"Autobots... transform, and get down!"
From YouTube's description of Transformers: Cyberworld Episode 28, "Everybody Dance, Ow!":
Looks like we've gone back to traveling backwards through time, as episodes 27, 26, and 25 are attached to the end here. I still want to know if anyone actually watches these that way. And if they do, are they able to make any sense of it?
Now, as per usual, here's my recap/review:
Well, this is going to be easy, lucky for me. There's really not a lot to say on this one.
The episode starts where we left off, with Optimus and Wheeljack in the darkness of a game, preparing to answer the call of duty by engaging in mortal com-- no, not doing all that. Anyway, they expect a fight, but what they get -- as you can probably guess by literally everything on this page up to this point -- is a dance off. A combination of Dance Dance Revolution with an obstacle course, to be more precise.
They're soon joined by Elita and Bumblebee, and while the rest are on guard, Bumblebee is more in his element. Eventually, Optimus and the others start to catch on, and start busting out some fancy footwork to deal with and avoid the targets and obstacles as they come.
And really, that's most of the point of this episode: To get to watch them show off. They muse a bit more about being in Cyberworld versus getting back to Cybertron, or if there is even still a Cybertron to go back to, and Optimus gets more flashbacks and guilt over possibly being the one to consign them whatever this place is. But there's not really much new there, so it winds up being more about watching them dance.
Which is fine. It looks good. It's fun. There's just not a whole lot to say about it.
Oh, there is the 2D art of our heroes on the scoreboard. That's pretty schway.
By the end, it's down to Bumblebee and Optimus, and it looks like Bumblebee finally has enough of Optimus being down on himself, and lets himself get eliminated, leaving OP the winner and letting him get some Energon back.
As it turns out, though, Bumblebee didn't just leave the game. Back out in Cyberworld, he's taken the initiative by doing what Prime always said: He transforms and rolls out, leaving Big Bot to do the same to go after him, ordering the others to stay there.
And that's where we leave.
So yeah, I feel bad saying this, because it looks like someone had a blast making this, and for what it is, it is a well-made episode. It just doesn't really do much to progress anything except for pissing Bumblebee off to lead us into the next episode. Which, you know... fine, I guess?
But they're really drip-feeding this mystery to us, and we have eight episodes left before the season finale. Sure, they got picked up for another, and they have a tight turnaround on these things, but I hope that doesn't mean they're going to stretch this mystery out even longer into the next season before giving us some actual answers to what's going on around here.
Anyway, if you decide you want to skip this for whatever reason, you'll miss some fun dance stuff, but not much else.
The episode starts where we left off, with Optimus and Wheeljack in the darkness of a game, preparing to answer the call of duty by engaging in mortal com-- no, not doing all that. Anyway, they expect a fight, but what they get -- as you can probably guess by literally everything on this page up to this point -- is a dance off. A combination of Dance Dance Revolution with an obstacle course, to be more precise.
They're soon joined by Elita and Bumblebee, and while the rest are on guard, Bumblebee is more in his element. Eventually, Optimus and the others start to catch on, and start busting out some fancy footwork to deal with and avoid the targets and obstacles as they come.
And really, that's most of the point of this episode: To get to watch them show off. They muse a bit more about being in Cyberworld versus getting back to Cybertron, or if there is even still a Cybertron to go back to, and Optimus gets more flashbacks and guilt over possibly being the one to consign them whatever this place is. But there's not really much new there, so it winds up being more about watching them dance.
Which is fine. It looks good. It's fun. There's just not a whole lot to say about it.
Oh, there is the 2D art of our heroes on the scoreboard. That's pretty schway.
By the end, it's down to Bumblebee and Optimus, and it looks like Bumblebee finally has enough of Optimus being down on himself, and lets himself get eliminated, leaving OP the winner and letting him get some Energon back.
As it turns out, though, Bumblebee didn't just leave the game. Back out in Cyberworld, he's taken the initiative by doing what Prime always said: He transforms and rolls out, leaving Big Bot to do the same to go after him, ordering the others to stay there.
And that's where we leave.
So yeah, I feel bad saying this, because it looks like someone had a blast making this, and for what it is, it is a well-made episode. It just doesn't really do much to progress anything except for pissing Bumblebee off to lead us into the next episode. Which, you know... fine, I guess?
But they're really drip-feeding this mystery to us, and we have eight episodes left before the season finale. Sure, they got picked up for another, and they have a tight turnaround on these things, but I hope that doesn't mean they're going to stretch this mystery out even longer into the next season before giving us some actual answers to what's going on around here.
Anyway, if you decide you want to skip this for whatever reason, you'll miss some fun dance stuff, but not much else.
So, what did you think? Catch anything I didn't? Feel free to talk about this episode here, or the series as a whole over in the "Transformers CyberWorld: Optimus Has Fallen and He Can't Get Up" (which inspired the title for this post) thread in our forums!
