Saturday, 9 May 2020

The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3 And 4, Volume 4, Disc 10] Episode 95: The Return of Optimus Prime: Part 2 by AverageMansReviews

The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3 And 4, Volume 4, Disc 10] Episode 95: The Return of Optimus Prime: Part 2 by AverageMansReviews














Review Time: this episode is top-notch entertainment

Warning: there are colourful or flashing effects or something to these effects and animal testing.

Storyline/Back stories/Origin Storyline: the storyline is excellent, it has to be said that this episode is put together like a short movie; you will get this feeling early on and throughout; without giving too much away especially within the final section of this episode. The back stories come to the viewers from storyteller with mental imagery a recap of previous events, in the dialogue exchanges and there is this origin storyline element it is straight to the point Bye-bye Autobot [Bumblebee] and Hello Autobot [Goldbug.]

Action sequences/Artistic visions: these two components go hand-in-hand, we have these characters go on this mission and they have to battle minus Galvatron/he sets up these other characters to do battle with this giant spider on its web and he leaves them to deal with it [yes if you are afraid of spiders you may want to not see this part,] but if you do end up watching it; this scene feels and looks like something out of Dungeons & Dragons Board Game in fact on reflection this mission has this feeling of a journey/quest [beginning with this conversation of a plan and roughly ends with them securing this important metal and taking it back, that is enough, because I don't want to give too much of the storyline away.] But moving on; for an individual artistic sequence Optimus Prime goes on a separate journey [I'm not going to point out too much here, because that would be giving too much away and with already pointing something out in my previous example I will not do it here as well,] but I will say this; this journey is highly imaginative like the previous example and at least we get to see an old face again.

Character developments: well I am sure 99.9% of people know out there in Internet land that Optimus Prime is irreplaceable and is in a league of characters/performers/people that cannot be replaced such as Tommy Oliver/Jason David Frank [Power Rangers franchise] or Tom Brady [now Ex-New England Patriot Quarterback.]

Now the more time I spend thinking about this; I don't know if on one hand they intentionally push this idea over to their viewers of we have this larger-than-life character back or on the other hand this is just Optimus Prime anyway which let's be honest he does have a larger-than-life presence to him in every way shape and form, I would like to think it is a mixture of these two options.

But whatever the case may be; he hits the ground running listening and discussing things with other characters, being appreciative in one way or another, forming this uneasy alliance with Galvatron for now [with something on the same line as Optimus Prime and Megatron's chemistry/friction, before I receive any backlash I don't mean to that perfect rivalry/connection, because in comparison there is no comparison, because Optimus Prime is Megatron's equal and vice versa, but I find it fascinating that with Optimus Prime he just elevates Galvatron to be a better character/foe and on top of that doing what needs to be done, basically in a nutshell it's like he hasn't been away.

This episode receives: 10/10, from beginning to end as I have already said this episode is top-notch entertainment.


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