Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
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 animation stays decent and the new villain designs land well.…
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 a few laughs, but the story is thin even by…
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 gets a spotlight for once, which is nice, but the…
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 few genuinely funny bits of villain incompetence, but the animation…
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 there’s an odd sweetness underneath all the goofiness, even if…
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.
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 strange time manipulation technique saves him, but leaves her close…
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 Smokescreen is fun to watch hustling aliens at rigged casino…
Summary The space bridge accidentally sends several Autobots and Decepticons to a strange world in which they are no bigger than toys. Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.