Thrill of the Hunt, Nanosec, A Spider Comes Along

Hey, Tara Strong here, and you're listening to

the Geekcast Radio Network. Transformers! Sari

here. This episode of Transformation Animation

Podcast features Stephen C. Phillips, Mike Blanchard,

and Michael Wilson. Hello, and welcome to episode

three of Transformation Animation Podcast. I

am one of your hosts, Steve, Jim, and Mike, and

joining me is Steve Megatron. Hello. Good day,

sir. And Pecan Court Michael. Hey, how's it going?

Not a very enthusiastic greeting, but yeah. We

just came off of recording a one hour, 48 minute

long Dark of the Moon discussion where the three

of us joined with Optimus Solo, the Cybertronian

correspondent, talked about Dark of the Moon

in depth, our thoughts and all that stuff. So

yeah, that's what we've been up to. So let's

get into some episodes. I like your style. I

think we can teach each other a few tricks. If

I wasn't about to, you know. So first up today

is The Thrill of the Hunt. Ratchet thinks back

to the time when he served in the Cybertronian

War as a field medic. During the fighting, he

was sent to rescue an intelligence agent named

R .C. who was injured during the fighting. The

intelligence code she possesses could turn the

war in the Decepticons' favor. For that reason,

Megatron sends the bounty hunter for hire, Lockdown,

to capture her, snagging Ratchet in the process.

Back in the present, Lockdown has resurfaced

and uses Ratchet's EMP generator to capture Optimus

Prime. Recruited by Blitzwing and Lugnut to locate

the Autobots who destroyed Megatron, Lockdown

is revealed to be just a bounty hunter who doesn't

care about the Decepticons' cause and just does

it for the upgrades that he can get. Ratchet

eventually defeats him, reclaims his EMP generator,

and saves Prime and opens up about his experiences

to his leader. Well, Kevin should be happy. This

one focused pretty much all on the robots. I

mean, there's virtually no humans in this episode.

So true. That was a good episode. I enjoyed it.

When I first saw the car, I was like, ooh, mysterious

car. And I liked in the flashback that we see

an animated version of a war -torn Cybertron.

I really enjoyed that. Arcee, yay. Thank God

they didn't make her a tool for the Rodimus Springer

War. That's all I'm going to say on that. That's

all you're going to say. Leave it alone. Yep.

Lockdown is a badass. He has no choice to be

a badass because Lance Henriksen is the voice.

Yes, that is so awesome. He is awesome. He has

the best voice. He talks. more quickly than voice

actors usually talk, but you can kind of give

him a pass because he's just so awesome. Yeah.

I didn't write the second part of this next note

down, but I realized it as I was watching the

episode afterwards. When they are fighting Lockdown

and his ship and all that stuff, auto guns with

Cheetor sound! Was it Cheetor sound? It was the

Cheetor guns. I swear to God, I'll have to go

back and watch it, but I swear to God, it was

the Cheetor gun sound. I wasn't specifically

listening for it. I was so psyched that Prowl

had jumped up, cut one down, and used it to shoot

all the other guns. I thought that was... I cheered.

I was like, yeah! Yeah, that was pretty badass.

It was. codes crucial to the war effort hmm interesting

and that's all I'm going to say on that because

we know what happens but Kevin doesn't so that's

one of the things I didn't mention to you guys

off air I specifically I have to try to avoid

the spoilers because Kevin will get pissed and

he won't listen to the podcast until we finish

and my final note is it just me or did I hear

a bit of G1 -esque music at the very end of this

one Kind of like a G1 outro, like the first,

the main Generation 1 theme. I could have sworn

I heard like two notes of the outro. I didn't

hear that. I did like the soundtrack for the

episode. Yeah. They had a really nice rock riff

that started when Bumblebee started chasing Lockdown.

Yeah. It sounded pretty cool. I mean, it's not

Batman Beyond. But it's still pretty cool for

a cartoon soundtrack. Yeah. Oh, wow, I just noticed

none of my notes... Bumblebee must be getting

better for me because none of my notes include

Bumblebee as being a dick again. Well, he didn't

take center stage in this one. That's true, too.

I was going to say, of course, this is a Ratchet

-centric episode, so... And there was no Sari,

so normally you've got Bumblebee and Sari doing

their own thing. True. It kind of leaves you

to wonder where they were and what were they

doing during this episode. Dude, she's like eight.

Wait until like season three before the bow chick

-a -wow -wow. I left a line. Oh no, Bumblebee

was in this because in the beginning he said,

what crawled up your tailpipe? Yeah, but what

I'm saying is, as you said, it's not a Bumblebee

-centric episode, so his dickishness didn't really

overpower it. Yeah, yeah. But I did like the

Ratchet flashback, in that they called him Field

Tech Ratchet, and he had both of his horns. Yeah,

that was kind of cool. I like that his voice

was toned down. It was much less gruff and old

sounding. Yeah. It's a testament to the voice

actor that he's able to go from to more of a

normal sounding voice. Do that again. I can't

do it. I don't do voices. I hope Yamo's not anywhere

near you because you sound like a dog when you

do that. Oh, he's sleeping over here. He won't

go without five feet away from me, but he's still

asleep. Corey Burton has a very, very wide range.

I mean, just look at Ratchet compared to Megatron.

Very wide range Corey Burton has. Right, right.

I don't want to say that there was a love interest

here. But there was definitely something between

Ratchet and R .C. Oh, yeah, you could see that.

Yeah, well, I mean, it may have just been, you

know, way back when, when Ratchet had a good

bedside manner. You know, he was, you know, more

friendly. But this looked like it was a little

more than just friendly. It looked like he was

hitting on her. Which, you know, you really shouldn't

do to your patients. You know, despite how cute

they are. Well, she's pink. It's inferred. No,

there was more of an emotional attachment here

rather than I want to suck your robot juices

out. Dude. We're not going down that path this

time. Yeah. Well, we gotta have some sort of

crude humor. I mean, it's not as dark as... At

this time. It's not as dark as Barney and Megatron,

but... But there's a lot of cute scenes here,

like Ratchet, you know, when he first finds her,

she's like, I can't feel my leg. It's because

her leg is gone. As dark as this could be, right,

as they could have made it, he actually touches

her leg, and he's like, and he says, oh, well,

you're in shock. Yeah. Because he got shocked.

