Autobot Spike

Plot Summary:

Sparkplug cobbles a robot together out of spare Autobot parts, for use as a 'host' to hold Autobot minds while their bodies are being repaired. When Spike is injured during a battle, the concept is put into practice using his mind while his human body undergoes treatment at the hospital. However, the tranfer process is faulty, leaving Spike mentally and emotionally unstable, at the mercy of the violent impulses of his new body.

Best Dialogue:

Brawn: "So you Decepticons like to fly, huh? Well, take off!" (kicks Soundwave into a rocket)

Watch For...

The Autobots consistently use the term 'repair' instead of 'heal' or 'treatment' when referring to the healing of Spike injuries. Nice touch.

Comments:

Spike correctly compares Sparkplug's "Autobot" to "Frankenstein's monster" (emphasis mine), instead of just a "Frankenstein". Frankenstein was the scientist that created the 'monster', not the creature itself, which was never given a name in Shelley's novel.

I can't see a responsible medical professional approving of this. The mad scientist from The Brain That Wouldn't Die maybe.

Wheeljack apparently steals satellite signals in this episode. What a lovely moral message for the kiddies.

Y'know, no matter which body I inhabited, or how powerful it was, I still wouldn't want to anger the guy with the fusion cannon attached to his arm. One that can connect to a black hole, no less.

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