Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 3C

Feral Scream Part 2

(Click for part 1) Cheetor’s quarters have normal photographs of him and his fellow Maximals on Earth… In the same room with a 3D hologram clock, and the same ship with all 3D hologram displays on the controls. This leads me to wonder where his polaroid camera is and how it survived multiple ship crashes and explosions?Optimal Optimus is back to his non-monkey face, but I think I figured out the giant shoulder things. They’re arm flaps that hang down when not standing well above his head. I’m still going to ignore them.
More Cheetor nightmares, have we found out if therapy is a thing on Cybertron? ‘Cause this kid needs it. He dreamed he turned into a robotic version of Carpenter’s The Thing.
The Lycanthropy angle has grown, Cheetor is now a Were-Super-Shiny.
No, the shoulder towers weren’t the arm flaps. Never mind.
Rattrap is attacked by a Super Shiny big cat with some sections of yellow spotted skin bursting out of Cheetor’s room. His conclusion, “It got Cheetor!” Moron.
Megatron has a giant scratch scar on his chest now. Wow, the Super Shiny guys really take it up a notch.
New Super Shiny Dinobot is always growling at Waspinator. Yeah, he’s bad at most assignments, but the poor little doofus REALLY does not deserve all this abuse.

A hatch on Super Shiny Cheetor’s left butt cheek just opened, and green glowing energy just came out and transformed him. There are no words.

Blackarachnia is intentionally making Wolf Boy jealous. He totally deserves it.
Dang! Optimus gets physical with Fish Batman when he wants more information about the Cheetor exploding moment. He threatens him violently too. This is really the Optimus Prime and Bumblebee father/ son relationship again.

Megatron, you gotta work on your cloning. New Super Shiny Dinobot looks like a skeleton. Also, the original didn’t have a big tail sticking out in robot mode.
Dude! This new clone just ribbon sliced up Waspinator. The poor little doofus REALLY doesn’t deserve this.
OK. Cheetor calling Optimus “Big Bot” works now. The boss TOWERS over everyone. However, his hands and feet are still way too big for his scale… and way too orange.
He’s back to Monkey Face again? Is he a Triple and a Half Changer?
New Super Shiny Dinobot just one shotted Optimus. Not so “Optimal” now, are we?
Whoah, Cheetor went Super Shiny in robot mode. He basically Hulked out. The green energy sold that.
Waspinator came back from being shredded into a pile of green, metal linguini really fast. Must be from Starscream’s Spark. Annnd he’s down again. Poor little doofus.
Super Shiny battle time. How are the couple of non-transmetals left going to keep up. No wonder Blackarachnia and Rhinox are so bitchy.
Oh, Optimus’s face and chest just whirled around to reveal the monkey face with transforming noises. He IS a Triple and a Half Changer! 
“Big Bot” states “Cheetor’s Beast Mode is still feral,” without an ounce of shock. So, that’s like... a thing that happens? Their new scanners totally induce Lycantrhopy. Maybe hot wire Teletraan-I and start over?
Optimus- “If I could just reach his Spark?” Whoah, watch those hands boss! Have you seen Rampage? This is a bad idea. Because it looks like Cheetor has his Spark in his butt. This explains much about him.
Rattrap- “Oh joy. Cyber puberty.” Thank you for that insight. Cheetor just came close to killing a half a dozen foes and friends without realizing what he was doing. I’d hate to see Cybertron middle school.
Oh great. Blackarachnia started flirting with Cheetor. There are even less than no scenarios where this goes well. Now the two of them have exchanged appreciatively appraising butt assessments. (That could have been full alliteration if I had less class.)

Have a nice afternoon Nineties’ kids!
 
 

Proving Grounds

They need to do a full body scan of Blackarachnia to see the Predacon shell on her programming. This would be less uncomfortable if it wasn’t full of zoom ins and … oh shut up, Cheetor. You are not helping.
Rhinox is so done with everyone. He’s moved well beyond cranky. Is it left over Predacon programming in him too, or is it that he can no longer deal with being stuck on this backwater world with these morons?
I see. Removing Balckarachnia’s Predacon shell could wipe her core memory. If they don’t, she’ll be a Predacon forever. Optimus- “That may be too big a chance to take right now, let’s find her.”  You suck Optimus. She’s followed all of your orders, saved your butts repeatedly and everyone still treats her like crap except the lovestruck puppy. No wonder she’s having an existential crisis in the forest.
(Man, it’s easy to get super invested in these.)

She and New Super Shiny Dinobot have found each other in the woods. They are basically enacting a Road Runner cartoon. However, here - where it would make sense - there are no comical injuries.
Meanwhile, back at the base, Rattrap is playing Mortal Kombat, but the characters are him and Megatron.  Nothing weird about that.
New Super Shiny Dinobot has a huge, oddly shaped gun… or is it a movie projector? The design aesthetic is so strange in this show.
Yup. It WAS a hologram projector. And it is also another piece of equipment stored in his butt. Although, it is probably less painful than the spinning sword.
New Super Shiny Dinobot knocked two trees down on Blackarachnia’s legs. Perhaps she should have taken one step to the side, like she just saw him do seconds earlier. Moron.

