Revisiting BEAST WARS

Post by **Onslaught Six** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:36 am

Ahhh. I 'knew' there had to be some kind of evidence for showing Tankorr's name with two Rs.

The weird thing is, I was doing it for years before getting Tankorr 'and' I don't have his instructs. Buh?

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:04 pm

Instructions degraded with late-Beast or early-AEC era toys. Instructions would focus on gimmicks, and leave much of the rest of the toy uncovered. I recall Megabolt Megatron's directions being especially bothersome at the time, but now I am nostalgic for even that level of coverage.

Dom
-oh, wait, the show....

Post by **onslaught86** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:56 am

BWprowl wrote:And watching his eye glow!

It never specified how long one should do it for..so I've never stopped!

Mako Crab · Post by **Mako Crab** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:05 am

And FINALLY the next installment.

Equal Measures
written by Greg Johnson

on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-DFX9Ilzks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxJaFfIFTI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8AkjvxaVlw&feature=related

In the last episode Cheetor learned that disobeying orders, ditching the team, and running off on missions alone can have horrible, nightmare-inducing consequences. A powerful lesson indeed. Let's watch him do it again!

It seems the Maximals (or just Rhinox) have been busy. They're preparing to set up relay posts all throughout the area to help boost their communications range, but there's a fierce storm moving in, so the mission is off. Oh, and they have a bomb.
Cha-ching!
A bomb?! The Maximals are already planning to blow up the Predacon base! But... but aren't they going to wait for the Predacons to kidnap someone or threaten something first? It's in the rule book! Autobots must always sit on their duffs until the Decepticons do something! Oh riiight, right, right. Maximals and Predacons. I forgot. So the Maximals actually take the initiative and act first. That's just so cool.

Anyway the bomb isn't the main priority right now. Setting the relay posts is, but that storm is just too nasty and Primal isn't taking any chances. So the mission is off and Cheetor's pouting about it, because apparently the boss monkey thinks he's too slow to outrun a storm. It could just sound like the cat being a whiner, but maybe there's something more to it. He was the one that got Rhinox' comm. badge thingy destroyed in the last episode. Maybe he actually feels some kind of need to get this mission going to help make up for his stupidity last time? Maybe. Primal and Rhinox are in agreement though; with so much energon coursing through the land, they have to be extra careful about where they set the relay posts.

Primal and Dinobot have a tense little face-off there too. Apparently there's some issue with how they deliver the bomb to the Predacon base. Dinobot wants to blow up the base and everyone in it. Primal is more of the forgiving type and wants to spare the Preds if he can.

Dinobot: "What I know is this; if situations were reversed, the Predacons would spare the base and annihilate us."

Ooh, snappy! Snappy dialogue! I do like. So we have Dinobot and Cheetor both feeling put out. What's a surly raptor to do? Get the cat in trouble! The dinosaur finds Cheetor laying on a sturdy looking board in his room sulking. Dinobot prods Cheetor just a little and in no time the dumb cat is on the sly again and bounding out the Axalon hatch with a whole bag full of relay posts. And off in the distance the rumble of thunder signals a quickly approaching storm...

WHAM!
One relay post in! And he's off to the next!
WHAM! Another one's in! And he's off to the - BWAKOOM!!! Oh lordy, lordy! He's been struck by lightning! It's okay, he's getting up. Cheetor shouts at the storm clouds and... BWAKOOM!! A near miss! Doesn't Cheetor know that it's bad luck to have lightning strike in the same place twice?

Off to the next! Oh that stupid kid. He goes to place one more and gets struck by lightning again. Duh, Cheetor! You're the only piece of metal out here! You're a frickin' lightning rod! The relay post goes flying and strikes an energon vain. The whole ground begins to crack and tear open. The whole place is about to blow up, so Cheetor does what any of us would do.

Cheetor: "Pleeeease don't blow up! Please, please, please!!"

He grabs the relay post and struggles and wrestles to yank it out of the ground, but that's not happening. Another strike of lightning and suddenly Cheetor's gone!

Over at the Predacon base.... which, wow. Tangent!
Over at the Frankenstein place... hm. Yeah, the syllables match up and it even rhymes. Okay, that was random, pay no mind. Sometimes these things just pop into my head.
Anyway Terrorsaur is on monitor duty. Very dull, nothing happening. He says to himself that no Maximal would be stupid enough to do anything on a day like today. He gives them too much credit, because Cheetor materializes right in their base at that moment! Cheetor's disoriented, doesn't know where he is.

Terrorsaur: "Welcome to the dark side."

Ah, the moment that shall live on in infamy. You'll notice I didn't bother capitalizing "dark side". That's because I personally never read that line as being the name of their ship. I know the shallow Beast Wars Transmetals video game tried to make the name canon, and the japanese version of Beast Wars calls their ship the Terror Crusher IIRC, but as far as I'm concerned it has no name. For one, the video game was garbage. For two, the japanese version sucks. There you go.

Cute little moment where Cheetor yells out, "Maximize," before catching himself and realizing that he's already in robot mode. And the fight is on! They fly around the Pred base on hover platforms shooting up the whole joint. Cheetor wins the match by knocking Terrorsaur onto the same monitor that he entered the base with and just like that- Terrorsaur vanishes in a flash of light...

... and appears inside the Axalon! Terrorsuar's disoriented, doesn't know where he is.

Dinobot: "Welcome to enemy arms."

And there you go. No one runs around trying to claim that the Axalon is really called Enemy Arms. The Pred ship is not the dark side. Nyah nyah!

