[6.8/10] This one starts out with a bang. It has momentum. It has excitement. It has mystery. Terrorsaur stumbles upon a strange floating mountain. He goes to investigate, gets zapped by the massive deposit of energon crystals, and then becomes super-powered. Flush with his new strength, he successfully challenges Megatron, takes over the Predacons, and plans to wipe out the Maximals once and for all. Changes in the status quo? More infighting among the bad guys? A unique new threat that everyone, good or bad, has to consider? That’s cool! It works to set the terms of the conflict and mix things up a bit. Then...the episode all but runs in place for the next two acts, with a lot of talking about what’s going to happen next and very little of anyone, you know, actually doing it. Instead, Optimus takes Rattrap to blow up the floating mountain; Terrorsaur has to go back there to recharge, and Tarantulus sneaks along because he wants the power for himself. That’s a fine enough reason for a two-on-two stand-off, but it takes forever for that to happen, and all we get is a lot of generic banter in between. The ticking clock of Rattrap having set the charges to blow up the energon deposit so the Predacons can’t get to it, while his ride out of there is off fighting Terrorsaur, should add tension, but so much of the latter two-thirds of this episode feel like wheel-spinning. All we get is a couple more generic fights and Optius doing a *Die Hard*-esque leap away from the explosion. There’s no real point or lesson (beyond, I guess, that Rattrap should trust Optimus, as that gives them an advantage over the constantly-trying-to-usurp-one-another Predacons, but that’s a stretch). So basically, “Power Surge” wastes a cool idea and a neat first act on the doldrums of what follows. There’s something mildly cool about Megatron returning at a key moment in the end, but otherwise, this one is a shot in the arm that fades quickly. Hopefully future episodes can maintain that kind of pace and excitement over the course of a whole episode.