This is actually one of my favorite episodes. Honestly!!! I can't get enough of it!! As much as I enjoy watching 'Microbots','Atlantis Arise' or 'Call of the Primitives (to give some examples) for their truly splendid animation (courtesy of TOEI Animation, I believe),.......
.....that experience is nothing next to the exact opposite, 'Carnage in C-minor'... one of those masterpieces of AKOM hack jobs, that just has to be seen to be believed. AKOM is a Korean animation studio that was already responsible for the atrocious animation in 'City of Steel', 'The Autobot Run', 'The Core', and 'Five Faces of Darkness', and would be responsible for much of season 3's animation, and later on, S4's three-parter 'Headmasters'(their finest effort, though). They were apparently a lot cheaper, and boy, does it show!!! The assessment that this episode has the same number of errors as other episodes can't be correct.The whole episode is an animation error. The artwork/animation is so ugly and lazy that it becomes hysterical. Add to the animation inconsistencies a dreadful, absurd script, and you've got pure gold..
The poor constructicons get the worst part here. They appear everywhere, change sizes, change sides, merge into Devastator several times and always get defeated in the most absurd ways. Once he gets crushed by a jet carrier (Broadside) that falls from nowhere, and the other he's blasted apart by a single shot by Perceptor, the weakest autobot ever. Grimlock grows a mouth, Hotspot appears next to Defensor (When Hotspot is supposed to be Hotspot's chest)... One has to wonder what Nelson Shin's motivations were to unleash this on us poor unsuspecting children of the time. But we do remember you, Mr. Shin!! thanks for accelerating the series cancellation with your cheap-minded decisions. Much similar to Hasbro's own cheap and greedy tendency to produce gradually inferior toys that culminated with pretenders, micromasters and actionmasters.('let's spend less on product, but keep prices the same, that means more money!!!')DUH! Really, this episode is so bad that it deserves a cult status. It's the lowest of all underdogs and that's why it must be loved. It should be revisited now and then for endless laughter. It's the Ed Wood of animation. Even the voice acting is hilariously bad and over the top. It's as if this episode was an intentional effort on everyone's part to deliver the worst possible product. Well, if that was their aim, they created a masterpiece
.....that experience is nothing next to the exact opposite, 'Carnage in C-minor'... one of those masterpieces of AKOM hack jobs, that just has to be seen to be believed. AKOM is a Korean animation studio that was already responsible for the atrocious animation in 'City of Steel', 'The Autobot Run', 'The Core', and 'Five Faces of Darkness', and would be responsible for much of season 3's animation, and later on, S4's three-parter 'Headmasters'(their finest effort, though). They were apparently a lot cheaper, and boy, does it show!!! The assessment that this episode has the same number of errors as other episodes can't be correct.The whole episode is an animation error. The artwork/animation is so ugly and lazy that it becomes hysterical. Add to the animation inconsistencies a dreadful, absurd script, and you've got pure gold..
The poor constructicons get the worst part here. They appear everywhere, change sizes, change sides, merge into Devastator several times and always get defeated in the most absurd ways. Once he gets crushed by a jet carrier (Broadside) that falls from nowhere, and the other he's blasted apart by a single shot by Perceptor, the weakest autobot ever. Grimlock grows a mouth, Hotspot appears next to Defensor (When Hotspot is supposed to be Hotspot's chest)... One has to wonder what Nelson Shin's motivations were to unleash this on us poor unsuspecting children of the time. But we do remember you, Mr. Shin!! thanks for accelerating the series cancellation with your cheap-minded decisions. Much similar to Hasbro's own cheap and greedy tendency to produce gradually inferior toys that culminated with pretenders, micromasters and actionmasters.('let's spend less on product, but keep prices the same, that means more money!!!')DUH! Really, this episode is so bad that it deserves a cult status. It's the lowest of all underdogs and that's why it must be loved. It should be revisited now and then for endless laughter. It's the Ed Wood of animation. Even the voice acting is hilariously bad and over the top. It's as if this episode was an intentional effort on everyone's part to deliver the worst possible product. Well, if that was their aim, they created a masterpiece
