Goktimus' thoughts on Beast Wars vs Animated

[iceburn]

*pooofff*...so much to read..
eyes watering and tired

me like Beast Wars now and Animated too. different concepts and different target audience for different generations.

that reminds me....STL, Season 3 of Beast Wars plzzz....

[Adzma]

Well Beast Wars was my very first exposure to Transformers, I was only a little tacker at the time so naturally I'd be biased against it now. It is, and I believe will always be, the best Transformers show of all time. As I kid I loved it, and I can actually remember crying when Dinobot died. Bah go on, poke fun at me! I know you all wept when Prime died 10 years earlier. I still remember the joy when I opened up an Optimus Primal, which I still have today, on my birthday and the same feeling with my Optimal Optimus at Christmas a couple of years later. Sadly both are in need of repairs now due to love and affection. But watching it again in 2006 when MadMan released the DVDs I found I could appreciate it even more now than I did as a kid. I tried to like Animated, but I just found it dull and too childish but hey, Hasbro have a market to keep and they're a business. I do wish there was a direct sequel to Beast Machines, and hopefully one that retconns the show entirely anyway, but it wouldn't be economically viable for Hasbro to do it, so they won't.

[kup]

Well Beast Wars was my very first exposure to Transformers, I was only a little tacker at the time so naturally I'd be biased against it now. It is, and I believe will always be, the best Transformers show of all time. As I kid I loved it, and I can actually remember crying when Dinobot died. Bah go on, poke fun at me! I know you all wept when Prime died 10 years earlier. I still remember the joy when I opened up an Optimus Primal, which I still have today, on my birthday and the same feeling with my Optimal Optimus at Christmas a couple of years later. Sadly both are in need of repairs now due to love and affection. But watching it again in 2006 when MadMan released the DVDs I found I could appreciate it even more now than I did as a kid. I tried to like Animated, but I just found it dull and too childish but hey, Hasbro have a market to keep and they're a business. I do wish there was a direct sequel to Beast Machines, and hopefully one that retconns the show entirely anyway, but it wouldn't be economically viable for Hasbro to do it, so they won't.

It would be possible to have a retconed series that takes place right after Beast Wars while not necesarily having a need to go back to being exclusively composed of Beast modes. At the end of BW, they went back to Cybertron, a Cybertron that had earth as a big influence in its culture and where the population is mostly composed of vehicle modes rather than Beast modes. We must also assume that Earth is still around during that post G1 era so they could always do an Earth based series within the BW timeline without having to be prehistoric. Yeah it it would need to be 'futuristic' but so is Armada, Energon and Cybertron.

[GoktimusPrime]

As I kid I loved it, and I can actually remember crying when Dinobot died. Bah go on, poke fun at me! I know you all wept when Prime died 10 years earlier.

hahaha, so true. "Code of Hero" was a very emotional episode, even for adults. It was a fan favourite episode (according to results of the Trannies Awards). To this day I still view it as an absolutely awesome ep. I'd rate Dinobot as one of the greatest martyrs of Transformerdom, easily comparable with Optimus Prime/Primal... perhaps even moreso. Self-sacrifice seems to be second nature to any Transformer with the name "Optimus" but for Dinobot it was a far more difficult decision made under far more difficult circumstances.

"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds, along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly... The rest is silence" - Dinobot (Code of Hero)

"A man is for one generation. Honour for all generations." - Bushido proverb

[Bartrim]

I just want Bulkhead to be more than just a clumsy "one trick pony" oaf. Heck... Harry Potter's Hagrid is a much more meaningful character despite also being portrayed as a big lumbering oaf.

What about his aspiring artist angle?

[Thanatos]

EDIT: Content unfair/biased.

[jaydisc]

and I can actually remember crying when Dinobot died.

Oh man..... how about some spoiler alerts people?!?!?!?

[Paulbot]

Thanatos, yes my moderation post above covers this and this is why I chose to change the thread title last night to make it clear it is just Goktimus Prime's thoughts on the subject. View this as a "soapbox" like those STL does.

There does not need to be any further discussion about whether this thread should exist. And any more will be removed with prejudice.

As I stated Ode to a Grasshopper doesn't need to respond but has indicated that he will so the thread is still open.

[roller]

Bah go on, poke fun at me!

okay you asked for it poke poke poke

i didn't cry when i found out prime died

and i didn't cry when Dinobot died and i was like 9 or something when that happened- im glad they killed him off, he was so....'im a hardcore samurai hamlet wannabe'

Dinobot II is so cool!!!

Imagine if someone cried everytime waspinator got blowed up, thered be a puddle

[jacksplatt11]

Optimus Prime died???? C'mon people, SPOILER WARNINGS PLEASE