THANK YOU for bringing attention to how this show animates battle damage. So many modern TV is scared to make the Transformers actually seem damaged. They get blasted with a fusion cannon and just have a black smudge on their model.

Welp, at least he still didn’t hate himself for saying something good to something

Optimus’s scream of “MEGATRON!” at the end of season one is as iconic as Kirk’s “Khaaaaaaan!!” for me.

Rattrap's character evolution is probably the thing that surprised and pleased me the most, as he, even though plainly good guy, was a real bastard. Sure, he kept his antics and attitude, but gained sense of responsibility and camaraderie. This season has that wonderful mist of mystery sorrounding it, as you described it. The monuments are wonderful plot device when we don't know who VOK are and the finale itself is just wonderful. I can't imagine being a kid back then reacting to Unicron's face emerging and all. Can't wait for you to review season 2 which has probably my favourite arc right at the start - coming of the fuzors.

All of the 3 original beast wars seasons are masterpieces imo, great characters with a lot of personality, interesting plot, one of the best villains ever, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. I also like how they weren't afraid to make the show good because modern cartoons drop quality for entertainment (doesn't work) but beast wars show you can have both. The animation holds up surprisingly well imo, the backgrounds kind of suck but the characters are great, also I'm pretty sure this was the 2nd completed 3d cartoon ever. The designs are also amazing, wide range of colors and looks, glad they redesigned the animation models to not look exactly like the toys. The story is great and everything that happens was clearly planned from the get go. Beast wars is one of the only cartoons I can comfortably say is a 9(or even 9.5)/10, only bad element is like 2 characters aren't very good but they get rid of them early on.

Someone’s done gods work and uploaded the entire series onto KZfaq. I’ve got to finish my rewatch of it but it’s very fun.

As any of you who choose to give this awesome show a chance, just remember to take a moment to appreciate the talent of the voice actors. Every time you see Rattrap and Dinobot bickering back and forth... Yeah, that's one guy! And that's also the same guy who plays Waspinator and will later play Silverbolt! As someone who has sat and drank with Scott McNeil at a convention, I will tell you that he's every bit as wacky as you think he'd be!

Also the sound design is awesome. It’s hard to describe but they sound like robots. They also has so many different sound effects for each character.

I honestly forgot that the show had “bad” animation is the first five mins of the first episode, not even the third. Plus I’m a retro sucker. I love bad, old, charming stuff, like 80s movies where every sound effect was off and recycled throughout every movie in that era. We all remember that classic gunshot that’s just an explosion for a sound effect or whenever someone gets punched it sounds like someone punched a large piece of meat or a pile of fruit. I’m grateful that you and Jobby convinced me to watch the show. I grew up with Prime, so I have a nostalgia for it and I still consider BW better.

One thing I didn't like about tf kingdom netflix series was that they didn't use the transformation sound effects for the the beast characters, they used the g1 transformation sound effect. That's something I liked about beast wars, each character had their own transformation sound effect.

I watched it as an adult when it first came out. I couldn’t wait for new episodes like a little kid. It brought me back to the franchise and I’m very thankful for that. Great series for sure!

Watched it with my dad a couple months ago in our transformers binge. He originally watched it way back when it came out. It was double nostalgia for him since he Remembered all the g1 refetences the show made and now hes back to remember the show itself.

Beast wars season 1 was basically two seasons, and it was awesome. But I’d say season 2 was a masterpiece. Three wasn’t as good overall but I think by the time of the finale it was a proper ending and pretty epic. If it wasn’t for Hasbro executive meddling Beast Wars (and Beast Machines) would have been absolutely legendary, not just in transformers but in pop culture as a whole. The cast and crew that worked on this labor of love were certainly talented enough.

People who were not around at the time or forget that before Beast Wars (or Beasties as it was known in Canada) the Transformers franchise was dying and it was Beast Wars that brought back excitement to Transformers. It along with the Dreamwave comics really made Hasbro take notice that they have generations of Transformers fans.

