Sevenpenny

Originally Posted by Forefinger_

He's going to be some media guy, but I could just picture him as the Sergeant: "What the &^% do you mean, they turned Murphy into a mother^%$* robot?"

Originally Posted by Nericus

The CGI improved as the series went but the first few episodes did look a bit rough even back then, but the story was and still is great. As to turning into animals, to me the Maximals and Predacons were an evolution/combination of Micromasters and Pretender armor tech.

Season 3 could have benefited greatly from a few more episodes as somethings weren't fully explained:

1. The Vok: one writer felt they were the Swarm from the Marvel G2 comic, the other felt they were simply an alien race (I prefer this)

2. the transmetal 2 driver: when did Megatron get it and where? It was apparently Vok technology and where did it go after it healed and upgraded Black Arachnia

3. Tarantulas: he states that he and Tripredacus council are not descended from Autobot or Decepticon and thus would likely be immune to a change in the time stream. One writer felt they were descended from the G2 Decepticons (yuck!) the other felt they were Unicron creations before Unicron's head was taken from Cybertronian orbit and destroyed. Megatron later called Tarantulas a "unicron spawn" and later botcon comics I think have confirmed that Tarantulas is indeed a unicron creation. This would greatly explain how Tarantulas kept regenerating himself from damage that would have surely killed another Transformer.

4. The full powers and abilites of Transmetal 2 Transformers were never explored. Super healing and telekinesis were all we saw....

5. When Depthcharge arrived, Optimus tells him to let it go and that "You were not responsible for what happened to Colony Omicron and neither am I". Protoform X leveled the colony and Depthcharge hunted him down and helped cage him, but the Council decided Optimus should exile Protoform X instead. Still that statement from Optimus makes me wonder....did Optimus Primal have a hand in the creation of Protoform X? It was never stated, but it would be interesting and help explain why Depthcharge wasn't too keen on following Optimus' orders. Though I do laugh when Primal confronts Depthcharge about what happened to Cheetor and Depthcharge gives him attitude until Primal gets mad, slams DC into a wall and tells him to talk or he will extract the data from him one bit at a time. Depthcharge then says "Well since you asked so NICELY......"

6. The plot point of Rattrap finding Dinobot's memory/personality copy in the Axalon computers and then inputting it into TM2 Dinobot should have happened. That rejected script would have shown that Rattrap finally realized Dinobot was indeed his best friend and it would have helped explain TM2 Dinobot awakening after Rampage was blown up.

7. Dragon Megatron contained the spark of the original Megatron until he was finally defeated. Would have been interesting to see just how he was coping with having another maniacally evil spark coexisting with him. The power boost was obvious and was why only Tigerhawk could face him since Tigerhawk was empowered first by the two Vok and then by the merged spark of Tigatron and Air Razor. Had Optimus reclaimed the spark of Optimus Prime before the final fight he likely could have taken Dragon Megatron down.

One of the biggest unexplained plot holes of Beast Machines was just what happened to Megatron after he got loose from the Autobot shuttle and tumbled away in transwarp space. When and where did he emerge?

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

Incidentally, when I checked this morning, the episode count was up to 39 from 26.

Originally Posted by Nericus

The CGI improved as the series went but the first few episodes did look a bit rough even back then, but the story was and still is great. As to turning into animals, to me the Maximals and Predacons were an evolution/combination of Micromasters and Pretender armor tech.

Season 3 could have benefited greatly from a few more episodes as somethings weren't fully explained:

1. The Vok: one writer felt they were the Swarm from the Marvel G2 comic, the other felt they were simply an alien race (I prefer this)

2. the transmetal 2 driver: when did Megatron get it and where? It was apparently Vok technology and where did it go after it healed and upgraded Black Arachnia

3. Tarantulas: he states that he and Tripredacus council are not descended from Autobot or Decepticon and thus would likely be immune to a change in the time stream. One writer felt they were descended from the G2 Decepticons (yuck!) the other felt they were Unicron creations before Unicron's head was taken from Cybertronian orbit and destroyed. Megatron later called Tarantulas a "unicron spawn" and later botcon comics I think have confirmed that Tarantulas is indeed a unicron creation. This would greatly explain how Tarantulas kept regenerating himself from damage that would have surely killed another Transformer.

4. The full powers and abilites of Transmetal 2 Transformers were never explored. Super healing and telekinesis were all we saw....

5. When Depthcharge arrived, Optimus tells him to let it go and that "You were not responsible for what happened to Colony Omicron and neither am I". Protoform X leveled the colony and Depthcharge hunted him down and helped cage him, but the Council decided Optimus should exile Protoform X instead. Still that statement from Optimus makes me wonder....did Optimus Primal have a hand in the creation of Protoform X? It was never stated, but it would be interesting and help explain why Depthcharge wasn't too keen on following Optimus' orders. Though I do laugh when Primal confronts Depthcharge about what happened to Cheetor and Depthcharge gives him attitude until Primal gets mad, slams DC into a wall and tells him to talk or he will extract the data from him one bit at a time. Depthcharge then says "Well since you asked so NICELY......"

6. The plot point of Rattrap finding Dinobot's memory/personality copy in the Axalon computers and then inputting it into TM2 Dinobot should have happened. That rejected script would have shown that Rattrap finally realized Dinobot was indeed his best friend and it would have helped explain TM2 Dinobot awakening after Rampage was blown up.

7. Dragon Megatron contained the spark of the original Megatron until he was finally defeated. Would have been interesting to see just how he was coping with having another maniacally evil spark coexisting with him. The power boost was obvious and was why only Tigerhawk could face him since Tigerhawk was empowered first by the two Vok and then by the merged spark of Tigatron and Air Razor. Had Optimus reclaimed the spark of Optimus Prime before the final fight he likely could have taken Dragon Megatron down.

One of the biggest unexplained plot holes of Beast Machines was just what happened to Megatron after he got loose from the Autobot shuttle and tumbled away in transwarp space. When and where did he emerge?

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

... and that the collision itself will take 2 billion years.

I mean, talk about "bullet time."

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

I've heard that Liefeld gets work because he is professional, polite, and always gets his pages done on time.

I forget who said it, but the classic way to get work in Hollywood is to be either talented, a dedicated professional, or pleasant to work with. Sounds like Liefeld is two of those three.

Originally Posted by Sevenpenny

finally up on Netflix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by SolarSentai

"We're all gonna die..."

I love Rattrap <3

On a semi-related note, I really wish Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo had been brought States side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Wars_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Wars_Neo