September 26, 2023 • 18 mins
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(00:14):
Hello and welcome to the Aftersford Podcast in episode by
episode recap of the Generation One Transformers cartoon.
I'm ALS. And I'm Specs.
And today we're gonna be talkingabout episode 74, Star screams
Ghost, which, as you may imagine, is what it says on the
tin. Yes, So let's talk about giant
robots today, shall we? Oh yeah, yeah.
(00:36):
Let's do it. We open on junky on with.
A random Decepticon. We then cut to the disembodied
voice of Galvatron berating a random scexoid.
Which are those kind of lizardy aliens that have popped up a few
times. Yeah, they.
Have some size issues going on in this series.
A lot of things going on in this.
(00:58):
They literally forgot to add Galvatron to this shot.
So, like, this dude is cowering in front of an empty throne that
is berating. Yes, yes.
So Galvatron, that answers the question of who the hell that
random Decepticon was earlier, which is Octane who we are
informed as a traitor. Octane is a white, Gray and
(01:20):
purple triple changer who turns into a Kenworth T600 truck.
With a fuel trailer and a Boeing767, Speaking of size issues,
those two things are not really comparable, I don't think.
In any way, shape or form, but um, the power of mass shifting.
I guess you can do what Valley wants.
(01:40):
He's a he's a fuel guy. He could apparently be as large
as he wants on the inside to carry the maximum amount of
fuel. I'm sorry, octane truly just
turns into the TARDIS apparently.
Apparently. All right, so yeah, Galvatron
sends the skuksoid off to kill Octane.
I feel the need to point out that while telling him this,
(02:01):
Galvatron says, and I quote, I hate liars and double dealers.
To which I must say, yes Sir. Kettle, Sir.
The Skuksoid attempts his assassination by putting a bomb
in with the rest of the Triple changers ships cargo cuz the
Octane has been collecting junk from junky on.
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With apparently the full knowledge of Junkyon, since
there's one helping him, Octane takes off, taking the time to
carefully adjust his view screento a pin up model.
Predictably, his ship explodes, but it fails to kill him.
He is picked up by a random shipof aliens who, after very nicely
(02:44):
offering him some rather unappealing sustenance, drop him
off at Autobot City at his request.
In the next shot, we see him walking around with Sandstorm.
Sandstorm is an Autobot Triple Changer with a red, yellow, and
Gray color scheme who turns intoa dune buggy and a rescue
helicopter. The exact model of this
helicopter is nicknamed the Super Jolly Green Giant, and I
(03:06):
think it's criminal they didn't do a green color scoop for him.
I mean. And they would have had to have
given him a different name. Considering the Sandstorm thing,
I'm just saying I think that would have definitely been the
theme I went with. I mean, maybe Woodchipper would
have been a better name for that.
I think that would have been fun.
Maybe so these two in? At least from what I remember
(03:28):
back on Fan Fiction Net forever and ever ago was that they were
frequently shipped together. But answer You only has like 15
pieces of fan fiction with them ship together and it's just
like, oh wow. I don't know if it's just
there's less G1 content on AO3 because AO3 tents have a lot
more newer stuff and people haven't moved over or what?
(03:51):
Yeah. So the background is all over
the place in this scene, which is definitely taking place on a
bright sunny day, but randomly there's just like a night sky as
a background Briefly. Or space.
Yeah, it really could be either one.
So Octane trips over a rock while walking, saying he heard
something. Well, Sandstorm ribs him about
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it and tells him it's normal forhim to be jittery when Octane
insists he's being watched. Shocking no one.
There are Decepticons and then they're drying bushes.
The competitons have apparently been hiding out, so they're
hiding out to watch all of this play out.
I guess they were sent by Galvatron after assassination.
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We don't know how they got here or why, but yeah, Sandstorm
proceeds to be a little shit, implying the Octane is old and
needs more extensive repairs after his little explosion
accident earlier. Octane takes some offense at
this and takes off in plane mode.
Sandstorm follows behind in helicopter mode and he's like
emitting smoke or dust or something all the way.
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I am convinced he did this to Google.
