The Energon Pub

News Credits: 5749 · Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:02 pm

The promo for next week's episode of Transformers Prime, "Deus Ex Machina" has already hit YouTube. In next week's episode:

Miko and Bulkhead go up against Starscream and Breakdown as they go to Greece to retrieve an Energon Harvester.

Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:30 pm

I am loving this series more and more

News Credits: 4 · Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:59 pm

An energon harvester in Greece? Um, ok. I really don't know whether to be excited or disappointing. (Ah what the hey? I'll be excited. I mean, this is Transformers right?)

Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:32 pm

Ok they really need to eliminate agent Fowler's involvement in this series. It astonishes me, that the kids involvement actually feels less forced than his. He's a fat, middle aged, federal agent for scrap sake! Why the heck is he flying around in a jet without a flight suit on half of the time?! His character would better serve as an informant for the Autobots, and they could possibly have some other trained commandos acting in his character's place.

As for the kids... I don't know. Animated pretty much fixed the "let's tack on a kid relatable human character for no reason" problem, by making Sari turn out to be a Cybertronian. Actually... what if Raf turned out to be Cybertronian? I mean it would make some sense, seeing as how he's a super genius and can somehow understand "Bumblebeeps". Of course, it would mean blatantly recycling something from another recent series... oh wait.

Also why is MECH not called Machination? That's basically what they look like (what they should be anyway). It'd be nice if they'd start being creative with the names in this show rather than using tacky dumbed down junk, seriously it sounds like fanfics I used to write.

Anyway, I still don't hate the show, but it could definitely use some work.

Huh... Why did I use so much bold? I've been reading to many comics... :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1 · Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:20 am

I have to agree that Fowler is a pretty weak link.

But, I thought this week's episode was the best one since the mini-series.

It still suffered from a predictable story, and lack of characterization, but something about it clicked a lot more than the last couple.

The whole show is still better than the movies, though.

Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:40 am

oh Primus if your up there please let this be a episode where Miko is critically injured you owe me that much since you had to have Prime save her and Jack last episode. Just please this once make me like this show

Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:15 am

This show is beyond epic!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:14 pm

An extended version of this promo by the Hub's YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKioHgNFWF4&feature=feedu

News Credits: 5749 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:21 pm

The Hub has uploaded a new extended promo for this week's episode of Transformers Prime, "Deus Ex Machina". Bulkhead and Miko travel to Greece to obtain an Energon Harvestor, but not if Starscream and Breakdown have anything to do with it. The new extended promo is embedded below.

Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:28 pm

It's good to see that they are moving away from the boring deserts and canyons of earlier episodes, and they are getting out of that base. It's getting better but it still feel like it's missing something. It's lacking life.

News Credits: 37 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:36 pm

That's not a harvester, that's a Piece of Eden! Stupid Autobots. It looks like a Piece of Eden it does the same damn thing a Piece of Eden does too. They're getting their universes mixed up.

Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:44 pm

I can't wait to see this one! I'm really enjoying the show; I think it's going to be a great series! I hope it has a long run. :PRAY:

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:12 pm

Just out of curiosity, how many of you folks bitching about this series are between the ages of 5 and 12?

Yeah, that's about what I thought... :BANG_HEAD:

They're doing better with this series than I thought they would. I know my kids get a kick out of watching me watch the show because there are little bits that they slip in (just like TFA) that pay tribute to G1 but at the same time this is absolutely NOTHING like G1 so the younger generation gets something that is predominantly their own. The more I watch of this show, the more I find myself wanting to go back and catch up on TFA episodes that I missed simply because it is so different from everything else.

Instead of nitpicking it to death either embrace it or walk away from it entirely.

Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:01 pm

I currently think Beast Wars is the most awesome TF series to date. I remember as a teen getting bored with the show because it initially had nothing to do with G1. Being older I can look back and appreciate the animation compared to other shows at that time (and even now). I can appreciate that they linked it back to G1 and the plot being more mature than other series. Also that there were no humans in the main cast.

