Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 3E

Other Victories

Oh look, a weird swirly space thing. Its kind of pretty.. .

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! Scary, glowing ghost faces!!! They’re discussing the lingering danger to the timestream existing on Earth. Meanwhile, Tigatron and Airazor are still holding hands in there. Awww. (I mean, they look dead, but still. Awww.)Megatron is wearing a judge’s wig over his fancy new hat. “Yes, my Queen,” indeedy.

Waspinator is supposed to be the defense attorney but is instead ranting about being blown up all the time. We hear you, poor little doofus. (The Loon as a madly typing stenographer in the background is hilarious by the way.)

Whoah, they’re gonna scrag Quickstrike. I guess after someone turns traitor on Megatron for the five hundredth time, he gets upset.
Oh, that jerk was saved by the latest giant alien beam targeting the planet.
Wait, Megatron was bigger than Optimal Optimus. How does he fit in their ship? He has shrunk back to his original size. I wonder why? It’s not cold in there, ‘cause lava.
Hey, Tarantulas's hidey hole is still there! He’s worried that his and the Tripredacus Counsel’s plans will be messed up. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HIM!!!????
BOOM! Well, there goes the Darksyde. It didn’t even get named on screen.
Rattrap is the only happy one about the blast. He has usually been the practical one.

Wow! The aliens named themselves. Apparently the “Vox” are called the “Vok.” Good to know. I really should check the scripts before I start writing these, no?
Tigerhawk? Wait. There were two scary ghost faced aliens, and two Maximals they dragged half way across the galaxy. So instead of inhabiting one each, they merged the bodies and moved in together?
I have questions.
Maybe be a little more careful energy beaming bodies you want to inhabit into your shiny space cloud and you won’t have to kit bash them together next time?
Tigerhawk just summoned up a massive tornado. Dang.
And he (they?) have armpit missiles! Woo!
Oh right. Dragon Megatron still has the original one’s Spark, so the Maximals have to save him. Shouldn’t the aliens worried about the timestream know this? Also- Morons.
DRAGON VERSUS GIANT FLYING TIGER BATTLE!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!

(It is extremely hard not to be invested in this show.)
Tarantulas’s web stopped Super Shiny Cheetor cold. WHAT IS UP WITH HIM?!?
Vok Tigerhawk took Mega-dragon down! Whoah! Then they nonchalantly opened up a giant crack in the Earth that ate Optimus. Is it time to add to his death count again?

Mini spiders! That’s all it took to take down Tigerhawk? OK then.
There are some free-floating Sparks here, chatting with Cheetor. That happens.  
Tarantulas has Tigerhawk held captive in the Hidey Hole, and drops this bomb:
“Only those descended from Autobot and Decepticon. 

But I and the Tripedacus Council have different origins. 

Under our rule, Cybertron will conquer the universe. And your precious Vok.”
Not descended from Autobot or Decepticon!?!?!?!! WHAT THE HELL IS HE?!?!?

More torture, have a nice afternoon, Nineties’ kids. Whoah- he fried the scary, glowing, ghost-Vok faces right out of Tigerhawk… and right into himself. Moron. Also, his torture cannon got deflected around and HOLY CRAP!

All that’s left of Tarantulas are burned feet and smithereens. Resilient isn’t gonna cover it this time. 

Hey, it’s those free-floating Sparks. They were Tigatron and Airazor! Now they are BOTH in Tigerhawk TOGETHER, and everyone is OK with that?

It is a sobering thought that with all the insanity they have been through, Tigerhawk is still completely weirded out by Optimus’s enormous, orange hands.
 
 

Nemesis, Part 1 

Tigerhawk has a zillion, weird, devastating and Sparkly powers. Have the Vok created Super Ultra Shiny?
Optimus is reading a prophesy? Where did that come from. Oh, The Covenant of Primus. Naturally. The LORE show strikes again.  There are only two copies of this ancient Cybertronian book, and one was on the Ark? Way to prioritize.
Rattrap just called Tigerhawk, “Thunderbutt.” Thanks for that.
More Predacon infighting. New Super Shiny Dinobot is squeezing his own Spark to torture Rampage. Just when you think this show can’t get any more disturbing. You poor Nineties’ kids.
New Super Shiny Dinobot has also found Tarantulas’s Hidey Hole. This is likely because it is under a HUGE metal trap door in the middle of a forest.