It's like stating the obvious here. I know. I

thought that was funny. I'm like, oh, because

he shocked her. That's funny. But another Bumblebee

quote where he tells Ratchet that he frees up

like a crankcase in December. There's a lot of

car -related humor here. Oh, yeah. We'll get

to the car -related humor. later as well, because

I found a car joke with Bulkhead later in the

podcast recording here. Yeah, yeah. Lockdown

divides and conquers. And it seems like every

Decepticon so far has no problem whatsoever taking

apart everyone. And he's doing it one at a time.

He's doing it smart, rather. Where he's separating

everybody out and getting them one at a time.

Up until Prowl comes along, because Prowl is

the only one that can really best him in combat.

Yep. That's because Prowl has patience and everybody

else is kind of like, run at him! Chase him,

chase him, and then die. And then get the snap

beat out of you because he's a better fighter

than you are. Lockdown is more like a seasoned

Kind of a cross between a wrestler and Boba Fett.

I kind of thought of him as a robot predator.

That's more accurate. Well, with that tattooed

face, yeah. Yeah, well, he takes prisoners. Or

not prisoners, trophies. Yep. He takes prisoners,

too, if necessary. But no, more to the point,

he takes trophies. He's actually going to polish

your skull and put it on his mantle. He'll take

your good parts and fix himself. Exactly. He's

like Hannibal. Oh, God. You talk about my robot

juices being horrible for this. That's bad for

this show right there. He's not eating anybody.

But it's like Buffalo Bill. They skin people

and they put their parts on them. Ew, no. It

puts the lotion in the basket. Why do you guys

have to do this shit? Sorry, sorry. I was almost

thinking he was like Rampage, but... No, not

that Hannibal. Oh, we're losing Blanchard. Anyway,

so at the end, Ratchet, you know, he's basically

traumatized for life by this guy, and then years

later runs into lockdown again and completely

freezes up. Like a crankcase in December. But

in the end, he comes back and he's able to defeat

him, mostly due to the fact that Lockdown is

relying heavily on that EMP generator and Ratchet

is immune to it. But he comes back at the end

and saves the day and he manages to rescue Optimus

Prime. And in the end, what he does serves to

redeem himself for what he did to Arcee during

the war. You know, at the end, well, they explain

by the end of the story that he stripped her

memory completely in order to keep those secret

code. You know, I won't spoil it for Kevin, but

keep the secret codes away from the Decepticons.

He has to live with that. You know, it's hard

on him. Partially, you know, that's why he's

a gruff, angry old man is because he's got these

demons from his past. Serves to redeem himself

at least a little bit when he helps to defeat

Lockdown. What do you think, Steve? I like the

character of Lockdown. Just all around, besides

kind of his creepy Hunter feeling that he's got,

he's just a badass. Anybody that goes through

and picks off his prey one by one and is not

even phased by it, you've got to be a badass.

He just keeps going. He keeps going and going

and going. It's like the Energizer Transformer.

He just never dies. Then he ties you down to

a table and cuts your arms off. Well, if that's

what he wants. I mean, he's got to figure out

which part on you is unique, so he's got to take

it with him. He wants your very special arm.

Yes, he wants your third arm and your EMP generator,

so he's going to be shockingly great. Yes, that

was a little too far. But anyways, yeah, I like

how Ratchet kicks his ass by the end. Yep. It

just shows that even Ratchet, as old as he is,

can still be a badass. He's got a few tricks

up his sleeve there. He's like, I'm getting too

old for this shit. And he's just like, I'm not

taking it anymore. Get off my lawn. I'm mad as

hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Give

me back my lawnmower. I mean, when he can physically

pick you up. Well, I don't want to say physically

pick you up. He uses his election. the electromagnetic

posts or whatever he's got, but he uses them

to pick up Lockdown and throw him into a wall

several times and then put a car on top of him

forcibly. And then he's like, in a slow moment

of the episode, he's like, think, Ratchet, think.

It's a ship, not a door. It has an airlock. So

at least you have these Transformers guys, at

least you have these Autobots using their brains.

Yeah. Yeah, they've done that several times here

in the series so far, and it's still early on

yet, but they're thinking to win as opposed to

just using overpowering force. Like the Unicron

trilogy. Ugh, yeah. Well, I mean, they could

have just as easily, you know, thrown Bulkhead

at the door. Combine! Autobots, combine! Bulkhead

pants. Optimal Tron. Oh. Do we have anything

else for the thrill of the hunt? I think it's

definitely one of the better episodes we've had

so far. Yep. And it gives some foreshadowing

to Ratchet and things to come. That, and it also

gives you foreshadowing to... Prowl in lockdown.

As Michael said, Prowl is the only one to really

best him. And that will come up later. Much,

much later. Oh, yeah. Shh. Don't say it. Oh,

yeah. That is one of my favorite episodes, too.

All right. So we're moving on. Right. Transform

and roll out in your original vehicle mode. Listen

up! We need to approach with extreme caution.

He's carrying unstable Destronium. Destronium?

Why would a small -time crook want to steal Destronium?

You think that's what turned his hair white?

White hair in organics is usually a function

of age. Age? That's it! Probably. What are you

doing? Using my head and my thrusters! And now

you're going down! So next up is Nanosek. To

obtain Destronium to help rebuild his body, Megatron

bails a fleet -footed thief named Nino Sexton

out of jail and gives him Isaac Sundack's experimental

super speed suit to obtain the Destronium for

him. Since the Destronium is highly unstable,

it needs to be transported quickly. No more than

for ten minutes, but from the research lab to

Megatron directly. Meanwhile, to catch up to

the villain, Bumblebee experiments with some

new rocket boosters, but they do more harm than

good. Eventually, the Autobots exploit Nanosek's

weakness, rapidly accelerating age, and defeat

him through teamwork and get rid of the exploding

Destronium. Um... When they're going to... Like,

this episode started for me just like the Angry

Archer episode did. Random human criminal running

from Bumblebee and Bulkhead. My first note was,

we already saw the ED -209 cop bots. We have

the ED -209B cop bots. Man, these bots are dumb.

