Transformers Prime “Triage” Preview Clip
My anticipation for this episode is through the roof. Since I can’t add breaks to embedded videos, if you don’t want the clip spoiled, don’t read below, because it contains wild speculations for things to come.
First off, we get to see Knockout again, and I’m assuming he hasn’t had time to buff himself off since the Tunnel Vision encounter - since Megatron is also already back in the Nemesis, he must have already finished his mission against Bulkhead in Toxicity. Since he’s yelling at K.O., I’m thinking that he did manage to get the relic, and he’s yelling at Knockout for being incompetent enough to not grab the New York one. I’m also going to believe that Dreadwing hasn’t returned from the Arctic relic hunt.
And Soundwave’s face gets cracked; I’m not sure how that affects him - is it just a faceplate, or is it his actual face? Because if it’s his actual face, that has to hurt worse than pretty much everything that’s happened to Starscream throughout the show. I’m not really sure where his sword comes from, though, Soundwave’s arms don’t look very transformable to me - I’d just assumed Laserbeak did all of the blasting. I’m excited to finally get a fight scene dedicated to Soundwave - we only got to see him against Airachnid and that was extremely brief, just the short acrobatics he shows off in the promo sets the bar way up high for him.
What concerns me is that Soundwave doesn’t have Laserbeak for any of his fight against Wheeljack - which leaves him seriously underprotected in his chest. I’m sincerely hoping the opportunity that Laserbeak’s deactivation provides isn’t the chance to kill Soundwave, but I doubt it since the last two seconds of the video offer a different idea.
It seems like Ratchet and Wheeljack have a short conversation about how much time they have to do something to Laserbeak. This is where my really wild speculations kick in. I’m not entirely sure of the complete sentience of Laserbeak in this continuity, is he just a Deployer that is given a mission to carry out, or does he have a choice in the matter? For this speculation I’m assuming the former. What if the orange fluid that Ratchet is holding in the preview is something similar to the concept of Predacon and Maximal cores, and it will essentially rewire Laserbeak to be an Autobot weapon?
Spoilers from “Triangulation” are below this line, to be added to my speculation.
Raf wasn’t there when Optimus called the base, and Bulkhead left before Optimus. I’m pretty sure this means that Raf ended up tagging along on the Ratchet-Wheeljack mission somehow, though I’m not sure how useful he’d be in that situation… Nevermind, I found Raf - he was hiding behind the giant green computer screen.