Show Guide
Beast Wars: Transformers
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The Maximals discover there are other forces at work on the planet: a powerful alien race with its own plans for the Energon.
📋 Ended 1999. Complete binge, no waiting.
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Our Review
The 1996 CG sequel that shouldn’t have worked: the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons, crash on prehistoric Earth, scan animal forms, and wage a war that the writers (working on a toy commercial budget) built into a genuine saga: the Vok’s alien experiments, the Golden Disc, the transmetals, and character deaths that stayed dead, unheard of in kids’ TV.
Dinobot’s honor arc, the Code of Hero episode, his sacrifice played against Hamlet, remains the greatest single character arc in Transformers fiction, and the show’s connective tissue to G1 (the Ark, the…, the revelation of who’s sleeping under the mountain) gave it mythic weight. The finest Transformers story in any medium.
Verdict: Watch it. Maximize.
Seasons
Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1
26 episodes
Season 1 of Beast Wars: Transformers premiered 1996-09-16 and ran 26 episodes through 1997-04-01.
Beast Wars: Transformers Season 2
13 episodes
Season 2 of Beast Wars: Transformers premiered 1997-10-26 and ran 13 episodes through 1998-03-13.
Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3
13 episodes
Season 3 of Beast Wars: Transformers premiered 1998-10-25 and ran 13 episodes through 1999-05-07.
