The last of the documentation (as of this writing) found and posted by The Sunbow Marvel Archive we’ll be looking at for this attempt to bring the Transformers cartoon to CBS Saturday morning is something I rarely get to do. It’s a full episode script. They also have the outline for the pilot episode, but I’m going to bypass that and jump right to the full script, to see the actual story. I also won’t be copy/pasting practically the whole script like I did with the pitches. If you want to see either document you can go to their G1 Transformers page and find it just after the documentation for “More Than Meets The Eye”, the three episode miniseries they started with. It just seems a bit much for me to post here.
Instead I’ll summarize what happens in the episode. Oddly they didn’t go with the first listed plot in the second draft, “Rotten To The Core.” Maybe it’s my limited understanding of what goes on behind the scenes, but I would think the first episode would be the pilot. This is the story where the Autobots get help from the legally-distinct Guardian Angels (even named in the summary so you know what they were referencing) to stop Negator from turning a bunch of trains into their Decepticon army. That sounds like a good pilot to me. Instead they went with “A Robot’s Best Friend Is His Dog”, the 11th episode in the list and one that sounds like it would require previous investment in the characters as this focuses on Matt’s Decepticon sniffing dog. Turns out Outback didn’t need a Decepticon Detector, he needed a dog. The episode is written by Jeffrey Scott, who also wrote the pitches, which makes sense because they’re already paying him, but it still seems an odd episode to start with.
I was hoping to get this done in one article, but about partway through summarizing the first act I saw my word count in the 1300s and knew I wasn’t going to get all three in without being a way too long article. So I’ll just make the first act it’s own article, since this includes the summaries and my comments, and see what happens with the other two. Sorry, readers. I tried.
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BW’s Saturday Article Link> An Actor Puts The Blame Where It Belongs
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I’ll have to see how that works with other sites, but I still want to put my introductory text in. As you can see, Ryan Gosling, at an event to promote his new and well received movie Project Hail Mary, came out and said something I did a commentary on just recently. Saving your show, comic series, game, or movie isn’t the job of the fans but a job for the creators to make it something we want to support. Instead, the rest of Hollywood blames the fans for not showing up and recognizing their genius and good intentions. Gosling is right, and Hollywood (and other industries that follow the current Hollywood mindset) needs to figure that out fast.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 28, 2026 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Hollywood, Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling.
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