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
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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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.
