PrymeStriker wrote:The Cybertron council regime isn't the possible beginning of a new, interesting story? 'Cause I'm pretty sure most people got the vibe that they're going to focus on that next season at some point at the very least. Also, faux definitive endings are going to be common place in every finale because the writers are never sure Cartoon Network will allow them to continue another season. I certainly felt by the end of season two that more was to come, and never assumed that there was no "next season". I think the announcement was already out by the time it aired anyway?
I just watched episode 39 again to see if there was anything I missed since it was several weeks ago. Well there was...but it is more of a detraction than an improvement. What was with Simacore? Random color change, and complete different personality, and apparently voiced by John DiMaggio now? Normally I would chalk it up to the fact that there were so many cons with similar body types, but the fact that he went after Grimlock for his "trophy" clearly indicated it was a callback from episode 32 "Brainpower". DiMaggio is a great VA, but I'm sorry, none of that made sense.
The one throw away line you are referring to is hardly enough to get me excited. At the end of Season 1, Megatronus was soundly defeated and Steeljaw was thrown far off (ala Galvatron in TF:TM or even Serpentor in GIJoe:TM) so you knew he would return, with his team... something to look forward to.
Thus far, the focus of RiD15 has been on BB's team on Earth, which now has basically nothing going on. If however...the focus of the show were to switch to Optimus Prime & Cybertron, that would be amazing...but I don't see that happening considering how hard they tried to build the series around BB. Of course I would love to be wrong.
The announcement of new episodes was basically an "oh by the way" line from toy producers at Botcon which was from April 7th to 10th. Episode 39 aired first on April 16th, then finally on CN May 14th, so I think we can stop with all the spoiler font now. The fact that it was brought to my attention that Hasbro studios didn't even appear at BC this year to promote RiD or Rescue Bots was very disappointing news indeed.