OOF Point blank blast with her weird crossbow thing takes him down. But I guess weird glowy energy comes with being Super Shiny. His is purple and it healed him. Handy.
Now Rattrap is playing Doom with his own gun against Predacons on the screen. Are these training programs?
Silverbolt has come for his lady love and joined the fight. Very poorly.

To keep New Super Shiny Dinobot from blowing Wolf Boy’s head off Blackarachnia opens up with the eight machine guns her legs turn into and shoots… Silverbolt. 

That’s one tactic, that is.
Maybe more than a tactic, she’s teaming up with New Super Shiny Dinobot to take over the joint. Whoah!
Ah, a clever ruse. Except not so clever, AAAAAH! New Super Shiny Dinobot has an eye beam that came close to vaporizing her. (Invested? Yes, yes I am.)
“Unhand her reptilian filth!” In a full Superman pose with Rising Fifths. Silverbolt’s going to get disintegrated. Oh, he used the Hologram Projector. Wolf Boy is learning.
Blackarachnia is still not on board with her mind possibly being erased so she headbutts her beau to escape… and now they’re both unconscious. Morons.
Optimus shows up, gets confronted and states- “With re-programming, you could be the Maximal you were meant to be. But the decision to take that step is, and always will be, yours to make.”
That is not what you said back at the base, dude. Considering you're all living within arm’s length of each other, maybe phrase things more carefully regardless of who you think can hear you.

Our lovers have a moment before he carries her home. The two of them are adorable and yet nauseating at the same time.
 
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Go with the Flow

Cheetor is stalking a Tarantulas drone and whispers, “Maximize.” They’ve already established they can transform without saying anything. Cyber puberty has not made our lad any brighter.
Oh. He’s actually playing with the prehistoric kids. We get their names out loud, Una and Jack. The show has established the most confusing nickname for John predates the invention of formalized language. Whatever.
Rattrap took out the drone, at least someone is competent here.
Cheetor is giving the kids simple machines lessons. After everything they’ve done to protect the time stream that seems irresponsible.
The Predacons have built a giant Frankenstein lab looking BZZZZZ thing. It electrocuted all of them because it has a bipolar Energon source. Excellent planning there, guys.
Hey, it’s Inferno! Haven’t seen him in action in a while. He took out Super Shiny Cheetor like it was nothing. Do NOT mess with the Loon. 

Meanwhile, Waspinator in Beast Mode (A horse sized green and yellow wasp) carried off Una. Do they have Neandertherapy yet? The kid’s going to need it.
Where did Fish Batman come from? Was he in a tree?
Oh, Una is using the stone “non violent” tool Cheetor made to whack off Waspinator’s legs in flight. Poor little doofus… oof, he’s in bits again.

Holy crap! The Predacon’s zappy thing powers an enormous “Darkside Eye Beam” like gun, which zaps the Predacons when it fires too, because of bipolar Energon. (Which looks much like unstable Energon.)
Maybe if everyone wasn’t Shiny now their Beast Modes could have protected them… morons.
Tarantulas has joined Megatron again. He gets more pardons for worse things than Starscream ever did.
Since the Energon effects them, Megatron drafts the captive Una to assemble the rest of his weapon.

I feel the need to point out she is:

A) Primitive 

and
B) About six years old
I fear the big purple faced leader is going to have an aneurysm before this effort is completed. Parenthood may kill him where the Maximals failed.

Man, that kid’s giant blue eyes are terrifying.
Rattrap to the rescue!! Ew… or not. Tarantulas is gonna eat Una now. Not going to lie, this is getting intense. But wait, Una uses Chekov’s Lever to squish the Spider-Cycle… by knocking the thing she’s standing on down… Oh she’s dead!
Rattrap to the rescue!!!! Woo! (Sorry, I was a little early on that the first time.)

Una also suggests the lever to lift the wounded and immobile Fish Batman and slide him into the river. Bright girl.
Wait, both insects and New Super Shiny Dinobot are coming after them. They’re screwed.
Water does heal Depthcharge, maybe he is Aquaman and not Fish Batman after all? But he still can’t move and they’re paddling him down the river. He totally deserves this for being a pompous jerk. (So, I guess he is Fish Batman after all.)

Oh look. A waterfall. Gasp, what a surprise. (Was that convincing?) Well, the waterfall threat is overused but I didn’t expect them to actually go over. NOW they’re dead. 

Oh, wait. They’re fine. For… reasons.
Una figures out to use her shovel to throw mud and blind the Predacons. Perhaps she is Carly’s ancestor?
With the Poor Little Doofus and The Loon blinded, there’s a three Predacon pile up showing we have returned to Looney Tunes slapstick.
HEY! The Ark’s sensors actually picked up something! Right as that monstrously large gun is going to obliterate it.  
Una really is Carly’s ancestor. She stole the stabilizer chip, saving everyone!
And making the entire Predacon mountain blow up. Dang.

Well, the Predacons are all dead. End of show.

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