Beast Wars Season 3 Episode 11

A 3-D model of the Decepticon flagship Nemesis can be seen on Tarantula's monitor at the beginning of the episode, hinting at what the spider has been up to over the last year and setting up its discovery in the series-finale.

Many fans have commented on the short period of time that Tigerhawk spent in the series. The reasons the character was never expanded was several fold, primarily of which was the fact that Hasbro initially never intended Tigerhawk to become part of the Beast Wars toy line.

Once titled "Closure", the episode was renamed to match the "Other V" characterization of past episodes that featured the mysterious Beast Wars aliens.

Tarantulas' attempts at controlling the Vok is a plot point in the convention exclusive "Expanded Universe" comic series.

After getting extracted from Tigerhawk's body, the Vok enter Tarantulus body. But later both Tarantulus and the aliens die.

Vok aliens use the bodies of Tigatron and Airrazor (captured back in season 2) and create Tigerhawk. Later, the combined Sparks of Tigatron and Airrazor become part of Tigerhawk.

In this episode, Tarantulas claims that he and the Tripredacus Council are not descended from either the Autobots or the Decepticons, but these different origins are not expanded on. Writer Larry DiTillio intended for Tarantulas and the council to be descended from the "Generation Two" Decepticons - Decepticons who remained behind on Cybertron when the Ark was dormant on Earth, who were featured in the "Transformers: Generation Two" comic book series. This was not included in the finished series - such a move irrevocably would tie the series to the comic continuity, and up until now, it had remained fairly ambiguous (albeit with leanings to the G1 cartoon continuity) - but co-writer Bob Forward attempted his own "different origins" resolution in "Nemesis," Part One, where Megatron calls Tarantulas "Unicron's spawn." It's possible to take this as just some common insult, though.