all you meatbags. That was great. That was

great. I love Soundwave's upgraded form. That's

just so awesome. It's cool. It's better in the

cartoon than the actual toy. The toy version

of it. The actual action figure. It looks the

same. It doesn't look this I just Soundwave is

to sound wave the the deluxe sound wave action

figure He's he's midget. He's just he doesn't

even feel like a deluxe to me at all And I know

it's in the animated style I know it's in the

animated workings of how they made the animated

toy line, but yeah That I would have to say is

like one of my least favorite animated toys No,

no see he's a little stocky as a toy Stocky like,

you know short and squat, but I really think

that's how he looked in the cartoon, too Yeah,

I think it's a great toy. Now what I would have

liked to seen is a talking Voyager sized toy.

Oh, yeah And he says, you know, the revolution

begins now. Yeah, I think that would rule Yeah,

I see made of Legos in the show He's not made

of Legos. He's made of other I'm saying I'm saying

when he shatters Oh, it's almost like it's not

Legos, but I mean, it's the same mentality. If

you throw a Lego creation against the wall, it's

going to shatter into a million pieces. Well,

when it shatters, you see little bits of robot

flying around. It doesn't look like Legos. There

are a couple of scenes when they're sweeping

the stuff up, when bulkhead's cleaning up, that

you can see a little bit of the circular block

things on some of the pieces. I can kind of see

that. Anybody notice the, uh, Krimzik Please

Stand By TV screen? Yeah, that's a nice cameo.

I love that. That's so awesome. And I guess winking

means people aren't gonna do what you expect

them to. Uh, I think the wink was just there

for, for... Sorry to realize that, you know,

he was just kidding. Yeah. It was, it wasn't

like... I'm gonna, you know, pull a big twist.

It's not like M. Night Shyamalan is over there

winking. Wink! There's a twist coming, you know?

It's just like... To let her know that I'm not

really going to squish you. Yeah. It just looks

like I'm going to squish you. It's okay. And

I love Megatron's line at the end. When I get

my servo... He's talking about the key. When

I get my servos on it, as soon as I have servos...

I just kind of love this episode all around.

Outside of Professor Princess, I really didn't

find too many things that wrong with it on my

own watching it. I like it because it's Soundwave.

Yes, there are humans in this a little bit, but

it's... not any this is a total human episode

this is more so and all almost all robot episode

yes they're sorry sparty yes there's some back

and all that but i mean to have a a total you

know that to have a sound wave that's characteristic

is machine should take over the world you know

and actually showing him taking over machines

to take over the city that i thought that was

really cool i really like us on within this and

uh... one of the things i liked most is that

they actually use the voice modulator but that

is jeff that's jeff bennett doing the voice though

uh... well i mean you know uh... i'm just saying

yesterday when he was later but it's actually

it's it's jeff bennett who's credited as sound

wave i believe well i don't expect frank walker

to come back and use the voice modulator but

I thought it was nice, because I'm one of the

biggest complainers period, but I'm one of the

biggest complainers about not using the voice

modulator in the movie. And the big reason there

was you can't understand what he's saying. And

I would counter that with he doesn't say much.

He's got he had like one line in each movie,

maybe two in the last movie. But the fact is,

When Soundwave talks here, I don't understand

much of what he's saying. I literally had to

go back and listen to it again to understand

what he was saying. So I mean, that was a downside.

But the one thing I understood him saying was

when he was calling out the operation. Operation

recruitment. I think he said it twice. Yeah,

that's a nice touch. It was awesome. It was really

cool. So I was happy. I mean, as far as Soundwave

goes, You gotta have a sound wave, but I was

just really digging the way they did it here.

Yeah, it was. Steve, what did you like about

the episode or didn't like, or what do you got

for the episode for Santa Fury? Well, human characters

aside, because, you know... Yeah. I would say

that Professor Princess should go mount her little

pony and crash into a fucking river and drown,

but... Go ride your apocalypse pony. Soundwave,

step on her. But I liked how the key actually

took, it actually had a purpose in creating something

in this. Whereas before it's like, oh, insert

shameless plug here and yeah. all the only to

play a shameless plan i know it represents today

should be doing a lot of plug -in plug -and -play

yeah anyways uh... just like sound wave uh...

i don't like his little tiny -ass pot mode idea

that's kind of lame i'd just uh... i do have

a little bit transforms to his cassette player

mode he does look like the classic sound wave

at the end or What do you mean, when he's like

stripped out of nothing? Yeah, when he's just

basic boombox, it's at the end pretty much. Yeah,

yeah. Well, I mean, there's a whole reason why

he started off as a skinny little toy robot and

then kind of grew and grew and grew. So I would

have been disappointed if they would have said,

here's Soundwave and you've got Soundwave. He

turns into a giant walkman. I mean, when I was

really happy when the giant walkman walked away

and it was a little tiny robot. Because I thought

okay now this is the type of thing that you would

give to a kid to dance around a saying for yeah

that sound wave But yeah, I did like how I did

like how they did that though That was cool and

it kind of gave her an incentive to keep using

the key because she does it once and he pops

out speakers and she does it again and he pops

out huge subwoofers and she does it again and

he gets bigger and plays more music and She's

thinking, wow, what is going to happen next when

I use the key? So she just keeps doing it. And

that was Megatron's plan all along. He wants

her to create him a new body. So using the key

is a bad idea for her, but a good thing for Megatron.

