"Decepticon Air" commentary.
May. 2nd, 2009 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seiberwingAnd we're back to the wtf territory, albeit not as bad as Five Servos of Doom. Great episode, mind, but still very wtf.
Sentinel Prime. What the fucking fuck. I really wish Optimus would stop risking his life for this asshole just because Sentinel gives him a little salute and congratulations or job offer. Abusive relationship ahoy. He even sent the SOS in code only Optimus would understand to make sure nobody else knew he was in trouble--if Optimus had a touch more political awareness he'd break it to the council and get him denounced as incompetent or something rather than letting him take over.
I mean, I loved the Decepticons in this episode. Blitzwing was logical and a bit more sedate this time, which I approved of. The clones were at least not useless and got their lines in. Lugnut wasn't the brightest of bolts but he made up for it with effort and the whole bug-on-windshield thing at the end was awesome in part because I know the next scene would have involved a bomber-caliber squee on his part. Swindle completely stole the episode by generally being a magnificent greedy bastard and also by having Optimus crawl out of his chest. Jazz and the twins played their parts pretty well, albeit a bit submissively. Sari...you know, I'm not even touching that. Maybe it'll get reasonably explained, maybe she's going more Sueward, I don't know, and I'm trying my damnedest not to care.
But Sentinel seriously crossed the line here. Every single thing he did was throwing his weight around, asserting authority completely unreasonably when it would have been better just to let Optimus have his head and actually do something useful with himself. He was willing to have Blitzwing kill him rather than surrender, not because of principle but because it would mean he was wrong. He's taking over the Autobots when there's theoretically a chance Ultra Magnus will pull through. It's obvious that the power's gone to his head, but I'm starting to wonder if it's making him a little mentally unstable.
Last two seasons he was a jerk who got his karmic comeuppance within the episode if not the hour. Last we saw, him, he was an irritating dick but was generally shown up. Now he's making a move for Magnus and absolutely nobody is willing to step up and stop someone who is outclassed by a 16-year-old technoorganic in the leadership department from running Cybertron into the ground. This was the first episode so far that we haven't had a death or mangled body, and I was desperately hoping it would be Sentinel Prime who went. He'll get his eventually, this is a kid's show, but for my own satisfaction I hope it's soon.
And maybe it's just my Decepticon favoritism (especially Blitzwing), but watching them get paraded around in the cuffs at the end really made me wince. I dunno, I'm sure Megatron will come let them out eventually.
Sentinel Prime. What the fucking fuck. I really wish Optimus would stop risking his life for this asshole just because Sentinel gives him a little salute and congratulations or job offer. Abusive relationship ahoy. He even sent the SOS in code only Optimus would understand to make sure nobody else knew he was in trouble--if Optimus had a touch more political awareness he'd break it to the council and get him denounced as incompetent or something rather than letting him take over.
I mean, I loved the Decepticons in this episode. Blitzwing was logical and a bit more sedate this time, which I approved of. The clones were at least not useless and got their lines in. Lugnut wasn't the brightest of bolts but he made up for it with effort and the whole bug-on-windshield thing at the end was awesome in part because I know the next scene would have involved a bomber-caliber squee on his part. Swindle completely stole the episode by generally being a magnificent greedy bastard and also by having Optimus crawl out of his chest. Jazz and the twins played their parts pretty well, albeit a bit submissively. Sari...you know, I'm not even touching that. Maybe it'll get reasonably explained, maybe she's going more Sueward, I don't know, and I'm trying my damnedest not to care.
But Sentinel seriously crossed the line here. Every single thing he did was throwing his weight around, asserting authority completely unreasonably when it would have been better just to let Optimus have his head and actually do something useful with himself. He was willing to have Blitzwing kill him rather than surrender, not because of principle but because it would mean he was wrong. He's taking over the Autobots when there's theoretically a chance Ultra Magnus will pull through. It's obvious that the power's gone to his head, but I'm starting to wonder if it's making him a little mentally unstable.
Last two seasons he was a jerk who got his karmic comeuppance within the episode if not the hour. Last we saw, him, he was an irritating dick but was generally shown up. Now he's making a move for Magnus and absolutely nobody is willing to step up and stop someone who is outclassed by a 16-year-old technoorganic in the leadership department from running Cybertron into the ground. This was the first episode so far that we haven't had a death or mangled body, and I was desperately hoping it would be Sentinel Prime who went. He'll get his eventually, this is a kid's show, but for my own satisfaction I hope it's soon.
And maybe it's just my Decepticon favoritism (especially Blitzwing), but watching them get paraded around in the cuffs at the end really made me wince. I dunno, I'm sure Megatron will come let them out eventually.
