TF CYBERVERSE CHAPTER 1: EP. 12. "TELETRAAN-X" DISCUSSION (SPOILERS)

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What did you think of the episode?

  1. 1/5 - Scrap

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  2. 2/5 - Poor

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  3. 3/5 - Fine

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  4. 4/5 - Good

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  5. 5/5 - Prime!

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    Full episodes and TV Listings- Zap2it.com

    14 - Siloed - "The Seekers attempt to extract the location of the Ark from Windblade's memories." (She's alive but captured)

    15 - King of the Dinosaurs - "Windblade and Bumblebee uncover a buried Autobot who turns out to be an old friend." (Either she was rescued and continues her mission with Bee or the seekers made a clone of her for Bumblebee to 'rescue')


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    Doesn't really indicate if they're okay but I really hope the seekers are! I hope they get to shine too instead of having to chase all the time xd
     
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    So we finally see a human. And then we see them hiding in vehicle mode by an Air port only for Windblade to transform to robot mode right as presumably an Earth jet takes off right behind her. Which means everyone on that plane just saw her transform to robot mode. I can't decide if they're horrible at actually hiding on Earth or if the animators are just expecting us to believe that if we can't see humans on screen that means no one is around to see them transform. Or both. Either way I'm not for a second going to believe that someone didn't see them.

    Considering Teletraan-X will only obey crew members of the Ark how did the Seekers even get it to activate a homing beacon for their trap to work? I could understand it if they reprogrammed the drone to act as a trap but other than that one moment of "I am a trap" it showed no other signs of ever being tampered with. The fact that it refused to answer Bumblebee's question because "I am a trap" is inconsistent with it's behavior for the entire rest of the episode.

    The episode ends with Bumblebee driving away with the drone while Windblade is trapped with the Decepticons... WTF? There's no To be continued, this isn't a part 1 of X, this seems to just be a stand alone episode yet it ends on a cliffhanger?

    This is the first episode in which the entire story takes place in the present. No trips down memory lane into Bumblebee's past... That didn't really happen in the last episode either but we did get a fake memory from the past even though that didn't really happen I'm not counting that as being entirely in the present since we still spent time inside Bumblebee's head.

    There was a lot of potential in this episode. They could of done some good things here. However with the inconsistent contradictory writing and lack of a story conclusion to the episode this is pretty bad... Also "Not Crew" got annoying quick... We get it, you don't need to keep saying it... also since Bumblebee is crew and Windblade is a fellow Autobot couldn't Bumblebee just grant her access anyway? It's not like she's a Decepticon, she just wasn't on board the Ark.

    I almost wish there was a 0/5 option in the poll. This is by far the worst episode. I think the only thing I actually liked was that Billboard at the start of the episode.
     
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    Teletraan X kinda reminded me of Fixit... without the glitching.


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    1. It could be that one of the cons can do vocal impersonations. Or it was off when they found it then rewired it to allow them to access the homing beacon. Or they may have had some form of data (vocal, visual, something else) that let Teletraan X believe it was dealing with the Autobots. It could have then over road it's programming once the trap was sprung.

    2. I get the feeling that because these are so short some place may air them back to back so maybe that's why the no TBC at the end.

    Maybe I'm weird but I'm okay with not every episode having a memory of Bee being the driving force. It allows for other options of story telling and gives us present day situations to ponder over. Also as to the whole thing with Windblade, Bee may not have access to add her on, that may have been someone else that did that. So he can't alter the manifest to make it see her as crew.
     
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    1. They said they needed Bumblebee to access the drone. If any of those other options you mentioned were at all possible they would not have needed Bumblebee.

    2. It just said that it needed someone from the Ark to access it. There's nothing about the crew having different clearance levels. So Bumblebee should be able to give clearance to Windblade.

    Also it's not really a bad thing that there's no memory in this episode. It's kinda understandable why since they had been using the psychic patch which they no longer have access to. I wander if Teletaan-X was introduced as an alternate means to access events in the past without that in future episodes. Like maybe the drone will project events that took place on board the Ark instead of seeing everything from Bumblebee's perspective we could potentially have access to any part of the Ark.
     
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    Not only that,but there are likely to be cameras there too.Also how did Windblade not consider that the signal could be a trap in first place?I guessed that is was right away.
     
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    I'm pretty sure they did because it's always a consideration in cases like this but being the heroes they have to check it out anyway in case there is actually an Autobot in trouble.

    You'd think with how often this happens that they'd come up with a better way of sending out distress calls that can't be hijacked or duplicated by Decepticons trying to set a trap.
     
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    They aren't really heroes xd
     
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    Motivational speeches are not Windy's strong suit.

    We have one annoying character, do we really need this smug little shit that calls itself teletraan too? He reminds me of Scrapper from Skyward Sword. X(

    This episode wasn't that great.
     
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