Okay, so I make a cameo in this thing that has puppets and Vangelus and Derrick Wyatt and Transformers. It’s The Isle of Rangoon‘s video review of the Eighties Transformers series episode, “B.O.T.” I am way super glad I only have a cameo, because “B.O.T.” is something I really wish to never experience again. It’s not a good episode. Hence, you know, the “review.” I’m sure the subject matter takes a beating and that the exercise is vicariously satisfying.
Me, I still have PTSD.
I can’t see the right half of the video, and the expand button is also on the right which is covered by ads
Does not like my iPad. Ads on the page cover the YouTube, so you can’t get a clear view.
Can’t play in YouTube viewer because the portion that gets covered is on the right, & that’s where linkage is kept.
When I’ve had some rest, I’ll try on a real comp, but it’s been a long day.
It’s not on youtube. http://a.blip.tv/isleofrangoon/rangoon-reviews-transformers-ep-64-b-o-t-6162581 enjoy
I’d completely forgotten this episode. That first idea seems like a brilliant pitch for an entire episode if they dropped the rest of it.
Act one: Bruticus gets destroyed in battle, Swindle is the only functional survivor. Decides to trade his comrades to shady earth weapons dealers for energon / fancy new parts for himself / some macguffin.
Act two: Swindle tries to hide what he’s done from Megatron. Wackiness ensues. Multiple lines of possibly discovery escalate and compound each other, finally resulting in success! Megatron is fooled (or appears to be) and then the bomb drops that Swindle needs his companions back for some other reason (maybe his spark is tied to theirs, or he needs to form Bruticus to accomplish something life saving).
Act three: Swindle races around tracking down the parts while keeping Megatron from noticing his absence. Succeeds just in time and all seems grand. Except Megatron totally did know. Cue ironic punishment and reminder to kids that selling your wounded friends’ vital organs doesn’t pay.
I’d watch it twice and buy it on dvd.
I have a weird affection for this episode, almost completely because of the spotlight on Swindle, but truthfully … yeah, not that good.
I saw this one years later and I agree it is quite terrible, but when you’re a kid growing up in the 80s when some families (like mine) didn’t have a VCR you tended to overlook how crappy some of the Transformer episodes are.
I liked B.O.T.
It had the Protectobots.
Is that now Sad Walky Away music?
Yeah I seem to remember BOT had some good Swindle moments, but the whole thing gets swept up in “borderline psychotic children build Tik Tok and force smart girl to do things for them” nonsense.
The review, the puppets, oh god the whole thing was unwatchable. The episode in question I can handle…. just not the hotel-bedroom-puppet thing. It felt like it was leading me up to watch some cheaply made snuff porno flick.
Seems to me like they need to work on their sound equipment. Most of the time I could barely understand them.
They need to work on their creepy more.
My theory on the reason they did an episode with a bunch of highschoolers doing a science project is because 1985 had seen the release of no less than three teen-nerd movies: Weird Science, My Science Project, and Real Genius. My guess is the show writers wanted a piece of that, and the result was this episode.