Dude, you know you kinda make it hard for me to be tough on you so I can see you improve when you do, yunno, good.
I might as well get my initial thoughts out of the way.
What I liked: Plot advancement, interesting interpretations on characters, voice acting, humor, the general feel and updated looks to the "talk sprites" as well as fluid animation.
What I disliked: It took us this long for any real hint of character depth, the shipping between Alpha and Flamegirl was laid upon too thick, lack of shading in actual animation, relying too much onto TTA to reference the storyline, "Power: Stegosaurus, Power: Tyrannosaurus" REALLY?!?
Improvement over the last two and the filler I wish to never have to reference ever again achieved. I watch a lot of shows, hell I watched .hack Quantum this Monday and I was rather impressed how well the writing of this episode was in comparison. Standard Shonen fare, and you succeeded.
Sadly, most of what earns this such a low score is more nitpicks, and I hate to say this, but I'm sure after writing this review, I'll see some issue and agree with someone who will be a little bit more critical than I am.
I'm intrigued on how Alpha got to know his friends, as the first episode sort of dumped us into previously knowing them from some random event. If I may ask, is there anything that'll lead to revealing that tidbit of information at least shown on Newgrounds, rather than supplementary material found on DA.
Like Alpha's personality... Not much was inferred in the first episode other than being a little naive, Shadyvox's Youtube revealing his thoughts on his friends, and the Deviantart description telling me he's younger than Flamegirl... (Not by much...)
Speaking of which, Shipping... Laying it on thick. I don't care how cute or how obvious it is, it's obnoxious to lump the two together by the the words of the other characters. Sure Alpha's got the Naive hero and Flamegirl's got serious gamer chick written all over her but simply making it seem like everything and everyone concerning the two is romantic in nature sort of takes away from their individual personalities. I could go on a leash and say you're lampshading it with everyone supporting the idea a little too much, if you weren't a tad too concerned with actually writing an awkward teen romance between the two.
As far as shading, it adds to it. You upgraded one aspect, the talk sprites, now at least try for the actual animation.
Relying on TTA as a reference? Surprisingly, this is more of a nitpick since this isn't as prelevent this episode as compared to the other two. You're doing something different with Flamegirl being tagged by Ravenfreak, which leads to various theories (All of them involving some variation of Flamegirl being controlled and fighting the heroes... For better or worse for her character) but I still don't want to be led down what appears to be an essential rewrite of TTA with the copyright infringement turned off. Like I said minor nitpick, hopefully it might turn out a little differently than what I might be seeing.
"Power: Stegosaurus, Power: Tyrannosaurus" Seriously man, what is this? You know you could go for "Fossil" or "Jurassic" (Since some of your target audience don't care about anything relating to paleontology) since TOME is basically design-an-avatar heaven, you don't have to differentiate between powers by the species of Dinosaur. Should you give some explanation of TOME's system, you could go about how different powers are achieved. Alpha is "Mythological" am I right? But everything so far supplimented has been about Greek mythology, when someone with the same power could be equipped with something that gives them the power of Nordic Mythology or Chinese/Japanese Mythology. You can establish the differences between powers and classes by other things than separation, like special items, etc. this is an MMO that this is set in, right?
Good job, I'm looking forward to the next one, just... Be sure to at least look over your story a bit more. This has been TheDrunkenwhale, signing out.