Transformers G1 – Episode 6


We come in with Voice Over guy being all dramatic about weapons being bad, while showing a factory.  Inside said factory, there is a poster with Megatron on it, the word “Decepticons” and a yellow bumper sticker on it that says “The Enemy”.  Thanks, that needed clearing up.

Decepticons attack the factory.  Humans have laser guns.  Chip is there.  Convenient.

Optimus drives through the giant hole the Decepticons made in the factory, also crashing through the Energon cubes.  Generally Energon is sensetive and the cubes are prone to leaking, or whatever.  They should have exploded.

Skywarp fires a heat seaking missle at optimus.  He dodges, and it goes back at him.  Transformers generate heat.

Optimus takes a big blast from something in the factory exploding.  He asks Wheeljack to fix him.  Is Ratchet on vacation?

Laser core?  Megatron referenced that twice about Optimus’ life force.  I think later they refer to it as their Spark.

Laserbeak sneaks in, and shoots lasers at Optimus to finish him off.  Optimus gets all sparky, and then explodes!  Seriously, it looked like lava was coming out of his chest. (And then a Commercial, how convenient)  Optimus is still hurt.  They need to replace his cosmotron.  Wheeljack has one… On Cyberton that is.

Spacebridge opens up in 72 billion astro seconds.  Which from the previous episode means 72 seconds.  Let’s see how that plays out.  I don’t know, it seems like they erected the ‘road’ thing a little quickly.  Maybe it’s 72 minutes.

Ironhide shot like an ice laser, and it froze starscream.  They use the spacebridge, and show up on Cybertron.  Chip is with them.  We have to assume that Cybertron has oxygen on the planet, even though I highly doubt Transformers even breath, as half of them don’t have mouths, and I’ve seen them fight in outerspace.

Hahaha, so they’re trying to escape from Shockwave, and on the wall, there just happens to be a backpack filled with liquid nitrogen and a hose on it.  Ironhide fires it at the wall, and it explodes!  A) Ironhide had an ice beam 10 seconds before, and B) liquid nitrogen doesn’t explode.

Ironhide then fires some sticky goop on the floor and Shockwave and another robot get stuck to the floor.

Chip is officially outside of a car.  There is definitely oxygen on cyberton.

Acid rain is a huge problem on Cybertron.  It’s really hurting the autobots.  Chip seems fine with it though.  If there’s acid rain, there has to be a whole ecosystem, lakes, wind patterns, evaporation, which implies a sun or energy source in their solar system, all kinds of things.  Impressive.

I wikipedia’d Cybertron because I thought it was, in itself, a robot too, but I was wrong.  I’m thinking of Unicron, who becomes one of their moons later on.  However, I did learn that the transformers were built by a different species, and the workers became the autobots, and the soldiers became the decepticons, and then civil war broke out.

Back to the show.

Autobots get the Cosmotron for Optimus, and start heading back.   Megatron is already on his way to attack.  Big battle scene.

Optimus is fixed!  Dun DUUUUN dun dun dun duuuun

Classic warriors honor BS.  Optimus challenges Megatron to a battle, and they have to fight alone because it was a challenge.

The fight itself was kind of lame, not as cool as their previous one with the axe and mace.

End.

  1. #1 by Justin on July 23rd, 2009

    The Quintessons populating Cybertron is only in the cartoon. In the other animated series and the comics, Cybertron is the body of Primus after he sacrificed his robot form to defeat Unicron and create life (Transformers).

    Are you planning to watch the movie during this marathon?

  2. #2 by Tickthokk on July 23rd, 2009

    Yeah, the movie affects the cartoon, so yeah, I’m going to watch it. It doesn’t happen mid-season or anything does it? It’s after the 2nd or 3rd season?

    I’ll have to tackle this bridge later, but I’m thinking about if I want that to be one big post, or several posts.

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