They both transform and it's about to get ugly when Dinobot GRABS TERRORSAURS HEAD. He looks at the control panel that warped Terrorsaur into their base and figures out pretty quick what must've happened. Terrorsaur is all like, "Oh yeah, so that's how the kid got in our base too!"
With this INCREDIBLE advantage at their fingertips, Terrorsaur proposes an alliance between he and Dinobot. They'll trash the Maximals and take over the Predacons. And it's all possible because they have a localized worm hole. Uh huh. Dinobot smiles and plays along.

They take a stroll down the Axalon halls and it's just miraculous that they haven't run into anybody. Terrorsaur reveals how exactly he was able to activate the teleporter (completely by accident). Once Dinobot knows how to use it, he declares the alliance over and rams the pterosaur into a trash chute, ejecting him miles into the distance.

I love this next part. Dinobot turns and Primal's standing right there! Like he just walked into the scene, but he doesn't seem to be in mid-stride at all. He just turns and he's all surprised.

Primal: "Dinobot! Wha!?! Hey, you seen Cheetor? He's missing. So are those relay posts. I swear, if he ran off with them, it's his hide."

Dinobot: "As a matter of fact, he did. He's been captured and killed by Predacons by now, BUT TAKE HEART! We now have the ability to blow up their base."

Almost verbatim... almost. The new plan is to set the big bomb onto the teleporter and beam it directly into the Predacon base. Oh. Yeah.

At the Pred base Cheetor's still on the run, this time from Waspinator and Scroponok. They corner him in the ventilation duct and heat things up real nice for him. Scorponok fires a missle into the duct that gets Cheetor moving faster than he ever knew he could! The two Predacons lose track of their target and it's another game of cat and mouse. Cheetor decides that as long as he's here, he may as well roll with it and accesses their computers. He gets a quick overlay of the surrounding energon deposits and cross-references it with his own maps. It turns out that the same energon vein runs under both bases.

So the relay posts, combined with a strike of lightning and the energon vein all conspired to somehow create a teleporter. Works for me. The bad news is that an explosion at either base will destroy the other one. He's got to stop his friends from sending the bomb!

Only two things standing in his way; Waspy and Scorponok. He's been spotted (yes, I know he's a cheetah).

Scorpy fires a missle that Cheetor deftly avoids and returns to its sender. They're done and Cheetor's on the move again. Back in the main control room he flicks a data-disk onto the teleporter pad. It disappears and in its place- the bomb!!! OH SNAP!! It's anchored to the control pad and has a 30 second timer!!! And Megatron and Terrorsaur just found him!

The data-disk travels through to the Maximal base. They give it a quick once over and realize that Cheetor is alive and they've just condemned themselves to destruction.

At the Pred base Cheetor convinces them to let him release the anchors on the bomb so they can get it away. There's like 8 seconds left on the timer before Megatron finally gives him the go-ahead. Are you kidding?! But it turns out that Cheetor's as quick with his hands as he is on his feet and those anchors come right off. He throws the bomb to Terrorsaur, who flies it as high as possible before getting nuked by the explosion. And with that, Cheetor hops onto the teleporter pad and disappears.

All the relay posts are destroyed on his rapid transit back into the Axalon. Another one of Rhinox's inventions that he destroyed! Everyone breathes a sigh of relief, knowing that they'll all live to see another day. Primal is much less harsh on Cheetor this time than he was in the last episode for basically disobeying orders *again* and screwing up another tactical advantage that they could've had. At least this time he brought some valuable information back with him, so they're not too mad.

Cheetor looks over to Dinobot, who just gives him this big toothy grin like... what is that grin about?

Dinobot (thinking) : I'm going to eat you tonight, Cheetor. Can you hear my thoughts. I'm. Going. To. Eat. You.

Cheetor smiles nervously back at him. Eheheh... you okay there, big guy?

Okay, okay, so they didn't really say that. Cheetor promises never to run off on his own again... until the next time. Oh you silly kid. The end!

If "The Web" highlighted Tarantulus, then this episode was all about Terrorsaur. Megatron puts in only the briefest of screen-time at the very end, making it yet again another show-piece for his minions. I never really thought about it like this before, but it makes sense and I like that they're making up for the Preds getting almost no time in the pilot episodes.
My favorite scene, again, is probably right at the start with all the Maximals tinkering away in the Axalon. There's just such a great dynamic amongst this team and I love seeing them go back and forth with each other. I like watching these 5 guys more than I did an entire army of REACTIVE Autobots in the original show. Yeah, I said it.

Next ep- Chain of Command!

"Restricted."

Mako Crab · Post by **Mako Crab** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:55 pm

I'm gonna' do it! I'm gonna do it!

Over at the Predacon base!
Over at the Frankenstein place!

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:42 am

Those pin-ups in Cheetor's room are disturbing.

Dom
-what? Like you never thought that.

Mako Crab · Post by **Mako Crab** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:03 pm

At least he's not actually out there in the wild humping other wild cats.
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LIKE TIGATRON. WTF, Tigs?

Post by **Onslaught Six** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:37 pm

Actually, evidence has shown that Tigatron actually scanned Snowstalker for his altmode--or at least that's the implication. This means that, at best, Tigs was having lesbian sex with a body identical to his. Or something.

...Best not to think too hard about these things.

Post by **onslaught86** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:11 am

So Tigs wasn't a pacifist hippie all along, but really a perverted narcissist?

Oh god, Tigerhawk. I now feel ill.

Mako Crab · Post by **Mako Crab** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:34 pm

This explains a lot. Like why he merged with a girl to become Tigerhawk.

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