Pursue criminal. Pursue criminal. Whack against

wall. God, these robots are dumb. Bumblebee and

Bulkhead are arguing, so Nino decides that he's

going to run away, and Bulkhead stupidly uses

his wrecking ball on a wooden pier. He goes,

You mind? We're talking here. Why does this remind

me of the line in Spider -Man, Shh, Mom and Dad

have to talk. It's the scene where Spider -Man

puts webbing over J. Jonah's mouth because he

and the Goblin have to talk. Yeah, yeah. That's

funny. Do you mind? We're talking here. I know.

That's probably the only line I like from Bulkhead

so far. Oh, he's funny. During this whole scene,

while they're chasing Nino around in the beginning,

there's fireworks going off. And it makes the

scene look cool because, you know, when the pier

caves in and Nino's hanging by a stick, right?

And he's like, help, help! Optimus Prime actually

pulls him out, and they frame Nino looking up

at Prime, and all around him are these fireworks.

And I'm thinking, is this supposed to be 4th

of July? It could be, yeah. Because the next

episode takes place in October. Yeah. So it's

like, what exactly is the time frame here? Not

that anybody knows and or cares, but it's just

like, okay, something to think about. You know,

now that you mention about Optimus pulling Nino

up and about the dock being destroyed by Bulkhead,

the first thing I can think of is, oh my god,

it's a super shredder! Because the dock collapses

when Shredder becomes Super Shredder. And the

dock collapsed because Bulkhead did something

stupid. Have you got your processor up your exhaust

port? I literally... I know internet and all

that stuff. We use LOL all the time. I literally

laughed with that one. That was funny. I'm going

to jinx myself here and say Bumblebee is slightly

less of a dick in this episode so far. Well,

he actually ends up heroic by the end. Right,

yeah. And again, this is another one of those

episodes where he starts off in the beginning

and he's kind of like, oh, I'm going to make

dumb decisions. And then toward the middle he's

learning and at the end he's learned his lesson

and everybody's the better for it. TFA Bumblebee

is the animated version of Sam Witwicky from

the Transformers live -action movies. They make

him the douchebag of the week, and then they

give him all the character development, and then

they take it away from him in the next episode.

They take it right back in the next episode.

That's right. Prowl. Okay, this is what really

bugs me. I can kind of see what Kevin was saying

about these metallic beings and all that in the

last episode, in episode one. Prowl having his

foot on Nanosek would crush the human. Yes, I

know Prowl has all kinds of control and balance

and all that, but as I said, like Kevin said

in the previous episode, these are metal robots,

dammit. Nanosek would be dead. Well, it was the

same thing when Prime reached out and grabbed

Nino as he fell from the pier. I'm thinking,

that would crush every bone in his hand. There's

just no way. Yeah. Bumblebee, even though he

becomes the hero at the end again, he has the

worst what -the -fuck moment in this episode.

Instead of transforming after coming to a complete

stop on the train tracks, he just sits there

and then Bulkhead comes in and destroys the train

to save the moronic robot. He pulls the train

back, yeah. Why couldn't he just transform and

jump out of the way? That's what I'm saying!

It's like, wouldn't that have made sense? I mean,

honestly, if that was me, I just would have transformed

to the last second and dove right past the train.

I mean, that would make more sense. I mean, he

could have dove past the train and then re -transformed.

Yep. I mean, granted, you know, you're supposed

to show that Nanosek is faster than he is, but

he didn't have to almost die by getting hit by

a train. I know. And technically, I'm nuts, bolts,

and armored plating with a few special features.

I just love that line from Optimus. Nanosek,

a human gets prime off his feet with the cable

from his own weapon. Boo! When I was watching

this, I was thinking, go for the legs. It may

be our only chance. Yeah. Optimus Prime is not

an at -at. No, I just thought that was funny.

My final note for this one, I think back when

they were out in the galaxy that they had their

Cybertronian modes, Bumblebee had a different

battle mask. I cannot be sure about this, but

I like the one that he uses here in this episode

a lot better. One final thing I will say before

I give it to Michael or Steve is when Bumblebee

was coming back down into the atmosphere and

he was burning up, I screen capped it because,

oh, hey, it's Cliffjumper because he turned bright

red. I like that he was red, and I don't consider

it a Cliffjumper homage, though, because Cliffjumper

actually shows up. Yeah, I mean, he shows up

later. I get that, but to someone who hasn't

seen the series, they would have noticed that

as a Cliffjumper reference. Yeah, Red Bumblebee

is automatically Cliffjumper. That's right. In

any other continuity, but in this one, Cliffjumper

actually looks different. Same alt mode, right?

They make him look different. I don't even think

we see Cliffjumper's alt mode in the series.

Only in the toy. Well, right, yeah. Most of the

time he's just sitting behind a desk. Yeah. But

that's way, way later. Any other... Why don't

we go to Steve first? Steve hasn't talked too

much. What do you got, Steve? I hate anything

to do with human villains. So does Kevin. I find

them extremely annoying. I don't mind Bumblebee

whatsoever. I mean, he's not the best character,

but I don't hate him. Nanosek is probably one

of the, I don't know, little bit more intelligent

villains to some extent. Just in how he looks

and is portrayed. Angry Archer and Professor

Princess are bullshit. This nanosec is not as

bad. One of the things I noticed about the Decepticons

say that Destrononium is necessary to build parts

of sufficient quality. It's got the word Destron

in it. Yep. That's clearly a nod to the Japanese

name for Septicon. Yeah, which I found that was

quite interesting that they did that. As for

Nanosek, I just did not like him whatsoever.

And then, of course, you know, sorry. her stupid

key. Yeah, the key! She played a minor role in

this. I barely noticed her this time. I liked

it when she used her key to help Bumblebee install

his rocket boosters. When he first uses them,

she's in the driver's seat and her whole face

is like, she's got that rocket propulsion going

on. And then once they get over that, they're

like, You rock! No, you rock! No, you rock! No,

you rock! I just thought that was adorable. I

like that a lot. But yeah, she's not annoying

or anything. Didn't Nanosek, didn't he get aged?

