TF Animated Ep18 - Return of The Headmaster

[MV75]

It was a development episode for Vector and Optimus - that's about it.

You wouldn't even miss this episode if it wasn't for the return of Headmaster - which the title gives away anyhow. There's no real story development except him returning to Sumdac Systems and them focusing on making military robotics.

Hopefully next week will be better.

Yea, the rest of the season looks like it has got great potential for what hapens in it.

Yep, I saw that torrent, (comments), I'll wait for a better one to come along before downloading.
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Teen vid

[i_amtrunks]

Watched it on youtube while eating lunch.

Apparently CN in the USA are showing the new Ben 10 series, which has put them a week behind YTV in Canada...

Anywho its not a bad episode, I personally enjoyed it, but it certainly wasn't in any way "must see" or "pivotal" to the series. Headmaster did more of the same as his first appearance nothing new at all, but his new boss Mr.Powell has shown himself to be fairly conniving and clever, he might be quite the pain until the Decepticons repair themselves.

More screen time for Sentinel, yet he is the same old bot; arrogant, elitist and somewhat moronic. How he is in the Elite Guard with fighting skills such as he has is beyond me, at least Jazz showed why he is in the Elite Guard last week.
Headmaster's ability to power up the Autobots weapons could be used well in the future, although one would think the Autobots would already have their weapons running at maximum efficiency.

Sari storyline didn't really do anything, Bumblebee was told by Prowl for the umpteenth time to listen/sit still/be quiet to learn. That was about it.

So not a bad episode, but not great, missing Ratchet, Jazz and having a cameo from Prowl automatically relegates this episode down my list of favourites, before you start looking at the very little character and plot development that occurs.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I loved bulkheads glasses, making him look like the Cybertronian equivelent of me, size and all.

[Robzy]

It was a fairly average episode. Captain Fanzone was great!

[autobreadticon]

great fun, man!! def one the funniest episodes in the series
new robots introduced and a potential toy (leader size) for headmaster sentintel maybe..

[STL]

I'm surprised to say I thought this was very good. Reading the early comments, my expectations were pretty low but the episode was quite successful in my mind.

I think the exploration of the Sentinel Prime angle really worked well and gave both characters a great deal of growth. They aren't exactly friends but they've moved forward somewhat. What I find particularly interesting is it is alluded to that Sentinel somehow caused Optimus to get demoted many cycles ago. It's a nice little question that I want answered that will only shape this Prime even more.

Speaking of Prime, I really think he's starting to shine here. He's learning the ropes of leadership but showing that he can learn how to handle himself. He learns to deal w/ Sentinel's irritable demeanour while retaining a measure of compassion that Primes are well known for. To me, this looks to be the Prime that will grow the most.

THe subplot w/ Sari was nice too as for once she was actually very bearable and I did indeed feel for her plight. Prowl getting a cameo was nice as well as Bulkhead and BBs depictions.

The guy who is running Sundac now is a veritable prick. I think they've made him a good villain and I wouldn't be surprise if this is some kind of facsmile or pretender that Megatron created to infilitrate Sundac Systems and start global catastrophe.

Headmaster was okay. Still very annoying but there were a lot of other pluses to easily compensate for him. This series is definitely picking up and I hope for more of the same. Quiet episodes like these are perfectly fine. Hopefully the quality of future filler episodes will be as good as this.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

What I find particularly interesting is it is alluded to that Sentinel somehow caused Optimus to get demoted many cycles ago.

I thought that the adventures of Sentinel, Optimus and Elita 1 in "along came a spider" gave a pretty clear view of why Optimus was kicked out of Autobot acedemy and how much of a prick Sentinel is and was.

[SilverDragon]

The guy who is running Sundac now is a veritable prick. I think they've made him a good villain and I wouldn't be surprise if this is some kind of facsmile or pretender that Megatron created to infilitrate Sundac Systems and start global catastrophe.

A pretender, you say. I think that would be very interesting. It'd also be freaky as hell if Powell split in half to reveal a robot inside him. Kids would be traumatised.