My Review of Transformers: Animated season 3 episode 5 Where is Thy Sting? · 7:03pm Sep 19th, 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)
Hello, my dear comrades! This is yours truly back with more Transformers: Animated content for you all! This time, I will be talking about the fifth episode of the season called “Where is Thy Sting?”. In this episode, our old “friend” Wasp is back to get his long-awaited revenge on Bumblebee. Here, we see that he has successfully scanned the same exact vehicle that Bumblebee transforms into: a police car that Fanzone drives. I’m... not sure why he would scan that vehicle considering that he had no way of knowing that was the vehicle ‘Bee uses but whatever.
In my opinion, this was a pretty okay episode. However, I wasn’t exactly pleased to see Wasp again after everything that happened in the “Autoboot Camp” episode. Sure, he was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, but I still have zero sympathy for someone who was a complete asshole from the start.
In this episode, he somehow manages to confront Bumblebee in the plant and switch places with him by taking his form and color scheme so that he would be ‘Bee and his victim as Wasp; thus, ‘Bee would suffer hatred and harm from his own crew to know and feel the pain Wasp went through.
Okay, that’s a pretty solid motivation and plan right there. However, how exactly did Wasp know Bumblebee and his crew held their headquarters in that specific plant? Was he actually spying on him the whole time? Did he place an invisible tracker on him so that he could pinpoint his location? Never explained.
Nonetheless, the comedy and entertainment value were still top-notch thanks to the debut of Jetfire (voiced by Tom Kenny) and Jetstorm (voiced by Phil LaMarr) in this episode. Those two, who combine into SafeGuard, were actually pretty good in terms of their ecstatic personality, sense of humor, and perseverance.
However, I was actually shocked to see Ultra Magnus mortally wounded towards the end. I literally thought that would never happen... in fact, my old friend who also loved this show made a prediction that Magnus would soon be killed off. Well... he wasn't that far off.
Overall, this was a pretty okay episode despite the issues I have with Wasp and his overall character development. Therefore, I give this a C+.
Peace!
Wasp was really messed up in the head.
I remember this show, pretty good. And I actually used to have a Waspinator toy and a Jetfire/Jetstorm/Safeguard toy as well
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1. Both twins speak with a thick Eastern European accent.
2. Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/wind theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts of Animated. Sean Galloway, who had been commissioned to do early concept work for the series, revealed several pieces of this concept art long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. Among these images were a pair of "fire and wind" robots who have a few features that made it into the jet-twins' final designs.
3. Derrick J. Wyatt had no input over Jetfire's name, as the twins were largely the work of Eric Siebenaler; Wyatt only did a "once-over" of their aesthetics to match the rest of the series near the end of their development cycle. That's the reason why Animated Jetfire does not have a more "traditional" Jetfire design. As such, Wyatt said that if he ever did an homage to the original Jetfire's design, he would gladly call the character "Skyfire".
4. Jetstorm's design, revealed at BotCon 2008, contains numerous homages to the Beast Machines Vehicon general Jetstorm, particularly his helmet.
5. The twins' method of combination is seemingly an homage to Hyōryū and Enryū/Chōryūjin from the final installment of Takara's Brave Series, King of Braves GaoGaiGar.
6. Perceptor's dialogue in the "Rise of Safeguard" comic implies that Jetfire and Jetstorm were split from one protoform, possibly making Safeguard their true form. Such a theory is supported by Safeguard's being unnaturally intelligent for a combiner, and his possessing of his own alternate mode.
7. In a conversation with one of his fans on a piece of fan art on his Deviantart page, Boo, who worked on the first half of the "Rise of Safeguard" comic, revealed that Jetfire and Jetstorm's original vehicle modes were similar to ATVs instead of cycles or other types of vehicles. He also said this was due to their working in the industrial sector.
8. In the early stages of the toy's development, the end of the twins' combined vehicle mode was supposed to split apart and wings were supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembled an X-wing fighter. However, this did not appear in the released instructions because the toy can't take the form without disconnecting the legs of Jetfire and Jetstorm.