Siege episode 5
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| Episode 5 | ||||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation, Rooster Teeth | |||||
| Airdate | July 30, 2020 (Netflix) | |||||
| Written by | Brandon M. Easton and Gavin Hignight | |||||
| Director | Takashi Kamei | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
With time quickly running out, the Autobots must divide and conquer to prepare their escape plan.
Synopsis
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
Quotes
Notes
Transformers references
- Bumblebee mentions a former Seeker named Dreadwing. Whether this refers to the combined Powermaster jet, the alternate name for one of those said Powermasters, or the Generation 2 stealth bomber is unknown. In particular, the Dreadwing from Prime was a captain of an army of Seekers.
- The Sea of Rust has appeared in other media, notably being the place of origin for the Rust Renegades in the Combiner Wars toyline.
- Soundblaster having a partner in Buzzsaw is parallel to Logos Prime and Hell Buzzsaw from Galaxy Force.
Animation and technical errors
- Like his red clone in episode 2, Cog's torso piece disappears when he combines with Arcee.
Trivia
- While both Arcee and Cliffjumper got their own new toys in Earthrise, the designs for them were presumably not ready to be used in the Siege cartoon. As a result, Cliffjumper uses Bumblebee's recolored character model, while Arcee uses a new model based on her general character design rather than any pre-existing toy, similar to Bumblebee and Elita-1.
- Moonracer's model is mostly reskinned from Chromia, with grenades added on to her backpack.
- Soundblaster's model sports a few differences from his Siege toy, namely additional black parts, a flatter chest owing to being reskinned from Soundwave, and a Mercenary symbol instead of a Decepticon badge. Another thing to note in both Soundwave and Soundblaster's on-screen appearance is they are both missing one of the vehicle engine parts on the right side of both their backs.
- Prowl's detonator to Jetfire's Core Override uses the same model for the Cybertronian scanner used in Transformers: Prime, likely a case of asset reuse on the part of Polygon Pictures, which also did the animation for Prime.
