Reviewing Beast Wars First Season: A Masterpiece

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[@mosasaurus2211]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I can never be ashamed of my love for Beast Wars.

[@FC_mania]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Well the thing is, it's actual work. The problem with Modern CGI is it's made to be Cheap, it's a lot easier to draw damage in Traditional animation, then it is to break the models you made in CGI. So when Damage happens in CGI it costs a lot more money than the company might be willing to spend.

[@DiggitySlice]

It's a cool detail for sure, but the thing is there's more to animation than just that. What's the point of a character getting their arm cut off if all the animation leading up to it is stiff and unconvincing? I love Beast Wars but I object to battle damage being the only consideration

[@yoy5903]

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.

[@remus_lupin]

It was not all plotted, from the start. There's commentary & online sources about it. First off, the writers knew nothing, NOTHING about Transformers. They went to old online bulletinboards & early TF websites (back when dial-up was the only way to get online - the early internet), & talked to fans, to get brought up to speed on G1. I think this went on upto the very end. 2nd, some of the artifacts/ landmarks you see early on, like The Standing Stones, were put there solely to get you thinking, & later were cleverly recycled into disguised alien tech. They did things that let it look planned, without the planning, & have admitted as much themselves. Transmetals & Fuzors were a mandate from Hasbro, because new toys, & Waspinator was planned to die in the lava, during the Quantum Surge, but fans loved the universe's chew toy too much, so Terrorsaus & Scorponok took his place. Some of the fans they talked to online made it into the show as references (sector names) & Easter eggs (translatable alien text spelling their name, as examples). One or 2 made it into the credits, listed as consultants, even. The whole thing leading up to the discovery of The Ark was kinda happy accidents that can fit together to do that, as the writers learned more about Transformers, & sprinkling references in. Now, from the discovery of the Ark onward could've been planned. But at least season one & much of season 2 was basically adlibbed by the writers, as they learned on the fly & adapted to corporate mandates. It makes it more amazing non-Transformers writers crafted such a fluid story, while learning about the topic, as they went. And that some of this stuff became canon, like the entire concept of Sparks. Important SPOILERS BELOW - deleted episode info below Even the oddity of Dinobot II regaining the original's honor had an explanation (it wasn't meant to be out of nowhere), but that episode was scrapped, probably due to budget, sadly. (Short version, Dinobot made a copy of his memories, a few episodes before Code of Hero -he knew stopping Megatron would be a suicide mission, days or weeks, before- & in the deleted ep., Rattrap goes on a mission to upload it into Dinobot II. He thought it had failed, until Rampage's half of the spark was destroyed).

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Absolutely, Beast Wars was the full package. I can say that I wish we had just a bit more, but nothing of consequence. The plot we had was almost perfect.

[@NebLleb]

IMO, Beast Wars was the PERFECT sequel show to the original The Transformers, keeping what worked about that series, replacing the choppy outsourced animation with timeless and smooth CG animation, and also adding in a focus on a select cast of characters, meaning everyone gets equal amounts of attention and everyone has a role to play! I mean, sure, other TF shows have come and left their mark of quality (namely Animated and Prime, though Armada and Cybertron have their cult followings), but Beast Wars was the first truly great Transformers show. And it deserves to also be recognised for that.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

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!

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I can't believe I forgot to mention the Voice Talent in this, I truly am bad at my job. And yes Scott is a Treasure.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

@@PerspectiveEnd I think you did a fine job! You made a lot of great arguments for the show from those who simply hate on the graphics and that is often times most people's main issue with it. Beast Wars was my absolute favorite show and I love showing it to new people now. I've even thought about making a KZbin channel talking about BW as well as other transformers stuff but PaleoAnalysis has me so busy that the idea of starting ANOTHER channel feels kinda daunting.

[@NebLleb]

Coincidentally, McNeil also voiced several characters in ANOTHER popular robot-based franchise, of the Japan-originated variety: Mobile Suit Gundam. Specifically, he voiced Duo from New Mobile Report Gundam Wing and Teniente Reed in the original show, the former easily being the more recognisable of the two characters. I'm a Gundam fan (the main Mobile Suit Gundam franchise all the way, though I have blacklisted one show and considering blacklisting another, newer one) so I think it was worth mentioning considering that both properties share a noteworthy voice actor.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

@@NebLleb yeah, he also played Piccolo in the English dub of DBZ and Wolverine in X Men Evolution. Pretty much if you were a kid in the 90s or early 2000s, that man is a part of your childhood weather you realize it or not.

