Tulip Sniper

Jenny and I are watching the 90’s X-Men cartoon here and there as well because she bought the DVD’s.  Their “recap” is like ten minutes long and it covers everything.  I’d just like to point out again how much I love the fast paced-ness of all the 80 cartoons.

On with the show!

I’m not sure if Roller is an actual Autobot.  Anyway, Prime rolled down a hill, and is now in pain and having trouble transforming.  He sounded like he was having an orgasm.

Sparkplug: “Wheeljack wasn’t kidding when he said the bomb would blow in 60 seconds.”
Wheeljack: “59.99 to be exact”
This isn’t K-Mart.  Keep the explosion timers on even numbers.  Wow.

More on flying: Decepticons are faster than autobots in the air [Source: Optimus].

A decepticon teleported behind Ironhide and Bluestreak.  The beginnings of the space bridge technology seen in TF:Animated and TF2?  Or maybe just his ability.

Optimus just called Ironhide “Hotshot”.  Y’know, like in sarcastic terms “Thanks captain obvious”, etc.  He needs to be careful though because with all the names, Hotshot could definitely be a real Transformer name.

Spike on a cliff again writing in his journal.

They pull the ‘ol “Reveal a fake plan in front of the enemy” tactic, and leave the key behind ‘On accident’.  Apparently Ravage has opposable thumbs, because he was able to turn the key.  Also, you would think futuristic robots would have a better holding cell than just some iron bars 100 yards from their ship.  Y’know, maybe something cozy INSIDE their ship?  Idiots.

Also, I keep calling them futuristic, but it makes me kind of cringe because I realize that they’re 400 million+ years old.  When I say Futuristic, I mean “More advanced than humans”.

I might just record all the Starcream put downs.
SS: “Right on schedule, aren’t we!” (After the good news about fake energy that the Autobots made Ravage listen to)
MT: “No thanks to you!”

Megatron makes it clear that he knows Starscream is after his position as leader of the Decepticons.  Starscream says that “It’s time for change”.  Barack Obama may infact be Starscream in disguise.  That would probably make McCain Unicron.

Wow, Megatron knew that they let Ravage escape.  Smart man.

Car pun: Optimus said “Go ahead Megatron, you’re in the driver’s seat.”

Decepticons are attacking Cape Carlson Air Force Base.  I’m going to wikipedia to see if it’s a real base.  Nope, fake.  Whatever, it’s in the middle of the mountains anyway.

One of the guards sounded like he was voiced by Casey Casum.  Could be wrong.

Soundwave says the course for Cybertron has been plotted.  I thought they didn’t even know where they were?

Slow mo transforming.  Bumblebee was a little F’d up.  Had a black helmet, then a second later had his normal yellow.

… Starscream points his gun at something.  Spike throws a rock (I dunno, smaller than a basketball).  Apparently throwing it at a billion miles an hour, knocking his gun off his arm.

Optimus takes Sideswipe’s rocketpack.  Catches up with the ship.  Gets shot down.

The physics of a any ship leaving orbit has to have a large amount of force below it.  They were basically already out of the atmosphere when Optimus caught up with them.   He couldn’t have gotten anywhere NEAR the ship with a stupid rocketpack.  Also, he gets shot down, again, almost out of the atmoshere, possibly out of, falls ALL the way down, and he’s fine.  But an explosion forces him to roll down a hill?  Oh, get the medic!

Starscream’s attempt #2, in the same episode, to take out Megatron.

Soundwave seems to be doing all the work.  He should be the leader.  ”Soundwave, do this” “Soundwave, do that”.  Megatron is a broken record.  Do something yourself.

Mirage jumps from the ship, and guess what, he has a parachute!  Flying: Zero, Parachute: One.

Spike and his journal, again.  ALL the governments AGREE to give the autobots all the energy they need to get back to cybertron?  Wow.  As a kid, I wouldn’t have thought about that ever again.  As an adult, and with the relatively little knowledge I have of the inner workings of the world’s political systems, I have a hard time with this.  Robots from a robot planet are more believeable as a whole, than that one statement.

Episode 3: Fin