[BW] What my co-workers think of Beast Wars (?)
Thylacine 2000
hired as an educator at a major museum. Assisting the full-fledged
educators such as myself is a team of interns, most of whom are at a
high-school level. As is to be expected when one's co-workers are a
team of post-adolescent culture addicts, free-time discussions with
these interns tend to frequently involve movies and TV shows, especially
from the "good old days".
Transformers get mentioned rather often. The original TF show was "the
ultimate cartoon of all time", and "proof that you were down in the old
school". Feeling rather bold, I jokingly sang the first few words of
"The Touch", and was met with both astonishment and approval. They
were, however, horrified to learn that the song had also appeared in
"Boogie Nights".
Most interestingly, four separate co-workers--each between the ages of
18 and 20--professed to love Beast Wars.
And no wonder. If I'd seen the same Beast Wars show that they had, I'd
love it too. ;) According to the folks I work with, this is what
happened in Beast Wars. This is the closest imaginable paraphrase,
incorporating many of the direct quotes. NOT AT ALL an exaggeration.
Here goes:
Okay. So, the whole point of Beast Wars was that the BW characters
leave their home planet of Zion and get sent to an alternate-reality
Earth in order to assassinate all the Autobots and Decepticons. The
point of this of course is to make sure that the original Transformers
show would never have taken place. They succeed in killing Optimus
Prime, but he comes back to life and realizes their full plan. In order
to stop them, Prime merges himself into the center of the metallic
planet Zion, turning it into the alternate-reality Earth and destroying
himself. The entire show, thus, is a giant time-loop, with Optimus
Prime's death creating the alternate-reality Earth that the
Anti-Transformer assassins arrived at in teh beginning of Beast Wars.
Yeah.
Moving on to specific characters, everybody loves the main BW cast.
Like "that dragon guy. What the hell was his name? You know. Big-ass
mean dude. Dragon. OH YEAH, MEGATRON. He was so bad." They know
Inferno by name, and one or two threw out a "Defend the colony! Defend
the colony!".
But by far the most popular character was Tigatron, who was, quote, "one
spiritual mothaf***a", and whose repeatedly-stated-in-the-show motto was
"I must kill you, because God told me to."
Damn I love my job.
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>As is to be expected when one's co-workers are a team of
>post-adolescent culture addicts, free-time discussions with these
>interns tend to frequently involve movies and TV shows, especially from
>the "good old days".
A couple of the guys I used to work with at Toys "R" Us (besides being
Dragonball Z addicts of the highest caliber) were into Beast Wars. One of them
was convinced that the show was sort of a "what if?" series that showed the
Autobots and Decepticons getting beast forms instead of vehicular modes. (This
was before "The Agenda" had aired, I'm assuming. This guy got the Optimal
Optimus toy before I did, but he did give me the box to drool over, so that's
something.)
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Skyflight
: happened in Beast Wars. This is the closest imaginable paraphrase,
: incorporating many of the direct quotes. NOT AT ALL an exaggeration.
What.. that's NOT what happened in Beast Wars?
(And not just the target audience, the upper end of the target audience.)
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GR Crosscut
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> And no wonder. If I'd seen the same Beast Wars show that they had, I'd
> love it too. ;) According to the folks I work with, this is what
> happened in Beast Wars. This is the closest imaginable paraphrase,
> incorporating many of the direct quotes. NOT AT ALL an exaggeration.
> Here goes:
>
> Okay. So, the whole point of Beast Wars was that the BW characters
> leave their home planet of Zion and get sent to an alternate-reality
> Earth in order to assassinate all the Autobots and Decepticons. The
> point of this of course is to make sure that the original Transformers
> show would never have taken place. They succeed in killing Optimus
> Prime, but he comes back to life and realizes their full plan. In order
> to stop them, Prime merges himself into the center of the metallic
> planet Zion, turning it into the alternate-reality Earth and destroying
> himself. The entire show, thus, is a giant time-loop, with Optimus
> Prime's death creating the alternate-reality Earth that the
>
> Yeah.
Holy freaking freak in a bucket. That has to be the single weirdest
synopsis of Beast Wars I've ever seen. Planet Zion? Transformer
Assasins? I guess they saw the last three minutes of the Agenda part
Three. But, I mean... how? How the heck did they draw anything else
from the show? Maybe they read a *really* poorly done webpage, or
something. Alternate reality time looping Prime sacrifices. Okay.
> Moving on to specific characters, everybody loves the main BW cast.
> Like "that dragon guy. What the hell was his name? You know. Big-ass
> mean dude. Dragon. OH YEAH, MEGATRON. He was so bad." They know
> Inferno by name, and one or two threw out a "Defend the colony! Defend
> the colony!".
Who doesn't? :)
> But by far the most popular character was Tigatron, who was, quote, "one
> spiritual mothaf***a", and whose repeatedly-stated-in-the-show motto was
> "I must kill you, because God told me to."
If there's some sort of lost episode out there...
> Damn I love my job.
I love your job too!
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Crosscut
"Because God told me to." Eek! They're probably just remembering stuff
incorrectly, and filling in memory gaps with segments from "Blues
Brothers". Or they're on drugs.
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"GR Crosscut" <gyarad...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I guess they saw the last three minutes of the Agenda part
> Three.
doesn't explain how they knew about dragon Megs and Tigatron though....
> > Inferno by name, and one or two threw out a "Defend the colony! Defend
> > the colony!".
>
> Who doesn't? :)
FOR THE ROYALTY!
> If there's some sort of lost episode out there...
Lost *series* by the sounds of it....
> "Because God told me to." Eek! They're probably just remembering stuff
> incorrectly, and filling in memory gaps with segments from "Blues
> Brothers". Or they're on drugs.
I don't care what they're on... I want some...
==
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