"Cop-Tur! Activate the Stealth Device!""Doom must flee!"
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"Cop-Tur! Activate the Stealth Device!""Doom must flee!"
Speaking of space ubers, I know Omega socked Astrotrain that one time, I believe, but have Sky Lynx and Astrotrain ever tussled?Ironically, it's in being a space Uber that he isn't so easily replaced by any other Decepticon.
One time, and very briefly, in "The Big Broadcast of 2006".Speaking of space ubers, I know Omega socked Astrotrain that one time, I believe, but have Sky Lynx and Astrotrain ever tussled?
I don't kink shame. This is a safe space.But the Autobots then offering to let him sit on them is just... Ooookay.
I am glad you got to experience this episode. While super cheesy (like a lot of G1) when I was a 13 year old watching this for the first time, I just absolutely loved it. I always liked the Triple Changers, which were a new concept at the time, and to have an episode that highlighted them in this way was just perfect for me.Apropos of nothing, YouTube recommended Triple Takeover the other night, so I settled in to check it out. I don't think I'd ever seen it before, not in full at least.
Triple Takeover is a golden age Simpsons episode dressed as giant robots and I love it.I'm not kidding when I call it the GOAT episode.
Is it the best episode of tv Transformers has ever produced? No. Not by a long shot.
It is, however, the most entertaining. And not even in a "so bad it's good" way. In a "this is nuts, and Larry Strauss clearly knows that and is leaning into it" sort of way.
And the dialogue snaps on every level.
Define "recent years", because Cyberverse (post-Season 1), BotBots, Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, and at least certain episodes of EarthSpark (moreso in the first season) were jam packed with fun.It's a stupid episode, but it's fun. A lot of Transformers fiction is lacking the fun factor in recent years.
The Netflix shows, IDW2, the Energon Universe comics. I'd throw in RotB, going from what I've heard, but I haven't cared enough to watch it.Define "recent years", because Cyberverse (post-Season 1), BotBots, Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, and at least certain episodes of EarthSpark (moreso in the first season) were jam packed with fun.
I'll give you some of those (the Netflix trilogy, especially; that was grueling), but most of the ones I listed were also contemporary releases to those.The Netflix shows, IDW2, the Energon Universe comics. I'd throw in RotB, going from what I've heard, but I haven't cared enough to watch it.
Season 1 of Cyberverse strikes me as an odd exclusion.Define "recent years", because Cyberverse (post-Season 1), BotBots, Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, and at least certain episodes of EarthSpark (moreso in the first season) were jam packed with fun.
The first season really struggled to juggle being both an anthology series and an ongoing narrative, like it had great difficulty finding its footing. There's a reason the show's strongest supporters say that it really took off once the second season started, since it was no longer shackled to either the anthology format or the shared mandates with the Bumblebee movie (e.g. Bee speaking through his radio and having amnesia), and could really cut loose and just have fun doing whatever the show wanted to do from seasons 2-4.Season 1 of Cyberverse strikes me as an odd exclusion.
Then again, the Velocitron episode...
Actually, yeah, first season was more somber and grim than "fun", despite the premise, wasn't it?