Yeah, that was the weakness and Bumblebee figured

it out. He has to go as fast as possible to where

Nino has to go faster, but as Nanosek uses the

suit, the suit ages him. He died of ageism. Or

not died, he didn't die, but he got weakened

from ageism. He's almost like how they used that

flash from the Justice League movie, The Alternate

Earth. They made him go so fast. Yeah, he went

so fast, he became extremely old and just died.

But it also reminds me of Vulture from Spider

-Man. Yeah, Vulture, well, Vulture was initially

old, though, and then he used the tablet of time

to get young again, so that's kind of... He used

his suit to sap life out of people. Yeah, that's

true. So this is actually kind of a reverse thing,

but it's still kind of weird. I wish he would

have died. I wish Nanosek would have died. Does

he show up in the League of Evil? SUV, Society

of Ultimate Villainy. Yes, he does. I think so,

yeah. At least he doesn't die then. They used

the return big bot again in this. Yeah. Yeah,

Bumblebee uses it. Oh, I didn't notice it. Yeah.

Yep. And they do use it throughout the series,

so Kevin, sorry about your luck, dude. I remember

the first episode, he's like, I like the reference,

but I hope they don't use this again in this

series ever. Sorry about your luck. They use

it throughout the series. Anything else, Steve?

Um, no, other than I don't like this episode.

It should burn in a fire. Other than the only

significant plot device was Bumblebee got jets

and Megatron is scrounging up materials for his

body. Yes. Right. What about you, Michael? What

did you not like or like about the Nanosek episode?

Uh, you know, I think that any human enemy they're

going to introduce after Meltdown is just going

to pale in comparison. Yeah. I like his name,

Nino Sexton. It sounds kind of like nanosec,

but it isn't until he actually robs a bank and

the bank teller says, the money disappeared in

a nanosec! And Nino's like, hey, I like that.

You know, arguably lame. Might be lame. I don't

know. I kind of enjoyed it. I think, again, this

is targeted toward children. They're probably

going to giggle over it more than we will. That's

creepy. Don't do that again. Stop it! Megatron

speaks. Megatron talks. He talked last episode,

too. Yeah. I mean, he actually comes out and

says, don't tell my Autobot friends. He says,

I don't want them to see me in this weakened

state. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So they're keeping up

the charade. Yeah, so far. Right. The facade.

Bumblebee gets his booster rockets. And, you

know, I like this because the rockets were on

the toy. Yeah. I think those are cool. And they

work in both robot mode and vehicle mode on the

toy, too. So they finally give you a prop that's

actually usable. Exactly. And the question becomes,

are the rockets a gift from some deck, or did

Sari just steal them? Sari just does whatever

the hell she wants to do, just like she's like

in the beginning. You guys need a place to stay.

Here's this abandoned auto factory that my dad

doesn't even know that he has. Well, and that

leads me at the end where you've got, I'm jumping

way ahead of all my other notes here, but you've

got Sumdack and Megatron just kicking back and

having a beer, and he says, I wonder how that

criminal got my super speed suit. And Megatron's

like, I believe it was an inside job. You know,

it's funny, but... You know, the first thing

some deck should have said is that fucking Sari's

been in my lap again. She just runs off with

anything that's not nailed down. Someone's going

to have to spank her and just tell her no. Daddy,

spank! Don't spank me, Daddy. Stop. But, I mean,

I'll swipe or no swiping. Oh, God. Come here,

Sari. We must spank you with my robot or drone.

Come here, Megatron. You must spank my girl.

With my big hand. You know what's funny, too,

is we were talking about parallels between the

first Transformers movie and this. I think in

the last episode, we were talking about the Cosmic

Cube, or the AllSpark. Yeah. Being analogous

to the... He said aglet. A -G -L -E -T. I forget

how the song goes now, damn it. Phineas and Ferb

reference, sorry. Yes, yes. Yeah, anyway, but

yeah, so there's that, and then there's... Completely

lost my train of thought. Something about the

AllSpark and the comparisons between the movie

and this? Yeah, yeah. And I lost it. You threw

out a Phineas and Ferb reference. It completely

derailed my mind. All right, move on. All right,

moving right along there. Yeah, so I like the

Megatron, the way he uses the high -speed pulse

messaging. Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, Nanosek

is running really fast, and he sees this giant

Megatron head in front of him. And it's not like

a dismantled Megatron head, it's Megatron. Yeah.

Which I thought ruled, you know. Yeah. It was

a little less believable when his face popped

up on an ATM. I thought that was cool, though.

It's like, first of all, here, let me send over...

some decks, bank account numbers. Well, again,

it goes to my point earlier in the last episode

of the podcast. Megatron is tied into his system.

Think of Megatron as the brainiac of Transformers

Animated. He can do anything. Yeah. Except build

a body. He needs the key to do that. Well, we've

got a few more episodes before we get to that.

Give me life! So he's liking the Destronium.

The Destron metal. Oh, that's what I was going

to say. The parallel to the movie was when Old

Man Witwicky finds Megatron in the Arctic. It's

his head and the hand that he falls into. And

now in Somnac's lab, you've got Megatron's head

and Megatron's hand. Yeah, that was a really

roundabout way to get to that particular point.

There you go. Yeah. I like that Prowl is trying

to teach Bumblebee patience. He's very zen. And

then he turns on his holographic rider. Yeah.

That's cool. I like that. What makes it cool

is the holographic rider turns to Bumblebee and

says, happy. Exactly. The fact that when Prowl

talks, the cop moves his mouth too. I like that.

I think that's cool. They made a reference to

I -94 that goes through Detroit. It's funny because

I take I -94 to work. Funny Midwest reference

there. Bumblebee. I don't know if he's said this

before or not, but the Bumblebee -isms pop out

in this episode. He says, I'm the fastest thing

on wheels. Yeah. Has he said that before? I don't

think so. And the other one is, he says, let's

motor. Let's motor. I don't mind let's motor,

but... I've said it before and I'm probably going

to say it again in future episodes. The problem

with Bumblebee is the ego. I just don't like

the ego. But I really do like Let's Motor. That's

a good saying. I like that. Let's Motor in Motown.

They're in Detroit. Exactly. You're killing me.

What? It was right there. It's funny. That's

funny. Anything else on Nanoseg? Fire Guts Bumblebee.

