Episode Review - 107 Transformers Prime - Scrapheap

[5FDP]

My Thoughts

• + Nice homage to sharkticons from G1 with the scraplets teeth
• + Bulkhead screaming like a girl was hilarious
• + I thought OP and Arcee shared a nice moment
• - Is this Transformers?? BB and BH transform just once and thats it
• + Animation is getting better
• - No Decepticons

I don't think they're meant to be homage to the Sharkticons. They're a re-imagining of the scraplets that appeared in issue 29 of the original Marvel series comic.

As for the episode, the series continues to underwhelm me. I'm continuing to watch it in the hope that it gets better.

[KaRNiV8L PRiME]

I don't think they're meant to be homage to the Sharkticons. They're a re-imagining of the scraplets that appeared in issue 29 of the original Marvel series comic.

True, I'd never heard of them

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, the Scraplets are clearly meant to be a homage to the G1 Scraplets. Although visually they look quite similar to G1's Meccanibals. Some people say that Reedman from Revenge of the Fallen was a kind of a Scraplet too, especially because Reedman himself is like a 'Scraplet gestalt'. The TF Prime Scraplets never merged though, which was kinda disappointing because as soon as I saw Scraplets in this is episode, I was looking forward to seeing them combine... didn't happen. :/

It's interesting how they made cold temperatures a weakness for Scraplets as opposed to the G1 Scraplets whose weakness was what the Cybertronians thought of as a rare legendary chemical

* - Is this Transformers?? BB and BH transform just once and thats it

Being stuck inside Autobot HQ I suppose there wasn't much opportunity for them to transform -- but when I saw the Ground Bridge open up and seeing Bulkhead volunteer himself as the "bait," I was expecting him to transform and drive through the Ground Bridge, but he didn't. :/ Perhaps he was too damaged to transform by that stage... but yeah, seeing him roll through it would've been cooler than watching him awkwardly run through it.

Also, if Prime and Arcee wanted to conserve body heat, wouldn't it be more effective to do so folded up in vehicle mode? (I imagine it would reduce their bodies' surface area to volume ratio)

* - No Decepticons

It's nice to have a different plot complication that doesn't involve Decepticons for a change. And the Scraplets are from Cybertron, and a neat tribute to G1 fans who would've recognised them straight away.

And I agree with what UltraMarginal said about this episode giving the humans the opportunity to save the day... the main complaint a lot of people have about humans in Transformers is their relative lack of contribution to the storyline, so here we actually have them making constructive contributions to the plot.

Seeing Raf go ape on that Scraplet... as Miko said, totally didn't see that coming!

[liegeprime]

voted 3 for me it's ok but a "meanwhile episode" which of course is necessary, every series has em. All I can say now isI want scaplets toy figure, lots of em

[Tallestblue]

I did enjoy this epsiode. I loved Bulkhead's scream, and the Scraplets were actually very creepy. I think Five year old Tallest would've hid behind the couch.

Optimus's dialogue bugged the hell out of me, the Speechifying is getting really annoying but other than That Prime is starting to grow on me.

Bring on Wheeljack! And the Finale with the "mumble mumble giant planet mumble mumble"

[GoktimusPrime]

*ahem* How come Optimus Prime and Arcee were shutting down from the cold blizzard when we've seen the Transformers fight in space?

[Gutsman Heavy]

Mind blown

[i_amtrunks]

Not a bad episode, nice to have a standalone, Decepticon free episode that allows in show time for Megatron to get fixed up.

Scraplets looked good, but never really felt like a threat, for things that "eat a machine inside out, so as to get all the good stuff" they really only seemed to eat the top layer of metal off Bumblebee, and the script did a poor job of conveying any real lasting damage to the three bots on base.

Prime's speech was a ruiner, as soon as It was uttered, you knew Bulkhead would run through and save the day for all parties.

Still not better than animated, but moving in the right direction.

[Tallestblue]

*sigh* Space is not freezing cold. In fact in our Solar System it's warm because there's nothing to protect you from Solar Radiation. Years of incorrect sci-fi has ruined our brains and our Smarmy answers.