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It helps that Beau Weaver did a sensational job with his voice performance-an actor who seemingly came out of nowhere, since he had no prior roles in animation.
Maybe it's because he doesn't fit the typical Decepticon mold and just sort of does his own thing. Maybe it's because he deals with the others so informally, even when speaking to Galvatron. Octane is such a great character and I'm at a loss to quantify why I love him so much.
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Octane tries to talk him out of such wasteful behavior, pointing out that he's still recovering from the fight with Metroplex and that he hasn't yet regained his full strength. At some point, they made their way to Carbombya, a country already known for harboring Decepticon refugees, and Trypticon has been spending his time taking potshots at cruise ships that get too close to the coastline. We learn that Trypticon made his way to Dinobot Island for a brief convalescence, ostensibly under the care of Octane, who took it upon himself to nurse the gigantic Decepticon back to health. They discover he landed and simply started walking along the bottom of the ocean floor. This prompts a naval expedition headed up by Broadside (marking his first appearance in aircraft carrier mode this is the only episode in which he uses this form) and Seaspray (whom we haven't seen since "Sea Change" this is his final appearance on the show). Rodimus plays with the knobs on a gigantic Etch-A-Sketch to make adjustments to the computer a careful reading of the recorded footage reveals that Trypticon did, in fact, survive the encounter.
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(Metroplex and Trypticon have finally fallen into their regular series voices by this episode, with the performances of Bud Davis and Brad Garrett artificially deepened, but not so much that you can barely understand them.)Īnyway, Rodimus and Grimlock and the Aerialbots are all watching home movies, but when Grimlock wants to watch the climax of the battle, and Skydive clarifies that they want to watch the scene where "he pulverizes him and finishes him off forever," Teletraan II insists that this never happened. (Teletraan I was almost certainly destroyed by Trypticon, since he never appeared again after the destruction of the Ark and the volcano base.) Metroplex and Trypticon are spouting witticisms at each other that I don't remember from "Five Faces of Darkness," so either this was footage that we, as the audience, weren't privvy to previously, or else Teletraan II was doing some creative editing. Naturally, this necessitated the creation of "Thief in the Night" to explain just what it was that Octane had done to warrant his own exile.Ĭan you find the single appearance of Ultra Magnus in this episode?Īt the beginning of our episode, we are treated to a revisiting of the epic fight between Metroplex and Trypticon from "Five Faces of Darkness." It's not immediately obvious, but this is actually recorded footage of the fight courtesy of Teletraan II, making his first appearance in the show. So, in his first scripted appearance, Octane was already a Decepticon traitor on the run from Galvatron.
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(The Japanese publication TV Magazine even ran an advertisement for the episode with an illustration of Blitzwing confronting the ghost of Starscream.) Hasbro intervened and wanted their newer Triple Changer toys to be showcased, however, so Blitzwing's role in the episode was given to Octane, and Springer was replaced with Sandstorm. "Starscream's Ghost" was originally going to be a follow-up episode, showing Blitzwing as an Autobot sympathizer, having befriended Springer. In fact, "Thief in the Night" owes its entire existence to a strange Hasbro mandate.Īs we saw at the end of "Five Faces of Darkness" part 5, Blitzwing had betrayed Galvatron and was exiled from the Decepticons for his actions. The episode has to take place before episodes like "Starscream's Ghost" (which, in turn, must come before "Fight or Flee," despite both episodes airing after "Thief in the Night"). It was written by Paul Davids, production coordinator for the show during the third season, who also wrote episodes like "Cosmic Rust" and "Chaos" and "Grimlock's New Brain." It's one of the more problematic episodes in establishing a chronology for the third season, since its production order was completely out of sequence.
"Thief in the Night" was the 76th aired episode of the original Transformers series, premiering on October 6, 1986. However, I expect there to be a lively discussion about this episode when I get back! I'm posting this a couple of days early since I'm going to be on vacation next week.
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