Positives

*Did like how Predaking was as powerful as the Pit, but yet did not manage to even kill Miko (oh if only he had though, I would have applauded!) which does not set him up as ‘the ultimate force of nature’ that suddenly becomes quite easy to beat in subsequent episodes.

*The line from Arcee about “Imagine if I reversed my colour scheme – I would be pink!” – very nice!

*Ultra Magnus has his character portrayed very well, quite indicative of MTMTE – a procedural nut but a powerful warrior not to be trifled with.


Negatives:

*I was disappointed to not see Ultra Magnus get an alt-mode as I am interested to see if it resembles the Voyager toy that came out last year or the Beast Hunters toy which is getting released soon. Certainly his arm blasters resembled the ones Optimus has so sadly that may be indicative he might end up with the recoloured version of Weaponizer Prime in the show, which means no new animated mold.

*Optimus is thinking of naming Smokescreen as the next Autobot leader?!? Na, sorry – not washing with me. That, in regards to this TF universe and the preceding storyline, is weak. Smokescreen is the young bot on the block – and not in the way Hot Rod was in the animated movie. Building up to a confrontation between Smokescreen and Ultra Magnus over leadership maybe?




Overall, a good episode. But they need to hurry their arses up and make some major stuff go down soon if we only have 9 ep’s left to the finale!