My Review of Transformers: Animated season 3 episode 10 Decepticon Air · 7:25pm Oct 24th, 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 to everyone! This is Mr. J with more Transformers: Animated content! This afternoon, I will be briefly reviewing the tenth episode of season three called “Decepticon Air”. This was a very fun episode full of great humor, entertainment, and well-choreographed action. But not only is this episode fun for yet more screen-time with the Elite Guard but also for bringing back the infamous Swindle, voiced again by the late Fred Willard. He was just as ecstatic and funny as ever since his debut in season 2. Unfortunately, his last scene heavily hinted we would see him again which we never got as season 4 was never green-lit. *Sigh* Life sucks sometimes...
Anyway, it was awesome to see Megatron’s top lieutenants teaming up with Swindle to take their revenge on Sentinel. A part of me was satisfied in seeing that arrogant idiot get a taste of his own medicine and being swatted by Lugnut.
As for Optimus, I like how he dealt with Sentinel and how he interacted with him especially throughout the series. In fact, this is the last time both Primes interacted on screen together. One can clearly see the difference between them both and how Optimus is obviously the better bot in terms of personality and character. Even for Sentinel, you can see how he had some level of respect for him despite the rivalry he has with him and how often he belittles him. Even with frenemies, there’s still some respect that’s gotta be shown.
The animation doesn’t look as bad as the previous two-parter’s animation was, and the voice acting was great as always. Even though the animation quality was declining, the quality of the story never decayed.
That’s basically it for this episode. There was nothing serious or blatantly noteworthy about it besides those positives I’ve mentioned. So I’ll give it a B+. Nothing more, nothing less.
Alright, guys. Two more episode reviews to go! I’m getting close to the end! Peace!
Should we have been concern that Swindle said Quintessa if there was a Fourth Season?
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That was the name of the planet the Quintessons lived in. I don’t think they would have played any role in season 4 if memory serves.
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Eh, your probably right. It was weird that Swindle said they were nice.
Hey look, Decepticon Air. Honestly, I really love this episode. Even if this the last time we saw Blitzwing, Sunstorm, Ramjet, and Swindle. But now, unto the trivia… but ironically, if you check the cast list for this episode, there’s more Autobots than Decepticons. Strange. Granted, most of them are non-speaking cameos, but still.
1. Perceptor is "voiced", so to speak, by an electronic speech synthesizer, rather than an actual, living actor, as an homage to his fellow super-genius, Stephen Hawking. It's a wee bit skeevy if you stop and think about it, really. As for an in universe reason for this, Derrick J. Wyatt suggested that Perceptor "deleted his emotions and personality to make room in his hard drive so he could be even smarter”.
Sorry it’s kinda short.
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It's cool.