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Divide and Conquer

Plot Summary:

Optimus Prime is injured in a battle, and then mortally wounded in the repair bay by Laserbeak, who destroys his vital Cosmotron component. Several Autobots and Chip Chase must travel to Cybertron to obtain a new Cosmotron from Wheeljack's old laboratory.

Best Dialogue:

Spike: "Ravage! Bad kitty!"

Watch For...

Starscream, not Skywarp, teleporting.

Rumble vanishes for a frame or two at one point.

Comments:

Really, really, nice sense of scale early on in the show in the pan up from a kneeling Spike to Prime's torso.

Why aren't the humans affected by the acid rain on Cybertron?

As a means of stopping Autobot resistance, taking out Optimus Prime seems to be a fantastically effective strategy, because when the Decepticons attack the Ark near the end of the episode the Autobots just stand there! Including Prowl, and isn't he supposed to be a master strategist? One would expect that even in shock he should be able to come up with something even as basic as "Go out there and shoot them." For all the flack Ultra Magnus gets, at least after Prime died in the movie he was able to come up with something of a plan, even if it was just "Get on the shuttles and run away." Which, quite frankly, when you're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no defenses left, is not a bad idea. Grief has its place and all, but not when it gets you killed.

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