Friday, June 20, 2014

Transformers: Prime (Season 3 Beast Hunters: Episodes 7, 8, 9)



Plus One

The fetch quest continues with another team out to get another Predacon fossil.  Wait... who comprises the team when all the Autobots are out busy?  Of course, send the humans in and the most unlikely pair too, Jack’s mum and Agent Fowler.  The only redeeming quality of this episode is the fact that Knockout is the star Decepticon.  The events are fairly predictable.  We see that Predaking might not be as much of a mindless beast as we are led to believe so hopefully this plot thread actually develops and goes somewhere.

Thirst

The plot of in this episodes takes a turn in which you would not expect... inspired by “human horror movies”.  It was a hilarious episode, mixed with come “horror” elements.  We see the fate of Silas/Breakdown, and the Decepticon warship is now a zombie infested area.  Each zombie sucks out the energon of an unsuspecting Decepticon, infecting them with the condition.  It really feels like your typical zombie movie and it was done especially well here.  It raises more subplots, which, considering that there are five episodes left, makes you wonder if there will be enough time to resolve them all.  The dialogue was good and unpredictable things happen which made it very enjoyable.  This is definitely the highlight episode so far in Season 3.

Evolution

Just when you thought the beast robot modes of the toys were non-canon, Predaking transforms in this episode.  Surprisingly, instead of just terminating Predaking, Megatron decides to terminate the Predacons cloning subject.  This makes it very disappointing in that we are nearing the end of the season and we only see one Predacon, with more unlikely due to the events of Evolution.  Anyway, this episode is chock full of fight scenes which are stellar and really good.  Predaking faces off Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack in an epic fight with visible injuries on both sides.

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