That's a Japanese reference. Anytime a character

turns red, they repaint him in red translucent

plastic and call him Fire Guts. So, Fire Guts

Bumblebee. I'm kind of glad that we didn't get

a straight red Bumblebee repaint because that

would end up being Cliffjumper later on. I like

Cliffjumper a lot better than I would like a

Red Bumblebee. But they only made Activator's

Cliffjumper, didn't they? They didn't make a

deluxe Cliffjumper. No, I think you're right,

yeah. But, I mean, he had a different head. Right.

Well, I mean, normally the only one I can compare

is War for Cybertron. Bumblebee, Cliffjumper,

War for Cybertron, it's the same body, but the

Cliffjumper has a different head. Right. Right,

exactly. Well, they did the same thing with the

Seeker jets, too. I mean, sometimes you'll get

a Seeker repaint in an Activator size, and sometimes

you'll get a Seeker repaint in a Voyager size.

Yeah. So, I mean, they kind of go back and forth.

But the repaint I'd like to see is when he turns

gray at the end, because I thought he died. Yeah.

They said, oh, we're going to need your electromagnetism

to slow him down, and I'm going to use my foam

to cool him down. And when he hits the ground,

he's gray. And we know from the pilot that when

you turn gray, you're dead. Well, but now here's

the difference, though. Bumblebee didn't hit

the ground. He, Ratchet's magnetism kind of brought

him down gently. And the whole gray thing was

from burning up. Burning up in the atmosphere.

It's burn marks, but it's gray because of what

Optimus did with his fire extinguisher deal -y

thingamajig. Right, right. So he didn't die.

When he landed, his eyes were still open. His

eyes were still blue. He didn't fade out. If

the eyes aren't gray, he's not dead. He has to

close his eyes and then die. But no, he was up

and walking and talking pretty soon afterwards,

so hey, that's cool. But no, a gray Bumblebee

repaint would have been awesome. I would take

that even as a knockoff for Bootleg. I think

that would be neat. And at the end, he walks

home. So he's learned his lesson. He's like,

I'm the fastest thing on wheels. Watch me now.

Well, at the end, he's like, I think I'll just

walk, if that's cool. Yeah. So, yeah. Lesson

learned. How long that'll last, I don't know.

Not very long. So, with that, we're going to

be moving on. I know all your moves, Optimus.

Pure textbook Autobot Academy. Do I know you?

I know how easily you forget your friends. Although

you managed to remember Sentinel that day. Alita

-1? It's Black Arachnia now. But I thought you

were... If either of you had bothered to search

for me, you would have seen what happened. I

tried to use my downloading power on the spiders,

but I ended up infecting myself with their organic

venom. No! became something else. Not Autobot.

Not organic. I was nothing but a freak! Your

organic hat must have masked your energy signature.

Had I known, I would have... What? Brought me

back to Cybertron to be dismantled and examined

on some lab table? So, You allied yourself with

the Decepticons instead. At least I know where

I stand with them. And finally up today is Along

Came a Spider. It's Halloween, and Sari introduces

the Autobots to Earth's custom and candy traditions.

However, the entire affair brings up bad memories

for Optimus, who is haunted by the ghosts of

his past, specifically when he and his fellow

bots, the cocky and arrogant Sentinel Prime and

power -mimicking Elita One, were looking for

a crashed Decepticon ship loaded with Energon

cubes. When Sari takes Bumblebee and Bulkhead

trick -or -treating, the spider -like Decepticon

Blackarachnia formerly Alita -1, shows up and

targets Sari's key. She wants the key to get

rid of her organic half that she got when she

was on the organic planet Infesta with the giant

spiders. The spider's venom somehow mutated her

Cybertronian systems, making her a freak. After

seeing how Sari's key can heal Autobots, she

wants to use it to purge her organic half. However,

her body can't survive without her organic half.

Now, as a result of using the key, she nearly

kills off all organic matter in the entire city,

which includes herself and Sari. Optimus gets

the key away from her, and Blackarachnia escapes

alone once again. I love Prime's analysis of

Halloween. What did he say? God. So it's just

dressing up and bribing people for this sugary

confection type – I don't know. It's one of the

quotes in the episode. So just his simple -minded

– not really that Optimus Prime is simple -minded

but just his – the way that they're introducing

the humans, the way they're introducing the robots

to Earth and humanity, I find it really good

because they don't – The Autobots don't get it.

The Transformers just don't get it quite. Yeah.

They think of everything literally. Yeah. Yeah.

It's kind of like, it's kind of like going back

to like the first couple episodes when Prime

first meets Siren. He's like, how do you get

those smaller organics? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well,

it's even worse. It's like, you know, what's

baby food? That's like, is it? Food actually

made out of babies. They see everything and it's

a literal explanation. Yeah. Kind of takes the

wonder out of it. So wait, Optimus wanted to

do the right and responsible thing of leaving

the planet, yet Sentinel wanted to find the inner

Johnny Goodness. What the fuck? I don't want

to say that this is out of character for him.

It probably isn't. But my point is that in the

first part of the flashback, Optimus is trying

to be the responsible one. And in the second

part of the flashback, when they've already left

Elita, Optimus is like, oh, well, we have to

go because the planet's going to explode or something's

going to happen. Yeah, all the energon was about

to go up. Yeah, the energon was about to go up.

And Sentinel's like, no, we have to go back for

her. Right. I mean, I liked seeing Prime's Cybertron

mode again. I thought that was cool. And I liked

Alita 1. I mean, I liked seeing her. She wasn't

the leader of the fembots here at this point.

She's still young and she has a ponytail, which

I thought was kind of funny. But no, it was a

nice flashback scene. I'm wondering if they're

overusing flashbacks at this point. Because we

just had Ratchet flashbacks, and now we've got

Prime flashbacks. But it really serves to push

the story along. Yeah, it does. Again, a LOL

moment. Sari's costume and impression of Optimus

is priceless. It just is. I don't feel like that.

I like Bumblebee's reaction. Eek! It's big, black,

lots of legs. Ah, real monsters. Even though

he doesn't say, ah, real monsters. I added that

in. Bumblebee as a vampire and walking all over

Bulkhead's fumigation tent costume is kind of

cool. I like the vampire costume. I'm really

surprised that somebody like Unicron .com or

the Lucas Brothers or something didn't come up

with a costume for him so that you could put

fangs, like stickers or fang stickers or a cape

on him to make him look like his Halloween costume.

