Predacons rising was one of the best TFA episodes. I defy anyone to say different.
Challenge accepted.
The episode was mediocre at best. It's high point was the closure of the Optimus/Sentinel/Elita1 subplot even though little developed from it. Blackarachnia's still an unrepentent user and Sentinel is still a hate-sPewing twit. And Optimus, sPark bless him, tells everyone Sentinel is a good guy and for better or worse, the leader Cybertron needs.
Um, no.
No, he really isn't.
He threatened to kill Blackarachnia because she was techno-organic, not because she posed any kind of threat, and frankly never made any competent decisions in his entire series run. He's literally, the worst guy to lead Cybertron.
I sympathize with WasP. Nobody deserves what he went through and finding out Blackarachnia was only mutating him for her own purpose and not out of friendship was the last thing he needed. That said, I was pretty disheartened that he was the only other Predacon in PREDACONS RISING. Can't say I'm too surprised since this show tends to trim down classic groups such as Dinobots and Constructicons, but like Kal-El said, Scorponok might have been a welcome addition. Or Swoop becoming Terrorsaur. It would have been cool to see BA's "failed experiments".
Had the show ended with just WasP piecing himself together, a reference to his constantly getting destroyed in Beast Wars, I would have been satisfied. But Blackarachnia waking up to a Gorilla, Rhino, Cheetah and Giant Rat just seemed like a strange and forced nod. EsPecially when they zoom out to reveal they're bigger than she is.