TF Animated Ep22 - Rise of the Constructicons

[The_Damned]

yea i enjoyed this ep. quite amusing, feel sorry for bulkhead though.

[griffin]

The thing that I find odd about this episode, is the title. It sounds ominous or a prelude to something climactic, and yet it was a bit misleading. I was expecting from the title to have the Constructicons be menevolant and evil, but they were just stupid.
I fear I'm beginning to see a pattern for the way the show introduces most of its new characters - Create them from scratch with shards of the Allspark, and they end up lacking intellegence like a new-born.
I hope we don't get too many more 'newborn' TFs from the Allspark, and instead see more TFs that already exist.

[i_amtrunks]

Not a bad episode.

I liked the misdirection at the beginning of the episode with the Purple and green construction vehicles turning out to be nothing but normal vehicles.

I quite like the "newborn" transformer idea, it kind of makes sense that these characters know next to nothing since they were only created moments before, but since we have had 3 in such a short amount of time, more of the same would be overkill. I'm not sure I liked the whole part of them knowing that they were plain vehicles before the "bright blue light" inferring that they were somewhat aware when they were normal vehicles.

Constructicons were okay, they were intelligent, yet naive and stupid at the same time. Their intelligence corresponding to their field and nothing else was a good choice, instead of making them super intelligent like their G1 namesakes. Didnt mind the very stereotypical portrayal of construction workers, but I was expecting more focus on the Bulkhead drinking aspect.

Nice to have minimal Bumblebee and Sari for a change, and Blitzwing/Lugnutz is always good.

best line: "hey he's our Dipstick"

[Paulbot]

I loved Mix and Scrapper, I though they were very funny. It seems they picked up RID Sideburn's habit of chasing attractive automobiles.

I don't think we need to have six constructicons. That was G1. I like that Animated homages/reprises characters from G1 but it would be less interesting if it was exactly the same.

[STL]

The thing that I find odd about this episode, is the title. It sounds ominous or a prelude to something climactic, and yet it was a bit misleading. I was expecting from the title to have the Constructicons be menevolant and evil, but they were just stupid.

+1!

Though I did find that a letdown it was a decent episode. I particularly liked Bulkhead's place in all of it. Big heart for the big guy. I thought it was quite funny too. Didn't mind it at all.

I kind of agree w/ you on the baby-formers too Griffin. I understand it as a gimmick but it's frustrating to get TFs with so little personality.

[Paulbot]

The Constructicons have personaility... well a kind of stereotyped personality anyway. They like chasing after good looking machines and drinking (a lot of) fuel