Transformers Prime Episode 12...Simply awesome

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lol For some reason I read the thread title as 'Episode 24' meaning the end of the season. Sorry about that.

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lol For some reason I read the thread title as 'Episode 24' meaning the end of the season. Sorry about that.

This is what I wrote about the season 1 finale in another board:


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It took me a few weeks to get over how ******* horrible that Miko episode was and decided to finish watching the remainder of the season.

Yeah, the following episodes are indeed much better (did they change writers? ) although I would not consider the final episodes to be 'great' just decent. I still found the Beast Wars season finales to be far superior and the Prime take on the 'Unicron battle' was not as good as other past interpretation and I will include Armada in that.

My main issue was that I don't really like the whole angle of Earth being Unicron. That was just ridiculous, nonsensical and felt somewhat tacky. Although the 3 final episodes where reasonably well written and executed around this concept, I couldn't get into it so this season finale did fall rather flat with me.

On the good side, it was great to see them use the Marvel lore again (although much cut down) when it comes to the 13 Transformers and the original conflict between Unicron and Primus. It was also good to see some Decepticon and Autobot cooperation to defeat Unicron but it was no where near as epic as past interpretations due to it was just being between Megatron and the tiny Autobot band. This is probably another reason why I felt that the finale was a bit 'flat'.

Another good thing is that they gave us a bit of a unique origin for Prime and Megatron which we haven't seen before. That was somewhat refreshing although it was still a bit nonsensical when it comes to character progression. Megatron's 'fall to evil' was rather sudden with no real logical reason for it aside from 'The people who I originally objected to have denied me so now I will be evil, selfish and a megalomaniac. I will also hate prime because they liked him instead of me' this was a bit odd and rather forced.

Finally, I am not sure how anyone can think that WFC is within the Prime continuity. Although a similar theme was shown as all TF series share, they were considerable differences to how the beginning of the Civil War commences in WFC and in Prime making them as separate continuity wise just as Armada and G1 are. Differences include the backgrounds for both Prime and Megatron's relationship, start of the war as well as the whole prelude leading to Optimus becoming Prime.

Overall, pretty decent finale. Too bad that the last few episodes are not truly representative of the Season as a whole which was mostly mediocre at best. Hopefully we will see further improvements in Season 2 but I am not holding my breath as this show seems to be all about 'ups & downs' with the downs being more prominent than the ups. Yeah, I probably would have enjoyed the finale more if I had gotten into the 'Unicron is Earth' theme but I couldn't, oh well.

I've now watched all of season 1 and have just read your earlier comments.

I pretty much agree on all fronts. The finale wasn't bad but then it wasn't all that great either. I didn't like Unicron at all, like you said the whole idea of him being planet Earth is ridiculous. Despite this, it should have been a lot more epic than it was.

One thing that's starting to irk me about Prime is how easily the Transformers are able to ground/space bridge anywhere they want instantly...eg. 'ere Ratchet, be a good bot and beam me up just behind Unicron's left eye ball, a gentle 10 minute stroll from his spark which I can easily extinguish with this nice Matrix I got inside me chest plate.' Would the 1986 film be as memorable if they simply did this? I did get a Shadow of the Colossus flashback at one point though so props for that, and I especially loved when Megatron cracked one of the big Unicronies in the face, shattering his entire body.

Favourite encounter has to be the one between Soundwave and Airachnid. "Always watch out for the quiet ones." Damn right Knockout! Love how Buzzsaw/Laserbeak attaches onto Soundwave's chest as additional armour, sa-weet!

The ending worked out well for those who, like me, think Optimus Prime is a horrendous bore in TFP. Maybe in Season 2 he'll actually display a bit more personality and *gasp* come up with some less overused cringe-worthy one liners.