yup this episode is out there but I like it!

 

Well at least we get to learn something new: The Autobots enjoy watching soap operas.

Besides that little tantalizing fact and Optimus booby remark the episode is kind of meh to me.

 

A 1?

You have no appreciation for just pure, ludicrous insanity, do you?

This easily rates higher to me just because it is unabashedly nonsensical.

I am with Optimus Sledge, too. LORD CHUMLEY FOR TF3!

- Coeloptera

 

I honestly had no idea how to rate "Prime Target". I mean I'm all for random goofiness, but this episode just kept GOING and GOING until I had no idea whether I loved it or hated it! So I just sort of chickened out and gave it a 1. Maybe I should have given it an appropriately nonsensical score, like the square root of -1.

 

Auto-Bop

Plot Summary: We begin with everyone's favorite juvenile delinquent Raoul, as he and he two friends Poplock and Rocksteady try and earn some money breakdancing right outside of Dancitron, the newest, hippest club around. The owners of the club do not take kindly to them dancing on their turf, and decides the only logical thing to do is send an angry mob after them. Raoul and his companions grab their boombox and flee, but are brought to a halt when some weird elevator thing pops out of the sidewalk. Thankfully for them Tracks and Blaster were in the neighborhood, and scare off the mob, although Tracks seems puzzled by the fact that one of the thugs was wearing a buisness suit.

Tracks has a hunch that something fishy is going down at Dancitron, and they all head over to check it out. They discover nothing too unusual (if you can consider 80's fashions not too unusual), except for a garbageman, a housewife, and a buisnessman that are also dancing. Little does he know that he is being watched by the club's proprietors; STARSCEAM AND SOUNDWAVE!!!

OH NOES!!!

Meanwhile Raoul and his buddies are riding an elevated train back to wherever they live when all of the sudden the train conductor goes nuts and starts beating the control console with a crowbar! The train starts hurtling out of control, but is saved by Tracks and Blaster, who just so happened to be in the neighborhood (again). Tracks still suspects something fishy is going on at Dancitron and heads back to the club, while he orders the others to see what Teletraan 1 can make of the situation. He and Raoul come across a construction site where a couple of workers are building a building. At one in the morning. Tracks wonders what the hell is going on when all of the sudden the construction workers attack! Tracks and Raoul manage to escape though.

Meanwhile Poplock and Rocksteady are offered free tickets to Dancitron and head back to the club to boogie. It only takes a few minutes for them to become hypnotized by the music, as well as the rest of the club! Tracks and Raoul arrive at Dancitron where Poplock and Rocksteady escorts Tracks to the owner's booth, only to find Starscream waiting behind the door! Tracks tries to make a break for it but Soundwave orders the club's patrons to capture Tracks and chain him to the sound system.

Raoul and Blaster try to rescue Tracks (Raoul having plugged his ears first), but as soon as Raoul tries to unchain Tracks the dancers all mob him and try to force him to listen to the music. He manages to break free and dunks his head in a bucket of water to clear his mind, only to discover that being exposed to water breaks the hypnosis! He quickly douses Poplock and Rocksteady and turns on the sprinkler system, freeing all the dancers. As the patrons run from the club they free Tracks, and chase Starscream as he flees the club.

Back inside the club Soundwave and Blaster have a sonic duel that is regrettably not as awesome as it could be, and Blaster wins when he hooks up the club's sound system to his own. Back outside Tracks somehow causes a thunderstorm to form thus drenching the entire city and breaking the hypnosis on everyone else. Tracks manages to blast Starscream in midair, damaging his wing. With their club destroyed and their plans in disarray, the Decepticons retreat. Tracks and Blaster get to work destroying the building the Decepticons were building (what they were building it for is never mentioned), and they all head back to base.

Back at Autobot HQ Tracks thanks the three kids for saving his life and asks if there is anything they can do to repay them. Turns out there is, and the three breakdancers make Blaster be their new boombox until they get enough money to buy a new one.

Comments:

-Did everyone dress like that back in the 80's? I mean the fashsions are so damn weird that even the people in the club assume that the Autobots are just people dressed in robot costumes!

-Seriously, what was with that elevator that just popped out of the sidewalk?

-Quick poll; Would Raoul be a Shark or a Jet?

-Sonic Detectors? Aren't those just...ears?

-Wow, Tracks is literally getting ripped to death by dance music.

Score: The 80's was one of those time periods that I have always been interested in, since I was born right as it ended (1990) but have always heard people talking about it. So things that try and sum up 80's culture have always been appealeing to me. That being said, this episode is so 80's it HURTS. Granted it had very few action scenes and the ones it did have were pretty lame, but the nostalgia injection makes up for it. 7/10.

