[6.1/10] Hey! We’re definitely getting to the episodes I remember from when I was a kid! Hooray! Unfortunately, this isn’t a terribly good episode, but still! What’s funny is that this has the makings of at least a solid episode. While the mass blindness development for four of our heroes is a touch contrived, it sets up a unique set of obstacles. There’s a ticking clock in the form of their needing to be repaired within “sixty cycles” and their lack of sight makes the simple task of returning to their base a challenging one. This is just...kind of boring? The episode doesn’t really display any cleverness in how the foru Maxials cope with their blindness until the very end of the episode, and it’s mainly pretty boring until the aerial assault. The natural testiness of the quarter of transformers doesn’t have anything particularly noteworthy versus a normal episode, and while there’s a little extra juice to Cheetor being weekend by his encounter with a snake, the episode doesn’t do a particularly good job of finding distinctive things for the sightless foursome to do with their temporary disability. That said, as goofy as it is to see a Rhino meditating, there is something moderately cool about Rhinox using his mental focus to discern where the Predacon flyers are coming from and tell his compatriots where to shoot accordingly. This is, at the very least, a solid outing for the character, and his ability to get his allies to focus and eventual rescue by Optimus helps set the tone of determination mixed with desperation that characterizes this one. It’s just a shame that this one spins its wheels for so long until that point, with a bunch of the usual dumb and bumbling Predacon plotting and uninspired set pieces before that better sequence. Overall, this is a weak outing for the show, only made weaker for not taking full advantage of an intriguing premise and a solidly-built conflict.