Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Fansplanation: perhaps these Insecticons have different types like hive insects; so maybe the ones that Arcee and Megatron fought were soldier bugs, and the ones Bumblebee picked off were worker/drones. They seemed to have accepted Airachnid as their Queen -- now Megatron. Aaah, that brings back fond memories of BW Inferno! (it'd be pretty kewl if they brought that running joke back and had the entire swarm addressing TFP Megatron as "Our Queen" -- maybe some of them could yell "For Queen and Colony!" as they attack ).
You know how to play to my favour Goki; If I hear just one utterance of "You shall burrrn!" out of them I think I'll explode!

Yeah... I've also heard the theory that it could also be due to the fact that these ones had 'just' awoken and hence had "Booted-up Cold".
This falls short though as the one that Arcee faced on Cybertron had only just awoken too... Admittedly this was the episode writer's 1st Transformers skript so there could be a number of factors going into it.

Well they could have done so if the last ep wasn't a recapper! :/
Perhaps, but I see the clip-show episode as being utilised to tie up a couple of narrative strings whilst also introducing a couple of new pieces of fiction; One could also surmise that this episode allowed the production team to build new assets for future episodes - That can't be a bad thing IMO.

I was hoping that at least two of the clones would survive and become Skywarp and Thundercracker (at very least Skywarp since there is a toy of him)
That would've been cool but I think it would be too much of a direct rip from TF:Animated, though the idea has merit I'll admit.
Who knows what we'll see down the track, but at least we now know how Screamer will get his T-Cog back.