From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:38:27 1995
Article: 8635 of alt.toys.transformers
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From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday: 16 November
Date: 16 Nov 1994 22:57:54 -0600
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Megatron's Master Plan, Part II, featuring really brave and stupid humans...

Megatron watches the ship full of Autobots blow up on the sun, and Shawn 
Berger becomes more demanding about his "reward." At a press conference, 
Megatron announces that he is taking over the world (What are we gonna do 
tonight, Megs?) Meanwhile, with Trailbreaker's force-field, the Autobots 
survive the explosion but are still headed towards the sun, because 
Cosmos's guidance system is still hooked up to Teletran-I. After an 
escape from the energy production facility, Chip inadvertantly allows 
Thrust to destroy Teletran, which frees up Cosmos. After the Cons drive 
off a human fleet offighter aircraft, the Autobots show up. In classical 
Cybertronian battle (IE everyone stand in a line and shoot) THe Cons are 
defeated, and the Bots are exonerated.

Beautiful, beautiful animation... When the three coneheads go into the 
city to knock down buildings, you have seamless, fluid transform 
sequences. Nice and believable too. You have lots of dramatic shots of 
Prime's and Megatron's faces, as well as some pretty good shots of the 
other jets flying around shooting missiles.

Not without its faults, tho. Berger's philosophical ranting ("It is the 
apocalypse!") sopunds like something out of X-men TAS, and Spike manages 
to avoid and/or beat up on Ravage no less than three times. Also, near 
the end no Autobots have any dialogue except for Prime and Ironhide.

Ever notice the PC points this episode earned? Cosmos is given a hispanic 
accent, and Chip ends up being the hero, despite his wheel-chair (Of 
course, were this episode made today, Chip would be a black woman in her 
mid-fifties in a wheelchair made in Brazil with a calcium deficiency 
divorced twice and widowed once...)

"This city is under martial law... And _I_ am the marshall..."

"Anything is better than nothing, I guess."

KKC, with any luck (and if his roommate pays him back today) I'll be able 
to go off thrift shop hunting today...
-- 
Kendrick Kerwin Chua - kendrick@io.com - "Hey man, your bike's on fire."
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