The Secret of Omega Supreme 35 Years Later
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:02 pm
Greetings All,
Admittedly this anniversary would have totaly passed me by if not for the Golden Lagoon releases a couple of days ago. So anyway, today was the day, 35 years ago that my personal favorite episode of the original series first aired.
"The Secret of Omega Supreme" written by David Wise (R.I.P.)
I wont bore you with a synopsis, but here is a link if you are unfamiliar
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Secret_of_Omega_Supreme_(episode)
Admittedly I may or may not have seen it on it's first TV debut. I do recall being in the 4th grade, and after school competing with my female cousin who was 2 years younger than me for TV time after school (She-Ra aired at the same time on a different channel).
But I loved seeing this episode, and like to think (although completely untrue), that somehow I willed it into existence, or maybe I was just savvy to Hasbro's marketing strategy. .
Anyway, i was a couple months late to Transformers. I read the first comic (and didn't pic it up again until issue #25), but I was all in on the toys and cartoon from late in season 1 (Ultimate Doom 3 parter was the first episodes I saw). I quickly got caught up in reruns though.
When my friends and I saw the 1985 toy catalogue in the spring, I was instantly drawn to Omega, and that giant sparkler Fireball he was blasting at the Decepticons was awesome!
My first favorites were the Dinobots, but since they had been beaten by Devastator in Heavy Metal War, 9 year old me was livid that there was no Giant Autobot to challenge him. Now I seemingly got my wish. Seeing Omega Supreme in the opening of Season 2 gave me greater hope as he seemed awesome and powerful stomping Blitzwing flat.
I did catch his first few appearances (Blaster Blues & The God Gambit), and I was impressed. Golden Lagoon however kind of got me down, although the Decepticons "cheated" to beat him . I doubted that an Omega vs Devastator battle would ever happen, but "The Secret" gave me everything I wanted, all wrapped around an intriguing origin story (which admittedly had to retcon some ideas about the constructicons).
Omega had the exact Power, and personality I pretty much envisioned, and I'm glad this has pretty much carried through to today with an appearance in Siege on Netflix earlier this.
year.
This episode also had a Giant Monster, which got the Godzilla fan in me excited, and one of the settings was in San Francisco, a city I grew up just across the Bay From and visited many times. So needless to say, I felt this episode was written JUST for me, and am glad it exists.
It's not perfect, every time Megatron says "Energy Juice" I die a little bit on the inside, but overall I find the episode to be amazingly fun even 35 years later. If you all have 22 minutes to spare sometime this afternoon/evening go give it a watch.
Admittedly this anniversary would have totaly passed me by if not for the Golden Lagoon releases a couple of days ago. So anyway, today was the day, 35 years ago that my personal favorite episode of the original series first aired.
"The Secret of Omega Supreme" written by David Wise (R.I.P.)
I wont bore you with a synopsis, but here is a link if you are unfamiliar
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Secret_of_Omega_Supreme_(episode)
Admittedly I may or may not have seen it on it's first TV debut. I do recall being in the 4th grade, and after school competing with my female cousin who was 2 years younger than me for TV time after school (She-Ra aired at the same time on a different channel).
But I loved seeing this episode, and like to think (although completely untrue), that somehow I willed it into existence, or maybe I was just savvy to Hasbro's marketing strategy. .
Anyway, i was a couple months late to Transformers. I read the first comic (and didn't pic it up again until issue #25), but I was all in on the toys and cartoon from late in season 1 (Ultimate Doom 3 parter was the first episodes I saw). I quickly got caught up in reruns though.
When my friends and I saw the 1985 toy catalogue in the spring, I was instantly drawn to Omega, and that giant sparkler Fireball he was blasting at the Decepticons was awesome!
My first favorites were the Dinobots, but since they had been beaten by Devastator in Heavy Metal War, 9 year old me was livid that there was no Giant Autobot to challenge him. Now I seemingly got my wish. Seeing Omega Supreme in the opening of Season 2 gave me greater hope as he seemed awesome and powerful stomping Blitzwing flat.
I did catch his first few appearances (Blaster Blues & The God Gambit), and I was impressed. Golden Lagoon however kind of got me down, although the Decepticons "cheated" to beat him . I doubted that an Omega vs Devastator battle would ever happen, but "The Secret" gave me everything I wanted, all wrapped around an intriguing origin story (which admittedly had to retcon some ideas about the constructicons).
Omega had the exact Power, and personality I pretty much envisioned, and I'm glad this has pretty much carried through to today with an appearance in Siege on Netflix earlier this.
year.
This episode also had a Giant Monster, which got the Godzilla fan in me excited, and one of the settings was in San Francisco, a city I grew up just across the Bay From and visited many times. So needless to say, I felt this episode was written JUST for me, and am glad it exists.
It's not perfect, every time Megatron says "Energy Juice" I die a little bit on the inside, but overall I find the episode to be amazingly fun even 35 years later. If you all have 22 minutes to spare sometime this afternoon/evening go give it a watch.