Yeah. And I love the constant eye shift, the

constant eye color change from yellow to red.

Oh, yeah, because yellow was the eye color of

the toy, and red was the eye color in the cartoon.

Well, not even that no in the cartoon he starts

out having yellow eyes starts using the key Red

was the color in the g1 cartoon Right. All right,

so he's shifting back and forth from those two

iconic colors. Yeah, and that's and that's the

thing because Throughout this entire series and

this isn't a spoiler so Kevin you don't have

to fast forward or anything Throughout this entire

series they play they use color shift in almost

everything it comes in big in season 3 but They

use color change all the time like that kind

of like going you know just fading from yellow

red and back and forth So I did like how they

did that It was really cool. What else you got,

Steve? Did you notice Krimzik made the appearance?

Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was kind of neat.

Overall, I think I like this episode just for

the G1 nostalgia and actually watching Soundwave

do something more than just eject shit. Yeah.

He actually did Torment on his own, which was

quite nice. His beefed up mode, you gotta admit,

looked pretty badass. It was cool. I would say

that definitely, other than Professor Princess,

I like this episode. I will say that this isn't

the last that we've seen of Soundwave, and that's

all I'm gonna say about it. What about you, Michael?

What did you like or dislike about Sound and

Fury? Again, I have to defend Professor Princess.

Are you her knight in shining armor? Exactly.

I'm going to ride in on a sad little pony to

rescue her. No, it's just so damn cute. It's

like death by cuteness. Well, we'll put it this

way here. She's here. In the episode, people

are like, why is she in this episode? This is

so dumb. She's here primarily to demonstrate

to Megatron what the key can do. Because, you

know, she shows up out of the blue to destroy

things and, sorry, plugs the key into, I don't

know, a boom box, a giant speakers or something.

And yeah, they use like the patented G1 jazz

attack. Yeah, you crank up the tunes and the

sound waves fly out and attack whoever is Whoever

you want attacked and you know, it takes her

out But the idea there is megatron is watching

and he goes what I could do with that key Yeah

And I'm sure he's seen the key in action before

he's like what I could do with that key But here

they're really, you know, they're really pushing

it And the best part is when the horse head falls

in her lap. It was such a nice touch and I was

thinking, what was that? The Godfather. You wake

up and there's a horse in your bed. Oh wow, yeah.

I actually laughed. I laughed so hard because

she's like, powder sugar, no! I just rolled it

was so funny. Oh And then you know the only other

time you really see humans here is at the birthday

party And that they had a few good moments like

the purple dinosaur pinata. Yeah, that was a

nice touch Was it a purple, like, transmittal

dinosaur, or was it a purple, colorful dinosaur

that belongs on children's television? No, it

wasn't like a barnacle. I know. I'm trying to

throw in the whole... If it had a red eye, I'd

be thinking, you know, Beast Wars Megatron. It

wasn't transmittal. It was just, you know, like

the regular old dinosaur. But I appreciated it.

I thought that was cool. And Professor Sumdak's

like, don't leave, have some punch. And I'm thinking,

no way. Sorry, just hocked a loogie in that.

I wouldn't want a drink of that either. That's

kind of gross. Come here, kids, have some pie.

Have some pie? I just hocked a loogie in it.

I took a giant shit on your pie. But as far as

all the kids running up and wanting rides on

the Autobots, I mean, we've already established

that The Autobots are kind of celebrities slash

heroes in the city So, I mean, of course all

the little kids are gonna, you know, idolize

them and want to ride in them One of the little

kids actually has an optimus prime t -shirt Yeah,

so so yeah, you know, I mean someone's making

money off it But you realize yeah, they know

who these guys are and they're all lined up and

they're saying say it say it please You know

an optimus prime says transform and roll out

yeah and you kind of get a feeling there how

david k feels at conventions he's like fine i'll

say it or even peter cullen yeah because you

know cullen gets that all the time say it say

it peter freedom is the right of all sentient

beings You were acting like Peter's, you know,

people saying, you know, say it, say it, and

then Peter says a line, and the line is not the

one they want to hear, so it's like the freedom

is right of all sentient beings. No, not that

line, the other one! Give me your face.