I can’t remember the name for the life of me but I think I saw on TFwiki once. It was an unproduced Season 3 episode where the Quintessons make some sort of cosmic art piece that deeply moves both factions and they start fighting over it. One part would have had Spike showing the Autobots gfamous Human works of art. Anybody know anything about this or am I just crazy?
Are you talking about unmade G1 Movie, "The Secrets of Cybertron" that featuring concepts that are later used in FFOD and G1 comics later on.
Considering Season 3 episodes like "Carnage in C-Minor" and "The Big Broadcast of 2006" exist, that idea certainly sounds stupid enough to have been a real scrapped episode. Do you have a source for where you heard about this. Otherwise, we'll have no way of knowing if it was a real idea or not.
Like I said, I think I might have seen it on TFwiki, but then again I can’t seem to remember where I first saw it. Two more details I remember about the script though where that Galvatron would destroy the cosmic art thingy and the last sense would have had Bumblebee revealing he made a pocket sized version of the cosmic art thing.
Honestly, I feel this might have been a better story than Fight or Flee. Fight or Flee did have some good development for Sandstorm, but it really had an abysmal characterization of Rodimus. In this scrapped script, Rodimus feels a bit more in-character.
Well, Rodimus did get good characterization in Burden Hardest to Bear and Dark Awakening, so the G1 cartoon could have some good development now and then.
I think that's a pretty good plotline although the original concept of the Quintessons needing to manufacture a reason to get the Cons and Bots to fight doesn't work. "They may have gotten the chip, but we got the inspiration." --is damned good.
I remember there were a few from Beast Wars. "Dark Glass" is probably the most famous one, and the episode would entail Rattrap trying to bring Dinobot back to life by transferring the original Dinobot's memories into Dinobot II. Hasbro canned the episode because it was too dark and there wasn't enough action. "A Greater Ape" was a season 1 episode that would've seen Optimus losing his memories after getting bonked on the head. He joined a group of actual gorillas and even got himself a gorilla girlfriend. At the end of the episode, the Predacons attack and Optimus regains his memories, and the status quo is restored. The reason this episode didn't happen is because it would've required Mainframe to create too many new models. The last one I can remember was jokingly called "Bitch Wars" and would've seen Airazor and Blackarachnia leave their factions and start a third faction. The reason this episode was canned was because it didn't make any sense in the context of the story.
While not exactly cancelled episodes, there are some unused ideas mentioned in the G1 production bible, like the Decepticons kidnapping US president or stealing an extremely deadly bioweapon.
Well Greg Weisman was 23 and trying to break in to TV writing at this point, so I can see how a simplistic story like this would come about. He would make his actual debut a year later on the Jem episode Video Wars, which had a rather depressing ending. Mind you, looking at the date, this would have been around the same time they would have got the premise for Dark Awakening. So which do you go with, Quintesson music box or zombified Optimus Prime? No contest.
I heard one episode that was planed would have had the Autobots launching an attack on the Decepticon base.
Still crazy to me Greg Weisman has been working since the 80's starting at a young age. It's cool he did eventually go on to write a few episodes in the Transformers franchise overall but Honestly I wish they'd let him show run an entire series or have him as a head writer or something, maybe when Young Justice gets cancelled the next time.... also that art episode idea sounds so ludicrous, i kinda like it for it's absolute absurdity, that and most modern art is trash.