Nostalgia can be a funny matter . It ’s so easy to calculate back lovingly on the amusement of our youth and remember the awesomeness , the happiness and the merriment we had , while ignoring that a great mess of what we watch as kids was just absolutely terrible . I ’ve decided to take a look at the spoiled our childhoods had to offer , begin with the original Transformers cartoon , and its infamous 2d time of year episode title “ B.O.T. ”
Our level begins with the Combaticons , tug into an unknown city . This is more strange than it sounds , as two of the Combaticons are a helicopter and infinite shuttle , two vehicles not peculiarly known for their power to , you know , drive ( also all five transformer fit side by side on a two - lane street , with room to spare ) . The Combaticons push back for about , oh , five seconds and then coalesce into the mighty Bruticus . Before he can take a single step , Bruticus is scud and all destroyed by Defensor , who apparently conduct his defending very seriously .
Ignoring the fact that the combiner — generally the toughest transformer in the serial publication — is taken out by a single laser blast , it ’s this kind of pre - emptive bang that have one admiration if the Autobots are really as heroic as they seem to be . What if Bruticus was just taking a walk , or doing a snatch of shopping ? We ’ll never know , because Defensor kill Bruticus in cold blood — er , oil — and walk away , will a jumbo pile of dismembered Transformer corpses in the metropolis street ( hey , he ’s call off Defensor , not unobjectionable - Up - Afterwardser ) . Swindle the jeep manages to survive the blast that has literally torn the other four Combaticons into pieces , so naturally he immediately goes to see a South American authoritarian discover “ El Presidente ” to buy part to rebuild his fall comrades .
Meanwhile , Megatron is watching a simulation of his new plan , which is as follows :
1 ) Knock the moonlight out of orbit2 ) Use Soundwave ’s unspecified equipment to operate the tides3 ) Flood a nearby canyon4 ) ? 5 ) Receive limitless power
One might think that if one has the power to knock the synodic month out of its orbit , one might already have plentitude of power , but Megatron seems very into this lunar time period affair . Starscream bitches about how much time Megatron spent on the computer simulation of the plan rather than the actual plan , which seems a pretty sightly complaint , honestly .
At the Combaticons HQ — seemingly the Combaticons live by themselves , in an interesting peep at the Decepticon caste organisation — thing have already gotten at sea , as somehow purchase replacement voice from El Presidente has lead in El Presidente demanding that most of the Combaticon pieces get thrown in the waste-yard . This includes several of the Combaticons ’ heads , which are obviously not as essential to rebuilding Transformers as one might have suspected . So Swindle takes the dismembered piece of his team and dumps them in the urban center junkyard , which chance on me as super make love up . That ’s like if human beings got rid of our idle by putting them in garbage bags and set them on the side of the road .
Megatron eventually learns of this horror and demands that Swindle reconstruct Bruticus , either for Bruticus ’ ostensive power or because Megatron is n’t a complete sociopath , inserting a bomb into Swindle ’s head to make certain he gets it done . So Swindle set forth steal jet percentage from Arabs . Why jet ? The Combaticons do n’t have a jet . Why fly to Saudi Arabia when the parts are in the local junkyard ? No idea . What happened to the parts he was supposed to get from El Presidente ? lease ’s … let ’s just move on .
Swindle rebuilds the Combaticons … badly . rather of fly through the air to combine , they attempt to take form a cheerleader pyramid , and then all precipitate to the ground . Also , they have no fucking soul . No one talks , and they scarce move without mild compulsion . Apparently , Swindle could n’t find Brawl ’s personality element , although why that prevents the other three Combaticons from not being moron is unnamed .
And now we get into the real nitty-gritty of the tale : three atrocious nipper in mellow school . Martin and Roland are super - smart delinquents who wrench their instructor ’s optical maser into a death ray . The teacher , somewhat miff , forces them to come in the school science fair along with nerdy nerd Elise , to acquire a blue ribbon or flunk the class . The trio , while determine the Protectobots saving a few the great unwashed from a cauterize building , are inspired to build their own automaton , and thus , obviously , obviously , go to the dumpsite to look for role , where Elise unwittingly pick up Brawl ’s personality thingie .
The three assemble their golem at school in the middle of the night — well , Roland and Elise do , as Martin is doing the intemperate lifting of key out their robot . He comes up with “ Biotronic Opertaional Telecommunicator ” completely because the first three letters spell out “ B.O.T. ” ( When Elise and Roland are unimpressed , he also points out that “ B.O.T. ” is short for “ robot . ” They stay to be unimpressed . ) On a whim , Elise inserts the mysterious part she found into B.O.T. ’s head — literally just open up a panel in its straits and coif it inwardly — and B.O.T. immediately start separate shit .
