Beast Machines episodes (no spoilers please)

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

When they made Beast Machines it's like they forgot that Transformers is meant to be for kids. Engaging adult audiences is good too, but you can't neglect the kids -- and even adult TF audiences like to watch some fun. Then you have Michael Bay who just injects juvenile adolescent humour into Transformers <sigh>

Actually, Michael Bay trying to do Beast Machines could be entertaining.

There are also certain elements of Beast Machines continuity that conflicts with Beast Wars. Based on just the first 6 eps, you can see that BM Megatron is an entirely different character from BW Megatron. BW Megatron is a character devoid of morality - one who revelled in being evil (e.g. in The Agenda Part 3 he laughs after saying "evil triumphs!"). Yet BM Megatron has this messiah complex where he sees himself as Cybertron's saviour and is a highly moral character (it just so happens that his moral values are at odds with Optimus Primal's values). There is no definitive good or evil in this story -- which in itself is pretty cool, but to suddenly change Megatron from being a morally bankrupt character to one who's taken a moral highground on maintaining Cybertron's technological purity is a massive and ill explained leap.

Then there's his phobia for organics... where the slag did THAT come from?!? (o_O) The series kinda pretends that it was there the whole time... uhhh... ooookkkkaaaaayyyy... <slowly.backs.away>

This was what really turned me off BM. I didn't like how they changed Blackarachnia and Rattrap either, but BW Megs was such a great, well-realised, and nuanced (for an arch-villain) character in BW. He's without doubt my all-time favourite TF character, smooth, underhanded, subtle, sneaky as well as powerful, manipulative, amoral, utterly pragmatic, and willing to gamble everything for victory...until BM, when as you say he just totally changes for no good reason. For a character who had a defining trait of manipulating others to unwittingly carry out his schemes to suddenly decide that mindless drones are the way to go is just beyond belief...I mean, it gets better, but still.
It's not like it would have been that hard to justify it either: the writers could just have tossed in a comment about how the long interstellar flight back to Cybertron drove him insane or something and be done with it, but instead they just leave it in the air.

[GoktimusPrime]

I like BM Blackarachnia. She's a full Maximal which is what she was already evolving into at the end of Beast Wars, so at least it's a plausible/logical progression. I don't like BM Rattrap either. BW Rattrap was like Maximal MacGuyver -- the master of improvisation, he could _always_ find some way out of a dire situation.

[langzixinxin]

After I just read this post, I went to youtube and try watch it. After 5mins, can't keep watching anymore.

So...bye, guys, have a nice day.