The Transformers (animation)/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

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* Poor Skyfire. Granted, G1's writing means there is quite a bit of [[Narm]] involved, but even so his story is heartwrenching. He was perfectly happy exploring the universe with his best friend... and then he crashed on Earth, spent the following nine million years frozen in the North Pole, was found purely by chance and had about five minutes of happiness at meeting his old friend Starscream again, then found out he was in the middle of a war, was immediately put to work by the Decepticons, realized he was working for the bad guys, got shot by his ex best friend when he refused to kill prisoners, and went down in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] as soon as the good guys fixed him. All of this in a single episode. Poor guy needs a hug.

* After a recent viewing "Desertion of the Dinobots" gets me. The Autobots are feeling somewhat melancholy at being refugees from Cybertron. In the second part, when Spike and Carly go there to get the Cybertonium and stumble upon a city in the underground and Spike says, "I wonder what this ''place used to be''." And you realize how much the toll the Great War has taken on their civilization.

* "The Golden Lagoon". Beachcomber has found a beautiful, Edenic little glade full of wild animals, untouched by the hand of man--and it contains a dangerous [[Mineral MacGuffin|substance]] he knows the two sides will fight over if they find out about it. He spends the whole episode trying to prevent it, but {{spoiler|the inevitable firefight happens, and both the glade and the substance are destroyed. The Autobots cheer because the Decepticons didn't get the stuff. The episode ends with Beachcomber sitting in the blackened crater of the glade, all the plants and animals dead, and mutters, "We won."}}