I'm more ancient than you, I was in my 20's when Beast Wars came out so I remember it. XD XD XD (jk, I really don't know who Anon is!)
Actually the Beast Wars show takes place 300 years in the future, when all the Cybertronian records about the Great War and Earth have been sealed. The Maximal stars were a scientific exploration crew that were pressed into service pursuing a ship stolen by escaped prisoner Predacons. Because they were fighting when both ships entered transwarp, they ended up millions of years in the past, crashing on a planet only eventually recognizable as Earth - due to the sealing of the records, Earth origin information even humans didn't know, and both Maximals and Predacons pissing off aliens by sticking their noses in things. The protoforms were Maximal scientific crew that were in storage (along with one top secret tortured prisoner who was to be dumped on an unpopulated rock - yep, Maximal government not lily white here!), who were jettisoned into orbit as the ships crashed, later falling to the planet's surface and being reprogrammed by whichever side got to the pod first.
The movie vaguely hinted at these things, but really needed to have spent some time on the movie version of how/what/why. And definitely needed to give Cheetor and Rhinox some lines, or have them 'off exploring' or something - considering how much characterization they had in the show it was a deep shame not to use them properly. They did give Airazor a lot to do, more than she got in the show, and her animation was amazing, but I kept wondering about Tigatron... ;)
As an old TF fan, I can say it wasn't outright insulting like the Bay-directed films, and Pete Davidson did a surprisingly good job as a very different Mirage (giving him Jazz's distinctive altmode did irk me honestly), but it was just a 2.5 out of 5 *at best*.
I'm more ancient than you, I was in my 20's when Beast Wars came out so I remember it. XD XD XD (jk, I really don't know who Anon is!)
Actually the Beast Wars show takes place 300 years in the future, when all the Cybertronian records about the Great War and Earth have been sealed. The Maximal stars were a scientific exploration crew that were pressed into service pursuing a ship stolen by escaped prisoner Predacons. Because they were fighting when both ships entered transwarp, they ended up millions of years in the past, crashing on a planet only eventually recognizable as Earth - due to the sealing of the records, Earth origin information even humans didn't know, and both Maximals and Predacons pissing off aliens by sticking their noses in things. The protoforms were Maximal scientific crew that were in storage (along with one top secret tortured prisoner who was to be dumped on an unpopulated rock - yep, Maximal government not lily white here!), who were jettisoned into orbit as the ships crashed, later falling to the planet's surface and being reprogrammed by whichever side got to the pod first.
The movie vaguely hinted at these things, but really needed to have spent some time on the movie version of how/what/why. And definitely needed to give Cheetor and Rhinox some lines, or have them 'off exploring' or something - considering how much characterization they had in the show it was a deep shame not to use them properly. They did give Airazor a lot to do, more than she got in the show, and her animation was amazing, but I kept wondering about Tigatron... ;)
As an old TF fan, I can say it wasn't outright insulting like the Bay-directed films, and Pete Davidson did a surprisingly good job as a very different Mirage (giving him Jazz's distinctive altmode did irk me honestly), but it was just a 2.5 out of 5 *at best*.