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It's all the cocaine.

Energon is almost a reverse of Armada. It starts strong but faceplants hard. But whereas Armada turns things around halfway through the show, Energon's "good part" ends after like five episodes. I'd argue that Armada ends on such a high note and in such a way that a sequel isn't even needed...

Armada is a tale of two halves. The first half is very formulaic and riddled with a lot of errors on the VA side because of how rushed the dub was. The show finds its footing once Unicron starts to become a bigger factor, though. All in all there's a lot I adore about Armada and I feel like...

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SAFE SPACE 😠 😛 Kidding aside... there's definitely a horror element to G1 Unicron but outside of that opening scene it's really not what I'd call "cosmic" or "Lovecraftian." There are scary elements sure, but Unicron ultimately ends up as an obstacle who wants the...

Oh it absolutely does... but the rest of the film kinda lets its down.

ML/Armada are the only take on Unicron that felt like a proper cosmic horror. '86 kinda gets there... but not quite.

Megatron makes all of his troops commit to crossfit

G1 Optimus: Freedom is the right of all sentient beings! Also G1 Optimus: DIE DECEPITCON SCUM! I kid, but I did find Unicron goading Optimus on in the final arc of Armada, about how despite his peaceful proclamations he was just as guilty as perpetuating war as Megatron was... and Optimus...

All of this does prod at the question of how things like "family" and "ancestry" even work with Cybertronians, but tbh this was a thing even back in G1. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were brothers going back to the first wave of G1 toys/characters. It's a weird aspect of the franchise that has...

My favourite cases of stuff like this came from RiD '01 (the show that got me into the online fandom) and Armada. RiD '01 gave us the theories that Darkscream was a reformatted Starscream that Megatron had messed with to make him more obedient, Skybyte was a reformatted Skywarp promoted because...

BM I'm pretty sure? EDIT It's the BM episode Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search. Optimus Primal refers to Optimus Prime as his "ancestor."

I took it literally. I was nine, and Optimus Primal was confirmed to be Optimus Prime's descendent, so Rattrap being Arcee's great nephew wasn't that nuts.

As I said, fandom gonna fandom. BW especially seems full of stuff that wasn't meant to be taken literally but ended up being so. Probably because it was in that sweet spot of having the internet around where fans could circulate stuff easily but before social media so creators couldn't correct...

The BotCon 2013 art for MW Hoist made him a medic and I had an extra Ratchet Red Cross sticker from ToyHax hanging around... "Welcome to the dark side" and "spawn of Unicron" weren't meant to be taken literally either, but fandom fandom'd and here we are.

"John, I think it's for the best if we don't talk politics anymore."

Hopefully this helps out our British friends... G1/BW Family Reunions "Backpacks and grey guns are a family tradition, mister!"

Dog People vs Cat People

I'd say Megatronus is toy of the year for me. He's big and bulky and substantial in a way Leader class figures haven't been in years. If cutting a toyline down from three to two years spreads a hypothetical third year of budget across the two to bump stuff up a bit more? Let's just do that...

When the magic and advanced tech jams, Doom pulls out the Luger to finish.

I've lived here for nine years and I'm still floored by the "Beware of Alligators" sign that's within walking distance of my place. My Canadian heart can't fathom it.