Megatron- “Ah... Yess. Incipient treachery from Unicron’s spawn may yet turn the tide.” Well… there’s a lot to unpack there. Even though the writer said “Unicron’s spawn,” was meant as a Cybertronian “son of a…” it makes more sense that anything else for the “Not descended from Autobots or Decepticons” guy. Because what else is there? Yeah, the Junkion resiliency matches Tarantulas constantly rebuilding himself. But the other Predacons did that, and the Junkions are technically Autobots (I think) anyway. Quintessons made the Cybertronians (maybe) so they’re all descendants of them. (Again, sort of.) Unicron always had his own agenda. Therefore, as long as a huge number of things for this franchise are already functioning by my own personal headcannon- Tarantulas and the Tripredacus Council are descended from Unicron, via Galvatron, Cyclonus and the Sweeps, while the rest of the Predacons came from the original Decepticons. I refuse to get into what “descended” means for a race of robots that are all built and then infused with Sparks by some giant supercomputer.
Fish Batman is going after the Predacons all on his own. This will go well. 

Oh, all right, everyone is going down in the Hidey Hole now. We learn that, when not tooling around as a Spider-Cycle, Tarantulas built an enormous submarine. As one does.
The booby trap on the Hidey Hole door is an “Acme” looking bunch of dynamite with a lit fuse. It blows as soon as the door is open, implying some really impressive timing on that fuse.
Ouch, it took Silverbolt’s arm off… and his head. He can still say, “Yes, dear,” to Blackarachnia, though. He’s fine.
Oh yay. The Prehistoric People village.
Man, Quickstrike pushes the boundaries of annoying further and further with every appearance.
Meanwhile, Waspinator is having an emotional breakdown:
“I said no! Dragon-bot command YOU, Sub-Commander Kissbutt! Dragon-bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to scrap all the time! So Waspinator quit! As of now!
Which means Ant-bot and Two-Heads can just pucker their mandibles and --
Plant big wet juicy one right here on Waspinator's big, fat stripey...”
Ooh, they shot him to bits again. Poor little doofus.
Wow, the Prehistoric gang have war horns, and weapons. That is a metric crapload of spears. Dang, both Quickstrike and The Loon are down, Original Dinobot would be so proud. *sniff*
Oh, Una, stop bashing Waspinator’s severed head. Poor little doofus has had enough.
Correction- Tarantulas built a submarine-train. That was one crazy spider. How did he lay all those tracks under water? Y’know what? Forget it.
Tarantulas found THE NEMESIS! Holy crap!! (That’s the giant Decepticon battlecruiser from the opening of the original series for those not positively buried in this Franchise.)

Optimus has to send Fish Batman in on his own because it’s underwater. He tells Depthcharge, “You have to stop Megatron -- at any cost!” That never ends well.
Nice flashback to a CGI version of the G1 cartoon opening space battle again. Woo!
Tarantulas was busy. He installed a transwarp drive, and Predacon sized controls in the Nemesis.

Megatron also has a copy of The Covenant of Primus. So… there’s only two copies of this great book and BOTH are here? Even for this show, that’s kinda contrived. Also, I think this is the only book in all of Cybertronian history. Moving on.
BIG OCEAN ROBOT CLASH!!!!! WITH UNSTABLE ENERGON SWORDS!!!! (Made from fragments conveniently located nearby!)

Fish Batman is thrusting his long pointy Energon sword into Rampage’s Spark and yelling “TAKE IT!!!” I feel uncomfortable… and a little soiled.
WHOAH!
That was a titanic, mushroom cloud leaving, explosion. New Super Shiny Dinobot just flickered to look like the original. Never recycle Sparks, Megatron.
Optimal Optimus- “He’s done it! Yes! Depthcharge has done it! It’s all over!” Moron.

Ew, there are quite a few floating bits of both of them. We’re losing characters for real this time. Nineties’ kids, do you need a lot of extra hugs?
The Nemesis is rising!  Aaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once again, we’re ending with a triumphant evil laugh from the resident not a moron.

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