- The Transmetalization of Optimus Primal's new body doesn't quite fit the established Transmetal pattern, which is that bodies active before coming to Earth were Transmetalized (unless in a CR chamber at the time), while those "born" on Earth were not. As a raw protoform, Primal's new body seemingly should not be mutated.
- To be fair, nowhere in the series is it EVER stated it would have to be an original Transformer to get Transmetalized; it's just fan speculation. Technically, any Transformer body could be mutated, protoform or otherwise.
- An earlier script revision called for the elevator into the Maximal base to be destroyed during the fight, giving Primal a more practical reason to blow a hole in the side of his own base.
Transformers references[]
- While Blackarachnia is searching through Megatron's stuff, a gray model of Starscream's head is in the pile. (It's too small to be the real thing, given that Beast Warriors are shown later in the series to be much smaller than G1 characters. Part of a bust maybe? Ah, yeeesssssss.)
- Other items in the pile include a WW2-era model airplane, a model helicopter, a number of books, the Holy Grail, two identical spiky planets, a pocket-watch, a missile, and a rubber ducky.
- During one of Rhinox's trips through the Matrix, near the end of the episode, the Autobot Matrix of Leadership is seen floating.
- When Rattrap asks where Rhinox went, he describes the Matrix as "where all are one".
Real-world references[]
- The Rat Patrol was a 1960s TV show about a group of Allied soldiers fighting Rommel's Afrika Corps on the North African front during World War II. A remake starring Dinobot and Rattrap would be awesome.
- With Dinobot on his back, Rattrap tells him to "leave the driving to us," the slogan of the Greyhound Line.
Notes[]
- After Rattrap throws a rock in the air as an example of what would happen if they moved away from the cover of the boulder, it's blasted into a tiny pebble and hits the ground. All three Maximals' "eyes" then pop out of their heads towards the rock in the fashion of the eyeball gag in classic Tex Avery cartoons.
- Quickstrike is the only Predacon to not be surprise/shock about Optimus Primal's return, given the fact that this is the first time he sees him.
- Blackarachnia's theft of the Golden Disk data would have consequences carrying through the remainder of the series.
- Though neither admits it, it seems likely that both Tarantulas and Megatron see through Blackarachnia's sleight-of-hand with the backup data tracks. Blackarachnia tells Megatron that the computer was destroyed by Dinobot... after telling Tarantulas that it was destroyed because it was booby trapped. Tarantulas says nothing to contradict this lie to Megatron, and later interrogates her when the chance presents itself in "Bad Spark". Megatron likewise guesses the truth and attempts to strong-arm the data from her in the third/final part of the three-part "The Agenda" Season 2 Finale Saga, "The Agenda (Part III)".
- This episode continues the Spaghetti Western film references, especially when Optimus fights Inferno.
- Speaking of Inferno, there were plans to have him be a reborn version of Megatron[citation needed], but those plans obviously never came to be. This abandoned plot was hinted when the two fliers crash into one another, and recover only to find their heads on the wrong bodies. Megatron was capable of using Inferno's body during this mix-up to punch Inferno's head.
- As of the end of this episode, four of the eight members of Primal's team have spent time as Predacons, one way or another.
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