Season Guide
Transformers: Generation 1 Season 2
Season 2 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 2 of Transformers: Generation 1 premiered 1985-09-23 and ran 49 episodes through 1986-01-09.
Episodes
1
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
2
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
3
Our Take A pretty standard season two setup episode that mostly exists to introduce a cool new location and a pile of prehistoric creatures. The Dinobots get some decent comedy…
4
Our Take The second half of the Dinobot Island story is mostly a lot of standing around and shooting, with the time-travel gimmick from part one pushed aside for a…
5
Our Take A rare episode that puts Mirage front and center, and it mostly works because the suspicion angle gives the Autobots something to argue about besides shooting Decepticons. The…
6
Our Take A fun if disposable romp where the Decepticons hijack a human-built ninja robot and set it loose on the Autobots. Nightbird herself is a cool design and the…
7
Our Take A middling entry built around one joke: Gears stops being cranky, and everyone finds it unsettling. The solar needle plot is thin even by this show's standards, and…
8
Our Take This one's a classic example of G1 not thinking things through: Megatron builds a fake Optimus Prime, then wastes the advantage on a silly contest instead of just…
9
Our Take A goofy romp that leans hard into the show's cheaper impulses, with fish-men invading Washington and not much logic holding any of it together. The action moves fast…
10
Our Take A decent Megatron scheme episode where the Autobots get turned against humanity, which at least gives Optimus a reason to fight his own team for a change. The…
11
Our Take This one's a fun high-concept hour where the Autobots shrink down and take a trip inside Megatron, and it leans hard into the absurdity, including a genuinely funny…
12
Our Take A middling episode that leans on the old "villains trick the good guys" setup, with Grapple's ego doing most of the heavy lifting. The Constructicons' con is fun…
13
Our Take A pretty standard monster-of-the-week outing where the Insecticons eat everything in sight and get too big for the Decepticons to handle. The endless eating scenes get repetitive fast,…
14
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
15
Our Take Megatron finally finds a scheme with some teeth: frame the Autobots as villains and get the humans to boot them off Earth. It's a fun setup, though the…
16
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
17
Our Take A surprisingly character-driven hour that gives Red Alert his moment in the spotlight, and his paranoia storyline mostly works thanks to some genuinely uneasy moments. The plot logic…
18
Our Take A goofy mid-season romp where the Constructicons dismantle New York and Optimus gets turned into a crocodile-shaped war machine, which is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. The…
19
Our Take This one splits the Dinobots off into their own story and it's a decent hook, even if the animation is as sloppy as the era gets. The idea…
20
Our Take The second half wraps things up in a hurry, with the Dinobots' loyalty crisis resolved more through a quick speech than any real drama. The Cybertron sequences have…
21
Our Take A middling filler episode that leans hard on Blaster's personality to carry a pretty thin story. The music gimmick is fun for about five minutes before it wears…
22
Our Take A goofy time-travel lark that sends a handful of Decepticons back to Camelot, this one leans hard into slapstick and medieval cliches. The animation is as sloppy as…
23
Our Take The premise here is genuinely bold for a kids' show in 1985, with the Decepticons exploiting a religious belief system and the episode not shying away from the…
24
Summary Megatron plans to drill his way to Earth’s core in hopes of getting large amounts of energy. The Autobots try to stop him and initiate their new plan to…
25
SummaryAfter someone steals him, Tracks is briefly unable to transform or talk. This isn't so bad, however, as it leads to the discovery that Decepticons are planning to turn stolen…
26
Summary Most of the Autobots lose their ability transform to robot mode after the Decepticons use a device on them. A handful of Autobots still capable of transforming are their…
27
SummaryA lagoon within a forest is discovered and found to contain a substance called electrum, which can make anyone invincible. The bad news is that the Decepticons manage to use…
28
Summary On the way to Earth with a type of insecticide to use against the Insecticons, Spike, Bumblebee and Cosmos encounter Morphobots. They get away just fine, but they inadvertently…
29
Summary Omega Supreme reveals his past to Optimus Prime, which involves a city’s destruction, Megatron and the Constructicons. Our Take A surprisingly heavy hour for a toy commercial, giving Omega…
30
SummaryThe space bridge accidentally sends several Autobots and Decepticons to a strange world in which they are no bigger than toys.Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the…
31
Summary With the others rendered powerless, Smokescreen has to enter the gambling world to get the Energon needed to revive them. Our Take A goofy detour that mostly works because…
32
Summary Elita-1, leader of a group of female Autobots causing trouble for the Decepticons, is captured and used as bait to lure Optimus Prime into a deadly trap. However, Elita-1’s…
33
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
34
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
35
Our Take A strange little filler episode that pairs Powerglide with a bubbly heiress who can't stop crushing on him. The comedy mostly lands thanks to Powerglide's gruff exasperation, and…
36
Our Take A middling mid-season entry where the Decepticon triple changers scheme against each other and everyone gets captured and recaptured so many times it stops mattering. There are a…
37
Our Take Sea Change" is a weird one, half romance and half PSA about ocean pollution, with the Autobots helping a water-loving alien woman and her undersea world. Seaspray actually…
38
Our Take Hoist Goes Hollywood is a silly one, leaning hard into Hollywood parody with a movie-shoot backdrop and the Stunticons causing trouble on set. The celebrity impersonation gags get…
39
Our Take Part one of the Stunticon origin story mostly exists to set up part two, and it shows. The Combaticon-free middle stretch drags while Megatron tours Cybertron, but the…
40
Our Take The second half of this two-parter mostly exists to introduce the Aerialbots and Stunticons, and it does that job fine while spending too long on scenes of characters…
41
Our Take A middling outing that mostly exists to give the Aerialbots something to do. The Middle East setting is thin and the human characters are forgettable, but the Superion…
42
Our Take A goofy disguise episode where the Autobots pose as stolen cars and Megatron counters with fake Stunticons, and honestly the silliness mostly works in its favor. The pacing…
43
Our Take A goofy race episode where the plot is mostly an excuse for car chases across European backdrops. The Stunticons get some fun moments and the highlight is watching…
44
Our Take A surprisingly serious episode for a toy commercial, digging into how Optimus Prime and Megatron became enemies through a time-travel framing device. The origin story stuff genuinely lands,…
45
Our Take A solid midseason entry that leans on a decent sci-fi premise, an alien plague that eats metal, and actually gives Perceptor something to do. The pacing holds up…
46
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
47
Our Take A rare Starscream spotlight that actually gives him something to do besides fail at coups. The Combaticons make a fun debut, and the combiner brawl at the end…
48
Our TakeMiddle of the road. Watchable, but you'll forget the details by next episode.
49
Our Take Widely considered the worst thing this show ever aired, and honestly it earns the title. The animation is a mess, the plot about a junkyard robot with Brawl's…