Stand down for ten minutes and tune into go90 for “Primal,” episode 4 of Machinima’s Power of the Primes!
After Megatronus eliminates Optimus Prime and claims the Matrix of Leadership and Enigma of Combination for himself, the other Transformers robots look to Megatron to lead the charge against their diabolical foe.
View it via the go90 app, go90 website or from this link: Primal – Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | go90 while fans outside of the US may view the series on tumblr
Review previous episodes, then share your impressions of the series so far on the 2005 boards!
1: The Swamp – Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | go90
2: Volcanicus – Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | go90
3: Without Warning – Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | go90
SaberPrime
Actually Optimus Prime is one of the original 13 so Primal would be named after him just like Megatron took his name from Megatronus.
That said no one really knows the identity of the Thirteenth Prime, even Optimus himself doesn't remember that he was one of the original 13. That is assuming they're going by the same story from aligned which does seem to be the case as Megatronus' flash backs were taken directly from the Covenant of Primus pretty much word for word. I can't imagine why they would change Optimus being the thirteenth when everything else is exactly the same.
What I really want to know is why does he have fur when this version of Primal transforms into a hover car. I'm guessing that by the end of the series he's going to get the Matrix and then gain his beast mode based of the toy design. But he clearly isn't Optimal Optimus yet so why does he look so much like BW Primal instead of PotP Primal? The body shapes are really similar but there's no reason for this one to have fur, plus shouldn't the cab of his vehicle mode be hanging off his back?
shin03
My comment was not a question of mythology but figures that fit well with the toy gimmick. It would be easy to give star saber a matrix where the brain master would have gone.
If you want to talk about story, Predaking didn’t have a matrix, but he has one now. I think star saber’s alt mode would Work just fine, especially in the Prime wars trilogy. Nobody other than windblade uses theirs anyway.
spiritprime
Not bad…. kind of slow, really enjoyed that electric guitar for Optimus Primal. That was a really good tribute to BW/BM. Still not liking his VA, I miss Garry Chalk.
Ravage101
Finally made it to ep 4. Yeah….
It was nice to see Primal and Megs go at it. Then later Megs comes out with the precious gun and I'm like; "what, Megs beat Primal?" Then next you see Primal come out like it's no big deal. Did I fall asleep on something on this episode again?
Again, the writing, the pacing, it's all super slow and super boring. It's like the writers just don't know how to fill up 11 minutes and so the take the easy rout; "let's just make this into one looooooong fight scene." We blew 33 minutes on a fight scene with preda king and Volcanus?
But what can I expect, in the Titans Return it took an entire season to deal with Tripticon. We got ONE titan master and he didn't even turn into a "head" for another bot. An entire collection of titan/head masters and not one of them was used in the series. We went right back to the slow passed dragged out giant, giant robot death match…for an entire season. BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so disappointed in this cartoon project. I am trying to like this to support the brand and the efforts but OMG. "
Hasbro please just do the MTMTE and Lost Light series into a cartoon. You have content for years."
Fallout
Blunderzag
at least he split apart, it's almost like combiners were made of five people this whole time.
Chaos Muffin
Volcananus got his butt stuck in a kiddie pool & lost. lol
Fenrys
this episode kind of did explain it, he's not named after optimus, its likely the other way around since primal is the guardian of the requiem blaster. that status alone puts him at being older than most cybertronians except for the primes, of which there are 12 in current lore not 13. optimus prime is the 13th because he has the matrix of leadership (this is per hasbros press stuff from toyfair so it is the lore for power of the primes)
NominusDP
My rewrite will keep the base plot just more lore/explanation for some stuff
LegoLover58
Me too!
I'm actually planning to parody it in my comic on the funnies board.
Alphard
10/10
for Primal alone.
It took me awhile to get past his introduction… I was distracted by *something*.
ruru
These fight scenes are hilarious. Volcanicus got stuck in a hole that was large enough for grimlock to stand up in. I thought the titans fighting was slow but apparently even the combiners are just at sloth movement speed too. This is so bad. I wish I could stop watching this but I just can\'t.
Smitty.1981
I'm leaning toward them being written by the writer's children, a boy about 10 years old and a daughter about 8 or 9. That is why they all end up being friends.
JohnRedcorn
I hate to say this but it seems like the these trilogy stories are written by the computer animators of show instead of designated writers.
Pichomp
A little confused. Are you tired of the happy comments, the complain comments, or is it all opinions you are tired of? How about this?
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Pichomp
Unfortunate that they spent so much time with Predaking and the dinobot combiner (can’t remember his name, don’t care enough to look it up), instead of showing the whole fight with Primal. The slow Predaking fight we’ve seen already (3 or 4 times before… I stopped counting). Finally a chance to show something different, and no… they go back to Predaking. Is Machinima trolling us?
Oakie620
As a big Optimus Primal fan, I was thrilled when he won the PotP fan vote. I literally waited over a decade for Primal to make a comeback, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to see him alongside Autobots and Decepticons (I know it's not the first time, but I never got used to it).
While this is certainly not the worst way the character could've been handled, this Primal barely acts like the Maximal leader I grew up with. Distinct traits such as his "down-to-Cybertron" personality are barely present (which may fit his established background here, but it doesn't really suit him). You could switch Primal for any other bot and it would change very little (the comparisons with Optimus Prime are cute, but they rarely acted alike to begin with).
I'm willing to wait and see if this new Primal will be more fleshed out later, but you have one chance at a good first impression and this episode misses the mark. It's not offensive by any means, but I'm not feeling any passion for the character, which is a shame. Hopefully this will change in future episodes.
deathzero23
Where to watch 720p version all of this that is available in ALL territories?
Fenrys
I’ve never had any of those issues, are you sure it’s not your video drivers?
Ravage101
NO, Go90 has got issues, mostly it's video player. The player stops, crashes, black screens. Compare that to youtube video player where I have non of these issues. I get it that they want to keep the videos on their platform but honestly compared to youtube player it has a long way to go.