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Review: Transformers Animated, the Complete Series on DVD

Transformers Animated

When Transformers Animated debuted I was immediately a fan. When it was cancelled I was none too happy. So, when I learned that the full series was coming to DVD including the never before released Season 3 I had to ask for a copy to watch and review. Opinions are as always 100% my own. I searched my past posts and even found a write up that I did about one of the episodes called Along Came a Spider. That episode and many more of them were why I loved Transformers Animated. So many calls back to the original Generation 1 cartoon and other series like Beast Wars where David Kaye voiced Megatron. David Kaye voices Optimus in this series. What? No Peter Cullen as Prime! Say it ain’t so. Actually it works really well with David Kaye as Prime.

Transformers Animated is about a group of Autobots who have the job of clearing debris from Space Bridges. The great war is over and the Autobots have won. The Decepticons have scattered to the winds, or so they thought. It looks like the Decepticons are still alive and kicking but have been watching and waiting for the reappearance of an artifact of great importance, the Allspark. When this team of Autobots inadvertently find the Allspark an new chapter in Transformers history begins.

I was excited to start watching this show again because I wanted to share it with my daughter. So far she is only a fan of Rescue Bots and some episodes of Transformers Prime. I figured that this series could bridge the gap between the two series and she could learn a few more bits of Transformers history. We are a few episodes into the series and she already loves it. she especially loves Sari. She gets a big kick out of it when I tell her that the actors and actresses from one show play other characters in other shows that she likes. For instance, Sari is voiced by Tara Strong who is the voice of Twilight sparkle in My Little Pony. Maybe when we finish the series I’ll actually open some of my Transformers Animated toys and let her play with them. Or maybe I’ll wait till my son is around 6 1/2 and he can play with them without breaking them. Continue reading Review: Transformers Animated, the Complete Series on DVD

Transformers Animated: Along Came a Spider

I am really diggin’ the new Transformers Animated TV show. Many people do not like it because they don’t like the Teen Titans design of the Transformers characters. I think it works. And the reason I like this show is that the stories are so much better than the more recent shows where every other thing there was a major battle and nothing was resolved and everyone ‘powered up’ and again it was ridiculous.

This show is much more complex as there are actual plot lines. We also see some great appearances by other famous Transformers characters. There was an episode where Ratchet had a flashback to being captured by a Decepticon and Arcee was also captured along with him. In this episode we see a flashback of Optimus Prime’s where he is with Sentinel Prime and Elita One. I knew Sentinel Prime was going to be on the show but I didn’t know about Elita One being on it.

I like how the show isn’t as corny as the others were a character runs off somewhere but stays in place like they are running on a treadmill. That shtick gets a little old after a while. Nope, characters here seem to have much more realistic reactions to things.

This episode dealt with a specter from Optimus’ past. In the past Optimus, Elita One and Sentinel Prime were exploring and organic world. We find out that organic worlds are off limits to Transformers. But the three go looking for a Decepticon warship that had crashed on the planet. They find the ship but there are some huge spiders on the world that attack the three explorers.

In the fighting Optimus runs away and finds the warship. Then Elita one finds him. They are attacked again by a large group of spiders and Optimus and Elita attempt to escape. Optimus gets away but Elita One is trapped and presumably dead.

Cut to years later and it is Earth and it is Halloween. Optimus is afraid of spiders and along comes a spider by the name of Black Arachnia. She attacks Bumblebee, Sari and Bulkhead as they go trick-or-treating. Black Arachnia captures Sari and there is a showdown with Optimus. Black Arachnia wants Sari’s Allspark key. She wants it so she can purge herself of the organics. She wants to do this because she is really Elita One and was transformed into a techno-organic transformer. It was a good episode overall.