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I love when these guides do this.

Last time we looked at how the show would have been formatted under this pitch. Now we get sample episodes. When it comes to shows we got I like to match up these plot ideas with the episodes we got in the final product. Did they make them? Were there any serious changes? Were ideas just tossed out completely? And are we better off without the ones dropped or would the episodes have been better going in the original direction?

This is a bit different from other times I got to do this. We DID get a Transformers cartoon, but not this one. This pitch kept only the bare minimum from the original miniseries, while what we got was a proper continuation, complete with the original cast of Transformers and humans. The rules of Saturday morning didn’t apply to weekly, later weekday, syndication. And yet both were done by Marvel Productions and Sunbow. The only writer attached to the project currently is Jeffrey Scott, who wrote both drafts. While working on the main series isn’t in his lengthy writing credits, and I don’t know how many other writers were involved in making these episodes, they would still have this bible. Elements would be picked up for the show. So who’s to say the episodes wouldn’t?

When we finish this document we even have a full script to go over, but for this and the next installment of this article series we’ll take a look at the plots suggested for the show. In total there are 13 episode ideas (and we do start off this section continuing to break the fourth wall but in the same “computer file” format we’ve seen throughout) plus some final notes. 13 episodes is in keeping with the amount required for a weekly show: thirteen weeks worth of episodes. So I’ll see how many I can get in this article before getting to the larger word count, and figure out how long this will take. Either way, this series is nearing the conclusion.

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