 

80's fashion and hair were indeed that strange, and its a great episode. I do agree i wish the Soundwave Vs Blaster duel was more epic with tape minions getting in on it

 

Well shit. My laptop cord decided at some point to get a big frayed spot in it that ended up geysering sparks all over the carpet (thankfully not setting it on fire) before dying completely. I ordered a replacement cord (at the tune of NINETY STINKING DOLLARS) but it's not going to show up until at least Monday.

So yeah, no reviews until at least Monday  

 

It was the Decepticons ! They hated your reviews and sent Kremzeek to sabotage you!

 

Prime Target gets a 1 and Kremzeek got a 6, then a 3. Still Judged

And now I feel old.

 

Raoul would obviously be a Shark.

The Sharks are first-gen Puerto Rican immigrants. The Jets are white. That conflict is, indeed, part of the crux of the musical.


And there he is.

And you've never seen elevators that...oh...depends where you're from. I was born in NYC.


I guess those just don't seem odd to me.

But how could you leave out one of the best Soundwave quotes!?

"All talk...no shock."

- Coeloptera

 

Or Soundwave's creeeeepy laugh.

 

Huh, I have never seen anything like those elevators before. Then again I was born and raised in the suburbs of Cleveland Ohio and only RARELY went downtown.

But good news! My laptop cord arrived today so I should have a review up later this afternoon!

 

The Search for Alpha Trion

Plot Summary: We begin on Cybertron, where we meet Chromia, Moonracer and Firestar, three female Autobots still fighting the good fight on the home front. They sneak into Shockwave's lab to steal some Energon Cubes, but trip an alarm on their way out, alerting Shockwave to their presence. Shockwave manages to pinpoint the location of the Female Autobot's HQ and contacts Megatron for reinforcements.

The Female Autobots return to their headquarters and meet their leader, Elita-One, who decides to consult with the old mystic Autobot Alpha Trion. Alpha Trion reccomends that she scout out the surrounding area, but warns her not to use her "Special Power". She heads outside to find Astrotrain, Starscream, Ramjet and Rumble. Starscream orders Rumble to destroy the Female Autobot's HQ by generating an Earthquake, but Elita-One tries to stop him. She is captured though and Female Autobot HQ is obliterated.

Back on Earth Megatron contacts Optimus Prime to gloat about having captured Elita-One. Optimus Prime rushes off to the Decepticon Space Bridge to rescue her. We then flash back to four million years ago, right as the Autobots were leaving Cybertron. Apparently Elita-One and her band of Female Autobots (I kind of want to call them Amazonobots) wanted to go with Optimus and his crew, but Optimus pulled out the old "it's too dangerous" line. Back in the present day we find that Ironhide, Inferno and Powerglide are all curious as to Prime's whereabouts and decide to follow him to Cybertron.

Optimus Prime arrives on Cybertron only to find Starscream waiting for him! Starscream captures Optimus and tries to kill him by dropping him into a pit of acid. As Optimus Prime falls though Elita-One activates her special power, freezing time and allowing her to yank Optimus out of harm's way. Unfortunately using the special power drained all of her energy. Optimus loads Elita-One into his trailer and sets off to look for Alpha Trion, who he believes can save her.

Back at Shockwave's lab Ironhide, Inferno and Powerglide crash through the wall and take on the Decepticons. At the same time the Female Autobots manage to blow their way out of their ruined HQ and meet up with the Autobots, and a massive battle begins. Optimus meanwhile finally locates Alpha Trion, who tells Optimus to couple his power circuits to hers (kinky). Optimus remarks that only his creator should know that (hmmmmm...) but the transfusion seems to work, as Elita-One springs back to life. The two head back to where the battle is being fought just in time to drive off the Decepticons. The two groups of Autobots bid each other farewell as Elita-One muses how Alpha Trion is just like a father to her (hmmmm....)

Comments:

-So...there's girl robots now...Huh...So what is the generally accepted explanation among the fandom as to where baby transformers come from?

-I love how Megatron appears RIGHT AWAY when Shockwave calls him. Does Megatron just stand in front of his screen of omniscience all day and wait for someone to call?

-Did anyone else think "Death by Snoo Snoo" when they saw the colony of Female Autobots?

-Theres a shot about halfway through the episode where Optimus Prime is being dangled over a vat of acid. Thing is, they FORGOT TO DRAW THE VAT OF ACID. So it looks like he's been sentenced to death by floor.

Score: I always loved how for a series ostensibly created to sell toys, Transformers has a very deep mythology, and I love seeing it explored. Though I can't shake the feeling that this episode was just setup for future plot twists. I mean the titular Alpha Trion must have been in the episode for less than three minutes! Still an interesting addition to the mythos. 7/10.

 

You bring shells to Vector Sigma and give them sociopathic or damaged personalities or you build ludicrously powerful imbeciles on Earth.

