"Bumble-bot...."
Mar. 24th, 2009 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seiberwingThrough the magic of the internets someone got "Where Is Thy Sting" on up on YouTube a few days early. I think we can safely say "Three's A Crowd" was the fluffy breather episode because they got right back on the WHAT THE HELL with this one.
You know, I was expecting angry Wasp. Enraged but stupid Wasp. Wasp with a reason to get revenge but no desire to understand why he got Count of Monte Christo'd for who knows how long. I wasn't expecting him to get this utterly diabolical and creepy. The encounter in the plant and the thing with the mask and the ensuing realization of exactly what happened... *shudder* The fandom seems to have worked up a lot of sympathy for Wasp since "Autoboot Camp", I have a feeling a lot of them will drop it after this.
Points for the Autobots being slow to buy "Bumblebee's" story, and more points to Ratchet for being sad about having to lock him up. They know he's not guilty and they're sorry about it, but they do what needs doing. Not too bright leaving "Wasp's" target alone in the base, but the Autobots were never big on strategy.
Watching Shockwave/Longarm Prime's gradual breakdown was actually kind of fun. He's clearly not as emotionless as people seem to think Shockwaves are, so when he's got his Longarm face on his panic is almost painfully visible. He's scared for his life and he's got no intention of sticking around to be arrested, so I'm really interested in what he's going to do after...well, I'll get to that later.
The Jet twins are adorable Russian love. Dorky and none too bright, but I don't think smart people volunteer to get Deceptitech grafted onto them. I like them.
"Sentinel, you're doing it wrong!" needs to be some sort of macro. At this point I've concluded that Jazz's unofficial rank is "Sentinel's handler".
"You may not be a traitor, but you were never a good bot." THANK YOU, BULKHEAD. No, Wasp wasn't a nice bot, he took people's legs off and put them on top of shelves because they pissed him off. Not a nice thing. Once again this show does not pull its punches when it comes to calling out the "good" guys and I like it.
Sari still seems to be recovering out of sight and forgotten again, which I think was pretty good for this episode. She and 'bee were close and I think she would have mostly irrationally got in the way or provided a far too easy out for Bumblebee to claim innocence because I think she'd buy "Wasp's" story before anyone else did. I really do want to see her out in the next episode or two, though, they can't leave her in a coma forever.
ALSO.
WHAT THE HELL. ULTRA MAGNUS.
Shockwave is one nasty bastard and as much as I understand why he's doing it it's still utterly disturbing to see it on-screen. But...Ultra Magnus. Just lying there dismembered and dying. I remember actually catching a spoiler of this particular one but disregarding it because I didn't think they'd go there and then forgetting about it. They...did go there. Ew. As much as Megatron supposedly eats protoforms for breakfast, Shockwave's certainly been the one putting his Decepticon nature out on parade a lot more.
(I do notice something a bit weird. Ironhide's first question isn't "who did this" or "are you all right", it's "where's your hammer". What's the deal with that, is his hammer the Matrix now? It's probably nothing, but I find it an odd question given the circumstances.)
Did one of the writers go off his meds? Cause we've seriously got some mood whiplash going.
Also, more Prowl plz. Everyone else has complex backstory and motivation (sort of), can we get some for the mysterious ninja?
You know, I was expecting angry Wasp. Enraged but stupid Wasp. Wasp with a reason to get revenge but no desire to understand why he got Count of Monte Christo'd for who knows how long. I wasn't expecting him to get this utterly diabolical and creepy. The encounter in the plant and the thing with the mask and the ensuing realization of exactly what happened... *shudder* The fandom seems to have worked up a lot of sympathy for Wasp since "Autoboot Camp", I have a feeling a lot of them will drop it after this.
Points for the Autobots being slow to buy "Bumblebee's" story, and more points to Ratchet for being sad about having to lock him up. They know he's not guilty and they're sorry about it, but they do what needs doing. Not too bright leaving "Wasp's" target alone in the base, but the Autobots were never big on strategy.
Watching Shockwave/Longarm Prime's gradual breakdown was actually kind of fun. He's clearly not as emotionless as people seem to think Shockwaves are, so when he's got his Longarm face on his panic is almost painfully visible. He's scared for his life and he's got no intention of sticking around to be arrested, so I'm really interested in what he's going to do after...well, I'll get to that later.
The Jet twins are adorable Russian love. Dorky and none too bright, but I don't think smart people volunteer to get Deceptitech grafted onto them. I like them.
"Sentinel, you're doing it wrong!" needs to be some sort of macro. At this point I've concluded that Jazz's unofficial rank is "Sentinel's handler".
"You may not be a traitor, but you were never a good bot." THANK YOU, BULKHEAD. No, Wasp wasn't a nice bot, he took people's legs off and put them on top of shelves because they pissed him off. Not a nice thing. Once again this show does not pull its punches when it comes to calling out the "good" guys and I like it.
Sari still seems to be recovering out of sight and forgotten again, which I think was pretty good for this episode. She and 'bee were close and I think she would have mostly irrationally got in the way or provided a far too easy out for Bumblebee to claim innocence because I think she'd buy "Wasp's" story before anyone else did. I really do want to see her out in the next episode or two, though, they can't leave her in a coma forever.
ALSO.
WHAT THE HELL. ULTRA MAGNUS.
Shockwave is one nasty bastard and as much as I understand why he's doing it it's still utterly disturbing to see it on-screen. But...Ultra Magnus. Just lying there dismembered and dying. I remember actually catching a spoiler of this particular one but disregarding it because I didn't think they'd go there and then forgetting about it. They...did go there. Ew. As much as Megatron supposedly eats protoforms for breakfast, Shockwave's certainly been the one putting his Decepticon nature out on parade a lot more.
(I do notice something a bit weird. Ironhide's first question isn't "who did this" or "are you all right", it's "where's your hammer". What's the deal with that, is his hammer the Matrix now? It's probably nothing, but I find it an odd question given the circumstances.)
Did one of the writers go off his meds? Cause we've seriously got some mood whiplash going.
Also, more Prowl plz. Everyone else has complex backstory and motivation (sort of), can we get some for the mysterious ninja?