Octane's app could plane mode. Apparently they're showing off
for each other as they proceed to race down a mountain in their
vehicle modes afterward, to which Octane won their air race
and stands. Sandstorm won the ground race,
apparently. Well, Sandstorm is a lot more
agile is a dune buggy than the fucking tanker truck, and I'm
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pretty sure about 7 whatever 767or 73727 would be able to fly
faster than a helicopter. Yeah, helicopters are not
winning an airspeed race. The combat icons became firing
on the two of them, octane commenting that they're shooting
at him, specifically. Sandstorms response to this is
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peeking around the corner and happily waving at their
assailants. The two escape when Sandstorm is
able to obfuscate the combatic cons of you with his smoke and
octane hops in Sandstorms helicopter mode.
Again, I remind you he could turn into a passenger plane that
is very large. The idea of getting you to a
helicopter is so funny. Well, look, we already had Hoist
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and Grapples vehicle mode at onepoint.
This is not the first time we'vehad weird.
Mass shifting garbage happen? Yeah, in space.
Sandstorm and Octane enter some sort of galactic eatery.
They're at the equivalent of a space truck stop because they
apparently stopped to get an actual spaceship.
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At some point. So why are they in space?
We don't know. They're just in space, down,
rolling in. Waitress brings over some energ
on for the two, while Octane says Galvatron can't afford to
let him live. Sandstorm objecting.
He's gonna keep him around. All right, I concede they're
married and no one can convince me otherwise.
(06:50):
Also, I think this means octane as a fellow disaster by
considering he had a lady pin upearlier.
And the scexoid from before takes aid at Octane, but manages
to miss spectacularly when another customer mistakes him
for a waitress and shoves his gun down, leading to the shot
ping ponging around, hitting meals, nagging over alien chefs.
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They're in. Chef's hats.
So they gotta be chefs and hitting other diners.
He drops the gun and another alien picks it up and eats it.
Well, that's, I guess, a tasty meal.
Octane and Sandstorm really don't seem to notice.
Any of this shit going on in thebackground?
They're super focused on each other's got on each other.
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Guys, they're on a date at a space dive bar.
Octane mentions messing up Galvatron's plans by swiping
Triptychon and trying to take over the Decepticons.
To which you, dear listener, maybe asking, wait, I don't
remember that happening. Are we missing something?
And the answer is yes. The episodes that Octane and
(07:53):
Sandstorm are introduced in happen later in the series where
this event actually does happen.Anyway, spoilers.
Octane's introduction will actually be the next episode
while Sandstorms happens. Oh God, I remember how much
further out. It's like 6 to 10 episodes or
something like. It is not quick so we get this
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whole thing before they are actually introduced, however.
It was in charge of the episode Order.
They needed some help, let's say.
Yeah, I don't know what was going on, but it was not
coherence. Having lost his gun, the Scexoid
attempts to throw grenade at Octane, but it again foiled.
By a group of larger diners who knock him over, causing him to
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drop the grenade, which rolls out a nearby door and then
explodes. Again, no one reacts to this,
including our two loafers. Seriously, is this just a normal
day at a space truck stop? We must assume it keeps like all
this shit is happening. No one cares.
The Skuxoid, out of options, loses his damn mind and jumps up
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on octane while in, eventually wailing on his shoulder while
talking about needing this job to take care of his family even
though he didn't want to take it.
The fact that the Skysoid is so tiny when like at the very
beginning of this season, Skuxoid is like kidnap.
Ultra Magnus and cop it's just. Wow, that would make sense of
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like Octane and Sandstorm were larger because sometimes the
triple changers are, but I don'treally think that's what's
happening here. Saying Octane just drops the
Skuxoid on the table and he and Sandstorm leave, apparently
heading towards Cybertron because they got the notice that
their their ship. Was done refueling.
Apparently, once on Cybertron, Octane is attacked by Cyclonist
(09:45):
Scourge in the sweeps he. Proceeds to fall down a hole
into what is apparently. Decepticon, Crypt or Mausoleum.
We have to assume that these grave markers were put up during
the movie before the Autobots beat Galvatron's ass, since they
still had control over Cybertronat that point.
In several of these characters died during the course of the
movie. He comes across Thunder cracker
(10:08):
and eventually star screams marker, which is just some legs.
This is possibly a reference to the real world Benedict Arnold
Boot monument, who was also a treacherous general in history.