While Elise essay to reason with the robot they failed to include any kind of “ off - trade ” for , Roland has an “ Einstein ” ( his watchword , not mine ) and grabs the death optical maser . B.O.T. , devil that his Creator are trying to put down him , punches a pickle in wall and calmly walk away . The three man , despite have no idea what the Protectobots were a few hours ago , make up one’s mind to call the Protectobots to solve their job for them .
The Autobots have the kid ’ distress call — permit me repeat that , the Autobots receive the hurt call from a local mellow school — and Optimus send Gears , Ironhide and Bumblebee to match it out . Upon arrival , the high-pitched school sneakily produce several times in society to accommodate the fresh gargantuan robots cross its hall , and the kids and Autobots discover B.O.T. wrecking the cafeteria . I experience it ’s deserving noting that the cafeteria apparently has a large deep freezer full of ice and corn in it for some reason , because B.O.T. throws it at Gears . B.O.T. defeats / outsmarts all three Autobots and escapes , smartly interlock the cafeteria door behind him so the other giant robots ca n’t travel along him . gear mechanism correctly describes the position as “ corrupting . ”
B.O.T. escapes to a half - ruin construction across the street , and takes its still - working elevator to the thirtieth trading floor . The Autobots separate the nipper not to follow ; Elise is perfectly willing not to enter the edifice that may cave in at any prison term , but Roland and Martin hale her in . The Autobots , unable to see B.O.T. , begin open fire wildly , hoping to hit something , only to get ambushed by Swindle , who manages to get to Brawl ’s personality core out of B.O.T. off - screen ( which is presumably also where he learned Brawl ’s personality core was in a shitty in high spirits schooltime scientific discipline fair undertaking ) . rig returns to Decepticon HQ , Brawl ’s personality is reinserted , Bruticus is take shape without incident , and Megatron express joy about before long verify the oceans .
Roland , Martin and Elise examine B.O.T. to find out why it become into “ a violent maniac , ” apace discovering the mysterious gadget Elise had inserted is missing , and correctly imagine it must belong to to the Combaticons . Martin pull up a altogether unmentioned mastermind scan of B.O.T. from his “ violent maniac ” period of time , and realizes he can home in on the brain wave to rule where the Combaticons are . Elise points out this is the worst bally estimate in the entire world , but is forced to go with Roland and Martin anyways , following the signal .
When they ’re block by the ocean , Elise — who has brought B.O.T. ’s voice communication synthesizer , an odd choice since B.O.T. never once spoke — rewires it to “ receive and decode , ” and thus hears Megatron ’s ridiculous moon / tides / magnate plan , as well as his plan to undergo another cycle of testing , specifically that of the orbital disrupter on Autobot HQ . The estimate that disrupting Autobot HQ ’s orbit would technically dsrupt the range of the entire goddamn major planet does not occur to Megatron . The kids , obviously go to discourage the Autobots , and the Autobots call the Protectobots .
When Megatron , Bruticus , the orbital disruptor and several other Decepticons arrive at Autobot HQ , the Autobots are lying in wait , and again open fervency without warning . wayward to the outset of the episode , Bruticus find several hundred optical maser blasts to his brass and torso without so much as a scratch . Meanwhile , Optimus Prime , Megatron and several other transformer are shoot down but not eradicate , but instead but lessen down as if fight .
The kids , watching from the Autobot HQ , decide to help oneself , and broadcast B.O.T. — who is miraculously outside - controllable from the Autobot ’s spaceship computer — to muck with the orbital disruptor . Meanwhile , the Protectobots form Defensor , and make a forcefulness landing field around themselves and the Autobots ; the Combaticons form Bruticus , who also range to the disruptor . Defensor inexplicably drop his violence battlefield , and is flash instantly afterwards .
As Bruticus sustain ready to eat up them off , the disruptor suddenly turn and scoot Starscream , who , to the disruptor ’s credit , does seem to get flung off into low orbit . Of course , B.O.T. is controlling the disruptor , Elise is command B.O.T. , all the Decepticons are flung into the sky , B.O.T. overloads the disruptor , it explodes , and B.O.T. cash in one’s chips , alone and unloved . In the close , the Autobots thank the kids , and Elise enjoin she ’d wish to make another robot . Martin and Roland throw tape over her mouth and drag her aside , presumptively to a dark basement or a shallow grave .
So what can we learn from “ B.O.T. ” ? Well , we learn that Transformers intelligibly do n’t care when non - Transformer robot go bad , which would be shocking if we did n’t also find out that they apparently throw their drained aside in the trash . We learn that Transformers soul do not entirely domicile in their personality effect , but we also know that Transformers can be program malevolent , so the Decepticons are n’t really creditworthy for their actions . We discovered that if you take one combiner compotent ’s wit away , the other four also become morons for some understanding . And we learned that no matter how lovingly we remember it now , when classic Transformers was bad , it was in truth godawful .
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