The Trigger Review

This is Megatron. This is the glorious Megatron.

And this episode of the Beast Unleashed podcast

features Stephen C. Phillips, Mike Blanchard,

and Michael Wilson. Hello and welcome to the

world's first ever Beast Wars Beast Machines

Review Podcast. This is the Beast Unleashed Podcast

brought to you by the Geekcast Radio Network.

I am your host, A .F. Joe and Mike, and I am

joined by Steve Megatron. Hello. Hello. And Peekon

Court Michael. Hello. Hey, how's it going? Today

we will be covering a two -part story of Beast

Wars Season 1. So how are you guys? Good. Decent.

Decent. Could you just use a mute? Thank you.

I didn't even do anything this time to even need

mute! No, that was me. Oh. Well. You're not supposed

to say when you use it, dammit, then they already

know! I'm just letting you know. He likes the

announcer mode. He likes the announcer mode!

Here's my instant play -by -play! I am now petting

my cat! I am now playing with my Optimus Prime!

Hey man, I am focused like a laser beam. That's

not a reference I need. That is so not a reference

I need. So what's going on with you, Michael?

Nothing terribly interesting. I keep going back

to K -Mart looking for one of those nebula Starscreams.

Because I dig it, he's green. While you're there,

you should have looked for Robot Heroes Frenzy.

I swear I'm still I'm still so pissed the internet

and big lots and and I haven't gone back to Kmart

yet But Kmart is so failing me now Well it eat

well Could have sworn when I first got that package

it said RC and frenzy on it But everywhere else

I've seen even when I went back to big lots to

get a picture of one they had one left and it

said fucking decepticon rumble on it pisses me

off should have saved the box i know i know it

must have been a typo you could have sold that

for a mint you could have sold it for one million

dollars okay dr evils we don't need you here

tonight i'm more than evil I'm more than meets

the eye. More than meets the pie, what? You totally

missed pie day this week. Yeah, of course people

won't know this until Monday, but we're recording

this Thursday evening. I woke up this morning.

The first thing I said to myself was, I want

pie. Why would you say that? He wants to eat

it. I don't know. He wants to eat pie? That's

generally what people do with it See now you're

into that thing here's the dirty mine kicking

in again. Uh -huh. Yeah No, we're not taking

this episode into a deep, dark hole like we did

two weeks ago. What are your children up to,

Michael? Any adventures from Aiden or Gavin?

Well, you know, yeah, I was gonna write a blog

post about this, but Aiden is speaking so well

now that we're removing him from speech therapy.

His speech therapist has said that he is age

-appropriate. and bring him back when he's five.

So yeah, we're really happy about that. We're

going to give him a couple years and see if he

gets his S -blends down. But we're really happy.

He was deemed a praxic a year and a half ago,

and now he's aged appropriate in speech. So we're

all very happy about that. There you go. That's

good. Yeah. How's that vacuum cleaning riding

cowboy? He's very headstrong. Stubborn baby.

He wants to do everything himself. And then whines

about it when you try to do things for him. So

yeah, getting bigger all the time. What's going

on with you, Steve? Well, recently I had back

issues. Combination between multiple jobs and

Going to game works and playing way too aggressively

But yeah, so I've been on muscle relaxers and

painkillers so that's been wonderful Yes, I pulled

a muscle on my back which affected my arm movement

Along with the fact that I've had random spasming

in my back for the last few days Huh almost last

week So yeah, I'm just so over -thrilled that

it's going away. Yes, that's good. Hopefully,

hopefully you'll get better. I'm actually surprised

I'm even here tonight. I went grocery shopping

this afternoon, or this morning. And, you know,

I'm like, okay, well... I've really got to do

something. I've got to start eating better. So

I've got a whole bunch of healthy stuff. I've

got carrots, apples, just a whole bunch of really

not kosher stuff, but just stuff that's more

healthier than, say, ho -hos or ding -dongs.

It's a start. Insert bad joke there. I want some

ho -hos. I knew somebody was going to do that.

I'm trying to be good. Leave it to Steve to to

go down the dark tunnel So when I got home After

carrying the groceries up the stairs and everything

else I sat here in the chair for about ten minutes

could not move could not do anything couldn't

you know even put the hardly put the groceries

away after put the groceries away I had like

this really horrible pain in my side it was almost

like um like one of those like shooting pains

in your arm like you're having a heart attack

it was that hard of a pain it just started going

away about a half an hour ago yeah I couldn't

Tried to take a nap this afternoon obviously

before we start the recording this evening, and

I slept for maybe 15 minutes Which is not normal

for me because normally when I take naps I take

four or five hour naps So I don't know what the

hell that was I don't know if it was just overextending

myself or if I'm getting too big or whatever

so I'm gonna start like really I'm gonna start

like in the mornings going out to because I live

on a cul -de -sac my apartment building is set

up Tour it's on a cul -de -sac around some other

houses back in this back in a Little subdivision

Street, so I'm gonna start walking a little circle

there and hopefully that'll but I don't know

I honestly wasn't even sure if I was gonna be

able to do this tonight because I was in so much

pain Yeah, that's definitely not good, dude.

