Hope for the Future
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| <img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/3/34/Hope_for_The_Future_Titlecard.JPG/300px-Hope_for_The_Future_Titlecard.JPG" width="300" height="230" border="0" /> Behold… Galvatron! | ||||
| "Hope for the Future" | ||||
| Airdate | October 26, 2001 | |||
| Written by | Tom Wyner | |||
Prime views past events
Viewer suffers much stock footage
Saban laughs at you
Synopsis
Optimus Prime orders T-AI to call in the Autobots. The Autobot Brothers respond, although Side Burn would rather be at the beach. The Spychangers are at the beach—fighting the Predacons. After a battle suspiciously like the one from "Spychangers to the Rescue", the Predacons are defeated and the Spychangers head in to base. Team Bullet Train also respond, practicing their link-up manoeuvre on the way.
Back at base, they discuss the advantage that having Dr. Onishi gives the Predacons. Optimus repeats his promise that they'll get Koji's father back, replaying the events leading up to Dr. Onishi's capture on the monitor. Optimus decides that if they examine the Predacons' past actions, they may be able to find clues to the location of the Predacon base. Koji thinks that there may be more information recorded on the chip they recovered from the ruins, leading them to replay the events leading up to its discovery.
Optimus recalls the time when the Predacons went after a "device" hidden in a red sports car, and the time he fought Sky-Byte underwater. Koji suggests that the latter event may mean that the Predacon base is somewhere underwater. They switch to examining the Predacons' tactics and how they are able to use individual Autobots' weaknesses against them, such as when they used Side Burn's love for red sports cars to lure him into a trap. Optimus believes that Megatron's weakness is his ego making him believe he's infallible, such as the time he planted a bug on Mirage and believed the Autobot had turned against his comrades.
When Hot Shot is dismissive of the Predacons and their plans, Optimus points out that sometimes the Autobots only succeed through good luck, such as the time they were searching for Skid-Z and the Predacons almost took them out. T-AI wonders why Megatron is so persistent, but Side Burn insists that while they have Optimus on their side, Megatron doesn't stand a chance.
Finally, the Autobots remember their brilliant plan at the ruins, in which they chased away the Predacons and were able to recover the O-Part. Optimus says if Megatron is trying to find the O-Parts, then it's a race to find the rest of them before the Predacons do.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Predacons | Humans |
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Guests
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Notable quotes
"Sky-Byte hasn't beaten us yet, but he's sneaky, clever and dangerous [yes, seriously] and he'll do just about anything to carry out a mission."
- —Railspike
"Yes, and when he went after the bomb device hidden in that red sports car, he almost succeeded."
- —Optimus Prime
Other notes
- Every single bit of animation is recycled from the past 12 episodes. All of it. This means the Spychangers and Predacons have an exact replica of their first battle.
Animation and/or technical glitches
- When the episode is at 4 minutes, 49 seconds running time, during the footage from "Battle Protocol!", a voice can be heard in the crowd saying "Megatron's back!"... in response to Megatron's first attack. Potential Easter egg reference to previous shows?
Continuity errors
- The "An Explosive Situation" footage and the Autobots' recollections of the episode now refers to a "device" instead of a bomb, presumably due to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- Because the Spychangers' seafront battle with the Predacons is a wholesale recycling of the climax of "Spychangers to the Rescue", Gas Skunk can at one point be seen being blasted against the red-and-white Plutonium Energy Generator that formed the basis of that episode's plot. Its momentary presence here is, of course, unexplained.
- The dialog during the finding of the O-Part in "The Ultimate Robot Warrior" has been changed to specifically identify it as such.
Transformers references
- The Autobots use "sky spies", a reference to the Autobot satellite controlled by Teletraan I in the Generation 1 cartoon.
Miscellaneous trivia
- Midnight Express states the Autobot sky-spies are searching for Dr. Onishi 24/7. (Not very effective, were they?)
- The Autobots work out that the Predacon base is located underwater, based on the events of "The Hunt for Black Pyramid".
- This clip show takes the place of the Car Robots episode "Gigatron's Ambitions Revealed!", a completely separate clipshow focusing on different footage (see the note on "Lessons of the Past").