However, unfortunately for Octane, Starscream's ghost pops
up out of nowhere. Meanwhile, Octane is, we have to
(10:29):
assume, huddling in terror to this as a tanker truck with his
head and wings poking out. It is amazing.
Top 2 screenshot material changed nothing.
It is fantastic Cyclonus and theSweeps realize that Octane is in
the script. Which?
Scours responds. Good, then we won't have to take
(10:49):
him anywhere when we're done. Damn, guys, that's a dark line.
Hilarious, but dark. Scourge tells his sweeps to go
down and check but they all politely decline, so Cyclonist
then threatens them and they allgo with.
They look around the crypt for Octane.
Cyclonist manages to find him, but that is possessed by Store
Scream. Mimicking cyclonists, he tells
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the others that they're bringingOctane back to Char as a trophy
for Galvatron. So what makes this even more fun
is that Starscream sometimes forgets to use the cyclonist
voice and the sweeps actually noticed, which is one of the few
times they're like there's some kind of nice continuity.
Here, and like making the character seem like they're
thinking and consider it. Yeah, which is.
What's happening? Truly, the Decepticons don't do
(11:33):
enough in the seaside. Yeah, well, leaving Cybertron.
Sandstorm attempts to save Octane, but is shot down.
The Aerobots arrive Ultra Magnets Cup and Rhodomus also
all show up to confront the Decepticons.
Brady figures out that Cyclonus is Starscream and allows the
Decepticons to escape, presumably because he realizes
(11:54):
that Starscream can cause way more havoc than he ever could.
Galvatron is initially pissed that Octane is still alive, but
is mollified when Starscream pretending to be a cyclonist
suggests that torture is fun. Admittedly, it is actually very
funny to watch them role play torturing while snickering
behind Galvatron's back. Yeah, this eventually leads to
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Galvatron and Radomus fighting hand to hand in some isolated
location. This basically happens because
while Starscream was pretending to torture Octane, he lied about
getting some relevant information like relevant
Autobot information from Octane.And so they're like, come here,
Galvatron. Well, surprised this is not a
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this is a not so isolated location.
Once Galvatron falls down, it isrevealed that Ultramagnus, Percy
and the Aerial Bots are there for a backup Star.
Scream and Octane fly off, leaving Galvatron behind and at
the mercy of the Autobots. We cut back to Char and Star
Scream on the throne and Octane standing next next to him,
talking in each other's voices. Array animation errors, but
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Galvatron shows up Dig did all the hell a bag with bits broken
off. Upon realizing Starscream is a
possessing cyclonist, Galvatron takes great delight in shooting
at cyclonists. That one a rather weird moment
of clarity for you know Galvatron.
He does order cyclonists to be repaired after Starscream
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vacates the premises. And the episode ends as it is
revealed to the audience. That starcream is now possessing
Scourge. OK, but what happened with
Octane and Sandstorm? No fucking idea.
OK, fine, fine. Head Cannon Octane just snuck
off at the end there and went back home to his husband.
Seriously though, their relationship was probably one of
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the more interesting parts of this episode.
And then it just, like randomly hard shifted over to Starscream.
It really came across that they like combined two separate
episode plots because on the onehand we get to see.
Autobots and just an Autobot andDecepticon interacting with each
other in a relatively normal kind of circumstance.
(14:03):
Yeah. It's like domestic, domestic.
We never get to see any of thesecharacters do something that
would be considered normal or like they're interacting at a
space truck stop. Yeah, well, and like, they
appear to be friends. They appear to have become
friends. There is the whole idea of like,
what do you do with the Decepticon trader?
Like, clearly he was being like,you know, protected by the auto
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box on some level. I'm like, I honestly could have
just done with an entire episodeof the two of them and like that
whole arc would have been reallyinteresting.
And instead it's just like superweird because I'm kind of like I
was saying sort of still tried to save him like, or I assume
they're still friends. I I don't know.
We basically don't see them after this.
(14:49):
I don't think like I think the two have.
I think there's the two episodeswhere they introduced.
I don't. I don't think Sandstorm knocked
in interact again after this, really.
Yeah, because I think technically this is Sandstorm's
last appearance. I mean, least I can look in like
chronological timeline. Yeah.
However, Starscream will return in an episode eventually to
finish this, what I'm going to gracefully call plot line.
