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So I watched Beast Wars 2...
7 years ago
And never posted a review/thoughts here so I might as well.
(Hey, if anyone wants me to review any other series I've watched I will if asked, this is just the most recent one)
So Beast Wars 2 is a japanese follow-on/extra series that happens in the same realm as Beast Wars (we assume, it's never stated in-show truthfully) and follows a team of Cybertrons (Maximals) and their enemies the Destrons (Predacons).
I suppose the best way to describe it would be.... okay.
The heroes are... kinda just what you'd expect from heroes which makes them fall a bit 'eeeh' for me. Generic stuff.
Bighorn being aggressively passionate was fun though, the Jointrons were a bit... excessive but humorous, Scuba was the master of not being around the whole episode but swooping in at the last few moments with the fix-all of the day, Tasmanian kid was "the young guy" and conveniently every new character in the show was also a good guy aside from the Seacons but they only hang around for a short while.
Lio Convoy is very uh... unlikable? I found him very just naaaah. Lio Junior appears as his son and super-convenient magic chosen-one two new guys apparently saw in a prophecy or something and came to Gaia/Earth to meet or something like that. He's just mega convenient.
Once more gives the good guys more members than the baddies (at least it wasn't AS bad as RiD01) but they hardly needed all this extra stuff when no matter how much the enemy "powered up" they always had the convenient fix-it/mcguffin to take advantage of.
The villains take it home and because there's less of them it's easier to talk about them.
Galvatron - The "lead villain" and "Emperor of Destruction" and.... total fucking softie. I shit you not. BW2!Galvatron is the WORST villain ever, not because he's poorly written or anything but because he's too damn NICE. The cruelest thing he deliberately does is "Hey we'll give you the parts to repair your ship but only if you help us out with these annoying Maximals". SO EVUL.
He literally will not hurt his own men even when they try to kill him, just because they "work hard" and "do their best", the only time he ever went after them he was under the influence of a drug that MAKES people attack both friend and foe so he wasn't even willingly doing it!. He's also complimentary to his own nemesis and tries to protect Lio Junior and also saves Lio Convoy's life twice....
Wait so why is he the bad guy? Because he wants the power to enforce peace. Yeah literally that's it.
I mean in the finale episode they try making him "more evul" by adding "taking over the universe" to the list but seriously given the way he acts i'd have just let him he'd have done a good job honestly.
Also he's smart enough to have just built an entire planet... yeah...
Megastorm/Gigastorm - Galvatron's younger brother and "Prince of destruction".
He's a little bratty shit and the one who is continually trying to kill his older brother because he's jealous and wants leadership.
Something Galvatron knows, but still continues to love him and show concern for him. (again SO EVUL)
He's just such a ass who thinks he's hot shit but as soon as it goes south he's running for his brother again.
I mean you know your treachery is bad when even Starscream calls you out on being a awful/horrible person for it and tries to stop you.
He only sort-of improves in attitude in the final two episodes when it clicks that people aren't going to take his bratty attitude anymore.
Starscream/Hellscream - This guy is like the weird lovechild of TFP's Starscream and Knock Out. He was supposed to be a devious backstabbing shit like all other Starscreams, and still sort-of is, but only towards Megastorm/Gigastorm.
Yep, he literally drops his "I wanna be in charge" schtick when he realises just how cushy he has it with Galvatron and how he hates his mean cruel-as-a-leader little brother. Even then he lets his loyal sidekick BB do most of the work for him while he fawns over his own looks and smarts.
Throughout the series he shows more and more adoration for Galvatron and even attempts a inspiring speech (interrupted by Gigastorm) about how Galvatron inspired him to be less of a selfish prick. (OMG isn't Galvatron EVUL).
BB/Max BB - He's Starscream's brawn-over-brain lackey whose vocabulary begins and ends with "Roger" but he's generally understood anyway (he gets one or two other one-syllable words but not much). Can't say much on him other than that honestly... He's loyal and flies into a rage if Starscream's hurt but he apparently does also call 'Screamer out sometimes.
Dirge/Dirgegun and Thrust/Thrustor - These two end up on the backseat a lot, they're dubbed "The Comedy Duo" by Starscream and are generally bad at everything they do. Even when being upgraded they don't do much sadly. (Dirgegun is a knock-off Dinobot in appearance). The most notable thing about them is that they don't like Starscream being so smug and better than them and try to out-do him a lot.
The Autorollers - Oh yeah, forgot about these guys for a moment. There's four of them and their one defining moment was having a plot that included a 'backstory' with one of the Insectrons and a episode where they helped the Maximals against a mutual threat. Other than that they don't do/say anything other than build things.
The Seacons are pirates who come to Earth for the "Angolmois energy" to sell for money. That's about it really. They don't go to either side but given they're pirates and 'wanted criminals' they lean more towards the Predacons.
Oh yeah the Angolmois energy is apparently what they're all fighting over, it's inside the earth, can apparently be "good" and "evil" despite being just energy and being submerged in it gives you a body upgrade/more power, which is how the Predacons get their new modes.
Oh and Galvatron straight up just grows when he eats it.
Also the Maximals win due to some "legendary thing" that has had no relevance in anything up until that point and despite being mega obvious no one but two-and-two together about this god-powered magic deus ex machina.
The whole 'battle' in this is basically
The good guys view:
Everyone will live in peace with no laws because we say so and "peace in all souls".
The "bad" guys view:
We want peace but we just want to have the power to enforce it when people try to destroy the peace.
I know, still, they're meant to be the baddies but... honestly the 'baddies' should've won...
Oh yeah and there's two androids in the moon who serve as SUPER annoying commentary butting in every now and then but also manage to be another convenient deus ex machina to help the good guys out in the end. Annoying.
