Bumblebee and Bulkhead are having fun celebrating their first-ever Halloween. That is, until the Decepticon Blackarachnia shows up to ruin their good times.

She-she-she's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I so seriously screeched! I was expecting Ariel, but dang, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang

Okay, now that I've calmed down some: While I know the key is gonna tick people off, at least the bots are noticing it and not happy about it's use.

And Sari's costume is so cute ^_^ And yes, she did nail ops there

Bulkhead looks like Pigpen. I'm glad Some one finly got on to Sari about that damn key. Elita looks good as a "blond" too.

She certainly didn't look a darn thing like HIGHLIGHT to view:
Elita-1, I'm chalking it up to a simple re-usage.

Damn I love these flashback images!


At least now we have a better idea why Sentinel's a jerk, he blames Prime for something that's essentially HIS (Sentinel's) fault.

Does this episode explain why Prime got booted? And anyone know of a torrent yet? Thanks.

Talk about tugging at your heart strings, that last part was saaaaad Now I know what they meant when they said BA would be a character we would really feel for.

Holy Allspark! This episode was a real twist! Black Arachnia was once Elita-1, Optimus Prime's girlfriend! I didn't see that coming! It did have a sad ending though. The writers made it so you can't help but feel sorry for her.

It does not say why but it give you a good reason for him to get booted.

Walking malfunctions, that's classic.

Holy Hell, that ep is right there with the Lockdown one. Dude's weren't kidding when they said BA was a character you'd feel sorry for.

An interesting power she has though.

You all should get a kick out of more negative effects from Sari's key, and it even failed to function once.

Didn't the whole, "Oh she's not showing up on my scanner, let's just go home." thing bug anyone else? It was really un-Optimus...

I saw nothing whatsoever indicating that she was his girlfriend.

good stuff, on par with, if not better than Thrill of the Hunt.

Sentinel's "energon-y goodness" like was very reminiscent of "The Tick"

The Elita-1 thing was a nice twist for the mythos, another awesome episode all around, I'm glad like others have said that Sari's overuse of the key is finally being acted upon. also damn Sentinel really is the tick, energony goodness indeed.

FanOfTransformers can not upload fast enough...

At once too much exposition and not enough; maybe I need to watch it again. A very good episode overall.

Actually looks like they based her off her 'War Dawn' look, rather the her current look with the funky lookign helmet.

Well, Optimus was deeply hurt that she was dead (she wasn't dead) back on Planet Spider, not to mention Blackarachnia does cry at the end, which I'm guessing that means the two of them have feelings for each other.

Sentinel Plow was much more Tick-like than he was in the pilot.

I'm kinda cheated that we never got to see Elita-1 transform.

crap...I just missed it, and i was up in time on a saturday to watch too.

oh well *waits for torrent*

Yeah, I was thining the same thing. He didnt sound much like the Tick in his brief appearance in the premier, but here, you can defiantly tell its the same VA.

Actually seems more like she was with Sentinel, considering the way he was acting when they left her.

Yeah I know. But, she was Optimus' girlfriend in the G1 series.

The way those two interact - especially when she's Blackarachnia and going up against him - you definitely get SOME kind of tension. There's something going on there, but I don't think they were dating at least. More like the robot equivelant of unresolved sexual tension.

Blackarachnia is built very well.

Did anyone catch Bulkhead's sexual innuendo at the end?

That was hilarious.

That was pretty good. Don't really have much to say.

It makes me want the toys even more, though. Energony goodness!

Well, holy crap.

BW Black Arachnia is dead to me. Forget that self-centered bitch. MUCH better character.

The implications of this episode are HUGE. Now we know why Optimus ditched the academy, and why he won't talk about it, we know why Sentinel hates his guts, we have a potential love triangle, we have ENERGON CUBES, and did we mention, SARIS KEY HAS CONSEQUENCES.

Did you see it? THe key can literally drain the life-force from *all* organic life. If Megatron got his hands on that - well, bye-bye Earth.

It would have been a perfect episode but for a few small things. FIrst, Prowl and Ratchet were entirely absent. Wonder what they're doing while the Giant Spider is terrorizing everybody. Secondly, while cute, the whole Halloween bit kinda distracted from the overall feel of the episode. I know they made one side of it light-hearted to try and combat all the, well, darkness that went on this episode, but it just detracted, IMO.