(15:14):
Yeah, honestly, like a multi episode plot would have been
interesting for exploring Decepticon Trader Octane.
Yeah yeah. Or or like I want to say.
I think star stream only pops upas the ghost like one more time.
Yeah, and I think that ends up attempting to possess Unicron's
head or something. I think he betrays Unicron.
(15:38):
Yeah, probably. So join us next time for episode
75, Thief in the Night. So tryptocunt returns yay.
Unfortunately, so does our favorite nation of racist
stereotypes. Well, our carbon yeah, boom.
But we'll get that introduction to Octane.
(16:01):
Yeah, yay. Anyway, Specs has some fanfic
recommendations for us today. All right, the 1st is up from
Oblivion by Dragon Syclectic. It's G1 cartoon related, a rate
of T It's Jen, there's no pairings happening here, and our
character is Starscream. It's G1 Transformers the movie.
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And in summary it's a short vignette about Starscream's
darkest moments and two guys whohave no respect for the angsty
dead. And yeah, it goes to Starscream
and it's a one shot. The second fanfic is 3 Triple
Changers and a Jet Plane by Jason Vorys.
Also, G1 cartoon rated T Slash. Our pairings are Astrotrain and
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Blitzwing, Octane Sandstorm and Skyfire and Star Scream, and
it's an ensemble piece regardingcharacters.
In summary, Galvatron is dead. The future is unclear.
The Autobots ask Astrotrain, Blitzwing, and Octane to go on
an undercover mission to the Decepticon days to see if anyone
might be open to peace negotiations.
Shenanigans ensue, no. And I picked it because it's got
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Octane and Sandstorm, and it's also the second part in a series
where I erect the first part back in one of the five Faces of
Darkness. The series is the Fear.
It's the second part of You've Got to Talk About Your Feelings
series. God knows these robots should
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talk about their feelings. More, yes they should, and there
is at least a third part. In this So whether or not it'll
get wrecked depends on what? What happens as we go through
the rest of our season three. Yes, Season three.
And like, the very, very brief season four episodes, Yeah.
And that just about wraps it up for us today.
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Look at her, she's so cute. She's snooze and.
Hello and welcome to the Aftersford Podcast in episode by
episode recap of the Generation One Transformers cartoon.
I'm ALS. And I'm Specs.
And today we're gonna be talkingabout episode 74, Star screams
Ghost, which, as you may imagine, is what it says on the
tin. Yes, So let's talk about giant
robots today, shall we? Oh yeah, yeah.
(00:36):
Let's do it. We open on junky on with.
A random Decepticon. We then cut to the disembodied
voice of Galvatron berating a random scexoid.
Which are those kind of lizardy aliens that have popped up a few
times. Yeah, they.
Have some size issues going on in this series.
A lot of things going on in this.
(00:58):
They literally forgot to add Galvatron to this shot.
So, like, this dude is cowering in front of an empty throne that
is berating. Yes, yes.
So Galvatron, that answers the question of who the hell that
random Decepticon was earlier, which is Octane who we are
informed as a traitor. Octane is a white, Gray and
(01:20):
purple triple changer who turns into a Kenworth T600 truck.
With a fuel trailer and a Boeing767, Speaking of size issues,
those two things are not really comparable, I don't think.
In any way, shape or form, but um, the power of mass shifting.
I guess you can do what Valley wants.
(01:40):
He's a he's a fuel guy. He could apparently be as large
as he wants on the inside to carry the maximum amount of
fuel. I'm sorry, octane truly just
turns into the TARDIS apparently.
Apparently. All right, so yeah, Galvatron
sends the skuksoid off to kill Octane.
I feel the need to point out that while telling him this,
(02:01):
Galvatron says, and I quote, I hate liars and double dealers.
To which I must say, yes Sir. Kettle, Sir.
The Skuksoid attempts his assassination by putting a bomb
in with the rest of the Triple changers ships cargo cuz the
Octane has been collecting junk from junky on.
(02:24):
With apparently the full knowledge of Junkyon, since
there's one helping him, Octane takes off, taking the time to
carefully adjust his view screento a pin up model.
Predictably, his ship explodes, but it fails to kill him.
He is picked up by a random shipof aliens who, after very nicely
(02:44):
offering him some rather unappealing sustenance, drop him
off at Autobot City at his request.
