BW Media Spotlight

I’m going to do something rather different for Saturday Night Showcase on the heals of the Transformers One trailer (which I reviewed) and the upcoming airing of the first war episodes of the original The Transformers in theaters, which I’m hoping is why those episodes aren’t currently on their official Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel at the moment and will be returned after. Otherwise I need to make alternate plans for my previous SNS posting of the original miniseries. I’ll know after the theatrical airings are done in May.

Season one didn’t give us a whole lot about the history of the “Great War” as depicted in the show’s continuity. It had to set up the series and introduce the first few batches of toys characters first. Season two and part of season three is when we finally started learning about the war between Autobots in Decepticons. Tonight I’m going to show you those episodes, but there’s a catch. Some of them were part of a multipart episode. One is a part two of two while another is part three of five, and yet I’ll not show every part because that would be too many videos on one page. The rest are done in one stories, though.

Instead my focus is on the parts of the episode that just go into the history of the war, when it started, how long it went on, and the history of Cybertron prior to the war, with looks at their very origins. You’ll be getting the history the same way we did as kids back in the day, but not necessarily the stories surround it because that’s not the point of tonight’s showcase. Don’t worry, it’s really easy to find this show on many streaming services, though it does mean spoilers for at least one episode that gets the finale posted here. Then again, if you’re even here I’m not sure why you’d be here if you haven’t seen the whole series. Much of this was also covered in the Transformers: The Basics episode on the Great War in various continuities, and I will not be including season three’s segments discussion Transformer history. This is how the viewers learned it in the way we learned it originally. There’s only (insert number here) episode to go through but we learn quite a bit. Let’s begin:

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