The downside of having much better stories this season, is that the shorter episode length means that the stories suffer - as with a few of the season 2 episodes so far, both of today's episodes set up very interesting situations, only to have them quickly resolved before too much really happens.
After wondering where Jetfire and Skybyte were in this season (since they both have a couple toys already), they both suddenly show up in the first episode today, which suggested that they were both super powerful characters who have been rivals throughout the cosmos for millennia. The plot device of the episode had them showing off their Spark Armor, but like the previous Spark Armor toys, the Spark Armor was gone by the next episode. I guess that episode did the job of advertising their two Spark Armor toys, and now future episodes will just focus on advertising their regular toys.
I liked the accents the voice actors gave Skybyte and Jetfire.... and Skybyte is definitely a rocket shark.

The second episode appeared to have all of the Seekers killed off by Starscream, after Slipstream was killed a few episodes ago... which should leave Starscream as the last seeker type jet if there aren't any animation or writing errors.
In this episode, Optimus appeared to use the Matrix as a weapon, to shoot down Starscream (or neutralise his Allspark power)... which is actually "advertising" the Ultimate Class Optimus toy from last year, which has the gimmick of revealing the Matrix out of the chest and appearing as if it is being used as a weapon.