I remember why I did videos for longer examinations of stories. It takes to long to do a beat-by-beat review of an episode in article form. I thought I was going to be doing a “final thoughts” post today and moving on to a new subject. Instead, last time I was only able to cover act one of “A Robot’s Best Friend Is His Dog”, the chosen pilot for this attempt to bring the Transformers to CBS. It’s only a pilot script. Based on current information no actual episode was produced in animation. So why was it rejected?
In Act One we were introduced to our main heroes. We have Optimus, who is Optimus, Jazz, who has an extra “z”, I’ve learned, because the initial figure would have had three “z”s in name, Trailbreaker, who is only slightly more there than he was in the actual show, Muffler, the not-Bumblebee screw-up, Wendy, the girl, Firecycle, the robot girl, Eddie, who is the embodiment of everything wrong with a “kid character” under far too many writers, Matt, who is the cool one, and Mirage, who is also here. For the bad guys we’ve only seen Negator, Megatron’s replacement because CBS hates guns, Starscream, who is Starscream, Soundwave, who also seems the same, and Buzzsaw, who is actually remembered as the toy Soundwave came with and can talk now.
Long story so far short, Jazz and Trailbreaker took over a Decepticon steel mill being used to build more Decepticons (no Vector Sigma or stored away personality components required) and rescued the captured humans. The Decepticons, who rule the planet in this version, are setting a trap, but only Burt knows that the devices hidden around the mill are Decepticons. Too bad Burt’s a dog, as we head into act two of CBS Transformers.
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