You convinced me, once I finish Animated I'll watch this one

I’ve always loved the visuals of beast wars, I’ve always found the amount of colour and character in the animation and models so appealing. Also I remember the mandible characters like rampage and tarantulas genuinely scary and unsettling in a effective way as a kid, maybe that’s aided by the fact that I had a phobia of crabs as a kid

I fucking love this show. I am doing Animation in college and I convinced one guy in my corse who had only ever seen G1 to try it. He thought the first episodes where amazing and when I told him when it came out he was even more impressed As much as I love Prime, Beast Wars just styles on it in so many different ways. I love BW cast far more, the fights feel more powerful and it just feel alot more impactful and fun. Another funny story, I showed some friends the seen where Ultra Magnus ascends in Kingdom and I had an entire class room laughing like mad men

I’ve scrolled through all the comments and Perspective is still answering almost all of them. ❤️ Thanks for sharing the good news that is Beast Wars with the masses! It will always be my favorite series of my favorite franchise. You do great work my dude!

Beast Wars is a god tier show. It was my first Transformers show I ever saw as a kid. It holds up after all these years. I even feel that the cgi isn't that bad. Backgrounds are a little bland but that's because they used so much money to make the characters look as good as possible like you said. Of course I grew up in the 90s so I actually quite like Beast Wars' cgi. When I rewatched the show over the summer I watched the 4K version and it looks gorgeous. Really good. Looking forward to a review of Season 2 and 3 sometime.

It was a treat to hear you gush over Beast Wars.

Considoring how this video went, I CAN'T WAIT to see you review more of BW (and maybe Prime, and Armada, in the future. Since you mentioned those are the show's you allready watched).

earlier this year i decided to watch the show the first 5-7 episodes were pretty good however the episodes after i kept falling asleep through it so my memory of it got so strange so i had kept thinking inferno came on the alien island in his pod but season 2 and 3 were next level for me cause i enjoyed those so much that i rewatched them constantly without rewatching season 1 for ages and now the animation is completely fine too me and it shows me how much detail is in it that i really don’t expect like some characters running slower than others due to size meanwhile in other series they get lazy and don’t add details like that i also like that the episode *dark designs* has a build up where rhinox knocks megatron out in the *probe episode* also that one episode where rhinox stomps megatron out of the ship and then *dark design episode* where megatron realises he may have underestimated rhinox well any ways i really enjoy beast wars alot!

As a writer myself, beast wars is one of the most well written, acted, and everything in betweened show. It has and always will be a golden standard for television. You know I hate when people say that animation can’t be as good/complex as live action because I’ve seen quite a few and my favorite shows, (Ignoring Community, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99 and FRIENDS) have been animated. Animation just gives so mush creative freedom and character, yet most adults just brush it off as for kids. Everything from ONE (KZfaq by cheesyHFJ), Rick and morty, infinity train, she-ra and potp (the newer one is better) gravity falls, hell most of Pixar evokes an emotional response far greater than most. Also if you read this rant?, and didn’t recognize any of the shows go and watch them, they are amazing. Beast wars is the show that made me appreciate hard work in tv, and if you look at the writing teams process they had no clue what the story would be and still made the best peice of media hasbro has ever made.

When are doing the new absolutely ASTONISHING reveals? there's so much to LOVE and so much to crap on!

I actually like how rattrap acts in the beginning because in an way it sorta reminds me of those kids who think there rebelling against there parents but in reality are just straight up brats

Good job, can’t wait for the season 2 review

Hell yeah, i love beast wars, i think its bit not as good in the first 8 episodes, but after that its a blast. Also, the voice acting is also mostly really good. And last thing, this show gave me my favorite villain of all time, Tarantulas

12:13 yeah, the way I would (and am currently writing) a show would be to do an opening focusing on most of the cast then they all split up to do things that are somewhat related to the overall plot, then they usually culminate in the middle and have more events happen afterwards or culminate as the finale

I think Beast Wars is a good example of just because the writers didn’t know much about the franchise doesn’t mean it i a bad thing. The fact that they wanted to tell a story and even had fans help regarding the transformers lore shows how much they cared.