[@NebLleb]

@@PaleoAnalysis Nice to see you remember the Ocean dub of DBZ! That dub had a unique history, in that it was funded by no less a company than FUNimation (now Crunchyroll), who picked Z after a first attempt at a dub of Dragon Ball didn't do well. Needless to say, once Z began airing on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, FUNimation realised they had a surprise sleeper hit on their hands and proceeded to dub not just the remaining episodes of Z with in-house actors, but also make a second, far more successful dub of Dragon Ball.

[@bytisoli]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Absolutely. Rattrap does mature a lot during the show. It's true what they say about the less you know the better. Nothing will ever be as compelling as trying to figure out stuff you don't understand. Unfortunately you will have to wait a while, this isn't like the "Week of Reviewing Beast Wars" or anything.

[@asher-360]

@@PerspectiveEnd honestly i know it's been a year (or two years, depending on what you define as 1 year), but i still want that s2 review!! it's my favorite season of Beast Wars

[@joshuavis2736]

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

[@dustychicken1898]

Is this what you were talking about? m.kzbin.info/aero/PL_hfDtD68l8X7JjIAf1pusxoaX2JN1iAg

[@PerspectiveEnd]

In 4k no less.

[@asher-360]

that's how i, a zoomer, got to watch the show for the first time. 10/10 experience would recommend 👍👍

[@asher-360]

update: it was taken down guys

[@Thudderwack1]

​@@asher-360 its back

[@michaelpapp5518]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I feel like it's a bit better my self, Khan just doesn't have a pleasant cadence to it, it doesn't feel like you are done when you finish saying it.

[@theholo-library4020]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Hey! 80s Movies weren't bad! Also explosions do sound more like Gunshots then they do a big Raging fire. The reason movie ones tend to sound like fire, is because they do Explosions with large piles of gas and not actual explosives. Anyways I'm proud to have been even part of the reason you picked up Beast Wars. Glad you were able to enjoy the animation.

[@LostStudios73]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

That too is fantastic about the show.

[@gman-789]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'm just amazed that they showed transforming at all considering they barely showed it for the Autobots.

[@MisterMeanerOU812]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I am thrilled and proud to hear that. I am so glad to have opened you up to the possibilities. All I can say is that I hope you love it even 1/10th as much as I do. I'd love to give you this in common with your kids.

[@notamethadict]

why did you hate it

[@ChapsUnlimited]

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!

[@russellharrell2747]

Yeah i was already in college when Brady wars hit, had enough disposable income with my toys r us job to get the entire collection as it came out, and the show was fantastic, especially with the online community having such a direct link to the writers

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I was a kid back then, but G1 was my first TF show, loved it to death, and then Beast Wars came out, and it couldn't have been even more up my alley. Like I loved the Zoo as a Child so this was Transformers but the Zoo? Oh my God sign me up.

[@russellharrell2747]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I think 3 gets a Bad Rap, it's just coming after season 2. Which, it's the best one, even if I've definitely watched the first one more. I think Beast Wars Still can be, it just needs those of us who know, to help push it forward.

[@MewtwoPrime84]

Beast Wars saved the franchise after the horror that was generation 2

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I don't know that you can call G2 a horror show. More like something no one cared enough to realize happened.

[@thelazyengibot9918]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I know right? From an animators perspective it's SO MUCH MORE impressive. It's so amazing what they accomplished back then. It's such a funny scene, no wonder it became a meme in the community. And yeah, Prime is blatantly Modern budget animation, they try to hide a lot of what they do with sweeping camera angles and gratuitous style, but you can see where they cut corners if you know where to look.

[@MisterFanwank]

Megatron, the t-rex, didn't actually take his name from Megatron, the gun. Megatron, the t-rex, took his name from an ancient prophecy, just like Megatron, the gun, did. Amusingly the prophecy was about Megatron, the t-rex, so Megatron, the gun, is named after his descendant. They were both trying to fulfill the same prophecy.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I know that's actually in the show in season 3, but I do ever so hate that notion, because there is no way in HELL that G1 Megatron would take anyone else's name. He had too much of an Ego, he'd want to scar the universe with his own name.

