Let's talk about a great Canadian Sci Fi series that ended with a crappy techn-organic anti-climax!

[viranimus]

Loved Beast wars.
Hated the canadian name for it because Beasties sounds... like a breakfast cereal for a kid wearing water wings and a football helmet on backwards.

Honestly , I loved the techno organic ending. Because with transformers and its mutilated lore what that hypothetically opens up with the reoccuring time travel vs distant history arcs what you could have is that the techno organic transformers came to earth prehistory and from their evolution into the organic, they evolved to be human to link hundreds of thousands of years into our recent past to encounter the autobots, who helped to spark human evolution (toward the rodimus and JP G1 Convoy years) into the technologic and creating a great cycle of perpetual evolution that shifts in infinite cycles from technologic to organic and back again.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Ah, my TV channel stopped showing Beast Wars shortly after they introduced Transmetals and found the original crashed Ark. This was unfortunate.

Reboot was cool too, but I really didn't like it when the main character switched to that green kid.

 

[soren7550]

I think this video might be highly relevant:

How could he not include the part when Rinox farted? Even my mother loved that part!

Anywho, was a good part of me and my brother's childhoods, but I rather it stay that way rather than it getting a reboot.

 

[Valanthe]

What you di...

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DAMNIT!

I honestly didn't watch those transformers shows much, I vaguely remember catching a few and I think I had one of the toys, but that's it, I was much more into Pokemon and Digimon at that age, my life practically revolved around those two shows and their respective card games.

 

[DoPo]

Wha...? I'm pretty sure the series ended in a cliffhanger, Megabyte comes back as a trojan horse virus and the series ends off with him beginning to conquer mainframe. Then no new episodes.

There is a webcomic [http://reboot.com/index/launch/content/paradigms-lost] that finishes the story. I accept my thanks only in intertnetz and/or cookies. No cheques please.

I absolutely loved Beast Wars. It was brilliant and awesome. Also addictive. Every single boy in my school watched it and then we discussed the episodes the following day. We were like old women discussing soap operas. But better. Me and a friend of mine rewatched the entire series several years ago. It was still awesome. Well, until it reached Beast Machines...it wasn't as awesome. Frankly it was rather boring. We did watch it all the way through (we hadn't seen Beast Machines before) but it actually took effort to do it.

EDIT: fixed that hyperlink.

 

[Jazoni89]

Wait, Beast Wars was a Transformers spinoff?

That's a first, it was just called Beast Wars here in the UK.

 

[Saladfork]

Reboot was still better, I never got that all the civilians in mainframe were 0's and 1's until I was much older.

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Man, I loved reboot when I was younger but now I just can't be bothered to look up any of the episodes.

 

[Richardplex]

I loved beast wars, though I couldn't watch a small number of episodes in the second series, and after that it was... sparse, to say the least. I believe dinobot's last episode (before that come-back-to-life-as-a-voiceless-silver-raptor thing) was one of my first memories of sadness, that and A Land Before Time.

Wha...? I'm pretty sure the series ended in a cliffhanger, Megabyte comes back as a trojan horse virus and the series ends off with him beginning to conquer mainframe. Then no new episodes.

There is a webcomic that finishes the story. I accept my thanks only in intertnetz and/or cookies. No cheques please.

I absolutely loved Beast Wars. It was brilliant and awesome. Also addictive. Every single boy in my school watched it and then we discussed the episodes the following day. We were like old women discussing soap operas. But better. Me and a friend of mine rewatched the entire series several years ago. It was still awesome. Well, until it reached Beast Machines...it wasn't as awesome. Frankly it was rather boring. We did watch it all the way through (we hadn't seen Beast Machines before) but it actually took effort to do it.

As Bender would of said, it was like old women discussing soap operas, but it involved robots so it was more awesome.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

What you di...

.........

DAMNIT!

I honestly didn't watch those transformers shows much, I vaguely remember catching a few and I think I had one of the toys, but that's it, I was much more into Pokemon and Digimon at that age, my life practically revolved around those two shows and their respective card games.

Sounds like Beast Wars were a bit before your time, then. As these two individuals noted:

I loved beast wars, though I couldn't watch a small number of episodes in the second series, and after that it was... sparse, to say the least. I believe dinobot's last episode (before that come-back-to-life-as-a-voiceless-silver-raptor thing) was one of my first memories of sadness, that and A Land Before Time.

Wha...? I'm pretty sure the series ended in a cliffhanger, Megabyte comes back as a trojan horse virus and the series ends off with him beginning to conquer mainframe. Then no new episodes.

There is a webcomic that finishes the story. I accept my thanks only in intertnetz and/or cookies. No cheques please.

I absolutely loved Beast Wars. It was brilliant and awesome. Also addictive. Every single boy in my school watched it and then we discussed the episodes the following day. We were like old women discussing soap operas. But better. Me and a friend of mine rewatched the entire series several years ago. It was still awesome. Well, until it reached Beast Machines...it wasn't as awesome. Frankly it was rather boring. We did watch it all the way through (we hadn't seen Beast Machines before) but it actually took effort to do it.

As Bender would of said, it was like old women discussing soap operas, but it involved robots so it was more awesome.

Beast Wars was /huge/ in the target audience at the time, with "the time" being slightly before Pokemon and Digimon took off in the West.

And yeah, I so remember the whole "we were like old ladies discussing soap operas" part. That and Power Rangers, man.

 

[The Madman]

Never big on Beast Wars, but Reboot, damn that show was great. I think the best part about that show was that the villains actually got shit done and weren't those cliche 'I'll get you next time' sort of baddies. No, they blew stuff up. They killed dudes. It was awesome!

Adult as hell too. I never got it as a kid, but re-watching some of that stuff awhile back... damned there were a lot of adult references. Amazing some of the stuff they got away with!

 

[Souplex]

I loved Best Wars so much.
It shouldn't come back, as it was perfect just the way it was.
Beast Machines on the other hand should never have happened.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I never really all liked Beast Wars much. I kinda found it strange but I did still watch alot of it.

Reboot on the other hand. Theres a good old cartoon. Megabyte was such an awesome villain.

 

[gigastar]

Ooooh! *Clicks on thread* Oh. I thought you meant Stargate.

Which one did you mean there? Assuming you dont mean (the live action) Universe as that never actually ended.

 

[Vault101]

oh..I thourght you were talking about..sotmhing else

I remember it, it was on saturday mornings

 

[MammothBlade]

Ooooh! *Clicks on thread* Oh. I thought you meant Stargate.

Which one did you mean there? Assuming you dont mean (the live action) Universe as that never actually ended.

I meant SG-1 and Atlantis. Though I gradually lost interest in the latter when SG-1 was cancelled.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Wait, Beast Wars was a Transformers spinoff?

That's a first, it was just called Beast Wars here in the UK.

if you didn't notice it was Transformers when they introduced MEGATRON AND OPTIMUS PRIME, I think you're beyond hope.

 

[Jazoni89]

Wait, Beast Wars was a Transformers spinoff?

That's a first, it was just called Beast Wars here in the UK.

if you didn't notice it was Transformers when they introduced MEGATRON AND OPTIMUS PRIME, I think you're beyond hope.

I didn't recall any of their names when I was a child, and Transformers itself wasn't as well known in the UK. Sure their were a few VHS's you could buy of the series, but it wasn't aired in the UK when I was around in the late 90's.

In fact, it wasn't until I was much older that I became familiar with the Transformers, and their names.