Dweller in Depths is one of my favorites as well, it was one of the season 3 episodes I had taped off of tv, and so I watched it over and over again along with Forever is a Long Time Coming & Five Faces of Darkness. These episodes really ingrained in me a love of adventures on Cybertron and Cybertonina Mythos/history. I can confidently say I've seen this one over 100 times in my life!
This one has a lot of great moments & Galvatron one-liners, and I also dug the Vampire/Zombie mash-up that the Dweller offered. I really can't believe that a 3rd Party company hasn't released a set of Trans-Organics for "legends scale" figures. I would be all over that. Most of the episode is really strong, including the final twilight zone ending of the Quints getting seemingly destroyed by the creature they unleashed. That helps paper over the "we have to form a chain" moment of holding hands and solving everything. That moment along with the Rodimus/Springer animation error, are the lone skid marks on an otherwise perfect episode. It has always taken me out of the story & seemed pretty hokey. If the episode ended right then and there I'd be pretty disappointed, that little karma piece to end on results in the episode ending back on a strong note. I'm thinking that using a massive energy pulse to fill the room with energy to cure them of their deficiency would've been better. It would've accomplished the same thing without the carebear hand holding feeling, but maybe that's just me. (maybe use Blaster and some booster to amplify the energy, similar to the speakers enhancing his sound output in his battle against Soundwave in Autobop).
I would've loved a follow-up story on this one, where we see the Quints' ranks decimated by the beast, and that's why the Quints are no longer a threat after the conclusion of season 3.
As for the Prime episode, I've never seen it, I just haven't been able to ever get into the Prime series, I tried to sporadically watch it when it was original airing on the Hub, as well as sit down and watch it on Netflix, and I just can never make it more than about halfway through season 1 before I lose interest and move on to something else. The combination of small yet uninteresting (to me) cast, the animation style, or the plot heavy human involvement is just too many hurdles for me to overcome. You can do a lot of awesome Transformers stories with a small band of characters (just like Dweller in the Depths did) but Prime never seemed to make the characters interesting enough for me to latch on, and I just despise all kids in Transformers episodes (Armada permanently broke me).
As for other Halloween themed Transformers comic stories, did you guys ever cover the G2 story "Ghosts"? This was a back-up story drawn by Geoff Senior, that I believe was in issue #2 of the G2 comic, but it was also released as a free promo Halloween Special Edition comic, I believe at Gamestop?
If you haven't already covered it, it gives you one more piece of Transformers Halloween material to cover at some point.
Awesome episode!
ReplyDeleteDweller in Depths is one of my favorites as well, it was one of the season 3 episodes I had taped off of tv, and so I watched it over and over again along with Forever is a Long Time Coming & Five Faces of Darkness. These episodes really ingrained in me a love of adventures on Cybertron and Cybertonina Mythos/history. I can confidently say I've seen this one over 100 times in my life!
This one has a lot of great moments & Galvatron one-liners, and I also dug the Vampire/Zombie mash-up that the Dweller offered. I really can't believe that a 3rd Party company hasn't released a set of Trans-Organics for "legends scale" figures. I would be all over that. Most of the episode is really strong, including the final twilight zone ending of the Quints getting seemingly destroyed by the creature they unleashed. That helps paper over the "we have to form a chain" moment of holding hands and solving everything. That moment along with the Rodimus/Springer animation error, are the lone skid marks on an otherwise perfect episode. It has always taken me out of the story & seemed pretty hokey. If the episode ended right then and there I'd be pretty disappointed, that little karma piece to end on results in the episode ending back on a strong note. I'm thinking that using a massive energy pulse to fill the room with energy to cure them of their deficiency would've been better. It would've accomplished the same thing without the carebear hand holding feeling, but maybe that's just me. (maybe use Blaster and some booster to amplify the energy, similar to the speakers enhancing his sound output in his battle against Soundwave in Autobop).
I would've loved a follow-up story on this one, where we see the Quints' ranks decimated by the beast, and that's why the Quints are no longer a threat after the conclusion of season 3.
As for the Prime episode, I've never seen it, I just haven't been able to ever get into the Prime series, I tried to sporadically watch it when it was original airing on the Hub, as well as sit down and watch it on Netflix, and I just can never make it more than about halfway through season 1 before I lose interest and move on to something else. The combination of small yet uninteresting (to me) cast, the animation style, or the plot heavy human involvement is just too many hurdles for me to overcome. You can do a lot of awesome Transformers stories with a small band of characters (just like Dweller in the Depths did) but Prime never seemed to make the characters interesting enough for me to latch on, and I just despise all kids in Transformers episodes (Armada permanently broke me).
As for other Halloween themed Transformers comic stories, did you guys ever cover the G2 story "Ghosts"? This was a back-up story drawn by Geoff Senior, that I believe was in issue #2 of the G2 comic, but it was also released as a free promo Halloween Special Edition comic, I believe at Gamestop?
If you haven't already covered it, it gives you one more piece of Transformers Halloween material to cover at some point.
Great Episode!
-Kyle Benning