[@MisterFanwank]

@@PerspectiveEnd He didn't think he was taking anyone else's name. He thought the prophecy would be about him, even if he had to force it to be about him.

[@louking9045]

I don't care about the animation I just care about good characters good storytelling things like that

[@PerspectiveEnd]

The good news is that Beast Wars has all 3 of those things.

[@matthewodonnellgavaghan]

Personally, I was never too annoyed with Rattrap. I like when one of the heroes is flat out just not a nice person. It adds more complexity to the main characters' interactions. I still think he's one of my favourite maximals. For me, Cheetor is the worst part of the show. I find every one of his cheesy phrases so difficult to sit through

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah Cheetor's Catchphrases are flat out abusive to the audience, though he does get punished for it a lot.

[@ericliu8488]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah people tend to downplay the Dire Straights Transformers was in, they want to pretend like it didn't really need to rekindle the interest of the fans.

[@youwayo]

Apparently Transformers was also not doing so well in Japan either so Takara focused on Brave

[@Hugme778]

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.

[@cyranantone8430]

Remember?

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Of course.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

That sounds AWESOME! Was that your first time watching it too?

[@Hugme778]

@@PerspectiveEnd whrn i watched for the binge originally. Beast wars was always my tf gray area so I though ut was about tine to check it out.

[@animeking1357]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Happy you enjoyed this one enough to want to see the later seasons get reviewed too. And yes Beast Wars is God tier, it wasn't my First Transformers show, but it was pretty close to it. The 4K version is SOOOOOOO good. Did you find that on your own, or did you see one of the multiple posts I made about it.

[@animeking1357]

@@PerspectiveEnd I think I actually found the 4K version on my own. I watch a bunch of Beast Wars videos so KZbin will often recommend me videos about the show.

[@JiJ1511]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, it's really hard to not Gel with Beast Wars it's just so good. And I'd be down for some Core Scale Beast Characters.

[@dani27more11]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Proud to hear that, get ready for a good time.

[@joriksstrangestories7008]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I wouldn't say the voice acting is mostly good, I'd say it's entirely amazing and I don't know how I failed to mention that in this.

[@samsthebeztatstuff8885]

If they somehow had to force human characters into this series how would you characterize them

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I mean they had human characters. They were Neanderthals, so I suppose I would characterize them as Primitive, but creative, and adaptable, but incapable of speech.

[@beastmaster0934]

3:52 I mean ffs MEGATRON DEBONES RHINOX’S ARM AT ONE POINT! (Or whatever the Cybetronian equivalent of deboning is).

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah the injuries in this show were so brutal at times.

[@perculair_pancakes]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, people just kind of Gloss over what a Shot in the arm the serries really was for the franchise.

[@SarpSerter]

dude.. like how could this be given a chance.. ill watch it if its a podcast.. visuals are making it impossible to take it seriously.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

It doesn't look nearly as bad as people like to act.

[@samuelloos]

JESUS IS COMING BACK REPENT OR RETREAT THE DOOR TO REPENTENS IS CLOSING GO TO CHRIST BEFORE ITS TO LATE WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS AND REMEMBER JESUS LOVES YOU ALL

[@PerspectiveEnd]

What?

[@SkyStarNova]

Long live Beast Wars! Just epic. Also love the Japanese BW series. More kid friendly for sure, but still cool and with tons of awesome designs. Great theories. True. BW kicks the shit of every other CG TF show, even the Bayformer films, In graphics and story. That is not an opinion, its a fact. Why because it was done with TALENT and CARE, something these days seem lost in quite a few brains.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Love how even in the Bay Films they don't bother showing the Transformations like 3 out of 4 times.

[@SkyStarNova]

@@PerspectiveEnd LOL! Whats really amazing is how the hell Third Party engineers make those craps into tolerable figures. Obviously they are way better than Hasbro and Takara.

[@jurassicwreck7146]

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 (KZbin 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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Animation is and always will be More complex. You have FULL control. The scene is what you chose it to be, there is no room for accidents or sub optimal framing, it's your mind on a canvas.

