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From: kendrick@io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
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Subject: TF Weekday 11/9 - The Big Broadcast of 2006
Date: 13 Nov 1995 14:16:22 -0600
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TF Weekday Nov 9 1995 - The Big Broadcast of 2006

The EI/AD: Today's evil invention is a social life based on alcohol,
which has unfortunate side effects including making one's daily
television review slightly late. :) Actually, this time it's manipulation
of broadcast media, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Quintesson
lobbyist pool.

The plot: Hoping to influence the latest Autobot allies, the Quintessons
study the Junkions, discover their cultural dependence on TV, and try to
retrieve the Quintesson Journal which is stuck on Junk. After the
Sharkticons fail to do any reconnaisance worth writing home about, the
Quints try subliminal messages buried deep in the TV the Junkions are
watching, making them xenophobic and warlike, as well as tidy and
retentive. When Sky Lynx reports being attacked by the Quintessons,
Rodimus decides to investigate. The Quint subliminal machine begins
broadcasting the wrong subversive messages ("To share is to care!") and
the Junkions share their TV signals with the rest of the Galaxy, making
all of them xenophobic and warlike, as well as tidy and retentve.
Cyclonus, meanwhile, has been doing recon on his own and is unable to
convince Galvatron that warlike Junkions are worth exploiting until
fearless leader himself is overtaken by the Quint subliminals ("I'm a
winner! Because I believe in me!") Everyone converges on Junk (after a
brief interruption by the Quintesson cruiser) and while Rodimus and
Galvatron duke it out, Blaster figures out that the Junk satellite dish is
what's causing galactic war. Blaster reverses the effects, and everybody
makes peaces, while the Decepticons run away. And after all this, the
Quintessons STILL don't retrieve their bloody journal, thanks to the anal
retentiveness they implanted in the Junkions (and their faulty anti-grav
ray, which sends the journal into deep space) They sentence themselves to
death, but wisely decide to first retrieve the journal...  To be continued
(in The Quintesson Journal, which was mysteriously broadcast first for
some silly reason.)

The characters: It's nice to see Omega Supreme back, good living proof
that some of our fave characters didn't die before or during the movie.
Check out how Omega transforms when Magnus finishes repairing him on the
asteroid where the Quintessons have them pinned down; Omega's rocket mode
splits in half, and there's the rest of him inside the rocket unfolding
like he actually TRANSFORMS, rather than being a piecemeal robot. The
only other characters worth mentioning really are the Junkions, who
demonstrate that their culture is much more than the silly quotes that we
see... The Junkions demonstrate love, hate, jubilation, frustration,
irresponsibility and lots of other simplistic but archetypal modes of
human states-of-being. The Quints are boring and not much of a threat,
although it is nice to see that they have been around for a long time, if
the journal is to be believed. Watch for a token appearance by Marissa
Faireborn on some alien planet where war has broken out due to the
Junkion signal.

The plot holes: The only really significant hole why the journal got to
Junk in the first place. You figure either the Quints are real careless
or like to play volleyball with their diaries. Also, there's a question
about whether the title of this episode is accurate at all... In Japan,
the post-movie episodes are called Transfornmers:2010, but in America, we
understand them to happen right after the movie. Of course, the fact that
the Japanese didn't see the movie until AFTER the post-movie episodes had
aired there for about six months may have something to do with that.

Moving pictures: Other than Omega's transformation, there's not a lot to
say about the animation. It's par for post-movie, and the two-frames-per-
second animation in the battle scenes is not too disappointing, even if
Rodimus' legs disappear and reappear randomly as he fights Galvatron.

The cuts: Can't tell. First time I've seen this episode.

Toys they should reissue: Time for a new Omega Supreme? Already talked
about it. Actually, I'm ready for a new Wreck-Gar in a set with a bunch
of other Junkions, maybe even the femme Junkion he was portrayed with.

Quotables:
"I'll take American History for five-hundred, Alex."
"With Ketchup!"

"Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to put this in the tube
pile."
"Right, chief."
"And don't call me chief!"
"Sorry, chief."

"Jeepers, Mr. Kent, where'd they go?"

"Mrs. Peel, we're needed! Our five year mission - to boldly share our
signal with all the sloppy lifeforms who are our enemies!"

"Lookin' good. No more waxy yellow build-up!"

"Hey dude! I need altitude!"

"Ward, I think we've been a little rough on the Beaver."

"Nyuk nyuk nyuk... I was a victim of coicumstance!"

KKC, needs sleep. Needs a new job. Needs to find an excuse to stop
complaining already. :)
--
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