Just watched Beast Wars - should I watch Beast Machines?

[Autocon]

Beast Machines went to slow to move the story forward. Alot like those soap shows that drag lingering looks for 15 seconds. It was more dogged in that the maximals were never on the front foot, always trying to run away.

Need to rewatch them I suppose

[1orion2many]

I did enjoy the BM series (not as good as BW though), My biggest gripe was what they did to two main characters. The nearest thing that could explain the change in them would be split personalities because there was no way in hell they were even vaguely related to their original personas in Beast Wars.

[Trent]

Thanks for the replies people. Good to hear that it's not as bad as I originally thought.

Oh and Hursty, it's not that I assumed Beast Wars was crap as the reason it's taken me this long to watch it, it's that I just never got around to watching it. As a 15/16 year old when it was on tv I was just caught up in other things, you know, chasing girls, making orange guns, water bombing Pauline Hanson, you know, teenager stuff.

Although while I previously had zero Interest in the toys, the show sure does a good job of marketing them

[Hursticon]

Oh and Hursty, it's not that I assumed Beast Wars was crap as the reason it's taken me this long to watch it, it's that I just never got around to watching it. As a 15/16 year old when it was on tv I was just caught up in other things, you know, chasing girls, making orange guns, water bombing Pauline Hanson, you know, teenager stuff.

Sorry dude, it certainly wasn't my intention to paint you with the same brush - I just meant to make a point that those who DO "poopoo" it should actually give it a fair chance.

Ah see you were a couple of years older than myself at the time, as I was 11/12 but that said I don't blame you for having higher priorities at the time - Lobbing water bombs at Pauline Hanson in her Prime is something I'll never get to experience.

[kup]

In my view Beast Machines is totally worth watching. However I would try not to expect a 'Transformers' cartoon and try to judge it by it's own merits as it is totally different to anything that existed before (or after) in the way plot, factions and characters are handled.

Also try to have a more 'flexible' mind frame when it comes to continuity from Beast Wars to Beast Machines. As Gok mentioned, character development from one series to the next is not logical and several character personalities are drastically changed. I think that the most 'logical' character progression is Cheetor but everyone else seems to get considerable and sudden personality revamps.

Some of the BW and G1 continuity is a bit misinterpreted or misunderstood this time around. It is clear that the writers for BM did not do their research as well as Larry DiTillio and Bob Forward had done for Beast Wars. Without too many spoilers, you will see odd things on Cybertron that do not make much sense continuity wise like the multiple use of a prominent G1 character design as a 'generic cybertronian' or statues of a G1 character holding objects that were prominent in the previous series but make no sense for this character to hold them.

In short, try to go into Beast Machines with a neutral 'fresh' perspective without expectations. Evaluate the series on it's own merits and you may come out enjoying it as it is still well written in a unique 'UnTransformers' sort of way.

[klystron]

No.
Just no.

[liegeprime]

Yeah watch it, just gets a bit of getting used to the character art though, as it's really more organic even in "bot" mode. Vehicons wise they dont look like the conventional transformers look we get - more like Dr Who casts really but although not as enjoyable as BW, BM has it's own merits. Although as Gok said it kinda placed a period in the end for TF G1 line....I for one aint really that satisfied with how it ended. Oh well.

[BigTransformerTrev]

It's not bad at all. It's different (I'm not going to say that it's better or worse) than Beast Wars but it's totally worth watching.

What he said

[aaron2]

Its not that bad....can be watchable Go for it.....

[snazzbot 101]

My feelings towards Beasts Machines are mixed.

The DVD version I have talks with it about it being a 26 episode half-hour religious version movie for television. That's all fine and good, but there was so much filler.

And so much Creator wants to shoehorn a message where it shouldnt need to go...