[@10COLLI69]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Glad you are enjoying it so much just after 1 episode.

[@green-legacy]

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!

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I actually really like Season 1 as well, but nothing wrong with 2 and 3 being your favorites. And hey all that means is that your sleep addled mind was making more Beast Wars Episodes for you, and that's awesome.

[@ragingyuzu1891]

YEEEES!

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Glad you are appeased.

[@stiglapoint5672]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

My point was that Beast Wars treated physical damage as what should be expected of combat. Prime treated it like it was a treat. This battle is unique because someone took a real injury.

[@supersonicmario56]

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...

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, he's really dismissive about the whole thing. He's willing to admit it's the best written piece of TF media ever, and then is still willing to poopoo it because it's not G1.

[@ashuraomega7113]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'd be down for either a Continuation, or that we actually get Transtech. God I wish we got Transtech.

[@ashuraomega7113]

@@PerspectiveEnd transtech looked cool on paper and I agree the four factions combined? That would be awesome but I'm sure that the show wouldn't have been any better than beast machines itself since we still don't know a lot about if the writers would be replaced or not or what would have even happened behind the scenes had the show gotten made. Either way I believe the idea of transtech should be brought into a future story but until then it's going to remain in the past

[@pauld3694]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Absolutely, Transformers would be a Ghost of it self right now were it not for Beast Wars. And yes, it's nice to see a serries revival that doesn't feel like it hates it's source material. You are welcome.

[@ryanmason2502]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, despite the title, it's really just a rag tag group of people who were forcibly deputized trying to capture some criminals. As a kid, it really did feel like a war to me, but it's the furthest thing from it.

[@kaih_the_viewer]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Here's the thing, I wasn't trying to argue that there is no gore in that, but look at all your examples. Prime treats each and every one of those like a BIG deal right, they will either have episodes built around those injuries, they are send offs for characters who die, or like Magnus they change the character for the rest of the series. So for Prime Damage is a Treat that you get on a special occasion. Beast wars treated injuries like what you should expect from a fight scene.

[@dangamertop9253]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Ok, so I wasn't fully making the Argument that it is Better than primes, simply that it was of Higher effort. Prime cuts a TON of corners you don't really notice if you aren't an animator, and really does prime look better on a modeling front. Ask your self that, how, in what way are the models of prime better, and the answer is for the most part they aren't, what really is an improvement in Prime is the lighting, Raytracing didn't exist back when Beast Wars was made, and just lighting was really in general pretty primitive back then. And good lighting is a big deal. And about the injuries, The hole in dread wings chest is the send off for the entire character, something they could justify spending a higher budget on working on. Its telling that starscreams arm coming off was considered a BIG EFFORT deal considering they built an entire episodes plot around it. Breakdown was also a send off, but it also wasn't done live, you only see the after math of it which is easy to do. And sure Cliffjumper dies and all that, but that's actually what the character was built around. That was his WHOLE point. And he was designed during the initially modeling faze which means that they made him at the time it would be cheapest to do alterations like that.

[@masontheawesome9898]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Well I just hope when you do you love it.

[@AcanLord]

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"

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Exactly, it's basically impossible that a species where you can live 4 million years and still be young, is going to forget everything in 300. I never actually even heard of Shadow Raiders until I was an adult, but the other two I did grow up with, and the Starship Toopers, CGI show from back in the day, which has no business being as good as it is.

[@danshmitka5796]

Still can't take it seriously after watching the entire series 4 times because of looney toons behavior unless plot calls for a permanent death.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

If I could do one thing, it would be to try and even out the tone of Beast Wars just a bit.

[@Roboshi2007]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Straight down to had the first season for Beast Wars also ends with the Bad Guy launching the good guy into the death machine in a suicide bomb.

[@Roboshi2007]

@@PerspectiveEnd and then the weird energy ended up mutating the main Reboot character just like the Vok surge

[@StrykerPrimeProductions]

Hey, the show going full Looney Tunes isn’t a bad thing. Low Road is my absolute favorite episode, considering how far I’ve gotten. I’m only 5 episodes into season 2, I really need to finish it. And what the hell do you mean CG is the cheapest animation now?

