Monday, September 15, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1B

The Web
Question- Are beast forms organic, and that’s what protects them from unstable Energon? With the old CGI it is hard to tell.Rhinox is designing a long-range communicator to fix a problem they identified in the first episode. Nice continuity. 
Rhinox is also very grouchy. No wonder he is my favorite.
Why is Scorponok overly excited about finding a cannon? The guy literally shoots giant missiles out of his hands!
Meanwhile Cheetor’s gun is one hundred percent a hair dryer.
Tarantulas (a tarantula, duh… but dinosaur sized) butts arachnid heads with Scorponok about rank levels. Will bad guys ever learn to work together efficiently? Oh, I guess so, Cheetor’s dead. 
(Spoilers- I need to stop joking about that in this show, characters will actually die later.)
Whoah, Cyberton! And a Seeker. Wait, this is getting weirder. Oh, Cheetor is having a nightmare, no he’s winning, it’s a dream. AAAAH! ENORMOUS TARANTULAS! Definitely a nightmare.
Huh, these "Robots in Disguise" (as animals) can eat normal food in Beast Mode form. I still have questions, but I guess those modes are organic.
Tarantulas has made a perfect “Trap door” for ambushing and has Cheetor in a gorgeous orb web. He’s been a spider for THREE DAYS. He is also a cannibal. Just for fun as he can’t process eating his fellow Cybertronians. That’s a new feature for the franchise. Have fun with that Nineties’ kids.
Them walking around the base in animal form having chats and operating equipment is weird looking. 
What is also weird looking is everyone does a little dance when they transform.
It’s funny how hard they worked to make the transformations look realistic... 
And then have them pull their giant guns out of nowhere.   
Aw. How sweet. Optimus forgives Cheetor for his mistake and they all remain friends. Meanwhile, the Predacons still have a massive cannon. Maybe the writers will forget about it. (Spoilers- They do.)
 
 
Equal Measures
Another mountain full of Energon crystals!??? Those things are everywhere. Why they weren’t anywhere else in the galaxy is a mystery. (Spoilers- Which, amazingly, they do explain later.)
There is quite a lot of careless bomb handling in the base here. I’m surprised Dinobot hasn’t killed all of the Maximals by now for it.
Optimus thinks defeating the Predacons does not mean annihilating them. Dude, there are only six of them and five of you. There is no other way this can go.
Cheetor has decided to race a lightning storm. I think all the "moron" may be collected in him.
Oh good. He tripped and dropped one of the lightning rod communication things right into a giant deposit of Energon crystals. Which created a teleporter… as often happens.
Waspinator (A wasp, duh… but… you know the drill.) sounds like The Fly. (Help me…) Or maybe a Blue Bottle Fly. (Bzzzzzzz)
Scorponok is officially second in command. I feel like that is an important thing to assign. (I’m getting ahead of myself).
Ooh Dinobot (who has fully joined the Maximals) will be a double traitor with the surprise teleported Terrosaur?
Ugh, too bad this was made before paleontologists figured out how pterosaurs walked. He looks really uncomfortable. 
Ah, Dinobot is not a traitor, he just takes advantage of everyone because they’re all morons.
The bases are connected by a GIANT Energon deposit. If one blows up they both do, leading to the first of many “countdown” plots before they turn off a bomb. Enjoy a little Mutual Assured Destruction for your afternoons, Nineties’ kids.
How is it obvious to every single person that meets him that Cheetor is young? It’s the moron thing, isn’t it?
The characters really need to stop smiling in animal form. It’s creepy.
 
 
Chain of Command
It’s the Henge!!! Which has a big old pile of spherical rocks in the middle of it, as per usual.
Woo! Everyone fight (for the limited number of “everyone” in this series) in The Henge!
Optimus Primal not only flies, but has all kinds of built-in, high-power armaments. They have learned.
Ah, the pile of spherical rocks covered some unstable Energon. What a surprise. That was a heck of an explosion. Quite the tough Henge.
The Tough Henge can send signals to space, as they do.
Optimus has reduced his frequency of saying, “That’s just prime!” which is a very good thing.
AAH! The pod looking thing the Henge called down from space just vaporized Optimus Primal!!! That is a far less good thing.
OPTIMUS PRIMAL DEATH COUNT=1
The Maximals have to vote for who’s in charge next? I feel like that would have been established at the start of the mission. I bet it was Rhinox, but he doesn’t want it. (I knew I liked him.)
And it’s a tie. Who could have predicted that with four people voting?
Morons.
Oh good, the ghostly voice of Optimus from beyond assigns the role to Rattrap. To be fair, he has evolved pretty quickly away from being the cowardly jerk he was in the first episode. Character development, or writers’ adjustment? The world may never know.
Megatron’s transformation putting his whole Tyrannosaur head at the end of one arm, and that being a laser cannon is a sight and a half.
There’s a lot of action in these fights, but the CGI still makes it look like “Rock Em Sock Em” Dinos sometimes.
Rhinox was left alone in the ship (The Axilion, I think?) to kit bash an Optimus reviving device. He’s basically a giant, grey, horned Wheeljack…
WITH GATLING GUN PISTOLS! I knew I liked him.
Yes, we confirmed fifteen minutes ago The Henge is a signal generator, thank you for spelling it out for the dumb kids.
Woo! Primal is back from the dead and kicking butt!
Nice pan off the planet to establish we will have more spacey themes in the future.
Dude… that REALLY looks like Earth. If one ignores the second moon, I mean.
 
 
Power Surge
Is that a new character? No, it’s a real eagle. The CGI makes it hard to tell.
That is a hovering mountain full of Energon. Perhaps this is not Earth?
So instead of shorting out, being exposed to this Energon has supercharged Terrorsaur. For… reasons.
The enormous bug forms most of the Predacons use really takes away from Megatron looking impressive as a Tyrannosaur.
Ooh Terrorsaur is all shiny now!
Why does Scorponok have human eyes in his arachnid face. That’s really creepy.
Dang, So much for Megatron. He’s in bits now. Guess he shouldn’t have taunted his supercharged underling.
Scorponok is following in the footsteps of Soundwave and Cyclonus as a second in command to a Megatron who is actually loyal.
Hmm, Tarantulas is a wild card, however. What is up with him?
It’s weird having such a small cast without them throwing fleets of new people in every episode after the later stories of the original show.
Floating mountains and second moons aside- that hologram globe the Maximals called up is one hundred percent Earth. That was Africa that just rotated by.
The Maximal base has a defense grid. Good idea. Only took a few centuries for the good guys to do that.
Rattrap in bipedal rat form riding Optimus while he flies as a robot looks all kinds of wrong.
Why doesn’t this batch of Energon supercharge anyone else? I really need more consistency in my time travel, robot animal story where they find floating mountains.
Oof. Terrorsaur’s cleaning house. Now Primal is dead again.
Oh, wait, he’s just stuck as a Gorilla. They really oversell the injuries in this show.
Great, now the above human sized rat is fighting an even larger spider. Nightmares for everyone!
Who knew? It looks worse with Beast Mode Rattrap riding on Gorilla Optimus Primal.  
Ooh that’s a big boom. No more flying mountain. Being the Maximals are researchers and it only enhanced one of their enemies for short periods of time, maybe they should have studied it more first?
Y’know, even taking the wonky animation into account. Terrorsaur follows zero physics in the air.
Ah, they repaired Megatron. Predacons are pretty resilient. Is this why I didn’t remember Terrorsaur? 
(Spoilers- No, that happens later.)
 

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