My Review of Transformers: Animated season 2 episode 2–The Return of the Headmaster · 1:34am May 10th, 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)
Greetings, folks! Here is my review of season 2 episode 2 “The Return of the Headmaster”! Boy, this was quite a turn of events and had full of unexpected yet welcome surprises. Of course, we meet with Sentinel Prick again alongside the titular returning antagonist as well. As far as this episode is concerned, I actually liked the fact that Optimus had to work with Sentinel in order to stop Masterson, foil his plans, and retrieve Sentinel’s body. Honestly, I wholeheartedly enjoyed how much karma Sentinel got by removing his body and having him suffer being kicked around like a football.
Nonetheless, I once again question how his head was still online despite no longer being connected to his body where the spark chamber is normally located around the chest area. Does he have another spark in his head or central processor?
Regardless of that, I kept smiling throughout this whole episode just to see that pompous idiot suffer. Not only that but also the most wholesome and contagious laugh in the entire Transformers franchise was uttered by Optimus Prime himself.
I remember Optimus laughed only one time in G1 and laughing occasionally in the Unicron Trilogy, so this is clearly one of the few times he has ever laughed. Honestly, we need to see more of that humorous side of Optimus and not be a stone-faced killjoy that he’s mostly portrayed in other Transformers shows. But anyway, I loved his laugh as he saw his rival be humiliated like that. He basically became the J. Jonah Jameson of Transformers in terms of laughing so hard.
However, I really hated the fact that Sari got kicked out of her own home due to the lack of evidence for her very existence and birth; we know very well it adds more foreshadowing to the plot twist at the end of the season. ;) I felt like I wanted to punch Powell in the face for being such a self-absorbed jerk to Sari. So she basically lost her father AND her home and had to practically live with the Autobots. Gosh, I can’t imagine how rough it was for her to experience that.
The animation, voice acting, and the story were all great. I actually liked the approach this episode went for: sometimes, you must work and help your hated rival if you are both up against a common foe. Despite the animosity displayed between both primes, they still had the respect and decency enough to thank each other and shake hands. That was really a good way to end the episode. With that said, I will give a solid A-. Great episode to watch!
Peace!
This was the most funny episode.
Time for L33T TR1V1A again, noobs. This time we’ll be talking about Sentinel Prick...I mean Shithead Prime... I mean Cuntinel Prime... I mean Sentinel Prime.
1. Marty Isenberg’s love of M*A*S*H is the reason why Sentinel is such a jerk; he believed that the Transformers universe needed a “Major Frank Burns”. Originally conceived as “Rodimus Prime”, Hasbro did not like the idea of Rodimus being a jerk, so the character was shifted to being “Sentinel Prime”.
2. Sentinel is voiced Townsend Coleman, who provided the voice of The Tick in the 1990s animated series. After he was cast, Sentinel was designed to homage the Tick with his blue color scheme and pronounced chin(even by normal Animated’s standards!) The writer’s ran further with it, having him utter silly Tick-esque lines like, “Energon-y goodness!”
3. In the planned season 4 of Animated, Sentinel would try secure his position as Sentinel Magnus after Megatron’s escape from prison and the death of Ultra Magnus, first by commissioning a Powermaster upgrade for himself from the Project Omega team, then by invading Earth with the intent to use the collected Allspark fragments to defeat Megatron. Optimus would steal Sentinel’s Powermaster upgrade and travel to Earth to stop Sentinel from making a huge mistake. Had the Powermaster Optimus Prime toy been completed, it most likely would have been compatible with the Sentinel Prime toy.
4. Sentinel Prime’ model and toy served as raw material for informal mock-ups for how Ironhide’s Earth form would look in Season 4.