For me, it's been a long time since an episode hit the spot as much as this one... very satisfying storytelling and CHARACTER portrayals! I do agree it's still somewhat slow at times, but it does feel like it's building nicely toward the endgame.

Stuff I liked:
- A couple of memorable lines:
--- Megatron saying 'dearest Ratchet', oooh that made my hair stand :P
--- '... stuck in Knockout's trunk WITH YOUR MOM!' ... what tha!??
- I gotta get my hands on Raf's computer... he's rigged it to interface with Cybertronian tech! Plus got the right font(s) to go with it! Man!
- That music when Ratchet was shown the Nemesis' bridge really sounded like it came straight from Star Wars!
- Yep, also loved the way Megatron just deals out the truth and doesn't bother to hide any motive, seeing he's already predicted Ratchet's response.
- The suggestion of a follow-up series with Fowler's comment to Jack about his future - Agent Darby! The numerous toy characters also support this hint I think.

Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Why didn't they finish off the humans then land to search for remains? (they did so after destroying the first Autobot base after all). But then again, the last operation was directly supervised by Megatron, whereas this time he left it to Starscream who may have been too arrogant to second think it or even bother with a post-battle inspection. Starscream's like Doctor Evil, just walk away confident that your enemies are dead... he needs the equivalent of Scott Evil to just roll his eyes and mutter, "Idiot."
Yes, and what is it with identifying the building based on the 'E'!?!? There were 5 hangers there, and the configuration itself should've indicated something was off, not to mention Soundwave and Laserbeak had come from there... you'd think that hyper-advanced robotic beings would have something akin to GPS to confirm! This was lazy story boarding... Fowler goes out of the way to point that that the 'cons now know the location of the base... so how should they solve the problem? Paint out the E!! Wow, this was pathetic... must've been too costly to move (both for the Autobots/humans as well as the producers!).

Quote Originally Posted by lancalot View Post
love the way Megatron is portray in this episode ...a true leader ...how he got alot going on and more important things to worry about then how to just kill the autobots ...where as the autobot go nothing to do but just wait around for the decepticon to show up??....... And i didn't know how big he was until you see him next to a tiny ratchet ...
Definitely the best part of the episode for me as well... this is the vintage Megatron that I love and is all too often missing (and I mean in multiple continuities here). Here he is the thinking intelligent Megatron, who is also seductively charismatic. And best of all, morally complex... it wasn't simply the evil want-to-destroy-all bad guy.