From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:38:18 1995
Article: 7986 of alt.toys.transformers
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From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday: 2 November 1994
Date: 2 Nov 1994 08:47:50 -0600
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The Girl who loved Powerglide, featuring three Decepticon jets from 
Remulak...

Astoria is a woman who has inherited an industrial company from her 
father. She's smarter than she lets on, but allows society to determine 
her identity and her personality. The necklace around her neck contains a 
formula her father gave her for a massively efficient energy conversion. 
The Dcecepticons want this formula, but don't know where it is, only that 
she has it. Powerglide does regular patrols of the Oregon greater urban 
areas. Ok, that's the background...

Powerglide notes on patrol that Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge are trying to 
capture a human woman from the top of HiTech industries. After a daring 
rescue, 'Glide and Astoria begin to have feelings for each other, sort of 
a love-hate thing. 'Glide is damaged and brought down, and the coneheads 
bring Astoria to Megatron in his sub-orbital city. Unfortunately, Astoria 
has a sever mechanical ineptitude, which means that machines really screw 
up around her, so all of Megatron's attempts to get the formula out of 
her head fail miserably, and Megatron gets real frustrated. Powerglide is 
repaired and attempts a rescue, and Astoria sacrifices her necklace to 
save Powerglide from an energy disruptor, losing the formula. 'Glide 
reprograms the city to crash into DHQ, and everybody lives happily ever 
after.

It's a shame you never saw Astoria after this ep, it would have eben nice 
if 'Glide and her had more appearances, to further develop the 
characters. Did you notice something though? Except for Ramjet, no 
prominent characters this ep are G2 toys. Do you think that maybe Claster 
is choosing these eps on merits of story rather than marketability? Nah....

Notice how Dirge seems to be the one giving the orders when the three 
reinforcement jets are out in the field. This sqwuares with my take on 
the Decepticon leadership thing, in that they seem to have a highly 
organized structure. That, and Dirge probably commands with fear. 
Soundwave commands with respect, and Megatron commands with both. Wheras 
Starscreamkinda stands there and looks pretty... :)

I won't even touch the issue of Transformers with emotions and TF's 
falling in love. For further references, see Sea Change from last week..

PS: Yesterday's eipsode was Autobot Spike, whose review was eaten by the 
IO server... Great animation but horribly dumb plot.

Toys they should reissue:
Dirge 
Thrust
Ratchet
Wheeljack (Both bots make a cameo appearance here)

"Did you fix my wing? Can I fly?"
"Well... yeah, but--"
"Then you're _done_..."

"It's _my_ party and I'll cry if I want to... Can't you old geezers 
lighten up and have a good time?"

KKC, bye the way, Snarl and Swoop are created by Wheeljack in War of the 
Dinobots, an ep that's already been broadcast this season. The cartoon 
isn't _that_ inconsistent... :)
-- 
Kendrick Kerwin Chua - kendrick@io.com - "Hey man, your bike's on fire."
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