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Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.

Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.

Our Take A rare season 3 episode with an actual sense of menace, as the Quintessons’ buried creations turn out to be genuinely unsettling rather than just another robot of the week. The underground setting gives it a moodier feel…

Our Take A weirdly ambitious hour that sends Starscream’s ghost to Unicron’s floating head in search of a new body, and it mostly gets away with it. The premise is more fun than the execution, with some stiff animation and…

Our Take A surprisingly dark hour that treats Galvatron’s madness as an actual plot point instead of a running gag. The therapy planet concept is genuinely weird and the animation gets to show off some unsettling hallucination sequences, though the…

Our Take A solid mid-season entry that leans on an interesting idea, a refugee Autobot whose pacifist planet gets targeted by the Decepticons, without fully exploring it. The action moves along fine and Sandstorm makes a decent impression, but the…

Our Take This one is a mess even by season three standards, with animation errors so constant that characters swap colors and models mid-scene, and the sound-based plot never makes much sense. It’s famous for all the wrong reasons. Skip…

Our Take A weird detour into sword-and-sorcery territory that mostly works because it commits to the bit. Daniel and Grimlock stumbling through a fantasy world is silly, but Grimlock’s deadpan loyalty steals every scene he’s in. The plot logic falls…

Our Take A middling entry that leans way too hard on Daniel and Wheelie, the two characters most likely to test a viewer’s patience. The misunderstanding plot with Ultra Magnus has a few decent moments, and the Decepticon subplot keeps…

Our Take A time-warp episode that leans into the show’s Quintesson backstory, and honestly it holds together better than most season 3 outings. The animation gets wobbly during the action scenes and some dialogue is pure filler, but the glimpses…