In the next shot, we see him walking around with Sandstorm.
Sandstorm is an Autobot Triple Changer with a red, yellow, and
Gray color scheme who turns intoa dune buggy and a rescue
helicopter. The exact model of this
helicopter is nicknamed the Super Jolly Green Giant, and I
(03:06):
think it's criminal they didn't do a green color scoop for him.
I mean. And they would have had to have
given him a different name. Considering the Sandstorm thing,
I'm just saying I think that would have definitely been the
theme I went with. I mean, maybe Woodchipper would
have been a better name for that.
I think that would have been fun.
Maybe so these two in? At least from what I remember
(03:28):
back on Fan Fiction Net forever and ever ago was that they were
frequently shipped together. But answer You only has like 15
pieces of fan fiction with them ship together and it's just
like, oh wow. I don't know if it's just
there's less G1 content on AO3 because AO3 tents have a lot
more newer stuff and people haven't moved over or what?
(03:51):
Yeah. So the background is all over
the place in this scene, which is definitely taking place on a
bright sunny day, but randomly there's just like a night sky as
a background Briefly. Or space.
Yeah, it really could be either one.
So Octane trips over a rock while walking, saying he heard
something. Well, Sandstorm ribs him about
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it and tells him it's normal forhim to be jittery when Octane
insists he's being watched. Shocking no one.
There are Decepticons and then they're drying bushes.
The competitons have apparently been hiding out, so they're
hiding out to watch all of this play out.
I guess they were sent by Galvatron after assassination.
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We don't know how they got here or why, but yeah, Sandstorm
proceeds to be a little shit, implying the Octane is old and
needs more extensive repairs after his little explosion
accident earlier. Octane takes some offense at
this and takes off in plane mode.
Sandstorm follows behind in helicopter mode and he's like
emitting smoke or dust or something all the way.
(04:56):
I am convinced he did this to Google.
Octane's app could plane mode. Apparently they're showing off
for each other as they proceed to race down a mountain in their
vehicle modes afterward, to which Octane won their air race
and stands. Sandstorm won the ground race,
apparently. Well, Sandstorm is a lot more
agile is a dune buggy than the fucking tanker truck, and I'm
(05:21):
pretty sure about 7 whatever 767or 73727 would be able to fly
faster than a helicopter. Yeah, helicopters are not
winning an airspeed race. The combat icons became firing
on the two of them, octane commenting that they're shooting
at him, specifically. Sandstorms response to this is
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peeking around the corner and happily waving at their
assailants. The two escape when Sandstorm is
able to obfuscate the combatic cons of you with his smoke and
octane hops in Sandstorms helicopter mode.
Again, I remind you he could turn into a passenger plane that
is very large. The idea of getting you to a
helicopter is so funny. Well, look, we already had Hoist
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and Grapples vehicle mode at onepoint.
This is not the first time we'vehad weird.
Mass shifting garbage happen? Yeah, in space.
Sandstorm and Octane enter some sort of galactic eatery.
They're at the equivalent of a space truck stop because they
apparently stopped to get an actual spaceship.
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At some point. So why are they in space?
We don't know. They're just in space, down,
rolling in. Waitress brings over some energ
on for the two, while Octane says Galvatron can't afford to
let him live. Sandstorm objecting.
He's gonna keep him around. All right, I concede they're
married and no one can convince me otherwise.
(06:50):
Also, I think this means octane as a fellow disaster by
considering he had a lady pin upearlier.
And the scexoid from before takes aid at Octane, but manages
to miss spectacularly when another customer mistakes him
for a waitress and shoves his gun down, leading to the shot
ping ponging around, hitting meals, nagging over alien chefs.
(07:11):
They're in. Chef's hats.
So they gotta be chefs and hitting other diners.
He drops the gun and another alien picks it up and eats it.
Well, that's, I guess, a tasty meal.
Octane and Sandstorm really don't seem to notice.
Any of this shit going on in thebackground?
They're super focused on each other's got on each other.
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Guys, they're on a date at a space dive bar.
Octane mentions messing up Galvatron's plans by swiping
Triptychon and trying to take over the Decepticons.
To which you, dear listener, maybe asking, wait, I don't
remember that happening. Are we missing something?