I remember when I watched beast wars, baffled by how much better it is than current shows today beyond just transformers shows, and the fact that this show is 30 years old is unbelievable.

So let me say I have been a BW hater since the beginning. I am a self admitted G1 gatekeeper. This video has absolutely combined me to give it a shot. I mean how can anyone complain about having MORE of something they love. I will give it an honest watch. BW was my kids G1, so at least they will enjoy me watching it. Thanks.

Honestly even when the animation/graphical quality is bad, it's bad in such an early 90s cgi way that it wraps around back into charming for me. It's also obvious how much love and attention the animators poured into the show that even when it hits the jank, you could tell that the creators were fighting for their life to make the whole machine run properly.

I was born in 2000 so the UT is technically my childhood and introduction to Transformers. But Beast Wars and Animated are the shows I gel with perfectly. I really really hope for a side Beast Wars line coming out in the few next years or so. Like say for the 30th anniversary we get a brand new incarnation of Beast Wars with a new line of figures. A Core Beast Megs and Primal would be pain but i'd buy it. Kingdom was a terrible 25th anniversary. Do it you cowards.

Your effort was evident in the video. It definitely showed

I used to feel the same about Beast Wars but over time I loved Beast Wars and Beast Machines.

What makes this all even more amazing is that this wasn't supposed to be a G1 sequel, at least after it was supposed to be a G1 sequel. Basically it was going to be the G1 cast at first, then it was going to have no connections, then when the Golden Disks came into play they started to work more G1 references and connections in. You'd be forgiven for not knowing it wasn't the plan the whole time.

I always like to tell people that if they enjoyed Beast Wars they NEED To watch ReBoot, which was mainframe entertainment's previous show. You see so much of the DNA of Beast Wars in the characters. Prime is basically Bob, Rattrap and Cheator borrow a lot from Enzo (who got an age-up in the 3rd season), Black arachnia is so much like Hexadecimal, and Megatron is just megabite. There's a few others, but these are the main ones.

Beast Wars was one of the most formative and influence shows to my pre-adolescent self. Optimus Primal full-on shaped the kind of leader I have strived to be throughout my adult life. I regularly state that my "Code for Management" is Primal's "I will not give an order I would not be willing to do myself," and have even told my staff as such. Dinobot and Silverbolt shaped and modeled the type of person I'd eventually become (confusing-to-define-yet-rigid honor code, bit of a hero complex, prone to silly if poignant statements, and more than willing to aggressively cut someone that offends). Rampage and Depth Charge modeled and taught me how unchecked rage and obsession harm you. It's just such a damn good show. I constantly force it on people, to their begrudging benefit.

I recently began watching Beast Wars and GODDAMN. It’s fantastic.

Beast Wars is in the top 2 all time greatest Transformers series along with G1. :D Thank you for another great video PerspectiveEnd.

Dude you are doing god's work, we need a new wave of unashamed people who love shows like these, I hate how everyone has to say "i like this but it's terrible tho lol" jeez.

YEEEES!

Beast wars really does deserve a reboot. Although I argue that a reboot should come when reboot shows get less crappy.

I remember watching a couple Beast Wars episodes last year before stopping for some reason. I was enjoying it just fell off for some reason. I have wanted to get back on it, though I do know a good amount of the plot by now, and I’m kinda scared finishing it would make me regret missing out on most of the Beast Wars Kingdom figures lol. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these from you, maybe go through some of the other Transformer shows too. The only one I really have a connection with is Animated cause I watched a decent amount of it as a little kid.

Maybe what you should do is a Beast Wars two episode retrospective every week were you go over your thoughts about those particular episodes. Then post them Saturday morning as a call back to morning cartoons.