- Coeloptera

 

at this point in time, i think it's worth watching shockwave's burden:

YouTube - Shockwave's Burden

 

  that some epic lulz

 

You mean: "When expecting booby traps... always send a boob in first."?

 

Yep, that one.  

 

I'm a bit late to the party, as I just discovered this thread a few minutes ago, but I must say I am most saddened to see a rating of *1* out of 10 for one of THE greatest moments of Transformers history. Lord Chumley is most displeased with your lack of vision.

 

The Girl Who Loved Powerglide

Plot Summary: We begin on the roof of Hybrid Technologies, where resident whiny spoiled bitch and CEO Astoria Carlton-Ritz is having a birthday party, and whining nonstop about how people aren't having a good time. Thankfully Ramjet, Dirge, and Thrust arrive to attack the party and shut her the hell up. Powerglide also happens to be in the neighborhood though, and rescues Astoria by dangling a rope for her to grab onto as he flies by (that must take one hell of a grip to hang onto). Powerglide manages to outrun the coneheads and lands under an overpass, where Astoria begins whining up a storm again.

They manage to make their way back to Sparkplug's workshop, where Astoria reveals her super power! Through the sheer amount of raw suck she emits, she can cause any machine she is near to break! Optimus meanwhile believes that the Decepticons want something from her, and orders Powerglide to escort her to Autobot HQ. The two set off as Astoria keeps whining about how hungry she is.

Astoria manages to convince Powerglide to land at a nearby carnival where the two ride around on the merry go round for a while (wait, what?). The Decepticons swoop down once again to put an end to her whining, but Powerglide and Astoria manage to escape. The Coneheads are hot on his tail though, and Ramjet manages to damage his wing, forcing Powerglide to make a crash landing. The Coneheads bury Powerglide under a pile of rocks and carry Astoria off (unfortunately, they do not also carry her out of the episode.) Powerglide attempts to fly off and rescue his girlfriend, but is too injured to fly, and is hauled back to Autobot HQ by Ratchet.

Back at Autobot HQ Teletraan 1 has detected a mysterious atmospheric disturbance above the Atlantic Ocean, which Optimus Prime deduces is a Decepticon suborbital platform. Powerglide assumes Astoria must be there and rushes off to save her.

Meanwhile the Decepticons are trying to extract the "energy formula" from Astoria's mind, but Astoria keeps managing to screw up all of the Decepticon's torture devices, eventually causing Megatron to blow up the devices in rage. Hook contacts Megatron though and alerts him that Powerglide is approaching. The Decepticons rush out to meet him, leaving Astoria completely unattended. Astoria runs outside and deduces that throwing something metal into the energy disruptor field should short circuit it. She rips off her necklace (which also happens to contain the energy formula) and chucks it into the field, causing the entire suborbital platform to start plummeting out of the sky!

The Decepticons retreat as Powerglide arrives at the platform. Powerglide attempts to repair the platform but Astoria is still keeping the machinery from working. So Powerglide starts beating her up.

No really, Powerglide starts beating the everloving crap out of Astoria.

After that little bit of misogyny, Powerglide manages to fix the platform, causing it to plunge into the ocean (wasn't it doing that anyway?) and the two lovers escape. The Decepticons meanwhile are gloating over their escape down in Decepticon HQ, only to discover the platform is falling right for their headquarters! Megatron tries to sound as imposing as possible as he orders his crew to clean up the base.

Back in the city Powerglide asks Astoria if he can look up Astoria the next time he's in the area. Astoria giggles with glee and agrees, before she scurries off to her limo. The other Autobots have a good laugh at Powerglide's sillyness as Powerglide walks off...only to open his chestplate to reveal a beating LED heart...

Wait, what?

Comments:

-Wow, 30 seconds into the episode and I ALREADY hate Astoria.

-Yeah, because if you find yourself in a plane with no pilot going into the cockpit and randomly mashing buttons will OBVIOUSLY fix things.

-I love how the vending machine Powerglide shoots just starts randomly spewing out a massive torrent of soda.

-Soundwave concludes that Astoria’s mind is completely empty. Well that certainly explains things.

-WAIT, wait, wait. So Astoria looks up at the energy disruptor or whatever the hell it’s called and concludes that something metal should short circuit it. She looks around the GIANT METAL FLYING CITY she is standing on, and DOESEN’T SEE ANYTHING MADE OF METAL. *headdesk*

-Um, care to explain WTF was up with that final shot of Powerglide’s LED “heart”? No? Okay then…

Score: Even if this episode didn't have to shoehorn in the whole detestable interspecies romance bit, it would still be incredibly stupid and horribly written. WITH the romance subplot however, it goes from "Terrible" to "Makes me want to stab a kitten in the face". Add to that the massive gaping holes in logic and Astoria's constant whining, and you have what is easily my most hated episode yet. 0/10.