Monday, March 9, 2026

Transformers Rewatch Beast Machines Season 2C

Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike
The transformations are getting even more abstract and anime like.
Vehicon General Thrust (who has Waspinator's Spark, for those who can't keep up- 
or don't care enough) takes another loss in a fight. Poor little doofus
Silverbolt (recently recovered from being the other Vehicon General, for those same groups) is still being a jerk. That’s great.Botanica (the newly arrived Plant Lady... there is way too much going on) refuses to enter combat saying - “I’m a scientist.” The Maximals tell her they all are too. However, with Rhinox gone, she’s the only one acting like a scientist. She also has the most powerful attack we’ve seen so far in this series.
The Code Megatron Head inside the Giant Floating Megatron Head is berating Thrust again. Poor little doofus
Megatron grabbed some Sparks and made two new Vehicon Generals. Both are WAY bigger than Thrust. They also belt him as soon as he tries to take charge. Poor little doofus.
Adding two characters this late serves two purposes, 
A- Selling Toys (the big one) 
and
B) Making sure every last viewer is confused.
You poor Nineties' kids.
Silverbolt says he has no time for love during war. Who are you? You were hitting on Blackarachnia when she was on the bad guy's side AND reality was about to be wiped out.
The new Vehicon Generals are air and land vehicles of some sort. As the franchise progresses, we get further and further from real world design. Now we have a jet hovercraft with propellers and some sort of six wheeled gun ...platform… thing.
Both seem to be speaking in Hulk speak. I'm sure they have names.
Botanica is plugging circuit boards into the slime that makes things become organic. And it blew her spark out of her body, sending her on a drug trip. That went well.
Oh, the new generals have Vehicon armies too. Megatron built those really fast.
Optimus has ground zapping power now. Whatever.  
Primal deduces that the new generals are master strategists. Because they figured out to surround you with superior numbers? Moron.
Botanica is getting a whole recap of this show on her drug trip. And now she’s made a flower periscope! Weeee!
Obsidian and Strika are the new Vehicon leaders. (Told you they had names.) They are the “Greatest generals in Cybertron history.”  I feel like we should have heard of them. We also get no explanation why this new couple started out with Hulk speak and then stopped.
Botanica transforms and saves everyone. The scientist can kill! Celebration time!
Now Megatron slapped Thrust away. Poor little doofus.
Botanica retained her tunneling ability. That’s handy.
Optimus Primal- “We must free the Sparks at any cost.” Here we go again. Hey, Primal, did you forget any time an Optimus says "At Any Cost"… 
The cost is always: “You.
 
 
Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search
Optimus mentions “T
he Oracle within me.” Say what now? When did that happen?
Rattrap invented a thing that makes them undetectable in robot form. Maybe it makes holograms?
Silverbolt says he doesn’t take orders from children? Slap him Cheetor.
Strika sees Rattap and Botanica. Why is Botanica Jamaican?
Oh. Rattrap’s things don’t work at all. Moron.
They found a city lost “eons ago” after the war between Autobots and Deceptions???? Do I need to give another lesson in Cybertron time scale. Also stop calling changing to Maximals from Autobots, “The Upgrade.” You all are a disaster.
Iacon! Woo! Holographic Optimus Prime! Woo! (Ah, Cybertropolis was built on top of Iacon. Rude. Probably just as rude as my mentioning city names I am excited about from other media that never showed up in the shows I have been detailing for over a year.)
I need to stop “Woo”ing. Rattrap found chips with dirty movies on them. This show is messed up.
Fortunately, references to this are all done through suggestions, not showing any details. We must be grateful for small favors.
The hologram of original Optimus Prime is connecting to Optimus Primal.
Meanwhile, Botanica and Rattrap got caught by Vehicons ‘cause he was protecting the dirty movies. Great message for the Nineties' kids, there.
Optimus Prime’s essence was stored after the final battle. Say what? He looked like he was walking around fine after the "final battle." Was there a "finaler battle?"
Original Optimus tells Primal that the “Oracle is in you.” You knew that, you moron. Oh. It’s really Megatron controlling the original Optimus Prime hologram. That makes more sense because he IS plugged into the whole planet and (more importantly) not a moron.
Speaking of plugging. (That sounded dirtier than I intended.) Rattrap plugged a dirty movie into Strika to stop her. Now that one of the movies has been shown, honestly it looks just like a cityscape. Then again, who knows what turns on a robotic beweaponed moon buggy.
Great plan again Maximals. Cheetor threw a power core, and it blew up everyone- almost including him. Moron.
Megatron downloaded a connection to the Oracle from Optimus last season when they had their mental battle. I repeat- he is not a moron.
Savage is back "For... Reasons," and he took out the Poor Little Doofus. Then turned back into Noble and left. Well, that was fun.
Optimus gave Megatron further access to the Oracle to learn where the stolen Sparks are. What a shock Primal, Megatron is keeping them inside his giant floating head. Moron.
 
