Rise Of The Constructicons

Episode Name: Rise Of The Constructicons
Series: Transformers Animated, Season 2
Rating: Four Spaceships

Mission Briefing:
The day begins with the Autobots fixing up the city, and a failed attempt to stop Decepticons from supply-stealing. That night, the clumsy and mistake-making Bulkhead stays behind to work. Meanwhile, two Allspark fragments bring two new bots to life--Mixmaster ("Mix" for short) and Scrapper (somethimes "Scrap" for short)! These two bots are not Autobot, but they're not Decepticon either... just "rude and crude"* construction workers.
After the duo save Bulkhead's life, the trio become friends. But Optimus can tell that they're being an bad influence on Bulkhead. Problem is, he can't convince Bulkhead of that! But then Mixmaster and Scrapper start getting mixed up with the Decepticons...
Bulkhead's going to get a hard lesson in picking your friends...

Mission Report:
This episode was pretty good. The characterization was actually pretty well-done on Mix and Scrapper. Their choices, and still trying to keep Bulk as a friend, was pretty believable. The other characters are pretty well-done as well, I'm just impressed with these two, especially on their first appearance! The others characters were/are believable, even in the uncomfortable scenes. I liked how deeply Bulkhead trusted his new friends, even when he shouldn't have. He's like that, and it makes him pretty likeable!
The story was pretty well-done, as shown by the characterization levels in this episode, though it had some glitches. Timing was one thing, and there were other glitches (like, how in the world did Mix and Scrap push the supplies across town into the woods without being noticed?!?).
My main problem was content. The Constructicons are not my fave characters, though they are better than some jerks in the classic series, and about everyone in any series is better than Jerkinel! The story was awkward in some places, though it does do a good job teaching a lesson about picking friends. It was pretty enjoyable, more than one might imagine. But this won't make my faves list. (And there's a memory-wipe at the end... yeesh...).
So this episode was pretty good overall, it just won't make my faves list.