o.supreme wrote:PrymeStriker wrote:Someoonneee skippped an episooode. 
nah...I saw it, just didn't remember it, that's how good it was.
Really? "The Champ" was one of the highlights from season one for me. Not the best (that prize goes to "W.W.O.D?"), but still a highlight.
PrymeStriker wrote:Except, it's not a throw-away line. It was mentioned three times throughout the two-parter. They clearly want to do something with it, even if it's a B-plot to the Bee plot.
I only heard it once, unless it was mentioned twice in episode 38, which I didn't watch again yet
It was
literally the
entire explanation of why Ratchet was on Earth in the first place, and it was clearly something important considering how much time they spent on explaining how corrupt Cybertron had become. It also explained why Bumblebee wasn't something more prestigious than law enforcement on Cybertron. The dialogue proceeds, so you don't have to rewatch it:
Denny: "What about you, Ratchet? What brought you to our neck of the solar system?"
Ratchet: "After we thought Optimus was no more, I joined others helping rebuild Cybertron. Over time, however, I learned they blamed Optimus and those who followed him for the ruination of our world, and they wanted to forget he ever existed."
Windblade: "That's ridiculous! Optimus's team saved the galaxy!"
Ratchet: "That's what I tried to tell them. In response, I was given a job tracking down war criminals. Undertone, here, became my partner."
Drift: "Essentially, you were
banished."
Ratchet: "Exactly. But it was better than imprisonment, which I feared might be my fate if I had protested."
I also thought it was mentioned at another point during base-time in Part 1, but upon recollection, that might have been that episode's only focus on it. Still, they wouldn't just reveal all this information if it wasn't part of the story in some manner. Otherwise, what's the point of it at all?
Also, one of the recent press releases talked about a "special" this Fall (either the season premiere or something different) where "Optimus Prime takes flight" or some sh** like that. Point is, they're following Optimus for
something, and if he's going back to Cybertron, I
wonder what that something is...PrymeStriker wrote:Are you forgetting that season two had several 3 episodes that Bumblebee wasn't in?
Fixed for accuracy
Those were my favorites btw... aside from the Soundwave episode.
You're right. I was thinking in terms of how many episodes the away team was focused on in general rather than the ones Bee was absent from. That included the premiere and the finale. My point still stands, though: it's not like they're afraid of taking the story somewhere else for a couple episodes.
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