I totally would have bought that. Basically,

Alita -1's power is a Transformers version of

Rogue from the X -Men. I was so going to say

that. Yeah, that's basically what she does. She

absorbs people's power. Now, I've got to warn

Kevin because this might be a little bit of a

spoiler. I'm not doing this intentionally, but

you might want to skip ahead a few moments here.

So instead of Optimus and Alita being an item,

Sentinel has feelings for Alita. While this being

new continuity and all, why the Slagnaut? And

when I first wrote that note and I said, why

the Slagnaut? The first thing I thought of was,

okay, you have Slipknot, a hardcore rock band.

The Transformers band of that would be called

Slagnaut. How is that spoilery? Because later...

Oh, God. later down the line we find out that

Sentinel was the one that had feelings for her

we know that because in the beginning of the

episode when we first meet him Sentinel has his

arm around her but it's clear that Alita 1 is

Sentinel's girlfriend and that's what makes it

that much harder for Sentinel to say okay fine

let's go Prime says we gotta leave and Sentinel's

like no I'm staying I gotta go get her It's his

girlfriend. He's not just going to leave her

behind. Cyber Venom. Yay, a Beast Wars reference.

You mentioned about Lockdown being a muscle car.

Here's where the other car reference comes in.

When Sari is trying to reactivate Bulkhead, it

sounds like a car trying to turn over. Yeah,

I thought that was funny. And my final note was

Spider -Bot has ninja -like moves when she was

basically facing off with Optimus. She was putting

some karate on his ass. Well, she basically says,

you know, I can anticipate every move you make.

Yeah. Basically, I learned them all, too, at

the same time you did. Yeah. As if all of the,

I want to say, the power duplication, the rogue

power. Blackarachnia shows off by that point.

Doesn't beat you over the head enough to say,

hey, stupid, this is actually Alita 1. Yeah,

I know. Yeah, I mean, she finally comes out and

says, alright, dumbass, I'm gonna tell you straight

up, I'm Alita 1. Yeah. I mean, I figured it out

long before. Yeah. What about you, Steve? What

do you got for Along Came a Spider? Alrighty.

Well, to start out, I... think that the Halloween,

again, another useless attempt at something kiddish.

Again, this falls in the category of Twister.

Yeah, one episode ago, it was 4th of July, so.

Yeah, and now it's Halloween. My, my, how time

flies in the Transformers animated universe.

Yeah. I thought it was kind of interesting to

see Elita and Sentinel in this episode. Yeah.

Especially because when you see Elita in the

flashback, you realize that is Blackarachnia.

Yeah, I knew immediately. You can tell by the

outline, the design, and some of the coloring.

You can't make that assumption because it's like,

well, of course there are other female robots.

It's not just her. She's not the only one. The

reason why I made the assumption is because in

the pilot movie, Blackarachnia in Shadow talks

to Blitzwing and Lugnut. So I heard Cree Summer's

voice, and then you have Cree Summer voicing

Alita 1 again. So... Do the math. it doesn't

really come across up until Optimus and Alita

-1 end up in the Decepticon ship. And they're

like, oh, wow, there is a lot of Energon here.

And right next to the Energon is a helmet. And

it's the same helmet that Blackarachnia later

wears. Oh, see, I didn't catch that. I caught,

I knew it was going to be Blackarachnia at that

moment because of all the spiders around them.

Right. Well, I mean, Kreese Summer, I love her

voice acting, by the way. Everything she does

is awesome. But she has done other voices for

the series. I want to say she did Teletraan.

I think that was Tara Strong, but I'll have to

go back and look. I want to say it was Cree Summer

who did the voice for Teletraan. But no, I like

her and everything she's in. I saw that helmet.

That's what sealed it. It was like, no, clearly

Alita 1 is... By the end of the show, they actually

beat you over the head with it. Oh, yeah. Still

a cool point, though. It's neat. I like how they

take a Beast Wars reference and they tie it into

a G1 reference. Yeah, I like how they kind of

showed her backstory and why she's so hateful

of Autobots. Yeah. Well, I mean, she basically

considers herself a freak. It's like Beast Machines

Megatron. It's like, I hate my beast mode. Yep.

Exactly. Anything else, Steve? No, that's it.

Well then, I'll rant for a bit. What? You think

it's funny that Bulkhead looks like Pigpen in

his giant fumigation tent? He's just walking

around kicking up dust. I hadn't thought of that,

but yeah. Yeah, it was very Snoopy for me. I

thought that was hilarious. I like... Sari's

costume. I was calling her Sari Miss Prime. I

thought it was funny that Prime is afraid of

spiders. And, you know, at the beginning of the

episode, it's like, man, what a giant wuss. He's

afraid of spiders, right? And it's weird that

he's a robot. When could he have possibly been

exposed to spiders that would make him this afraid

of spiders? And then they get into the whole

spider planet thing. But he basically makes the

call to leave Alita behind. And he has to live

with that. It's not something that really plagues

him the way that the loss of RC plagues Ratchet.

Clearly he's not old and gruff yet, right? But

Sentinel... You know, well, we'll meet him later

on again, but Sentinel just will hate him forever

for this. He will never forgive him for this.

Oh, yeah. I mean, to the point where, you know,

Sentinel carries around, you know, anti -organic

bug spray wherever he goes. It's just weird how

it all ties together. Agreed. Blackarachnia,

I don't want to say they go out of her way to

make her flirty, but towards the end, when she's

fighting Prime, she's very flirty with him. And

sex appeal doesn't negate the fact that you just

tornado transformed. And she did. It's like,

hey, that's not cool. I thought we already stated

flatly that we're not going to Tornado Transform.

Everyone's got their own stock footage already.

You can't do that. That's not kosher. But she

does it anyway. I like the vampire bite that

drains energon from people. I think it was very

Night Scream. Hmm. Beast Machines reference there.

Yeah, it's not as annoying as Night Scream's

vampire drain. It's not as loud and painful to

listen to. But, you know, basically that's how

she walks away in the end. She's completely drained

after using Sari's key to try to get rid of her

own beast mode. You know, and she's not going

to walk away after this until Prime, you know,

big dummy that he is, walks right up to her and

says, anything I can do for you? Are you okay?