[@PerspectiveEnd]

The Loony Toons stuff just clashes a little too much with the serious attitude of the show, to be fair though I do miss when shows were allowed to get a little silly. And I meant what I said. That's why so many shows are done in CGI now. It's the cheapest way to animate something. There's an initial high production cost to start a show with CGI, but then it becomes ULTRA cheap to continue making it. To the point where after the initial set up, you can fire basically all the artists, and produce the rest of the show, with people you pull off the street.

[@mitchellbambam5926]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Indeed they are. Connected disciplines, but different. There are some problems here or there, where parenting became broken or stuff, but it's still fabulous animation, and not as bad modeling as people like to think.

[@cesarcampos8746]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Thank you, and yeah, the whole self Deprecating thing on this needs to stop. Beast Wars isn't Ironically good in any way, it's just Good.

[@samsthebeztatstuff8885]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I wish I had time for that last year.

[@HaloDarkKnight117]

(Imagine this comment is from 2022) Now we can expect Season 2 next year!

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I Refuse to immagine. So you want this in 2024 then.

[@StevetheVehicon401]

Would you ever consider roasting the original cgi models based off the toys?

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Oh that's a Good Idea.

[@senipain2785]

You could review the Beast Wars Rising comics next year? 😊

[@PerspectiveEnd]

This is an idea.

[@legoawcstopmotioner9435]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah the Proto Humans are easily the ugliest part of the entire serries.

[@legoawcstopmotioner9435]

@@PerspectiveEnd And the fact that they were just plain annoying and unnecessary sure didn't help. I would have cheered if the raptors had eaten them. As warped as that may be.

[@S45264]

This video has convinced me to watch BW

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I am so proud to hear that, I can only hope you feel a fraction of the love I do for the series when you are done.

[@mandykaterina7866]

Bruh! I might be a little late to the game, but you are preaching to the choir with me! I've been a fan of this show since I was 8 years old, and it played a major part in shaping my entire childhood! I love you for making this! 😍

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Thank you very much, and it's been with me since I was like 5, truly such a formative show that means so much. And it had the Gall to be Great too, and not just something I loved as a kid. Sheesh.

[@Hayden_91]

If I'm being honest the Cgi for beast wars didn't bug me. I'm also a hyper fan of beast wars. I have a whole shelf with just bw characters on it lol.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yes, because there's nothing wrong with the CGI, people who call foul are looking for a reason to have a problem.

[@Hayden_91]

@@PerspectiveEnd yeah.

[@quantumbewear205]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I get that fear, but hey, if you don't then you just regret missing out on both. I want to do more show reviews for sure.

[@SGD_ToysDownUnder]

I think you're underselling how good Beast Wars actually is. 2 additional factors: Not only is it the best Transformers series as a form of entertainment, it's fantastic at selling toys too. This equally Hasbro/Kenner's credit as it is Mainframe, but the designs are fun, full of life, bright, toyetic. The toys were great as toys, but having an endearing character to go along with it just works beautifully in making the brand last the test of time. Toys and shows are both a visual medium as they are a physical and narrative respecitvely, Beast Wars did visuals phenomenally well. Looking at similar revivals of 80s brands to come out a decade or more later, in particular He-man 2002 and Thundercats 2011, neither series was particularly good on the toy front, using a lot of bland, muted colours and due to this they didn't resonate visually. GI Joe Renegades may be a 1 season wonder, great watch, but horrid at selling toys. Secondly, I would say Beast Wars is the best merchandise driven series of all time. Not just limited to Transformers, but period. It hits every note it has to; can be enjoyed by all ages due to the quality of the writing, stands up to extensive rewatching, as I said the visual elements as a vehicle to sell toys works very well. Engaging ongoing story, builds on the brand in a meaningful way that doesn't really need experience with the brand to appreciate it. I don't think it'd be a stretch to say Beast Wars is the best there is, was and ever will be. No one alive is talented enough to make something the rival or beat it now. No company wants to take the risks, instead we get shit. I don't think I've enjoyed Transformers series since Animated ended. Even if you stretch merch driven to mean shows meant to sell toys but based on properties of other mediums so you encapsulate Marvel, DC and TMNT, yeah, no. Beast Wars still hits all the marks much better than any of their shows.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

To be fair it's not for a lack of trying that I undersold it, it's just there's SOOOOOOOOOOO much good to talk about, you get kind of lost trying to convey it all. Hell somehow I forgot to mention just how good the Voice Acting, which should be a crime that I wind up in Jail for, like how did I not mention that.

