Episode Review - TF Prime Ep 54: Scattered

[GoktimusPrime]

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Watched this on a YouTube video with SHOCKING quality. Gah.

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Thoughts:
+ I like Shockwave. He's the first Shockwave to appear on a show that's inspired by G1 comic Shockwave - i.e.: devoid of emotion and a slave to logic. I like Animated Shockwave too, but he's more like G1 cartoon Shockwave (sounds like him too ). But really this Shockwave is most like Fall of Cybertron Shockwave (which of course makes sense since they're "clearly" all part of the same continuity, right fellas? ) -- this is most noticeable in the whole 'mad bio-scientist' aspect which is unique to the Aligned Shockwave character. The way he talked about experimenting and cloning the Predacons hearkens back to the way he created the Insecticons and Dinobots in FoC. But yeah... I like this sort of "evil Spock" like character to Shockwave.
+ I like Shockwave's approach to interrogating Wheeljack vs Starscream's... instead of using a club, let's use a scalpel (i.e. cortical psychic patch).
+ SMELTING POOOOOOOL!! (and in Darkmount no less)
+ The way Wheeljack escaped from the Smelting Pool looked awesome... I can't wait to see that again in better quality! But yeah, I liked it because it didn't feel quite as "munchkiny" as Wheeljack's previous Drift-like appearances... this was more like Buzz Lightyear -- "This isn't flying, it's falling with style!"
+ Someone remind me again... how did the Autobots know where to find the Harbinger?
+ The origins of the Predacons is interesting. Not quite what I was expecting, it works well.
+ Predaking is HUGE! Now I understand why they're releasing an Ultimate Class version. Sticklers for show scale might wanna wait for the Ultimate version (not saying that it'll be WORTH paying that price point though... but if scale matters that much...)