Shows You Should Be Watching
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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 Supreme an actual backstory with some real weight to it.…
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 take Morphobots along for the ride. Our Take A middling…
Summary A 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 it on themselves first. Our Take Middle of the…
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 only hope. Our Take A pretty disposable filler hour, built…
Summary After 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 cars into weapons. Our Take Middle of the road.…
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 take control over Devastator. When both sides battle for controlling…
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 ugliness of that. The animation is rough even by G1…
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 the science, and the human characters are barely sketches. Still,…
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 out its welcome, and the animation hits the usual season…
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 some nice visual variety, and it’s fun watching Grimlock fumble…