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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"This is the end of the road Megatron!", 20 Oct 2007
Mainframe's excellent CGI Transformers series continues with the second season of Beast Machines. Essentially telling the last chapter in the recorded Transformer history, like season 1 this show is set exclusively on Cybertron.
Leaving us with a decidedly shocking cliffhanger in End Of The Line in season 1, the series opener continues without missing a beat. With Megatron tricked by the spark of Rhinox (now free inside Tankor's body) into utilising the Key To Vector Sigma, Optimus Primal responds by unleashing the plasma energy core of the planet to stop him.
The other Maximals, infected by the Key program look set to go offline for good and the fate of the world hangs in the balance as Megatron and Primal fight to the bitter end.
With a great resolution to the story, the series progresses through 12 more episodes which leave us uncertain as to the fate of some of the characters. The show moves along with a rapid pace as the remaining Maximals seek to discover what Megatron did with the Sparks of the other Transformers and to free them before they join the Matrix forever.
The series moves into mini-arc territory with three parters including the amazing Sparkwar and the final Endgame trilogy.
The CGI is even better than series one and there are some brilliant twists and turns in the story. The revelation about the Sparks is shocking and the return of some characters from Beast Wars make welcome additions to the show. All that and a new alien lifeform reaches Cybertron in it's most desperate hour.
The Endgame saga is epic in the plotting and gives a hugely enjoyable and satifactory end to the Transfomer history and the final battles between certain characters does not disappoint.
So, if you love Transformers or have just enjoyed series 1, the don't hesitate to plough into another 13 episodes of action and adventure.
Transform and roll out!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Transforming a whole world..., 4 Aug 2008
The second and final series of Beast Machines serves up more inspired CGI Transformers action! At the end of the first series, Optimus Primal and Megatron faced off and their battle threatened to destroy Cybertron. The second series picks up directly afterward, with Megatron apparently destroyed and the Maximals on their way to succeeding in their goal of balancing the technological and organic on Cybertron by reformatting the planet with technorganic trees. However an enemy like Megatron is never truly defeated. From there the story builds, through the introduction of characters like Noble and Savage, Obsidian and Strika - Cybertron's greatest generals, and Botanica, a transformer who turns into a plant. The final episode is an epic battle which seals the fates of Optimus and Megatron and Cybertron itself.
Along the way the stories touch on loyalty and love, on resentment and sacrifice. It's the sort of stuff that reminds you how you can possibly get hooked on the adventures of giant robots that transform into other stuff. It's nicely epic and introduces exciting ideas to the Transformers mythology while referencing the past, for those of us with long memories (the hate plague from the Return of Optimus Prime, anyone?).
Okay, the CGI is not up as good as Toy Story, but it is still quite impressive and gives the different, sometimes startling designs of the transformers real character. I particularly love the designs on Silverbolt and Botanica.
The shame is, there seems so much more that could be done with the characters beyond the end of this series. I think this is well worth buying.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fitting end to a well made series, 6 Mar 2008
First there was Generation One, Autobots and Decepticons knocking the bolts out of one another, whenever they got around to being allowed to fight in 80s TV. Then we got Beast Wars, a good show that is hard to get in the UK since it's still not been released in a full box set yet, and then we got Beast Machines.
Beast Machines is the continuing story of Beast Wars, the Maximals have won and they end back to Cybertron with Megatron strapped to their ship. He gets free however and proceeds to change history - He wins.
This is the second season box set of Beast Machines, the first season was slow at points, but remarkable with gripping stories and a very different take on the good and bad, the bad guys win from the start!
As the series progresses in season 1, we see the Maximals learn how to control their transformtions and their inner animal so that they can fight back against Megatron and his Vehicons. At the end of season 1, we were left with a cliff hanger.
Enter season 2 and things seem a lot slower, I won't explain why, but there's a good reason for it and it all comes to a head near the end. We are introduced to new characters and getting to see how cunning Megatron can be when backed into a corner.
I would recommend this for sure, for adults and kids alike. It's a smart cartoon, which is surprising, and brings the whole Generation One/Beast Wars story arch to a fitting end.
Enjoy, it's as gripping as the first season and worth every penny.
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