My Review of Transformers: Animated season 1 episode 8–Nanosec · 1:40am Mar 1st, 2021
Grading Scale:
A (fantastic episode)
A- (an excellent episode with at least one flaw)
B+ (a great episode with a couple of flaws)
B (a good episode which still could have been better)
B- (a good episode with numerous flaws but still rewatchable)
C+ (a decent episode)
C (eh... it’s not terrible but not good either)
C- (it’s not worth rewatching although it does have good elements)
D+ (a bad episode with a few good things in it)
D (a really bad episode with wasted potential)
D- (a terrible episode with badly written characters and butchered moral)
F (horrible and unwatchable)
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Hello, guys. Here is my review of Nanosec. Just right off the bat, this episode could have been much better if it just focused only on Megatron and his new plans in reconstructing his new body. Still, it was really cool to have an episode focusing on Bumblebee again. Now, normally I would never say this if it were another version of the character who is more overrated like Bayverse or Prime or RID, but this one feels more... genuine and entertaining. Granted, this Bumblebee is a little annoying but at least he can talk and isn’t an asshole trying to be a leader or acts like a mute puppy being uplifted to the high heavens as a cash cow. Sorry, I just hate the yellow turd in general... but not this version.
As for Nino Sexton, he was... okay. I guess the writers and executives saw it fit to bring in the evil version of Flash and have him as a new Transformers villain. Once again, I am not a fan of super villains for Transformers. If you want human villains, fine. But super-villains? For Transformers? No... they belong in DC and Marvel. Props to them for being original and creative, but I’m just not a fan of these guys.
Nanosec was an okay antagonist for this episode, but I just don’t understand why Megatron needed the destronium so badly. What was the purpose of that plot device? If that thing can be ignited to detonation at high speed, wouldn’t that put Megatron, Sumdac, his lab, and the whole tower at risk? If he had managed to get a hold of it, what was he going to do with it behind Isaac Sumdac’s back? That’s something I’ve always wondered. Aside from the good animation and comedy this episode has, some of these plot points don’t really add up for me.
Despite those issues I have with it, I am rather glad they taught this important lesson in regards to doing missions or anything else of the sort. It is crucial to use your head and not rashly go with your guts or impulses. But just as Bumblebee demonstrated at the end of the episode, as long as your guts tell you to do something right as well as using your brain or common sense to guide you in your decision-making, then the results will be excellent for the good of others. That was the main thing I liked about this episode. If only it had a much better plot that makes sense as well as focusing more on Megatron and his plans, then it would have been much better.
So it gets a C-. That’s all for today, folks. See ya!
Loved the suit.
It's time once more. The script for this episode was the first Transformers Animated script to be written, and was used by series scribe Marty Isenberg both as a showcase and as a testing ground for the new show's Detroit setting and character dynamics, particularly in terms of its focus on a human rather than a Decepticon villain. Indeed, this episode was originally conceived as the show's pilot, until the decision was later made to open instead with a larger-scale "event" TV movie, leading to the development of "Transform and Roll Out".