The Energon Pub

[Henry921]

Amongst all the usual pro-Autobot propaganda was this little nugget:

* Airachnid was lured into an Insecticon Stasis Pod by Arcee in season 2.

* Megatron keeps her frozen as a trophy for trying to overthrow him.

So she's still alive, and Megatron is keeping her that way.

I'm sure there is no possible way this could ever come back to bite him in the ass.

[Shadowman]

pro-Autobot propaganda

It isn't propaganda if what they're saying is 100% true.

[Henry921]

Given the humorous nature of the commentary and bizarre estimates on Decepticon troop strength and Predaking's wingspan, I very much doubt any of this is meant to be taken seriously.

Much like me referring to said humorous commentary as 'propaganda'.

[Sabrblade]

Episode 25 had only two Vortexx edits.

1. Oh good grief! They cut out something from the "previously on" episode recap! In the recap, Ratchet says, "Unicron. An ancient evil. Whose fossilized blood comprises the matter which we call Dark Energon." Note that this line was retained in the edited version of last episode. Here, however, they cut out the words "whose fossilized blood comprises the mat", making the line now say "Unicron. An ancient evil. Ter which we call Dark Energon." Yes, they cut the word "matter" in half, leaving Ratchet to only say the second part of it.

2. The new commercial break played immediately after Megatron stepped into the Autobots' GroundBridge portal, coming back in to see Miko being pushed out of the room by Ratchet to keep her and the other humans hidden from Megatron.


Also, despite episode 19 having been skipped by Vortexx, Megatron's line to Jack that referred to their last encounter in that episode was kept fully intact.

[VirusCarnage]

Speaking of Prime episodes re-airing on TV.

Last night I was flipping through channels and found Operation Bumblebee Part 1 playing but it had several extra commercial break the most questionable part about the breaks is that they played the beginning 2 minutes where Megatron reveals the spark extractor then a commercial break then they played the Prime intro and another commercial break the episode ended up playing for 45 minutes somehow.

[Red 50]

Speaking of Prime episodes re-airing on TV.

Last night I was flipping through channels and found Operation Bumblebee Part 1 playing but it had several extra commercial break the most questionable part about the breaks is that they played the beginning 2 minutes where Megatron reveals the spark extractor then a commercial break then they played the Prime intro and another commercial break the episode ended up playing for 45 minutes somehow.

45 minutes?! What are these, about 20-minute episodes? How did they manage to make it twice the length?!

[VirusCarnage]

Speaking of Prime episodes re-airing on TV.

Last night I was flipping through channels and found Operation Bumblebee Part 1 playing but it had several extra commercial break the most questionable part about the breaks is that they played the beginning 2 minutes where Megatron reveals the spark extractor then a commercial break then they played the Prime intro and another commercial break the episode ended up playing for 45 minutes somehow.

45 minutes?! What are these, about 20-minute episodes? How did they manage to make it twice the length?!

On TV they are ually 30 minutes with commericals but they added serveral commerical breaks so it added 15 minutes or so

[King Kuuga]

Where do you live and what network was this on?

[VirusCarnage]

Where do you live and what network was this on?

I live in canada and I think it was on Teletoon but I cant remember to be honest I was just clicking through channels

[King Kuuga]

Canada's weird. There's your problem.

[VirusCarnage]

ouch your just jealous that we watch too much hockey lol

[Red 50]

ouch your just jealous that we watch too much hockey lol

Can't argue with that. Now, let's get back on tracks, shall we?
Now that Predaking's been introduced and beated a few times is he gonna be a whole lot weaker like the other first-time-ultimate-threats (e.g. Insecticons on TFP and Devastator in G1)?

[VirusCarnage]

Now that Predaking's been introduced and beated a few times is he gonna be a whole lot weaker like the other first-time-ultimate-threats (e.g. Insecticons on TFP and Devastator in G1)?

Honestly I think that he is gonna get stronger as time goes on, because he hasn't been shown as much as he should be (Like 5 minutes of screentime) and since he is supposed to be the ultimate autobot hunter I would hope he would be more powerful then a dropship(that's what im calling Magnus' ship).

[Red 50]

Now that Predaking's been introduced and beated a few times is he gonna be a whole lot weaker like the other first-time-ultimate-threats (e.g. Insecticons on TFP and Devastator in G1)?

Honestly I think that he is gonna get stronger as time goes on, because he hasn't been shown as much as he should be (Like 5 minutes of screentime) and since he is supposed to be the ultimate autobot hunter I would hope he would be more powerful then a dropship(that's what im calling Magnus' ship).