Beast Wars is probably my favourite transformers show, it has a special place in my heart because it’s the first TF show i discovered on my own, my mum is a child of the 80’s and I had DVDs and VHS of G1 and I loved G1 and transformers so I went on the internet to get more Transformers, then I discovered BW and it fascinated by the animal designs, the CG animation, the standout voice acting, likeable / iconic characters, and the cool plot. I love Beast wars and it’s a big part of my transformers fandom journey/ experience. It’s why both BW and IDW are so close to my heart.

13:20 Yep. I could feel the "trukk not munkky" vibes when you mentioned that name. Might just be me, but I get this air of close mindedness whenever I watch his TF videos on anything that isn't G1 or IDW related...

I’m probably gonna finish season 1 once I get Legacy Tarantulas and Inferno because that’s the type of person I am but I am excited to watch the show.

I did not expect beast wars to be complete on KZfaq, much less 4k. Now I have something to binge. Thx perspective end

THANK YOU! I've spent years trying to convince my friends to watch Beast Wars but they would never listen, well now I got the perfect video.

Im only now just realizing the series is on youtube so im definitely going to watch it now

I honestly wouldn't have the animation looking any other way. I even kind of forget that it's the from the early days of CGI in the second and third seasons. That is, until the protohuman kids come in. They just looked terrible. But the detailing on the Maximals and Predacons is so good that I don't even care.

I started watching the second season of beast wars for the first time the other day and the first 3 episodes of it have to be some of the best transformers content I’ve seen for a while

1:58 I think it worked because when I think of megaton he’s literally the first character I think of.

In my headcanon, the maximals and predacons cybertronian forms go as follows: Optimus primal- Space Dune buggy Cheetor- small Motorcycle Tigatron- Particularly nice car Rhinox- Space truck Dinobot- Large, beefier motorcycle Airrazor- jet Rattrap- tiny bike ( like iguanus) Megatron- Carrier plane Scorponok- Particularly lame car Waspinator- helicopter Terrorsaur- jet Black arachnia- small tank Tarantulas- mid sized tank Inferno- SUV

Beast wars animation is amazing and is inspiring for me as an animator in training. Both 2d and 3d animation is what I want to do.

Beast wars is as much apart of my childhood as school is I’ve been obsessed with this show since I was in pre school and I still love it and I’ve always loved cheetor’s story of a young kid maturing to be the best nor he can be has always stuck with me that and cheetahs are my favorite animal but this series will always have a place In my heart but also in defense of emerging and cybertron those shows where animated In Japan whose cg cartoons are rough even today

I like to thank you for mentioning the battle damage the Cybertronians received during battles in Beast Wars. This is something that bothered me when I rewatched Prime, for a show that's supposedly gritty they don't show battle damage to the Autobots and Decepticons. Just like you, I'm not really bothered if something is dated or stupid old. I feel like people really need to stop having the mentality of "new = better", because sometimes something modern can suck badly.

Adding onto the rank thing, the Japanese sequels/spin-offs further the idea that commander ranks are styled after Optimus with bio Lio Convoy and Big Convoy both having very Optimus designs (their heads especially, like with Primal) though obviously they use the Japanese “Convoy” title rather than everyone’s names being “Optimus ___” The Japanese commanders also care Energon Matrixes which Primal doesn’t have until he shows up in Beast Wars II to help out Lio in a fight

It makes senses to do beast wars season 1 for beast wars weeks

Perspective: beast wars has the best intro Me: heheh, (tunes in car robots opening)

I need more Perspective Reviews of movies and shows istg it's the best

I managed to watch beast wars on KZfaq and was surprised it's not taken down but thank god because I find beast wars very enjoyable. I watch this more than TF prime or even the movies.