But save those, it was excellent. Not quite Thrill of the Hunt, but right behind it. Man, Animated can do no wrong, at this point.

Speak for yourself, Fwiff. It provided a decent explanation for Prime to angst at the beginning and gave us some genuinely fun moments, I say.

I didn't think this episode was particularly good. Certainly nowhere in the league of "The Thrill of the Hunt." I'm not really sure how to explain it, but it felt... lacking. It just didn't grab me. And am I the only one bothered by the fact that both of the female Transformers we've seen on this show have been portrayed as victims?

at least Ani: BA gets to be a victim that's a spider the size of a firetruck.

Not in the slightest, as it's a common storytelling device to use female characters as a means of gleaning pathos. It's not sexism so much as it is a sort of innate way of evoking an emotional response from the audience.

Dude, we've been indundated with TF female stereotypes since 'The Search For Alpha Trion' waltzed it way onto the screen 20 years ago. If she's not a Pink Princess, she's the cold-heartless 'bitch'. If it's only just *now* starting to bug you, then you haven't kept up.

Well spiders are a part of Halloween, so it made sense. The potential love triangle is a good idea, however, upon seeing the episode, I'm leaning towards an Optimus PrimeXBlackarachnia coupling.

True that us poor wittle women get to be the victims. But BA has now turned Darth Vader instead of just thanking the men for being saved. Also something new! Both times, the men have failed to save the women! Ratchet couldn't save Arcee and now this!...Guys suck =D

Edit- Even going back to G1. Prime kinda screwed over the femms too when he just kinda left them to fend for themselves. And then Eilta-1 saves him in the end.

So Blackarachnia is so disgusted with her organic body that she's taken to wearing an old Decepticon helmet that was left behind in the ship. I hope she doesn't look like Transmetal BA under there.

Torrents up!

wow, i really liked that episode.

i know i ask this a lot, but.. when do the dvds come out again? XD

Not soon enough!

That friggin rocked. I'll comment more later when I have more time, but man, that was pretty awesome.

yeah that was a a dang good ep

Is it just me or do I get Heroes vibes from Lockdown and BA in terms of powers.

Lockdown - slice and dice, Sylar

BA - Peter Petrelli , power mimic without the whole permanent powers.

Woah, that was great! I really liked Blackarachnia's hidden insecurity bits, and Bumblebee's costume was great.

I did. But only on the second viewing.

I loved the episode. Some great characterization there, and I loved Sari's and Bulkhead's costumes. Nice to see that not every one of the main cast has to be on every episode too.

Bulkhead's jaw becoming loose and then falling off was priceless!

I also really liked the VA for BA even though I usually don't like her voice over work. Nice to see they remain consistant with using the Cybertron modes where they belong.

I like how Blackarachnia was crying at the end, showing her organic side since Bulkhead didn't know what crying was in the pilot movie.

Randy

Eeek! I just remembered something! In the first flash back Op mentioned that organic planets are off limit. Earth is an organic planet! Ooooo, someone's in trooooubleeeee.

PS. Who thinks that if Sentinal ever ends up on Earth he should act like a parasite and that OP should be very blunt about pointing that out?

Her crying makes her one of the most developed characters I have seen (well, all of them are well-developed). I don't like it when Sentinel was holding Elita! Gross! Right before the end, I thought for a moment, BA and Optimus were going to kiss each other!

BA's powers reminded me of Rogue from X-Men without the whole keeping the memories of others bit.

The part where I said "this show" indicates that I was talking about, you know, this show. Also, we have had female Transformers who don't fall into either of the two categories you describe. Freedom fighters, legendary generals, planetary leaders, etc. I would have liked to have seen female Autobots on Animated in those sorts of roles, but so far we're two for two on the "girl robot = victim" score, and I find that disappointing.

Face full of foam. Omg, even I'M blushing, and I'm old XD!

Why is everyone calling BA a victim? Acree was cause she was literally helpless on the floor with a leg missing waiting to be saved. Just like any chick in a horror movie. You know the one that falls over nothing and then just can't seem to get back up right as the killer is slowly walking towards them? But BA just got the short end of the stick with that one. It dosn't matter if she's the female, it would have been the same thing if Prime fell. No rescue needed cause the whole ship is going to explode! Que the Avenue Q' song, It Sucks To Be Me!