Monday, December 1, 2025

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 2E

The Agenda Parts 2-III
Note- Don't blame me for the episode numbers. They did that.
Uh Oh. Optimus knows about Silverbolt’s little trysts. He does give him a chance to refute it, but Wolf Boy doesn’t. “That’s just prime.” I’ll let that one go, Optimus. Especially since Silverbolt is using his, “I was a Predacon for a whole day once,” excuse again.
I feel like Ravage shouldn’t be this short compared to these guys. Old Transformers were much bigger.
Gasp! "Lieutenant" Tarantulas (and his Hidey Holes) has been working for the Tripredacus Council this whole time. Why do I feel Megatron knew? Perhaps because he’s not a moron?
Exiting another amazing Cybertronian jail cell, Silverbolt punches clean through the door. Then he punches out a robot. (Cheetor is having a rough day.) How does that work exactly?
I feel I would be remiss if I did not point out Optimus Primal going around with a tiny little pistol that looks like an air horn.
There’s still raw Energon after the planet enveloping beam? I'm pretty sure there shouldn’t be.
Oh, Optimus and Cheetor are down. Do NOT mess with The Loon!
Silverbolt flies up to Blackarachnia howling like a siren to pull her over. It’s odd that they keep throwing in the really goofy stuff like that while characters are dropping left and right. 
Aaaand, she shot him in the leg. Good! Oh, never mind, he uses that to point out she must be good because it wasn’t a lethal wound. What a moron.
Now they’re kissing again. Please stop.
Ooop! Also again, Waspinator is bits. Poor little doofus.
Meanwhile in another again, Wolf Boy has saved his lady’s life.
Silverbolt- “It’s my duty ma’am. As a Maximal, and as a heroic character.” PLEASE shoot him again. No, instead she says, “I like em big and stupid, but you’re really pushing it.” Nice shout out anyway.
The Loon is not Shiny, meaning the raw Energon is shutting him down.
A rare bit of poor planning on Megatron’s part. AAAH The Loon shot the Energon and blew it up. He’s been rendered to metallic dust! Farewell Loon, you were a hoot.
Ravage’s real mission- Kill every Cybertronian on the planet. Dang. He’s still hardcore.
Wait, the Golden Disk was the actual disk from Voyager 2? Star Trek The Motion Picture cross over maybe? Was Cybertron the machine planet V-ger found?
The REAL Megatron recorded a video message on that disk (for… reasons) in case they lost the war. Since it is Megatron not Galvatron, this happened before Transformers The Movie, during the time they were handily winning. Both Megatrons plan WAY ahead. New Megatron can show part of the message because he saved a broken fragment of the disk. THAT IS NOT HOW DISKS WORK!
Ravage is now on board with new Megatron’s risky plan. Soundwave’s boys were always mega loyal to Megatron.
Oh, Waspinator isn’t dead. He’s just a head mounted on one of his hands, though. Nothing disturbing here.
Blackarachnia- “Haul your hero heiney out of here!” The writers have apparently stopped caring.
Ravage just yelled “Decepticons forever!” And transformed into a cassette with the old noise! WOOO!
I mean, the good guys are really screwed now, so OH NO! but still, WOOO!
 
It took quite a while to notice what was going on, but in Cheetor’s Shiny robot form, he has half a cat head on each hand, and makes a face gun that vomits laser blasts by putting them together. Nothing weird about that, either. Moving on.
Rattrap just transformed into his Rat-dragster form by saying, “Knievel mode!” I guess they can really say whatever the heck they want.
Quickstrike got knocked off Rampage’s tank mode and fell under the tread. Even the Maximals looked away. I think we just lost another Predacon.
Whoah! Megatron’s laser pliers hit REALLY hard!
Rattrap drops another pop culture reference, this time to the Stainless Steel Rat. The back and forth between goofy and tragic on this show is jarring.
Classic Decepticon logo! Woo!
Rattrap left a bomb in the Inviso-Time Ship, and there go Tarantulas and Ravage. Holy crap! There’s gonna be no one left.
Meanwhile Rattrap shoves the mood swing pendulum again by doing the Doctor Strangelove bomb ride.
Back on the Predacon side, the giant missile Tarantulas was prepping took out Rampage at point blank range. I haven’t seen a toy shelf cleaning like this since 1985.
Rhinox is afraid of heights. I knew I liked him.
In the middle of mysteries and chaos, Silverbolt is waxing poetic about Venus reminding him of Blackarachnia. Moron. Her reply. “Because it’s hot, poisonous and deadly?” Have fun unpacking that one Nineties’ kids!
GASP! THEY FOUND THE AUTOBOT ARK!  And this is the first time it is named that on screen. Once this series gets going it is a LORE party.
Blackarachnia references the Autobots and Decepticons being “eons” before the Maximals and Predacons. It was three hundred years. Some of the beings in the ship you just discovered are five million years old and due to live at least another four million. Maybe have some perspective? 
Nice CGI version of the original series opening space battle though.
“1984, the start of the Great War.” Uh. No. Blackarachnia, don’t they show the original cartoon on Cybertron? Did opening the plasma energy chamber wipe Teletran-Two’s memory?
Megatron just called the computer Tele-TRON-One. That’s going to be really annoying if it continues.
(Embarrassing admission. I have been spelling “Teletraan-I” incorrectly this whole time. More embarrassingly, I am not going to go back and fix it now. I blame a lack of subtitles on my Rhino DVDs.)
Megatron (again- not a moron) knows Blackarachnia backed up the disk. (The Ark’s location being his risky plan and what original Megatron recorded that location for those having trouble keeping up.) She won’t give him the entry code, therefore he threatens not her, but Big and Stupid Wolf Boy over there. Megatron's “not a moron” times continue.
Wait, the Ark has defenses? I never would have guessed!
“Die cast construction. It’s a lost art.” You are hilarious, Optimus.
WOO HOO! The season one Transformers gang!!!!!!
I was right, they are SO HUGE!!! This Megatron is about the size of Optimus Prime’s forearm. Ravage should have been the same height as him.
Rattrap’s amazing aim for the win again, taking out the defense gun. Maybe whatever he did shut them down permanently?
Trying to break in and Rhinox with his gatling guns is done waiting. He’s impatient too. No wonder I like him.
Um, Megatron just shot the real Optimus Prime in the face here in the distant past to make the Autobots lose the Great War, meaning the Maximals won’t exist. Thanks to his pod reprogramming - most of his team were originally Maximals. Then again, the Predacons probably wouldn’t exist either if the Decepticons won. That may explain the gigantic Solar System devouring time explosion. Yikes!
And they didn’t know if the show would get a third season? What is wrong with these writers?
OPTIMUS PRIMAL DEATH COUNT=3
You poor poor Nineties kids.
I do like that the Megatrons are not the “heroes of their own story.” They just straight up revel in being evil.
 
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