I'm another of your converts. didn't notice the animation after a few mins. I'm gunna admit you where right. Great show... cant believe I was so blind for so long. oh well live and learn lol

While I think that prime looks the best, the attention to detail and the fact that shows back then could do limb dismemberment of robots, does make that aspect way more impressive

This was a really good review for someone who has never reviewed a show you did a great job I can't wait for season 2 when the show really picks up

Prime as King Kong and megatron as a edgy Barney i love it

I'm mainly (but not only) a fan of the G1 characters. Here's why I don't get why some G1 fans still hate Beast Wars to this day: 1) Beast Wars didn't take anything away from G1. It ties in with it, adding things to it. You don't like those things? Ignore them. 2) All the CHUG and Masterpiece toys of G1 characters you're getting? They wouldn't have been there without Beast Wars. Beast Wars was the incarnation of the franchise that proved once and for all that Transformers was a franchise that was viable beyond its original run. Without it no generations, no studio series, no Dreamwave Comics, no IDW, no Transformers: Devastation. G1 survives today BECAUSE Beast Wars managed to revive the franchise in the 90s and carried it through the decade. 3) Don't compare it to G1, watch it as a self-contained show. It's brilliant. It has some of the best and most consistent writing of any Transformers cartoon. I'd love a G1 cartoon that was written by the team behind Beast Wars as they obviously respect the G1 mythos - which is evidenced by how they included it in Beast Wars. Give me that, with some cell-shaded animations instead of the textured CGI of the Netflix series to capture the almost anime-like quality that G1 had, and I'd be super happy.

My introduction to Beast Wars was season 2 (which I still consider to be the best season). I was introduced to it by my dad, who bought the 10th anniversary dvd when it came out, and my family watched it together. That’s definitely one of my favorite childhood memories.

I totally relate to your opinion of Episode 1's intro. When my older cousin first introduced me to beast wars, I immediately fell in love with that first five minutes of the show. It's one of my all time favorite intros. Also, funny story about my Transformers family dynamic, my dad was an 80's kid and grew up with G1. So naturally, he introduced me to Transformers through the 86 movie which both blew my mind and scared me for life as a 4 year old. A bit later, my cousin who was a 90's kid grew up with Beast Wars and introduced me to the series. I loved it but my dad was one of those old timers who thinks Beast Wars was stupid and G1 was better. So there's been this continual argument between my dad and cousin any time we talk about Transformers where they hash out which series is the best, and meanwhile, I'm just like "I love them both."

Beast wars intro song is the musical equivalent of a roaring v8

Such a great review! Cannot agree more with everything you said about the show and characters. Also, your quick summary of when/how the show took place is great. I was definitely one of the people that couldn't stand Ratrap as a kid. But, that was primarily driven by when I got his toy, I was so disappointed with the toy and hated seeing his brains on the top of his head, I would never like him. But, I will say of the disaster of the Netflix series, Ratrap was definitely a highlight with his one liners. Thanks for your videos! Keep it up.

I agree. Beast wars is sick. I didn't even grow up with it. it is my favorite.

Yeah WFC, Energon and Cybertron definitely are inferior but I will argue on the behalf of Prime. There were dozens of times characters got torn apart by one another in a fight. Though that was mainly the vehicons getting the brunt of it but named characters had it too Hardshell- a hole was blasted into his chest after being shot by Miko unsung Wheeljacks ship Dreadwing- Megatron put a hole in his chest , which the camera zooms down to show, for attempting to murder Starscream Skyquake- Bumblebee tore his circuits out whilst he was flying and he lost his arm when he became a zombie Cliffjumper- Starscream stabbed him in the chest which left a visible hole in it before getting sliced in half by Megatron when he became a zombie Bumblebee- shot in the chest three times by Megatron and it killed him (before being revived by the plot). Had his T-cog stolen by M.E.C.H. with the process being similar to someone forcefully ripping out your liver. Starscream- literally had the shit kicked outta him so bad by Megatron that he was on life support for a bit. He lost his arm and his T-cog Megatron- his space bridge literally blew up pint blank in his face and was stuck on life support for like half of season 1. Prime sliced off his arm and he was finally killed when Bumblebee stabbed him in the chest Ultra Magnus- got out on life supports thanks to the predacons Prime- dude loved liked a week before dying after being hit by the giant ass gun on the Nemesis when it shot the base which is the equivalent of having you house set on fire with you still inside it only to be barely alive with third degree burns. Breakdown- oh Christ poor Breakdown. Dude was literally torn to shreds by Black Arachnia in season two only to be used as a life support unit by Silas. Then he was turned into a zombie and torn apart by Black Arachnia AGAIN Predaking- after being wounded by Megatron, he has a visible scar on his chest and was bleeding for some time after Cybertron was revived Vehicons and Insecticons- oh these poor guys. Dudes have been sliced in half, exploded, incinerated, used as bats to beat one another up, had their circuits torn out of their bodies, hands crushed into paste, turned into vampire zombies. You name it, it most likely happened to them. To say there is no gore is Prime is flat out false and I will die on that hill.