Currently I think this show has started off pretty slow (I'm not including the pilot, that was awesome). I'd like to see more interaction between main Autobot characters and main Decepticon characters. Starscream has always been a favorite of mine and it's good that they show that he can be a competent leader at times. It would be good to see him and Optimus or somebody interact. I'd also like to see Soundwave talk or have inner monologue, perhaps serving Megatron on the outside but basically blackmailing everyone else for his own gain, and perhaps one day strike out on his own.

I think if the show gets to run as long as Beast Wars or G1, we can look back and say it was a very good show.

I was initially disappointed to see them introduce a human villain so early, then presently surprised that it was "Lex Luthor".

The Question was also one of my favs on JLU. Actually my favorite scene there was between Lex and Q.

Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:28 pm

I know that this is a standalone series, and I'm just thinking: Maybe the Sun/Energon Harvester in Greece is not a Starkiller weapon/device like the version in rotf, but one of many locally (on a global level) planted devices. Earth, in this series, was an Energon storage depot after all, no?.I was expecting repository after repository of Energon cubes, but why not a light scattering of "Pieces of Eden" as Sly nicknames them/it.

I know there's no confirmation that ANY such artefact exists in Egypt in Prime, (and that we'll have to watch to find out), but I'm just musing that the show is now twice as old as its' pilot series, so I'm wondering if there'll be a major plot-hook for the main storyline every 5 episodes or so.

(The hook? Nothing, yet. But with the Space-Bridge to Cybertron and the Decep Energon mine gone, this artefact, if preserved in the episode, can later fuel another Space Bridge),or even Counterbomb the next zombie battlefield that gets bombed with Dark Energon to nullify the Dark Energon and 'kill out' the Zombies).

{Provided it can store like a battery.Also, it might be an "Energon Harvester" rather than a "Sun Harvester",potentially able to absorb Energon from Rock,rivers,etc rather than collapse a Sun (crossref: the accidental naming of Vehicon as Eradicon).

We'll see.Propably way off, but yeah, the alternative is that it's a poopy version of a Sun Harvester and then these writers are getting ridiculous.

Then again, if Earth was an Energon storage depot during the great war, maybe this 'piece of Eden' is what any Star Harvester looks like after it's been fired up? Point being it was fired up in another system then stored on Earth?

Just sayin.We'll all find out together.

News Credits: 5749 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:57 pm

Yahoo! Kids has a new clip of this week's episode of Transformers Prime, "Deus Ex Machina". We finally get a good look at Breakdown as he faces off with Bulkhead. It seems like the two have a bit of history. We also get a brief glimpse of Breakdown's new alt mode. To view the video click here!

News Credits: 5 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:39 pm

Pretty impressive throwing Bulkhead around like that.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:49 pm

Wow. Do I feel underwhelmed with Breakdown's alt-mode. Big, bad Breakdown just handed Bulkhead his ass then transforms into a very average looking Jeep and trundles off at a very pedestrian looking speed. I genuinely expected a loud bang and a cloud of smoke to come out of the exhaust.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:53 pm

Too bad I don't get the Hub. This series actually seems like it might be pretty decent.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:52 am

So Breakdown is ganna be a jeep (or something along those lines) eh?
Dont really know how I feel about that yet. Cant wait to see this one, it better be awesome seeing how this is the last one for a few weeks.

PhunkJunkion wrote:Too bad I don't get the Hub. This series actually seems like it might be pretty decent.

You can watch them on YouTube. I dont have cable so thats were I watch 'em.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:13 pm

Looking foward to this episode!

News Credits: 5749 · Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:34 pm

Just a quick reminder that the latest episode of Transformers Prime, "Deus Ex Machina", will air this afternoon at 6:30 Eastern/ 3:30 Pacific on the Hub! Bulkhead and Miko race to Greece to retrieve an Energon Harvestor, but Starscream and Breakdown have their own plans for the powerful device. This episode's promo is embedded below, and if you want to get a closer look at Breakdown visit Yahoo! Kids by clicking here!

Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:42 pm

Last one for a few weeks? damn... whens it going to restart again. I hate it when shows take breaks, urgh, the walking dead is driving me nuts.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:58 pm

Turned out to be a good episode. I'm ready for Megatron to be repaired so the story gets moving but this is a really good show! Too bad we have to wait a few weeks for next episode; we didn't even get a preview... :-x