Crossfire

[mdperera]

1. Airachnid is so tiny compared to the other two. Tiny but badass. I loved her baiting Breakdown and then facing off with Dreadwing, though when Breakdown was following the energon trail and found Airachnid on the ground, it was so obviously a trap.

Comments

[taipan_kiryu]

I share your disappointment

[mdperera]

I agree, other than what happened to Breakdown, this was a great episode. I'm really hoping that there was some significance to his death, that it's not just going to be ignored or forgotten by the rest of the cast. Or worse, that he's turned into a MECH-controlled zombie. That will be too painful. :( Not to mention unfair.

If not for that, the episode would have been damn near flawless, mostly thanks to Megatron's epic battle against the Insecticon. I still want to watch that again, especially the part at the end. You know the only thing that would have made it even better? Megatron and the Insecticon going at it in alt-mode, both of them. Aerial maneuvers ftw.

[peacewish]

My response too this got rejected because it was too long, so I just posted it in my own journal instead.

[taipan_kiryu]

I thought that Breakdown would go down during an epic battle with Bulkhead, but not before being manipulated by Starscream somehow. He left unpaid debts, the kind that would have result in very interesting conflicts for his character, not to mention that some things that happened in previous episodes were completely ignored by this outcome, such as the kind of crush he developed on Airachnid. He had much more to give as a character, and the arrival of Dreadwing - another amazing character, by the way - was no excuse to leave poor Breaks aside and make him an easy victim, easy both in the way he died and the negligent way the writers ‘resolved’ this.

Megatron’s battle against the Insecticon was above amazing indeed. Oh, aerial maneuvers? Wow, now that would have blown my brains out… if my current annoyance because of Breakdown would have allowed it, of course.

I’ve been sulking for nearly two days… Can’t help it :o(

[mdperera]

You have a point... it's as though, now that Dreadwing's here, he could replace some other 'con. But I don't think Breakdown's that easy to replace or forget. As you said, there was so many unanswered questions about him - that crush on Airachnid, what Starscream would have demanded of him, his relationship with Knock Out. I don't even mean that in a slash way. We've seen how loyal Autobots are to their partners. I hope the writers don't intend to imply Decepticons don't have similar loyalty.

I'm trying to do a mental erase-and-rewrite on the events of this episode, just as I did after I got to the mid-way point of the 1986 movie.

[taipan_kiryu]

One of the things I loved at first sight from TFP was precisely the way the relationships between Decepticons were being handled. After years of Decepticons stabbing each other’s backs at every corner - with some respectable exceptions - this series was consciously displaying - or at least that’s what I thought - bad guys who were able to be loyal and to have a non-murderous relationship with a fellow ‘Con