You know, Perspective, if you're still trying to figure out how to structure the review, you could either do what you did in your Siege review or you can check out Bull Session's 3-part Beast Wars review.

I absolutely love and adore beast wars, the designs from season 1 looks so cool and awesome, I also like the designs from season 2 and 3 but I love the season 1 designs more

Thank you perspective so much its one of the best shows I've watched I've only watched one episode

It's not the animation. Holds up well surprisingly. I just think Cheetor and Dinobot look uncanny. Dinobot still looks awesome though, in the same way Bayverse Drift is awesome. My favorite design in Beast Wars is Rhinox. I just love him. Just... every part of him is cool as hell. I love his head. I love his kibble placement. I love his build. He's very armored. Which is the main reason why I love robots so much. Wish the Kingdom Rhinox was a retool of the Thrilling 30 with vastly improved articulation and a show accurate head. Yeah, this is gonna be my second Teen Titans (the original) and TF Prime (my two favorite cartoons ever) alright, I've seen the prologue and it's as amazing as how you described it.

I watched beast wars on a DVD I rented when I was young like 10 or 11 and I saw the name transformers beast wars and thought it was the coolest name and I enjoyed watching every second. I still say it was one of my favorite shows right next to G1 and Prime. Did not care about the animation styles I know they did their best at the time still didn't care I liked everything about the show and still call it a childhood classic even though I was born after 2000.

Beast wars opening with the two ships fighting is in my top 3 of show/movie opening.

I can’t wait for the upcoming fan series by TFI creations called Beast Wars Interstellar. Proves how much Beast Wars impacted the fandom.

Don't forget all of the concepts brought in by beast wars that have become staples of modern transformers. Things like sparks, protoforms and stasis pods are elements the franchise couldn't exist without. What's your opinion on beast wars 2nd and neo? Im really excited for Lio Convoy coming out too.

i sort of agree that it being set 300 years in the future doesn't make much sense. many of the characters are already millions of years old BEFORE the 4 million year stasis period. So yeah it makes sense to flip beastwars much further in the future. Love them or hate them, this is actually what the japanese G1 continuity does with Beastwars II and Beasts Neo, and Car robots, who are all part the same continuity. The earth in beastwars 2 is called Gaia and takes place hundreds of thousands of years in the future when humans have abandoned it. Anyway, Original beasts wars was essentially my religion in the 90s. and i watched it along with Reboot and Shadow Raiders, "the holy trinity of mainframe"

Now there’s a difference between animation and modeling. Beast wars has some fairly dated models, the Animation however is great. The movements, transformations and even the battle damage is top tier. It’s like a really good PS2 game as a tv show.

About the animation I never thought of it that way so I going to give you props for bringing it up

I have fond memories of getting my friend into this show. It was a sort of gateway for him into tf, and the only reason he watched it was because he was a huge Nintendo fan and he said the graphics "reminded him of the N64." He made a couple of comments here and there about the janky animation and weird 90s cringe, but like you said, by episode 5-6, he was obsessed with it

Beast Wars reminds me a lot of classic Halo 2 with how epic it is even with the graphics. Halo 2 being my fav halo. Beast Wars is one of the coolest shows ever.

