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The Bad: Yes, as much as I would love to gaze upon this series wearing rose color glasses, there are some ugly warts on this boxed series set as well. Most of the shows in the Transformers first half of season 2 fall into a story telling rut with the same types of plots being rehashed over and over. One of which is severely overused is the Deceptions discovering some technological device that gives them tactical or energy wielding superiority over the outmatched and unprepared Autobots. The Autobots then must figure out a counter plan to pull victory and survival out of the jaws of defeat. This would not be so annoying if this theme were not repeated at nauseam. Unfortunately, this is not the case as more than a dozen of the episodes featured during this run repeat this basic storytelling premise.
Another annoyance is the scripts inconsistencies that plague many episodes. Pivotal things that occur in one scene are quickly forgotten in a subsequent act. For example: In the episode, Desertion of the Dinobots Part II, Swoop takes an axe hit that nearly severs his wing making it impossible for him to fly and is then captured because of it. Several minutes later, the wing has not been repaired yet but Swoop’s hindered flying abilities and the severe physical damage are completely gone. This forgetting plot elements is a reoccurring gaff that many times as a kid I probably just myself overlooked but now as a seasoned film and animated feature viewer I really can’t ignore as easily.
Plot holes and unexplained situations are also another repeated setback that plagues the series. Unfortunately for the writers, the goal for the cartoon was to sell an ever-growing toy line from Hasbro. Now this was admittedly a double-edged sword, as new toys meant new characters and that meant there was always fresh new angles that they could apply to the scripts. The negative effect of this was, of course, that the Transformers world quickly got convoluted with to man |
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