Beast Wars

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Trapped on a primitive planet, two opposing factions, the Maximals and the Predacons, of Transformers, a race of sentient robots, fight over its precious Energon. Soon they discover that there are other forces at work on the planet - a powerful alien race that does not approve of their presence. And as they delve deeper into the planet's history, they uncover a terrible secret, one that must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands, or their entire race's very existence could be threatened. Beast Wars was a spin-off from the 80s Transformers cartoon. It was later followed by Beast Machines, which continues this show. Another interesting series to note that Beast Wars may have started is Beast Wars Neo, completely done in Japanese and yet to be dubbed; it is vaguely reminiscent of Gundam Wing, and many other popular mobile suit animes.moreless
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S 3 :  Ep 13 Aired 5/7/99
S 3 :  Ep 12 Aired 5/6/99
S 3 :  Ep 11 Aired 5/5/99
S 3 :  Ep 10 Aired 3/15/99
S 3 :  Ep 9 Aired 2/22/99

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  • Nostalgia

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By baskok, Jun 01, 2011
    About 15 years ago i saw an interesting animated show. Yes a little bit blocky maybe but still with an interesting story line about the maximals and the predacons who end up on a unknown planet which later turns out to be earth eons ago. There is a large amount of energon there. They can't sustain their robot modes for long so they scan for any animal forms and turn into their new beasts modes. Megatron tries to destroy the maximals. But the maximals fight back they learn more about the planet and more characters are introduced. Even some of the decepticon era. You have to watch a lot of episodes before all the loose ends are tied but it's definitely worth it.moreless

  • Three kinds of intention, two kinds of hope... no kind of peace.

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    By Methane375, Dec 08, 2010
    The team of scientists, instead of the planned space exploration flight, ends up in the war against the rebels trying to conquer the galaxy. So what? Consider: their science plans get wrecked, everything they build get wrecked, their culture gets useless, everything they are in for is everyday attempts to defend against Megatron's plan to end their sparks.

    The team of rebels, instead of the quick win by taking enormous energy resource, ends up in front of their energon, unable to do anything about the planet. So what? Yes, there is a lot of opportunity to test their diversion skills, but where is their world domination? For that time, the planet is far from being theirs.

    Behind all that are the so-called Sparks, circuitry, the DNA (great!), and finally, the code. The code that can either save their planet, or destroy it. The code that gets to run or ruin the souls of these bots! Said that, Beast wars is a war of the bots, but for their sparks, it's part of the lifetime. It's the part that is spent on unsuccessful attempts to win, while on Cybertron, someone gets drastically another existence in their absence. It's all throughout with metal instead of flesh. So doesn't it become a paradox question - what is better?

    Now about the rating. The CG of this show, characters and the story are very impressive, but strange thing is when the second season begins, the story turn and new graphics totally break something important. They turn a planet into a battlefield, where all bots are just warriors. I like those seasons very much less than the first. But the first season is great. Really great.moreless

  • Glad it's gone

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    By toadette2009, Jul 01, 2010
    Beast Wars was terriable it needed to be canncelled before G4 realized they're going down hill.

    The Grafics are hidious, Low-Quality Voice-Acting, & The Dialog make you want to put yourself to sleep

    Man, G4 did something right you may hear people to bring it Back but it was cancelled for it own good

    Cheetor was the charater I hate the most.

  • One of the lamest shows on G4 & a realy, realy, realy, realy, realy borning one too.

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    By minimew2020, Jul 01, 2010
    just like Super_Peter w/ Saul of The Mole Men & Tim & Eric Awsome Show & 2 CGI show I hate are Beast Wars & Tak & the Power of Juju.

    G4's first worst show, it's realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy borning one too. The Grafic are horifing. The voice-acting is like music done by Ziggy Marley [his voice is like nails on a chalkbord] & the story s can put you to sleep & I hope this will never air on Cartoon Network & it's bad enough that Baby looney Tunes, My Gym Parter's a Monkey, & Squrriel Boy still airs.moreless

  • This was the best Transformers series I have ever seen and wish it were back.

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    By Bigberry69, Jul 01, 2010
    Transformers Beast Wars was, in my opinion, the best Transformers series I've ever seen. I heard G1 is the best but I've never seen G1, but still Beast Wars was Awesome!! I still remember this show as a kid, I loved watching it every day. In fact, alot of my friends that aren't even Transformers fans said they used to watch this show as kids. We all talked about how the newer series, while not bad, aren't as good as Transformers had used to be. Beast Wars was a Transformers paragon, it had everything. I really miss Beast Wars, but I heard about Transformers Animated coming up. I heard it's supposed to be alot like Transformers G1, which I hear is the best Transformers series there ever was. I also loved the live-action movie that came out this year and can't wait for it's sequels.moreless
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