There are two things and ONLY two things about this episode that are actually good. The first is that Soundwave is in it. He is a cool character from the original set and has an awesome voice. The second is that the music is by Vince DiCola. The music was taken straight from the Transformers movie. But since this is a TV show and not a movie, they had to add a TON of reverb to the music. Music without tons of reverb is just uncalled for in TV-land I guess.

The premise of this episode is awful. The Autobots and Decepticons stumble onto some random planet with aliens who "sing" instead of talk normally like well adjusted individuals. They sing in English and are easily understandable, but it just is painful to listen to because it is so damned hokey! Also, Blaster must translate everything these aliens say so that Ultra Magnus can understand them. Yes, Blaster is translating English to English. Likewise Soundwave must translate English to English for Galvatron. The story revolves around a "perfect harmony" which has the power to crush and destroy the Autobot City of Metroplex once and for all! There are 3 parts to the harmony and 3 individuals each have a part. Soundwave "records" each part of the harmony onto his cassette tapes and uses their power. How he is able to be destructive with the taped harmonies is beyond me, as it is a widely known fact that cassette tapes are EXTREMELY lossy and do not reproduce the full spectrum of sound. Soundwave should have at least used DAT or MiniDisc. Long story short, Soundwave gets all parts of the harmony and the Decepticons go to Earth to finish Metroplex. But Ultra Magnus and Blaster have brought the 3 goons to Earth who have the harmony in its native form. They use "anti-sound" to counteract Soundwave's harmony. The anti-sound is described as "white noise". OK, first of all white noise is real sound. Secondly if all they needed was white noise, then why didn't they just turn on a TV to a blank channel and let the static sound of white noise save the Earth? Geez. After Soundwave is defeated, Blaster runs up to him and presses his ERASE ALL button which is conveniently located on his groin. So I guess that means that ANYONE can walk up to Soundwave, press his ERASE ALL button and ruin all of his shit. The Earth is saved and the aliens learn to live in harmony again. The end.

OK as you can see, the story is absolutely awful. But they didn't stop there. They set out to make the worst television experience possible and they weren't going to let silly things like production values get in the way! The voices are poorly directed, and sometimes characters even speak with another character's voice. The animation runs between 3 and 6 frames per second at all times (similar to the god-awful "Five Faces of Darkness" episodes that were produced in about a day). The drawings are horrendous. They must have fired all of the artists from seasons 1 and 2, because the level of the artwork in season 3 takes a gigantic step downward. It literally looks worse than Scooby Doo. What happened? Also, continuity is ignored. Let's take a look at some of the scenes in this episode:

Your first clue that this episode is gonna suck is the title. It's just so damned cheesey. When you see that is is written by Buzz Dixon (who normally wrote for GI Joe) you KNOW it will suck BAD!! Screw spaceships, the Autobots now simply fly to other planets through space all by themselves. That must take forever! They can even talk to each other in space, despite the lack of sound. It is hard to see in this picture, but Grimlock has a mouth and it is even smiling! When the Autobots first attack, Soundwave and Devastator return fire. I like how Soundwave and Devastator are the same size. And just a few seconds after this.... ...the Constructicons unite to form Devastator! Continuity be damned... who needs it? This episode was so important that Huffer and Brawn rose from the dead to fight beside a Constructicon. Didn't they just combine into Devastator a second ago? Aw hell, who's keeping track anyway? Just look at these characters! How are we supposed to care about these morons? Could that guy be any more gay? No, I think not. The fact that he sings everything doesn't help, either. He even has a fire design on his clothes to indicate that he is "flamingly gay". Autobot Broadside is in this episode which contributes to its suckiness. I'm not sure who's worse, Broadside or Seaspray. They both loosen my stool and keep me on the toilet for hours. Devastator is one of the most powerful Decepticons ever and is back again. He is defeated in ONE SHOT from Perceptor, who is arguably one of the weakest characters ever. Devastator remained merged overnight in Transformers: The Movie and Perceptor was there fighting him then. In fact Perceptor was almost defeated by Soundwave's little tapes in the movie! This image is a little bit bigger than the others so you can closely examine the quality of the artwork. You can tell professionals worked on this. Never before has such raw detail been seen outside of HDTV! Uh oh, it looks like Soundwave is moonlighting as an Autobot! Hot Spot stands next to Defensor and Perceptor to battle the evil Decepticons. Uh... waitaminute.... Hot Spot forms Defensor's torso! But he's standing and fighting beside Defensor... but.. l... uhhh... WHAT THE HELL???? AAAAAAAHHH!!! I GIVE UP!

Well there you have it. As you can see "Carnage in C-Minor" is the worst experience you can have with a television. Buzz Dixon needs to be shot (he always wrote the crappy episodes anyway), the animators need to be shot, and the original Transformers need to return!