Let's hope so because it would really suck if after being that much promoted and hyped up he would just have the said five minutes of glory and then becoming a huge scrappy.
Yeah, he's got too much potential to let it all go to waste.

[Archanubis]

Now that Predaking's been introduced and beated a few times is he gonna be a whole lot weaker like the other first-time-ultimate-threats (e.g. Insecticons on TFP and Devastator in G1)?

Honestly I think that he is gonna get stronger as time goes on, because he hasn't been shown as much as he should be (Like 5 minutes of screentime) and since he is supposed to be the ultimate autobot hunter I would hope he would be more powerful then a dropship(that's what im calling Magnus' ship).

Let's hope so because it would really suck if after being that much promoted and hyped up he would just have the said five minutes of glory and then becoming a huge scrappy.
Yeah, he's got too much potential to let it all go to waste.

I think so too; though it's really Hasbro that's been building him up, not the show's writers (though they did make him fairly powerful in the show).

[Henry921]

I think so too; though it's really Hasbro that's been building him up, not the show's writers (though they did make him fairly powerful in the show).

Predaking still has an enormous amount of unexplored potential, which we'll probably delve into once the other Predacons join the cast.

Still, wish his character development didn't have to rush, but that's a 13 episode season for ya.

[Sabrblade]

I think so too; though it's really Hasbro that's been building him up, not the show's writers (though they did make him fairly powerful in the show).

Predaking still has an enormous amount of unexplored potential, which we'll probably delve into once the other Predacons join the cast.

Still, wish his character development didn't have to rush, but that's a 13 episode season for ya.

Dreadwing only appeared in 11 episodes, with only six of those developing him as a character.

[PrymeStriker]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

[Shadowman]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

Cliffjumper was a fake-out, they did what that to prove that they're treating mortality a bit different from previous series.

[Sabrblade]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

Cliffjumper was a fake-out, they did what that to prove that they're treating mortality a bit different from previous series.

And I still hate that it had to be Cliffjumper instead of someone else to prove that.

[Superwheeljack]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

Cliffjumper was a fake-out, they did what that to prove that they're treating mortality a bit different from previous series.

And I still hate that it had to be Cliffjumper instead of someone else to prove that.

Same here, why didn't they kill bee or arcee?
Oh yeah, bees the most famous tf (That trophy should belong to wheeljack), and killing a girl is sexist when there are 6 other guys on the team

[Sabrblade]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

Cliffjumper was a fake-out, they did what that to prove that they're treating mortality a bit different from previous series.

And I still hate that it had to be Cliffjumper instead of someone else to prove that.

Same here, why didn't they kill bee or arcee?
Oh yeah, bees the most famous tf (That trophy should belong to wheeljack), and killing a girl is sexist when there are 6 other guys on the team

That leaves Bulkhead available.

I honestly wonder how Cliff and Miko would have interacted, since both are fun-loving and full of life.

[Shadowman]

Transformers Prime can't deliver long-term character development for the life of it. Besides, Cliffjumper was hyped up as a huge character, as Predaking is, and look where that got him.

Cliffjumper was a fake-out, they did what that to prove that they're treating mortality a bit different from previous series.

And I still hate that it had to be Cliffjumper instead of someone else to prove that.

It's the Joss Whedon method. Make someone popular, then kill them off to prove a point.

[Sabrblade]

It's the Joss Whedon method. Make someone popular, then kill them off to prove a point.

Thinking about it, was Cliffjumper all that popular before TF: Prime came out?

I mean, Animated Cliffjumper was mostly fanwank, Energon Cliffjumper was a nobody in name only, Armada Cliffjumper was toy-only, Movie Cliffjumper had some comic activity (but not much), G1 Cliffjumper... well, maybe IDW and Fun Pub did use him to a decent extent in their fictions back then, so I guess that could count somewhat.

[Shadowman]

It's the Joss Whedon method. Make someone popular, then kill them off to prove a point.

Thinking about it, was Cliffjumper all that popular before TF: Prime came out?

I mean, Animated Cliffjumper was mostly fanwank, Energon Cliffjumper was a nobody in name only, Armada Cliffjumper was toy-only, Movie Cliffjumper had some comic activity (but not much), G1 Cliffjumper... well, maybe IDW and Fun Pub did use him to a decent extent in their fictions back then, so I guess that could count somewhat.

No, come to think of it, previous incarnations of the character weren't all that big a deal. But with TF Prime, the announcement of the freaking Rock voicing him and some other stuff, they made people excited for him. And then they killed him just to say "We're not screwing around this time."