Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1H

Other Voices, Parts 1 and 2

This was really a three part season finale, along with the previous episode.  
Tarantulas’s plan is- he’s straight up leaving the planet and abandoning everyone. What a guy. Blackarachnia is there with him because of the spider bond. These two never met before, she’s a reformatted Maximal, and he’s … whatever the heck he is. More evidence that Beast Mode is Lycanthropy. 

Megatron (not a Moron) knows everything the two spiders are doing. He also rebuilt Waspinator…Again.
The new team of Airazor and Rattrap visit a Henge with fancy drawings on the floor (swanky!) where the alien signal is going.
Rattrap- “Strip my circuits and call me a toaster.” He was annoying, but he has really grown on me.
At The Henge they find stable Energon. Gasp! Which zaps the snot out of both of them. Maybe hold off on calling it stable. 

The “stable” Energon grew a giant mushroom house, (as it often does, I guess), trapping and zapping Airazor once more. OH NO! (Goofy, but I’m still invested.)

Oh no (again), Waspinator got the drop on Rattrap! And there’s still a cease fire, what will the little rodent do? 

OOOF!
Ah. That. Waspinator’s got nards. Poor little doofus.
The alien said Cybertron!! (That would call for a “gasp” if they followed up with it at all.)
Gangs from both sides show up to the mushroom house party, but only Megatron (Not a moron.) figures out energy won’t gain them access and gets Scorponok to sting an entrance open.

Optimus Primal goes in to apologize to the aliens for damaging the planet. It goes as well as one would expect, as he is cabled, zapped and green gassed. (Or is that green energy? With the early CGI it’s impossible to tell.) Well done, Primal. At least you got the falcon out.
Megatron sent Inferno to check on the spiders. This is because his completely insane follower is also his most competent follower. That says something about the Predacon forces.
The aliens (The still unnamed Vox. Confirmed- another name we won’t hear on screen for a while) remember Primal from when they killed him last time.
AAAAH!!!! Unicron!!!!!!!

Oh. Not Unicron. The aliens just took a form from his memory. Whew. (Granted they seem to be nigh omnipotent beings with no physical form, so that “whew” may be premature.)
The aliens decide the experiment will be sterilized. That sounds bad. Definitely “whew”ed too soon.
The threat to wipe out the planet reminds Optimus that he is, in fact, a robot ape, and with his Gorilla Power, he rips through the cables!
Outside, Airazor and Rattrap on their own took out three Predacons including Megatron in a minute and a half. Why is the Beast Wars taking so long? It’s because they’re morons, isn’t it?
In a sentence I never thought I’d say, the mushroom house shoots a big energy sky beam to the hollow moon and blows it’s coating off. 

Oops, there go all the Maximal stasis pods out of orbit. There are going to be a lot of new friends next season, assuming they survive crashing from orbit and this planet isn't smithereened.

Speaking of fast, the Spiders took out Dinobot and Rhinox, the Maximal’s two toughest guys, instantly. These groups really need to organize their attacks better.
It is an all hands-on deck moment, Optimus even called the cats back to the base.
The aliens, the mushroom house and the hollow moon are gone! Gasp. 

Wait, the coating blown off the moon left something behind. It looks a lot like a “planet buster.” It also looks kind of like a flower, so it’s a pretty planet buster.

The way Megatron always extends the “s”s when he says, “Oh yesssssssss.” proves Inferno calling him “My queen” is spot on.
Speaking of everyone’s (or, in fact, my) favorite insane ant: He has caught the spiders putting the transwarp coil in the stasis pod they stole from the Axalon. Tarantulas pulls a giant projectile out of his butt (ow!) but Inferno catches that when thrown. Then he no sells the machine gun blasts coming from ALL SIXTEEN of both spiders’ legs. DO NOT MESS WITH THE LOON! 

Oops, Inferno did too good. Stopping Tarantulas (as in- he's dead now) before he finished is the first thing that didn’t go according Megatron’s plan in about a half dozen episodes. 

Blackarachnia’s poison bite doesn’t work on The Loon either. Perhaps because he’s a robot? She did out ninja him though.
Um. Using the computer programming goggles Tarantulas had, Blackarachnia can enter his mind and get information. Cybertronian sentience questions abound once again.
The planet buster has ignited ALL the Energon. Oof.

Oh good, the Maximals caught The Loon and the Spiders. Dude, the planet is on fire. Maybe speed it up.
Optimus Primal says they’re going to take out the planet buster.
“With what? One of your famous ‘we can do it’ speeches?” I officially love Rattrap. His cynicism has won me over.
With a transwarp explosion? That sounds pretty “planet bustery” on its own. But what do I know?

Optimus gets into the pod and calls them “The finest crew I’ve ever served with.” Awwwww. All of them are touched, even Rattrap. Well, Blackarachnia isn’t. She calls it “slop.”
DANG! Lady punch! Airazor knocked the black widow out cold. (Still not sure how that works with robots, but there is too much going on to think about it now.)
Oh, that’s bad. Megatron (again, CLEARLY not a moron) has been following everything the whole time and sealed the hatch so Optimus can’t eject before the pod blows.

That was a HUGE (and real, looking very odd in the CGI universe) explosion!
With the Maximal leader at the center of it. AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!

OPTIMUS PRIMAL DEATH COUNT=2
Title card –“The END?”
Wait, that’s it?  Man, it sucked to be a Nineties kid.
 

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