And she's like, screw you, buddy, and bites him.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's basically it. But, you

know, she doesn't kill Prime. She just drains

him of his energy and then runs off. And I don't

know. I mean, Prime's mistakes in the past have

definitely come back to haunt him. And Blackarachnia,

who knows, maybe she'll come around someday.

Beast Wars, Blackarachnia did. She eventually

turned out to be a good guy in the end. There's

always that possibility. There is no Silverbolt

here, though. Oh, but, well... I want to say,

somewhere later on, Sentinel meets up with Black

Rackney again and basically goes, eww, can't

believe I liked you. I don't remember off the

top of my head, and while I'm thinking about

it, I did look up on the TF wiki, Tara Strong,

voice roles, Transformers Animated, Sari Sumdak,

Teletraan 1, Reception Bot, Daniel, Carly, Slow

Mo, Slipstream, Stryker, Red Alert. So, yes,

she did, Tara did voice Teletraan 1. Damn. See,

I was a much happier person when I thought that

was Kree. You just ruined my whole day. Thanks.

You're welcome. But, yeah, I don't think there

was enough seasons here for Blackarachnia to

turn her back around. I think the last time we

see her, she's busy using the Dinobots as her

own personal strike force. Well, that and she's

also... That's getting into spoilers. Sorry,

Kevin. It's Michael's fault this time. I almost

said something else, but it's Michael's fault

this time. Oh, my fault. Yeah, you wouldn't hit

a girl, right? Sucker. You wouldn't hit a bat

with glasses, would you? Flop. All right, so

anything else in Along Came a Spider? No, I think

we're good. I like the episode. I would say that...

Well, I would say that I didn't enjoy it as much

as Thrill of the Hunt, just because Lance Henriksen

didn't voice Blackarachnia. That would be a very

different show if he did. Very, very different.

But no, I did like it. I really liked seeing

Blackarachnia again. I had one more comment,

but I'm going to leave it for after Kevin's comments.

And I'm sure all three of us, Steve included,

can agree that out of the three episodes today,

Thrill of the Hunt and Along Came a Spider are

the best ones. Yeah. Two out of three ain't bad.

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live from Cybertron, giving you my thoughts from

a first -time viewer on these three episodes

of Transformers Animated. And we're starting

today with The Thrill of the Hunt, written by

Andrew Robinson. First off, I would just like

to get the nitpicky negative stuff out of the

way. First of all, why is Lockdown a muscle car

also on Cybertron? Shouldn't he be in some type

of Cybertronian mode? And why does he look like

the... ICP version of Decepticon, and hopefully

people know what I mean by that. Okay, I get

Optimus Prime is young, and fine, he can have

the gay, young -sounding voice. That's fine.

But can you please stop being a pansy for the

love of God? The only other nitpicky thing about

this episode is I hate the backgrounds during

fight scenes when it goes all Hyperdrive -esque

background colors and diagonal lines and stuff.

Why can't the fight scenes have the regular background?

Again, that's nitpicky. Let's get to the good

stuff about this episode. First of all, I like

the Transformer sounding horn on Bumblebee right

at the beginning. That was a nice little touch.

Susan Blue as Arcee. Come on, it doesn't get

any better than that. And I don't know if anybody

else caught this, but I swear that was a Hector

Ramirez homage with the news reporter, the guy

that used to do all the news reporting on the

Sunbow series, like G .I. Joe and G1 and et cetera.

I swear it looked like him. So if that was their...

That was awesome. I love Ratchet's character

in this one. I love the development we're getting

in Ratchet's character. I love the little broken,

his broken piece eyebrow light thing. I like

to call it an eyebrow. And how they actually

even explain it in this episode, how he got it.

It took me a long time through this episode until

I realized why the episode wasn't annoying me

and why I was enjoying it so much. That's right.

No humans. Yay. Anyways, I know it's been done

a couple times here with the person that gathers

trophies kind of. best known probably General

Grievous as he collected all the different lightsabers,

and that's basically what Lockdown's doing. That's

what we'll see later in Transformers Prime with

Arachnid. But they did it right in this episode,

so I'm not going to complain about it. This was

a solid episode. I haven't looked ahead to see

who writes all the future episodes, but I hope

Andrew Robinson does more. Thrill of the Hunt,

8 out of 10, best episode of the series so far.

And next we talk about Nanosek, and every time

I see Marty Eisenberg as the writer, I... Don't

know what to expect so far. He is all over the

place. And this one, well, let's just do it quick,

short and sweet here. I reiterate my point from

before. The look of the humans in this series

is terrible. Triangular chins. Yes, that's pathetic

and lazy. Destronium, give me a break. Is it

just me, or is Optimus Prime like a never -ending

PSA talking about insurance? I mean, I feel like

we're watching the PSAs of the old 80s cartoons

at the end. That's every time Optimus speaks.

The dude's name's Nano Sexton. Are you fucking

kidding me? I don't want to talk about this episode

anymore. I can sum it up by giving it a 1 out

of 10. This episode sucked balls. Let's move

on to something a little bit better, which is

the next episode, Along Came a Spider, also written

by Marty Eisenberg, which proves my point that

he is all over the place with his writing. Some

of it's good, some of it's bad. We're finally,

it's episode 9, we're finally getting some Optimus

Prime character development. About damn time.

So Blacker acting as the female version of Lockdown?

I mean, seriously, guys, that was two episodes

ago, and we're already reusing somebody, a bad

character that's collecting trophies or gathering

stuff from old people. I know it's not exactly

the same, but it seems like we're reusing that

a little bit. But so far they've done it right

both times. It just seems weird that just two

episodes we kind of did the same thing. My biggest

nitpick of this episode is probably the whole

Halloween backstory with the humans and everything.

