From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:38:02 1995
Article: 7753 of alt.toys.transformers
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From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday: Thursday 27 October
Date: 27 Oct 1994 09:26:04 -0500
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Sea Change, featuring SeaSpray

Deceptitran is the leader of a Decepticon colony on a planet of humanoid 
organics, whose life energies are so rich that you can get a whole 
energon cube out of one. When the humans revolt, 'Tran sends a distress 
call to Megatron, which is intercepted by the Autobots, who don't know 
who it's from. Cosmos, Perceptor, Bumblebee and SeaSpray are sent to 
investigate, and discover the planet, crash landing only shortly before 
Astrotrain, Megatron, Dirge, Soudwave, and Rumble arrive. The Autobots 
make a hasty alliance with the humanoids, and discover that they can 
transform their bodies into other forms with the help of a magical pool 
of water. Becoming mermen and mermaids, the humanoids show the Autobots 
their underwater city, which is unknown to the 'Cons until Laserbeak 
follows them there. End the first part.

Seaspray is warned away from the pool, because Elena, one of the humans, 
is afraid that robots can't survive the dissolution of their bodies. 
Seaspray and Elena have feelings for each other. Bumblebee is captured. 
Deceptirtran goes bananas. Eventually, the Decepticons attack the 
underwater city to deter further rebellions of their human slaves, but 
Seaspray, now a merman, and Elena, fight them. Supplied with Autobot 
weapons, the merpeople are able to hold off the 'Cons until Deceptitran 
calls them away. Elena, now a robot, and Seaspray back in his original 
form, are raiding the 'Con energon supplies and have reprogrammed all the 
'Con drones to attack Decepticons. All the Autobots escape destruction, 
the energon goes boom, and the Decepticons run. The people have their 
planet back, and Seaspray and Elena decide to maintain their friendship, 
despite, uh, species differences.

This is a very full episode, as you can tell. This is as concise a review 
as I could put together. I'll concentrate on the highlights...

Obviously this episode exists to sell the minibot toys, 'Spray and 'Bee. 
On a deeper level, tho, does it surprise anyone that the Decepticons have 
such a sophisticated mercantile system? Why would they need to depend on 
Earth if there are other 'Cons out there gathering energy? Or maybe this 
is just an isolated thing. But fifty cents says that this is where Simon 
Furman got his ideas for Jhiaxus and Bludgeon being die-hard colonist 
types. I wish that Deceptitran had been a more regular character, his 
particular brand of paranoia suited the puppet governor-type well.

Decent animation, with no flubs in the voices or the dubbing, although 
the sound effects left a bit to be desired. I wish that this had been 
made a two-parter, so that we could examine the relationship between 
'Tran and Megatron more closely. They don't seem to like each other...

"She kissed my... my..."
"Yeah, dream on, bubble-brain..."

KKC, needs to take a break.
-- 
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