We watched (among a couple of other episodes) Carnage in C-Minor tonight. This episode is widely known for having some bad artwork goofs, such as Ultra Magnus being able to pick up constructicons in each hand, or Brawn (who is supposed to be dead) in a battle scene. But don't think those are the only problems! This episode has terrible artwork all around. A lot of times, even the framing or composition of scenes is egregiously bad. There are, for example, close ups of three characters' faces, but the one on the far right's head is half cut off. Or there are scenes that should be in close up (when the shot changes, and only one character talks in the entire shot) but it's in long view, and the character that's talking is in the background and off-center. Some of the transformers are drawn in a style that's of GoBot quality (Broadside especially).

There is one interesting thing (to me, at least) about Carnage in C-Minor. I remember very little about these shows from my childhood, and especially few specifics in particular. But I did remember a scene where Galvatron wanted to hurt a woman, but she was unconscious so he didn't bother, as it wouldn't have hurt her. That was from this episode.


FO tells me that a lot of TransFans consider Dark Awakening to at least be the best Season 3 episode, maybe even the best Transformers episode ever. Well, it's just a non-event (it's not even the best of the season 3 episodes we've seen so far; the claim that it's the best Transformers ever is absolutely preposterous). The plot is that, since Optimus Prime is dead, the quintessons can reprogram him like any other machine. That's it. There are some moments when remnants of Optimus tries to fight what the quintessons have reprogrammed him to do, which has all the drama of a guy trying to fight his hand that wants to strangle him in a slapstick routine. One thing about this episode is really illogical. The quintessons want Optimus to fly a ship (which has autobots in it) into an asteroid, which they have rigged to explode. The autobots escape, but the ship is still on course for the asteroid. But now the quintessons are terrified of the asteroid exploding and killing them! WTF??

I LOOOOOOVE Flying Omelette!!
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