My Review of Transformers: Animated season 1 episodes 2 & 3–Transform and Roll Out · 2:15am Jan 16th, 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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Hey, guys! Here is my review of Transformers: Animated season 1 episodes 2 and 3, “Transform and Roll Out”. This is a follow-up review to my episode 1 review of the same series which will serve as a concluding review of the whole series premiere. Just like with the first episode, the other two were just as great but even more epic especially with the third episode. This is what I really enjoyed as I watched this back in December 2007:
The Autobots have saved multiple lives in the city of Detroit from that mutated cockroach monster which led Bumblebee himself to meet with the show’s main human character Sari Sumdac (voiced by Tara Strong). I actually like Sari as a great character; some people may not like her due to her annoyance and stubbornness (probably the same people who hate Miko from Transformers: Prime) whereas I like her for the role she plays later on in the series and for the times she has often helped the Autobots. Plus, she is just so adorable to watch, and because she is voiced by Tara Strong.
You can clearly hear her Twilight voice in Sari even if it is slightly high-pitched. Hahahahaha!! Funny, isn’t it?
Anyway, her interaction with the Autobots and Bumblebee is cute and wonderful and later on forms a bond with them which makes her want to do more with them and for them. You will see me talk more about that as I will continue reviewing these episodes. The second episode was not that bad although it didn’t really having anything else that was epic or amusing. But by the time we get to episode 3, that is where we meet Starscream once again! He plays as the main antagonist for part 3 of the premiere. Keep in mind, Starscream was voiced by this phenomenal gentleman right here:
I guess you can say Starscream is the evil version of Spongebob. Haha, that would make that sponge doofus much more bearable than he is now in his own show.
Starscream was a great villain in the third episode because we see more of his evilness, pride, cunning, arrogance, and mighty power as he fought against the Autobots. He proved himself to be a great threatening challenge to our heroes and didn’t act like an ear-raping imbecile like he was in G1 where people didn’t take him seriously because of that. Here, you can ACTUALLY take him seriously and be threatened by him. He wasn’t playing around this time. That’s one of the reasons why this is my favorite version of Starscream of all time.
I also loved how Optimus was handled in this. You see him learn how to be a hero and have him bravely fight Starscream even at the cost of his own spark. Throughout the series, he progressed as a character, learned his mistakes, and improved his leadership. However, I didn’t like how he was killed at the end of the battle and then was instantly resurrected by Sari’s Allspark key power. He was only dead for about 15 seconds and then BOOM! He’s back. Hasbro keeps killing off Prime in nearly every version of TF media out there and then just brings him back like nothing. It’s so annoying how they keep toying with our emotions. Ha, “toying”... because they sell toys............. I’ll see myself out.
Overall, this was a great start to an amazing series as I said before although they had a few flaws here and there. Episode 2 gets a B because it was good although not very great, but part 3 gets an A- for such a tremendous battle sequence and climax.
Peace!
Nicely done.
Imma be blunt, I personally cannot wait for your review on episode 20 and episode 22.