(Hey, if anyone wants me to review any other series I've watched I will if asked, this is just the most recent one)
So Beast Wars 2 is a japanese follow-on/extra series that happens in the same realm as Beast Wars (we assume, it's never stated in-show truthfully) and follows a team of Cybertrons (Maximals) and their enemies the Destrons (Predacons).
I suppose the best way to describe it would be.... okay.
The heroes are... kinda just what you'd expect from heroes which makes them fall a bit 'eeeh' for me. Generic stuff.
Bighorn being aggressively passionate was fun though, the Jointrons were a bit... excessive but humorous, Scuba was the master of not being around the whole episode but swooping in at the last few moments with the fix-all of the day, Tasmanian kid was "the young guy" and conveniently every new character in the show was also a good guy aside from the Seacons but they only hang around for a short while.
Lio Convoy is very uh... unlikable? I found him very just naaaah. Lio Junior appears as his son and super-convenient magic chosen-one two new guys apparently saw in a prophecy or something and came to Gaia/Earth to meet or something like that. He's just mega convenient.
Once more gives the good guys more members than the baddies (at least it wasn't AS bad as RiD01) but they hardly needed all this extra stuff when no matter how much the enemy "powered up" they always had the convenient fix-it/mcguffin to take advantage of.
The villains take it home and because there's less of them it's easier to talk about them.
Galvatron - The "lead villain" and "Emperor of Destruction" and.... total fucking softie. I shit you not. BW2!Galvatron is the WORST villain ever, not because he's poorly written or anything but because he's too damn NICE. The cruelest thing he deliberately does is "Hey we'll give you the parts to repair your ship but only if you help us out with these annoying Maximals". SO EVUL.
He literally will not hurt his own men even when they try to kill him, just because they "work hard" and "do their best", the only time he ever went after them he was under the influence of a drug that MAKES people attack both friend and foe so he wasn't even willingly doing it!. He's also complimentary to his own nemesis and tries to protect Lio Junior and also saves Lio Convoy's life twice....
Wait so why is he the bad guy? Because he wants the power to enforce peace. Yeah literally that's it.
I mean in the finale episode they try making him "more evul" by adding "taking over the universe" to the list but seriously given the way he acts i'd have just let him he'd have done a good job honestly.
Megastorm/Gigastorm - Galvatron's younger brother and "Prince of destruction".
He's a little bratty shit and the one who is continually trying to kill his older brother because he's jealous and wants leadership.
Something Galvatron knows, but still continues to love him and show concern for him. (again SO EVUL)
He's just such a ass who thinks he's hot shit but as soon as it goes south he's running for his brother again.
I mean you know your treachery is bad when even Starscream calls you out on being a awful/horrible person for it and tries to stop you.
He only sort-of improves in attitude in the final two episodes when it clicks that people aren't going to take his bratty attitude anymore.
Starscream/Hellscream - This guy is like the weird lovechild of TFP's Starscream and Knock Out. He was supposed to be a devious backstabbing shit like all other Starscreams, and still sort-of is, but only towards Megastorm/Gigastorm.
Yep, he literally drops his "I wanna be in charge" schtick when he realises just how cushy he has it with Galvatron and how he hates his mean cruel-as-a-leader little brother. Even then he lets his loyal sidekick BB do most of the work for him while he fawns over his own looks and smarts.
Throughout the series he shows more and more adoration for Galvatron and even attempts a inspiring speech (interrupted by Gigastorm) about how Galvatron inspired him to be less of a selfish prick. (OMG isn't Galvatron EVUL).
BB/Max BB - He's Starscream's brawn-over-brain lackey whose vocabulary begins and ends with "Roger" but he's generally understood anyway (he gets one or two other one-syllable words but not much). Can't say much on him other than that honestly... He's loyal and flies into a rage if Starscream's hurt but he apparently does also call 'Screamer out sometimes.
Dirge/Dirgegun and Thrust/Thrustor - These two end up on the backseat a lot, they're dubbed "The Comedy Duo" by Starscream and are generally bad at everything they do. Even when being upgraded they don't do much sadly. (Dirgegun is a knock-off Dinobot in appearance). The most notable thing about them is that they don't like Starscream being so smug and better than them and try to out-do him a lot.
The Autorollers - Oh yeah, forgot about these guys for a moment. There's four of them and their one defining moment was having a plot that included a 'backstory' with one of the Insectrons and a episode where they helped the Maximals against a mutual threat. Other than that they don't do/say anything other than build things.
The Seacons are pirates who come to Earth for the "Angolmois energy" to sell for money. That's about it really. They don't go to either side but given they're pirates and 'wanted criminals' they lean more towards the Predacons.
Oh yeah the Angolmois energy is apparently what they're all fighting over, it's inside the earth, can apparently be "good" and "evil" despite being just energy and being submerged in it gives you a body upgrade/more power, which is how the Predacons get their new modes.
Oh and Galvatron straight up just grows when he eats it.
Also the Maximals win due to some "legendary thing" that has had no relevance in anything up until that point and despite being mega obvious no one but two-and-two together about this god-powered magic deus ex machina.
The whole 'battle' in this is basically
The good guys view:
Everyone will live in peace with no laws because we say so and "peace in all souls".
The "bad" guys view:
We want peace but we just want to have the power to enforce it when people try to destroy the peace.
I know, still, they're meant to be the baddies but... honestly the 'baddies' should've won...
Oh yeah and there's two androids in the moon who serve as SUPER annoying commentary butting in every now and then but also manage to be another convenient deus ex machina to help the good guys out in the end. Annoying.