That's kind of gay, but... Oh, wait, Grant Hill

said I shouldn't say that. But I guess it goes

along with the whole spider, black, or acnea

theme, so we'll let it slide. The Alita 1 black

or acnea angle is clever as hell. The whole organic

harkens back to Beast Wars thing. I was worried

that I thought it was going to be trying too

much to be like Beast Wars, but I think it just

kind of straddled the line perfectly. And it

was clever. You know, you couldn't have necessarily

expected that or seen that coming, so I'll give

them credit for coming up with an original, unique

idea and not just recycling stories that we've

already seen before. Also, I meant to mention

this before back in the first episode I was talking

about today, but the first episode and this episode

when they're doing flashbacks just proves how

stupid it was in the very first episode of the

entire series that they actually used G1 -style

footage. Because... Now we had a flashback in

the very first episode, the flashback to G1 style,

and now we've had two flashbacks that look completely

animated style. I'm fine with the animated style

flashbacks. It's just another reason why they

should have never used that G1 footage in the

first episode. But I just wanted to point that

out. And the main reason I like this episode

is because it has so far the single best line

I've heard in Transformers Animated when Sari

says about her key, quote, maybe I should give

this key a rest, unquote. Hell, yes you should.

Honestly, I would have given this one a 7 out

of 10 until at the very last scene they made

Blackarachnia cry. They had her crying, yes.

So we're knocking this one from a 7 out of 10

down to a 6 out of 10. So those are my thoughts

on these three episodes. We'll see where it goes

from here, and now back to the crew on Earth.

Now back to Transformation Animation Podcast.

We are back here on Earth, and thank you to Kevin

for his Cybertronian correspondence. As far as

his thoughts go, really quick, as far as Phil

of the Hunt, leave Optimus alone, you solo bastard.

Just leave him alone, damn it. No humans. Michael,

any response for Thrill of the Hunt to Kevin?

Not especially on the first episode. I think

everybody enjoyed that one. Steve? Yeah, I am

glad there's the no human thing and then leave

Prime alone. He doesn't deserve it. And then

as far as nanosec, we kind of already explained

this, and I explained this to Kevin Offair after

I received his clip. Nino Sexton was the guy's

name, and then someone said he had moved in a

nanosec. Right. As far as along came a spider.

Back up. What, nanosec? Comments on nanosec.

Oh, okay. Steve, anything? No. That's why I moved

on. Well, I got two here. The first thing is

that Kevin was complaining about the hyper speed

lines during action scenes. And basically the

speed lines during action scenes replace the

background in anime. This is like an anime staple.

Suffice to say, it's supposed to be that way.

Just because we mentioned this before, is that

the show is taking more of an anime -centric

design. So yeah, I mean, it could be lame, especially

with a series like this where the backgrounds

are so nice. But basically that's how it's supposed

to be. And secondly, Destronium, we talked about

this earlier, Destronium is a play on the word

Destron, which is the Japanese name for Decepticon.

It's not something stupid like Avatar's Unobtainium.

And again, it's clever. It's not a cop -out in

the writing at all. Moving on to the last episode

Steve? Steve! No, nothing. I'll have to make

sure I hear it. You either lost him or he fell

asleep again. No, I muted my mic. Oh, okay. I

do that sometimes. Michael, anything on a long

-camera spider? Yes. First of all, Blackarachnia

is not a female lockdown. She's able to temporarily

duplicate the signature powers of other robots.

Alita 1 had this power earlier. And so does Blackarachnia.

This is why they beat you over the head with

the fact that they're the same person. She doesn't

take trophies like Lockdown does. She's just

using that same power, like Rogue. And secondly,

I liked Blackarachnia crying at the end. Honestly,

she's been through a lot, and she has just met

up and got saved by the guy who did this to her.

for all intents and purposes. She needed a good

cry. Anyone needs a good cry. Now, Kevin did

go into detail with me off -air about what his

point was about the two similarities between

Blackarachnia and Lockdown. Basically, what he's

saying is he doesn't like the two character points

having kind of the same power thing. within so

many episodes in between. It's like one episode

in between the two that use this type of power.

Yes, Lockdown and Blackarachnia, it's different,

but it's still, to a first -time watcher, it

could be considered similar. As far as Alita

1, Blackarachnia's power, I actually did some

research because I wanted to know if they were

doing Transformers Animated Alita as a G1 homage.

I mean, I know the name and I know all that,

I looked this up and I wrote this down. I copied

it off a wiki. G1 Alita 1. Desperate Alita triggered

her time -stopping power, which allowed her to

save Optimus, but expended nearly all her life

force doing so. But it kills her, yeah. Right.

In Animated, you have in her mutant techno -organic

form, she makes use of her newfound cyber venom

to paralyze her enemies and combines this with

her natural ability to download and mimic other

Transformers. traits, and weaponry for a limited

amount of time with a simple touch. Hope nobody

told Lockdown. Well, I think that with her spider

powers, I think the ability to mimic other powers

is just overkill. It makes her too powerful at

that point. I would have been happier if she

just didn't have that power at all. She could

have had, I don't know, a javelin or something.

lady j out of gi joe uh you know prime has his

axe sentinel prime has his shield and she has

a javelin and that would have been fine for me

you know and and uh it wasn't necessary to the

plot it was i mean yeah she had duplicated prime

or optimus prime's uh grappler And it faded out

on her, and she fell to her death, or so they

thought. She could have fell in any way. Prime

could have been holding her in one hand and slipped,

and she fell, which would make his guilt even

that much more deep. But it wasn't integral to

the story. They don't bring it up again later

on, as far as I remember. Yeah, I mean, honestly,

she could have just relied upon her spider powers,

and that would have been fine. The thing about

Alita before she became Blackarachnia, Optimus

kept pointing out and she kept pointing out,

her power does not work on organics. As far as

she knows. Right. Because they've never seen

organics before. Right. Well, when that kept

being said, that's what actually led me to search

out and... try to remember what G1 Alita's power

was because that's what I thought they were going

for. I thought they were going for the time stopper

power that just kills her. That's what I thought

they were going for here with Alita 1 and Animated,

but they went a slightly different way, and I

don't mind it because it gives you all this character

development for Optimus and Sentinel. Right,

and yeah, especially Sentinel. It really shines

a light on where he's coming from when you do

meet him. When he does become a main character,

you really see just why he's so screwed up in

the head. Exactly. It's like, why is Sentinel

such a dick to Prime? Well, this is why. Yes.

So thank you again, Kevin. Keep up the great

work, and we hope you are enjoying this series.

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