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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 brain is dumb even by season two standards, and the…

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

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 delivers the goods. The middle sags with reused animation quirks…

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

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 better than most season two filler, though the cure arrives…

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, and Orion Pax’s transformation into Optimus carries real weight. The…

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 Motormaster bully traffic, but the villain scheme is thin and…

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 keeps things moving and the double-fakeout ending is more clever…

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 versus Bruticus brawl near the end delivers some decent spectacle.…

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 flying somewhere. Megatron’s plan is thin even by this show’s…