MV75 watches Beast Wars

[GoktimusPrime]

Vehicles have seams that can come apart, animals don't.

Are you serious? Look at where most Transformers' alt mode are coming apart at - it's not where normal seams would occur in a vehicle! It would literally involve ripping or shreading metal panels and glass windows!!

Plus if it's "fake" then how does a beast mode protect against stasis lock from energon buildup?

It acts as a form of shield/armour. Similar to Pretender shells in G1.

And what do they need to be in disguise for? There is no reason for that particular reason in this series, just to avoid a stasis lock, otherwise the beast modes were just handy for their abilities.

The only time I noticed that beast mode was handy was in Law of the Jungle when waspinator got tricked into thinking that Tigatrons mate was Tigatron. Otherwise they all seem to automagically know that the beast they see is a maximal/predacon. Oh yea, and when Tigatron first appeared, Megatron just thought they were just normal tigers.

Disguise is only one of several functions of a Transformer's alt mode. It's not as if the G1 and G2 Transformers were always in disguise when they were in alt mode. Remember the Dinobots in the G1 comics? Optimus Prime intentionally tried to detain them at Autobot HQ as much as possible because their dino modes did not work as disguises and instead served to scare humans. The Dinobots eventually became frustrated and angry with this decision and lashed out.

Actually, I meant "Chain of Command", where the alien probe sucked up optimus. The presence of the alien thing was pretty good.

Minor potential spoiler: Those aliens are really cool from G2 continuity POV IMO

Kidding right? I just know you're taking the piss right there. I'm now up to just finished watching "Coming of the fuzors pt2" And plenty of comical things there.

Rat with wheels that does burnout sounds. Hell, a rat with wheels full stop. And a cheetor that flies. Nevermind the monkey on a flying surfboard.

Waspinator and silverbolt with tyre screeches in mid air as they stop. And the thing that Silverbolt is.

Bulging eyes from when they threw the rock in the air to show what would happen if cheetor flew out from cover.

Dinobot being out of ammo, but then riding on rattrap in "car mode" with flaming exhausts and all, and suddenly having ammo for his gun again.

Yea, pretty cut down dude.

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First of all, I never said that it was completely devoid of comedic elements. I merely said that it was toned down compared to season 1.
Secondly, FINISH watching all of Season 2 before judging its comedic:serious ratio. I challenge you to call Season 2 "light hearted" after watching the entire series.

Of course there will always be some more light hearted elements - this show is also designed to appeal to kids as well as adults. If you want to watch a TF show that is almost entirely devoid of light heartedness, go watch Beast Machines (of course, you'll need to finish watching Beast Wars first since BM is the sequel to BW).

So their heads run on remote control when detached?

They sometimes did in G1, e.g.: Optimus Prime.

You'd think though that being cubed and also shocked and stripped into parts, (waspinator), that the spark chamber would have been destroyed. Same as taking excessive (blown to bits) damage.

Well evidently Waspy's spark chamber is extremely hardy and has yet to be destroyed. Waspinator is the TF equivalent to Kenny from South Park if you haven't figured it out yet btw.

Yea, all fine and good for the 90's, but I've come to expect more now.

Even though the toys came out in 1996... (-_-)
So I guess if you never saw G1 and you saw G1 now and came to like the comics or show that you would apply contemporary standards on the toys and have no interest in collecting them?

And I can't believe you even put blackarachnia in there. That toy was bad, very incredibly beyond forgivable bad.

Why? What's wrong with the toy? And don't say "it's not show-accurate" because the toy came out before the show so it's not the toy's fault that the show designers decided to tweak the show model to make her look more different from Tarantulas (since the toy is just a repaint). They've also tweaked Tigatron's show model to make him look different from Cheetor too, even though the toys are the same mould. But I don't begrudge the toys for those decisions made by animators. Blackarachnia has a reasonably solid and decent beast and robot modes - I don't think the Tarantulas/Blackarachnia mode is substantially better or worse than most other Deluxe TFs released around 1996/97... and it's better than say Dinobot (great character, ordinary toy).

Also yea, I do have cybertron prime and megatron beasts, they look right out of this cartoon. Those were pretty well done.

That would be because those toys were made eight years after the Beast Wars cartoon debuted whereas the Tarantulas/Blackarachnia mould was created a year before the cartoon.

Same as Silverbolt. I'm still trying to take in whatever he is, but the character seems likeable enough so far.

The Fuzors were a pretty weird idea and most of the Fuzor toys were pretty... blecch. They were like Transformers meets the Wuzzles. Silverbolt and Quickstrike are the best of the Fuzor toys though... they're nowhere near as bad as say... Injector. *shudder*