 
Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege
There’s Noble again. Why can the Vehicons see him? As a fully organic Were-Dragon-Wolf, both forms are Beast Mode. He’s Savage now. Oh, back to Noble after the fight. Make up your mind! It’s not like there was a toy that needed hawking. Wait *google search* there was. And it was hideous. Carry on selling.

Rattrap fixed his scramblers. Maybe they’ll work this time. (Suuure they will.)
Noble is now a giant mindless creature who wants to follow Teen-Bat. I’m sure it will be fine.
Megatron is "For… Reasons" now not code. He is a giant glowing Spark who mastered the Oracle. Great Job Optimus. Moron.
Oh, Rattrap’s things also can make Vehicons read as Maximals. That’s actually helpful. Color me surprised.
However, the masking function only worked for five minutes. Well done. Moron
Action and fighting are nice and all, but it’s the same things over and over
Hey. There’s the Sparks. Finally. And the tentacles caught Optimus and company. Oh well.
Megatron is absorbing all the sparks!!!! Aaaaaah!
He’s also pulling Sparks out of the Maximals. Double Aaaaah! (Maybe I'm still partially invested.)
Noble is cleaning house. The mindless leftover is better in combat than all the Maximals combined.
Never mind. Megatron zapped Savage, now he’s Noble again, oops, and dead. Alas.
Teen-Bat’s scream of mourning saved everyone because it blew up Spark Megatron. Him having that level of power would have been helpful to know a bit sooner.
Why does the Giant Floating Megatron Head that he lived in as code have a manual control setting?
Hey, they saved the Sparks. Score one for team moron.
The Maximals win!
Except there is one scary looking Spark still zipping about and *checks box* there are still four episodes left.  
Sigh.
 
 
Spark of Darkness
Maximal celebration in the Giant Floating Head of their enemy! Nothing disturbing about that.
Silverbolt is the only one who points out Megatron always comes back. Perhaps his time as General Jetstorm under Megatron has made him less of a moron.
Optimus says Megatron is gone because he felt his Spark dissolve through the Oracle. Sure you did.
Primal then sends his team out to find out if the Transformer bodies could still be receptive to their Sparks. Didn’t they all blow up last season? Or are the corpses spread far wider across Cybertron than we were initially led to believe? You poor Nineties’ kids.
Rattrap is back to selfish jerk mode again, so that’s fun. He is taking it all out on Botanica for no reason… Aaaaand now they kissed. This show is so screwed up.
Blackarachnia is all swoony, the personality shifts are kind of jar…
UNDEAD TRANSFORNER AAAAAH!
Sorry. Its hard not to be somewhat invested after all this time.
The Maximals once more extend a, “Join us now that Megatron is dead (again)” to the Vehicon generals, since that always works.
Wow, another giant power core explosion! You’d think that would mean Transformers would detonate spectacularly whenever shot.
Now, in a mechanical version of Bride of Re-Animator, the Vehicon cycle bits are waking up in the Orchard for no reason. Luckily, (and I use the term loosely) Botanica has hip thrust firing lasers.
Speaking of Thrust: (also sounding dirtier than I meant.) General Thrust joins the conversation with the other generals, The Poor Little Doofus is at least loyal, and refuses to join up with the Maximals as the new couple did.
Undead jet Vehicon! AAAH! Well, we had Draco-Lycanthropy, and now we got Cyber-Zombies.
A red spark leaves the scene each time there’s an undead Cybertronian. Hmmm.
Sigh, yet another chase. Maybe if they used more than one musical cue these would be less annoying.
Rattrap says the red Spark is made of Positrons and he needs to neutralize it by reversing polarity. (A classic.) So, Sparks are made of electrons. That almost makes sense.
Meanwhile, some undead tanks kick the snot out of Optimus Primal.
Rattrap uses a Spark extractor and repolarizes the red Spark. It didn’t work anyway. Because the Spark was Megatron, duh. 
Wait- now Megatron is stuck in the little Probe thing. Oh, apologies. Nice job Ratrrap.
Yet the Maximals still let the newly tiny Megatron activate the attack cables. Morons.
Oh good. They blew up the panel in time to save themselves. Some more points for team moron.
The Vehicon Generals took Tiny Megatron away. So much for their changing sides. Thrust brings up that he remained loyal and Megatron called him useless. Poor Little Doofus

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