The Five Faces Of Darkness Parts 1-5

Episode Name: The Five Faces of Darkness Parts 1-5
Series: The Transformers (classic, 1980's), Season 3
Rating: Two and a Half Spaceships

Mission Briefing:
Taking off in the future, 2005, and where the Transformers movie left off, Rodimus Prime is the new leader of the Autobots, Cybertron belongs to the Autobots again, Galvatron's gone, and the Decepticons suffer on the planet Char.
But when Spike and some Autobots are kidnapped, it becomes clear that there are more enemies in this universe than suspected. Meanwhile, Cyclonus works to revive the Decepticons by getting their leader, Galvatron, back.
But these new enemies are after all three species listed: Autobots, Decepticons, and humans! Will justice finally win the day, or are the Transformers doomed to die?

Mission Report:
Two words: PAINFULLY LONG!
Yes, it's got lore. Yes, we meet new characters, and see familiar faces. Yes, we see new planets.
But it's way too long! I was never a multi-parter girl anyway, but it was too long! It took five episodes to do this, but I feel like it could have been done in less episodes... at least only four (though less preferred)!
And there were multiple story glitches. For some they were clever, and you could blame it on Galvatron's new madness. But others weren't! For one, in this they say that the Quintessons are the creators of the Transformers. But there was no back-up story on the Matrix of Leadership... and they forgot all about Vector Sigma! What was the deal with that? To boot, there was another life created on Earth without this mega-computer! These folks really like to forget story details! And it's annoying... and then, since I'm re-watching this series, here's a question the creators also forgot: WHAT HAPPENED TO BLITZWING? We never see him again! One of the heroes of the last episode (funnily enough), and we never even find out what happened to him! YEESH!
The story wasn't total trash, but there were too many glitches to make it very good. The idea was good, but the real killer was that it was so long. So many story glitches didn't help this problem.
The bad news? You have to watch this to help know what the rest of the series is about, but it's no whoopee for me.