[@SGD_ToysDownUnder]

@@PerspectiveEnd it's hard when you're literally talking about the pinnacle of the medium lol.

[@logicalprime3017]

I wouldn't say the animation is bad as much as the rendering is. Spectacular Spider-Man has a similar issue where they do so much with such a simple design. Beast Wars renderings even the character models were super rough and would look unacceptable today conversely those same motions on a more polished model would look to standard today

[@PerspectiveEnd]

To be fair, this was rendering technology was very primitive.

[@lazermann112]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

It rocked so hard. It got you PUMPED!

[@kristenpaluch9200]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

It actually looks a lot nicer on youtube, I have every DVD release of Beast Wars, and none of them are in HD, while the KZbin Version is in ULTRA HD.

[@JROD082384]

Beast Wars was lightning in a fucking bottle, and that’s all there is to it.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I don't think it was that random, but man I wish a show would aspire to be HALF of what it was now a days.

[@Overlord_of_Cacti]

Beast Wars looks good except for the "humans"

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah they are... Primitive in more than one sense of the word.

[@samsthebeztatstuff8885]

What were there names on cybertron. Aside from scoponoks being clamps, airazor, tigatron, inferno, and blackarnia cause they were born on earth, and Optimus and megatron who kept there names.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

They never state. Megatron has been suggested by different Medias to be Gnashteeth, and Galavar, and Optimus was probably always an Optimus.

[@vaggos2003]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I've seen all those. Man I wish that guy would come back.

[@vaggos2003]

​@@PerspectiveEndYeah, me too.

[@Starshine13131]

Your effort was evident in the video. It definitely showed

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Glad you think so!

[@domydomy6668]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I wouldn't call Megatron Edgy?

[@domydomy6668]

@@PerspectiveEnd I was about to say pissed of but didn’t know how to word it out lol

[@fastbear9681]

1:51 this that real

[@PerspectiveEnd]

This that real? Were you trying to say "Is that Real?" If so, yes he was known as Gnashteeth in older comics, and Galavar in the 2020 IDW comics.

[@dougbagshaw8327]

I love beast wars

[@PerspectiveEnd]

As you should.

[@DIsturbios1234]

PE, I'll watch beast wars when you watch Armada.. But you never will because you won't watch japanese transformer shows because you hate them for no reason. #hypocrite

[@ilikepigeons6101]

Cuz anime is trash

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I have watched Armada. I'm pretty sure I've said that on video Multiple times. Armada was the last transformers show I watched all the way through as it aired from first to last episode.

[@KodyCrimson]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, the story Hasbro wanted to do, was so much different than the Story Mainframe chose to do. I'd be interested in looking into the reality where Beast Wars was the original Hasbro pitch.

[@TAAAKYON]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, people are easily Tricked by the Razzle Dazzle of moody dynamic raytraced lighting, so they think it's better than Nuts and bolts animated performance.

[@JaceyMitchell]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

1 Yes Absolutely, and what it adds isn't even offensive. Like it Added Sparks, which I've never seen a word against. It added an Escape shuttle to the arc that never gets brought up. And it explains what happened to the Nemesis, and why we never saw it again. Outside of that G1 is basically unchanged. 2 Again you are on point, G2 is Fake, it's not a thing, it's just G1 again with new commercial breaks, and that's it. Beast Wars kicked the Franchise back into overdrive, and it wouldn't be as popular again for like a decade. 3 I too would love to see that. Though half of it is I'd just love to see the old animation style back with modern consistency and skill. Like a "What If" of the universe where the 86 movie was the way the show actually looked.

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

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.

[@coreymcgivney5897]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Oh yeah, I love the colors. Very few Transformers series are willing to get half as Vibrant any more. Like look at prime, everything is so Muted and washed out. And boy the Spiders were the stuff of nightmares as a kid.

[@gleamingcolt]

I have tried to get one of my friends to watch beast wars, because well, why wouldn’t you not want to, and he said that he would never watch it because the animation sucked I will never understand why people won’t watch this amazing over the animation. Personally I love it, but maybe it’s due to games like super Mario 64.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Keep at it, tell him how he will stop noticing after about 3 episodes, eventually you will win and we will have another Beast Wars Fan.