And the answer is yes. The episodes that Octane and
(07:53):
Sandstorm are introduced in happen later in the series where
this event actually does happen.Anyway, spoilers.
Octane's introduction will actually be the next episode
while Sandstorms happens. Oh God, I remember how much
further out. It's like 6 to 10 episodes or
something like. It is not quick so we get this
(08:13):
whole thing before they are actually introduced, however.
It was in charge of the episode Order.
They needed some help, let's say.
Yeah, I don't know what was going on, but it was not
coherence. Having lost his gun, the Scexoid
attempts to throw grenade at Octane, but it again foiled.
By a group of larger diners who knock him over, causing him to
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drop the grenade, which rolls out a nearby door and then
explodes. Again, no one reacts to this,
including our two loafers. Seriously, is this just a normal
day at a space truck stop? We must assume it keeps like all
this shit is happening. No one cares.
The Skuxoid, out of options, loses his damn mind and jumps up
(08:58):
on octane while in, eventually wailing on his shoulder while
talking about needing this job to take care of his family even
though he didn't want to take it.
The fact that the Skysoid is so tiny when like at the very
beginning of this season, Skuxoid is like kidnap.
Ultra Magnus and cop it's just. Wow, that would make sense of
(09:22):
like Octane and Sandstorm were larger because sometimes the
triple changers are, but I don'treally think that's what's
happening here. Saying Octane just drops the
Skuxoid on the table and he and Sandstorm leave, apparently
heading towards Cybertron because they got the notice that
their their ship. Was done refueling.
Apparently, once on Cybertron, Octane is attacked by Cyclonist
(09:45):
Scourge in the sweeps he. Proceeds to fall down a hole
into what is apparently. Decepticon, Crypt or Mausoleum.
We have to assume that these grave markers were put up during
the movie before the Autobots beat Galvatron's ass, since they
still had control over Cybertronat that point.
In several of these characters died during the course of the
movie. He comes across Thunder cracker
(10:08):
and eventually star screams marker, which is just some legs.
This is possibly a reference to the real world Benedict Arnold
Boot monument, who was also a treacherous general in history.
However, unfortunately for Octane, Starscream's ghost pops
up out of nowhere. Meanwhile, Octane is, we have to
(10:29):
assume, huddling in terror to this as a tanker truck with his
head and wings poking out. It is amazing.
Top 2 screenshot material changed nothing.
It is fantastic Cyclonus and theSweeps realize that Octane is in
the script. Which?
Scours responds. Good, then we won't have to take
(10:49):
him anywhere when we're done. Damn, guys, that's a dark line.
Hilarious, but dark. Scourge tells his sweeps to go
down and check but they all politely decline, so Cyclonist
then threatens them and they allgo with.
They look around the crypt for Octane.
Cyclonist manages to find him, but that is possessed by Store
Scream. Mimicking cyclonists, he tells
(11:11):
the others that they're bringingOctane back to Char as a trophy
for Galvatron. So what makes this even more fun
is that Starscream sometimes forgets to use the cyclonist
voice and the sweeps actually noticed, which is one of the few
times they're like there's some kind of nice continuity.
Here, and like making the character seem like they're
thinking and consider it. Yeah, which is.
What's happening? Truly, the Decepticons don't do
(11:33):
enough in the seaside. Yeah, well, leaving Cybertron.
Sandstorm attempts to save Octane, but is shot down.
The Aerobots arrive Ultra Magnets Cup and Rhodomus also
all show up to confront the Decepticons.
Brady figures out that Cyclonus is Starscream and allows the
Decepticons to escape, presumably because he realizes
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that Starscream can cause way more havoc than he ever could.
Galvatron is initially pissed that Octane is still alive, but
is mollified when Starscream pretending to be a cyclonist
suggests that torture is fun. Admittedly, it is actually very
funny to watch them role play torturing while snickering
behind Galvatron's back. Yeah, this eventually leads to
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Galvatron and Radomus fighting hand to hand in some isolated
location. This basically happens because
while Starscream was pretending to torture Octane, he lied about
getting some relevant information like relevant
Autobot information from Octane.And so they're like, come here,
Galvatron. Well, surprised this is not a
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this is a not so isolated location.
Once Galvatron falls down, it isrevealed that Ultramagnus, Percy
and the Aerial Bots are there for a backup Star.
