Transformers: Robots in Disguise is nearing its season finale. Which means that they need to bring everything to the fore from the backburner. The finale ought to be good.
Everyone but Fixit and the Clays are out looking for Decepticons that can point them to the island. In what becomes a running theme for the episode, Bumblebee and Optimus butt heads over the proper course of action. Bee’s plan wins out and they cut through the woods, eventually finding Clampdown running scared from something.
That something turns out to be Ratchet and his silent Minicon buddy. He was functionally exiled due to differences with other Cybertronians; they believed that everything Optimus did was wrong, and ultimately left them worse off than before. His efforts to change their minds didn’t exactly endear him to them and he wound up on Earth hunting down Decepticons.
When I said that Optimus and Bee are in contention, I’m not joking. Even Ratchet notices that Optimus is trying to assert authority over Bee. Optimus brushes Ratchet’s suggestion off, though, as he’s certain that the situation is beyond Bee’s burgeoning leadership. Bee, on the other hand refuses to actually talk it out; he still tries to assert authority, but refuses to risk alienating his mentor by hashing it out at this time.
Their interrogation of Clampdown produces no results; he passes out like the previous Decepticons they captured before they get anything out of him. Lucky for them one of the Minicons the Decepticons enslaved broke free and made it to them, providing the location of the island. And the story of how so many Decepticons got out. The Alchemor split in half as it was crashing, and the awoken Decepticons overpowered the other jailers, using inhibitor collars to keep them from transforming or deploying their weapons.
They hatch a plan to use some of their excess cryo gas to immobilize the Decepticons on the ship, which itself becomes a point of contention between Bee and Optimus. Their plan to even get on the ship in the first place requires Grimlock to fake being one of the crew just to get them close enough. They brought the escaped Minicon, named Toolbox, along with them to guide them. This winds up being a mistake.
The room quickly floods with the population of the ship, including Steeljaw and a very subservient Saberhorn and Glowstrike. See, They hadn’t realized that sending Steeljaw to procure power for them is like asking the fat kid to guard the pie. They actually thought that he’d hand over the Decepticon Hunters after getting them free of storage. It took him giving them the look for the realization to set in that the dynamic of power between the three of them had fundamentally changed to his advantage in less than 20 seconds.
He tells Bee and the team to stand down. After all, they wouldn’t want things getting messy. And then the cliffhanger hits.
Transformers: Robots in Disguise is pulling the usual two-parter format for this one. So, I guess I won’t have much else to say until next week.
Final Thoughts:
- The realization that they have both Peter Cullen and Jim Cummings at the same time is fascinating to me.
- The fact that all of the Minicons from the Alchemor know each other to some degree from before their modifications is hilarious.
- Toolbox is an unintentionally funny name.
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