[@gleamingcolt]

@@PerspectiveEnd I hope so. More beast wars fans we get, the better

[@jakesantiago3740]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, the Grim and Gritty TF show is really nothing of the sort, they try to wear that title by killing a named character at the start of the show, but it's just putting on airs. Beast Wars kills way more of it's cast, and they don't act like it makes them so hard core.

[@jakesantiago3740]

@@PerspectiveEnd It says something when Beast Wars is on par with the Bay films and IDW with its gore and violence. While, Prime feels more like the Unicron Trilogy and G1 with its content.

[@Natee178]

Cheap or not Prime does look like 100 times better, especially for the robots. I’ve been trying to get Into BW, the animation doesn’t bother me as much as the very childish way things play out at times. Maybe my mind will change once I’m deeper into the series but right now I’m just watching it cause it’s one of the only TF shows I haven’t fully seen. I hope I get to the place of loving it. Also think it’s hilarious to compare it to G1 because G1 was quite literally one of the cheapest done animations. Like they took no time or care so I’m not sure comparing this to G1 really has any merit, it should be better then a poorly drawn 80’s cartoon

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Yeah, some times BW does get a little too Loony Toons. I mean I didn't compair it to G1, because that's not fair to do, but at the same time I don't think saying it's the Cheapest Animation is fair either. G1 absolutely wasn't cutting edge or anything, but that was Reasonably budgeted animation for the time. Definitely not anything to look at and be amazed by, but also nothing to scoff at back then. And Prime does not look 100 times better to someone with an animation background, it's actually remarkably cheap looking. They do a lot to try and make it more impressive by having a fast pace, and EXCESSIVELY dynamic camera angles, but looking past the glitz and glamour, it's cutting corners a lot more than you expect.

[@Natee178]

@@PerspectiveEnd I’m enjoying it as it is, just with how much people recommend it and say how good the story is I was expecting something different. I just cartoons in the 80’s had a very different way of doing things then they did later on and especially in something like beast wars where they do cover some more out there topics for a “kids” cartoon And even with primes short cuts it still looks better. Animation background or not the choreography of the fights alone were very well animated. The humans still looked bad but they nailed the looks and movement of the robots. It’s not perfect animation by any means, it still has a little of that stiff CGI look, but it’s much more visually pleasing then beast wars. Really for me it is just more so the fight scenes where you can see the big difference. A lot of beast wars fights (atleast this first season, still working through it) look a bit like someone playing with their action figures, which is fine and it’s honestly better then I was expecting, but still not as impressive as a lot of the fights in prime. The opening 4 episodes alone of prime have many examples of the fighting sequences hitting harder.

[@MyKokushiboDrawing]

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.

[@dippy_1999]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Which just means that their Budget was Trash, like the Per Episode on that had to be miserable. Like the Fact that Dreadwing was just Blue Skyquake with 0 changes really shows how little the must have gotten. They must have made Skyquake on the promise that even though it was going to get killed off in one episode they were going to reuse it later in the series.

[@dippy_1999]

Or they had no idea how to spend their money and thus blew it quickly. Afterwards, they realized that killing Skyquake off was a stupid idea that wasted a whole bunch of money and tried to cover it up by saying he had a twin brother completely identical to him that was conveniently never talked about before. Just another one of TFPs many blunders.

[@samsthebeztatstuff8885]

What makes this megatron so great. I loved him but what made him so great in your eyes

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Well he was cunning, he was charismatic, he had a very fun speech pattern, he felt like a real threat.

[@AkarosTrueKnight]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I could have gone on. I can't believe that I didn't cover the Voice talent. I'm an idiot.