I thought that primal was the same as Optimus prime until I saw that truck does not equal monkey video which helped a lot also I am sick while watching this video and your videos make me feel at least a little better

Dinobot always reminded me of "Lost in Space" Dr. Smith if he had a Klingon's backbone grafted to him.

The limb blowing off thing is cool, but I think the reason that doesn’t happen much in prime is because limbs are hareder to just replace

It's what got me back into Transformers in my 20s when it aired on Fox Kids. I think I've said it before, but hearing about it, I did go, "Truck Not Monkey." A friend sent me "Optimal Situation" in 99 and it impressed me. I was home on break when BW hit Fox Kids and, when I went back to classes, I got every VHS cassette I could to record the episodes.

People keep comparing Beast Wars to WFC because of the animation, but they don't notice that the characters have so much emotion and are very expressive, they specifically gave everyone a mouth (even the toys who didn't have a mouth) to make them so expressive, while in the WFC they all look like 😐 90% of the time

I chased down dvd of all three seasons I remember it fondly from my childhood lol

I won't argue about anything other than animation, as I'm yet to watch the show, probably the plot is great, as many people love it, so there should be a good reason for that, and I do like a few designs, but you can't be serious when saying its animation is better than Prime's or even WfC Trilogy. About not noticing it in a few episodes, sure, I can believe that, and it probably was revolutionary for the time, but when you put them side by side it's not even close, it's noticeable without any equipment. Also, battle damage isn't a thing that animation is judged on, that's just what happens to the characters, not how it looks, but even if that's the case, Prime and other modern Tf shows have many examples of good BD, such as the dismantling of terrorcons, Megatron blowing up after space bridge contact, Breakdown's eye surgery, Skyquake's state after Bumblebee rips out his organs in jet mode, Airachnid disassembling Breakdown, Megatron vs Insecticon, Cliffjumper's death by Starscream's claws, Dreadwing's hole in the chest moment, Optimus' look after the base got destroyed, Megatron losing an arm, Predaking's wound after his fight with Megatron, Starscream losing an arm, and last but not least, a billion Steves getting killed in most gruesome way possible, maybe slightly rarer than in BW, but still on point. And, as I mentioned earlier, this applies to Animated and Cyberverse as well, just took Prime as an example, because this is the only series that I remember everything about without rewatching.

One of my favorite things about this show is that it is not a "real" war. It's a ragtag group of blue collars pulled into stopping a madman and his group of misfits from changing everything they know and love. Now it's always just "Robo-WW2" and I'm so tired of Autobots vs Decepticons and everyone being a battle-hardened grim fest. I'd like to see another series in the future with an uneasy peace between the two being threatened by an OUTSIDE enemy for once, but stuff like that requires good writing.

Ah yes, Beast Wars. This is the show that I think rescued Transformers from 80's obscurity. Ok, maybe not obscurity, but this brought it back. To me (also being a Star Trek fan), this was Transformers: The Next Generation. I was there watching G1 when it was airing. And what I am about to say may be sacrilege, but I think Beast Wars was a better show. I really loved how character driven this show is, and how it works with it's own continuity, respects the source material (gasp! How dare they not tear down and demean the original characters, like they do in films today), all whike giving us a good overall plot, and still be entertaining to kids, but not insult the intelligence of adults. And yes, season 3 had that questionable misinterpretation of a well known maguffin. But thus show was so good, but that just makes me loath Beast Machines that much more. Anyway, thanks for the review.

People really Don't give credit to beast wars for saving the franchise and just being and absolutely fantastic show

I have Beast Wars season 1-3 along with Beast Machines on dvd

I mean Prime still had plenty of limbs getting ripped or blast off. Starscream got his arm shot off Bulkhead ripped a Vehicons guts out. Wheeljack beheading vehicons.

When you were comparing the BW animation to TFP, it’s also important to note TFP’s animators went over budget (or at least pretty close to doing so). Even then, TFP still looks pretty iffy in some scenes.