Scream and Octane fly off, leaving Galvatron behind and at
the mercy of the Autobots. We cut back to Char and Star
Scream on the throne and Octane standing next next to him,
talking in each other's voices. Array animation errors, but
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Galvatron shows up Dig did all the hell a bag with bits broken
off. Upon realizing Starscream is a
possessing cyclonist, Galvatron takes great delight in shooting
at cyclonists. That one a rather weird moment
of clarity for you know Galvatron.
He does order cyclonists to be repaired after Starscream
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vacates the premises. And the episode ends as it is
revealed to the audience. That starcream is now possessing
Scourge. OK, but what happened with
Octane and Sandstorm? No fucking idea.
OK, fine, fine. Head Cannon Octane just snuck
off at the end there and went back home to his husband.
Seriously though, their relationship was probably one of
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the more interesting parts of this episode.
And then it just, like randomly hard shifted over to Starscream.
It really came across that they like combined two separate
episode plots because on the onehand we get to see.
Autobots and just an Autobot andDecepticon interacting with each
other in a relatively normal kind of circumstance.
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Yeah. It's like domestic, domestic.
We never get to see any of thesecharacters do something that
would be considered normal or like they're interacting at a
space truck stop. Yeah, well, and like, they
appear to be friends. They appear to have become
friends. There is the whole idea of like,
what do you do with the Decepticon trader?
Like, clearly he was being like,you know, protected by the auto
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box on some level. I'm like, I honestly could have
just done with an entire episodeof the two of them and like that
whole arc would have been reallyinteresting.
And instead it's just like superweird because I'm kind of like I
was saying sort of still tried to save him like, or I assume
they're still friends. I I don't know.
We basically don't see them after this.
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I don't think like I think the two have.
I think there's the two episodeswhere they introduced.
I don't. I don't think Sandstorm knocked
in interact again after this, really.
Yeah, because I think technically this is Sandstorm's
last appearance. I mean, least I can look in like
chronological timeline. Yeah.
However, Starscream will return in an episode eventually to
finish this, what I'm going to gracefully call plot line.
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Yeah, honestly, like a multi episode plot would have been
interesting for exploring Decepticon Trader Octane.
Yeah yeah. Or or like I want to say.
I think star stream only pops upas the ghost like one more time.
Yeah, and I think that ends up attempting to possess Unicron's
head or something. I think he betrays Unicron.
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Yeah, probably. So join us next time for episode
75, Thief in the Night. So tryptocunt returns yay.
Unfortunately, so does our favorite nation of racist
stereotypes. Well, our carbon yeah, boom.
But we'll get that introduction to Octane.
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Yeah, yay. Anyway, Specs has some fanfic
recommendations for us today. All right, the 1st is up from
Oblivion by Dragon Syclectic. It's G1 cartoon related, a rate
of T It's Jen, there's no pairings happening here, and our
character is Starscream. It's G1 Transformers the movie.
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And in summary it's a short vignette about Starscream's
darkest moments and two guys whohave no respect for the angsty
dead. And yeah, it goes to Starscream
and it's a one shot. The second fanfic is 3 Triple
Changers and a Jet Plane by Jason Vorys.
Also, G1 cartoon rated T Slash. Our pairings are Astrotrain and
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Blitzwing, Octane Sandstorm and Skyfire and Star Scream, and
it's an ensemble piece regardingcharacters.
In summary, Galvatron is dead. The future is unclear.
The Autobots ask Astrotrain, Blitzwing, and Octane to go on
an undercover mission to the Decepticon days to see if anyone
might be open to peace negotiations.
Shenanigans ensue, no. And I picked it because it's got
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Octane and Sandstorm, and it's also the second part in a series
where I erect the first part back in one of the five Faces of
Darkness. The series is the Fear.
It's the second part of You've Got to Talk About Your Feelings
series. God knows these robots should
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talk about their feelings. More, yes they should, and there
is at least a third part. In this So whether or not it'll
get wrecked depends on what? What happens as we go through
the rest of our season three. Yes, Season three.
And like, the very, very brief season four episodes, Yeah.
And that just about wraps it up for us today.
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Till next time I'm specs and I'melse.
Titles, but I can't move her.
Look at her, she's so cute. She's snooze and.
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