[@scavengerreviews5268]

I just finished watching beast wars season 3 for the first time. I watched it with my brother who had also never seen it and we loved it. We mostly just laughed at the bad CGI. It was one of the charms of the show but also one of the hills to get over. Your right about once your a few episodes in you dont notice but for us it was more we didnt care after a while. Its still bad dude at least season one is, two and three certainly up the ante. I love almost all of transformers or just dont care about them. I actually hate very few things in the transformers franchise so im pretty easy to please after all i love the live action movies and think that the first three as a trilogy are great transformers media. 4 and 5 are pretty rough. 5 especially is horrible. The only thing to come out of five was characters like nitro zeus. Revenge of the fallen is my favorite movie btw. I might do a video on them so like stay posted.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

So what would you define is Bad about the animation of Beast wars, can you articulate the reasons? Because I am actually interested. I have a particularly analytical view point on the matter, given my background. Like the only thing that really stands out to me, is that the show existed before Raytracing was a thing, so the lighting isn't the best.

[@scavengerreviews5268]

@@PerspectiveEnd it looks like a PS1 cutscene and this is coming from a guy who still plays PS1 games. I literally said its part of its charm. Maybe it was good at the time but its hella dated. Do i care obviously not i watched 3 whole seasons of the thing after all.

[@Scourgeisoptimusprime]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'm proud to hear that this video helps you feel less ill. And proud that I was able to help you understand Beast Wars better.

[@Scourgeisoptimusprime]

@@PerspectiveEnd thanks 😊

[@Ian4bis]

Obviously gotta drop everything I’m doing until I finish this video Edit: Done

[@PerspectiveEnd]

And how was it?

[@Ian4bis]

@@PerspectiveEnd exquisite

[@mistermadmachine6311]

Well I think the departure of characters getting full on eviserated is because at the end of the day transformers is a “kids” show and parents don’t want to see that anymore so……….

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Please, you think Parents Groups today are less forgiving than they were in the 90s? Back then "Video Games are Making My Kids worship the Devil!" was a common thing you'd hear.

[@TFfangeek]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'm glad you enjoyed.

[@TFfangeek]

@@PerspectiveEnd It brightened my day. Thank you.

[@jamesattack7420]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Oh yeah, it's HUGELY influential, even if it's a bit unsung for it.

[@Prime-Productions]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Except Rattrap is like 35.

[@Prime-Productions]

@@PerspectiveEnd yea but the concept is still there

[@youwayo]

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.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

They were willing to learn and it's so refreshing to see someone not write off something because they came from somewhere else.

[@robertserphillips7373]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

In a week or so.

[@Mevonite]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'm so happy to hear that, always love seeing new people enjoy that show.

[@dedalionarts6077]

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).

[@PerspectiveEnd]

Well the Next BW review will be a good ways away, but maybe Prime will be by the end of the year, if my growth continues.

[@MCP5030]

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

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I think of both of them Honestly, really depends on the context of the Conversation who comes first to my mind.

[@titaniumemperor9981]

What's your favourite transformer character?

[@rmk6222]

He said it's Dinobot

[@titaniumemperor9981]

@@rmk6222 I didn't hear that, thanks

[@rmk6222]

@@titaniumemperor9981 what can i say other than you are welcome.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

It is Dinobot, he is not only my favorite Transformers Character, but my favorite character in anything ever.

[@brotquel1592]

Let's be honest here, most of the people criticizing BW are still sore "TRUKK-NOT-MONKE" crybabies.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

To be fair I have learned that a lot of Trukk Not Munkey people actually just don't realize that it's not meant as a Replacement or alternate take on G1.

[@omegaraver7609]

13:20 Then again that’s just Bobby Skullface in a nutshell, always putting G1 on top of the transformers pyramid compared to everything else

[@PerspectiveEnd]

This is true. And there's stuff to love about G1, but it tends to have it's fans just reject literally everything that came after.

[@jastheraz]

Speaking of Bobby skullface, even though he dislikes it, he still acknowledges that it is probably on of the best pieces of transformers media.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

That is the one thing I will give him yeah. He is willing to admit that. It's so weird that he can be so dismissive of it, while at the same time admit it's quality.

[@ramonak.3589]

If they would remake it in HD and upgrade the graphics, it would be a pure masterpiece. No, a masterpiece with better graphics.

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I'd love to see them redo Beast Wars with some updated technology.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Unrelated, but have you seen Legacy Tarn? I’m certain he’ll make you feel the same way I feel about Legacy Lio Convoy (that is, HYPE).

[@PerspectiveEnd]

I have seen it yes, and I am impressed with just how much of their whole ass they've clearly put into it.