Yeah, no, you're better now, right? Yeah, I'm

feeling a little bit better now I was developing

a headache, but I took some excedrin to Curb

that Let's see what else has been going on with

me. I We're still promoting the hell out of the

toy cast contest. That's still going on. I Believe

we have five entries. I Think that's right. And

of course some The blogger and the man from the

future do not count But I may actually when we

eventually do toy cast 50. I may actually put

those in a separate voicemail clip Within the

episode. I'm not sure yet how that's gonna work

So yeah the episode 50 contest basically all

you gotta do is call into the voicemail line

or email us an mp3 Either you can do a toy review

or you can just say hey, I enjoy the show or

whatever and you're entered to win It'll be a

random draw by General Tecno. He will be giving

away one Recon Ravage. So that'll be very, very

good. The deadline for that is March 29th. The

voicemail number is 502 -526 -5821. Let's see

what else with me. I was recently on Radio Free

Cybertron episode. I don't know what number.

It's the episode for... St. Patrick's Day or

whatever March 17th, and I was also on new sound

wave which will be I think By the time this airs

it'll already be out, but it'll be out this coming

Friday. So yeah, that was pretty cool. That was

fun. I Told Brian Kilby that I probably would

would like to do that in the future more if they'll

have me on if they have a place because I don't

know like I can barely juggle the three of us

or three people in general on a podcast. He was

juggling like six, seven people. Yeah, they have

a big cast. Yeah. But they pull it off. Oh yeah,

very much so. So that's what's going on with

me. Do we have anything else we want to bring

up in general chat? Uh, no. No? Alright, let's

get into some episodes. Good thing you didn't

just blast this be Well, I would have but it

was carrying one of air razors feathers sites

he missed Yeah that too Prime here goes Hey,

it's time Tigatron! Attention Maximals! This

is a cold one emergency message from Tigatron.

Air Razor has been damaged. She and I are trapped

on a mysterious flying island. This island is

a self -contained ecosystem guarded by powerful

weapons of alien design. Blackarachnia and Scorponok

have already managed to invade. If they gain

control of the island and its weapons, the Predacons

will be able to destroy the Maximal base and

win the Beast Wars! Next time on Beast Wars...

Evacuate Maximal base! The Anacondes have almost

reached the obelisk. We must stop them! For power!

May I be forgiven for what I must do? First up

today actually we're gonna be doing things a

little bit differently this episode because the

trigger is a two -parter We are going to be discussing

it as one long episode so the synopsis for part

one Patrolling the Arctic regions alone Tigatron

is taken by surprise when Waspinator and pterosaur

attack the maximal scout is thrown off a cliff

by Predacon missiles and Rifle blasts seemingly

falls through a huge cloud blowing over a deep

chasm Tigatron is shocked when he awakens on

a firm ground within the cloud on a giant temperate

floating island. First note was... This is just

one of those little nitpicks for me. Wait, wait,

wait. As Tigatron reports in and he starts getting

attacked by Waspinator and Pterosaur, When the

two of them transform, they don't say terrorize,

they just transform. What the hell? They were

thinking it. Yeah, mental telepathy, yeah. When

Airazor is using her x -ray vision, when her

eyeball moves and changes a little shape, it

was like, you know, pupils dilating or something,

just the whole scanners thing in her eye, that

was creepy seeing that to me. That reminded me

a lot of Bayformers The way their iris is kind

of like multiple saw blades rotating around each

other Yes, I like the reuse of the cyber B. So

this is the second time we've seen a cyber B

Steve Yes, yes, it'll be They believe it's the

second and a three times. We'll see one. Oh,

okay You know, stating the obvious here, this

is most definitely a Tigatron Airazor episode.

Yeah, yeah. For the two -parter. More Tigatron,

though. Well, Airazor comes in in the second

part, for the most part. Yeah, yeah, but yeah,

I would definitely think it was more Tigatron

than Airazor. I mean, I like them both. Yeah.

Yeah. And of course, I like how, my final note

for this one is I like how Cheetor is worried

about his fellow cat pot. It kind of goes back

to what you write have we already covered the

episode where the two of them were captured and

they swung through the cages to get free I Don't

remember Might have been I don't remember big

cat little cat from the spark. Yeah, but there

was an episode where the two of them got captured

Tagatron got captured and then Cheetor got captured

They were in these cages side -by -side and they

started swinging to and from to and from because

all the Predacons had left the base I don't remember

which episode it was. I don't think that was

happened yet in the timeline that we're covering

I'm not sure What about you Steve? What have

you got for the part one for the trigger? Well

You get to see Terrorist or has these awesome

cannons Yeah, those were cool. The bullet bill?

Yeah. The snarling dud. Yeah, with the teeth

and the eyeballs on it. Yeah. You know what's

funny is that after that you start seeing some

of the toys have missiles that have little snarling

teeth and eyes. Yeah. I've got one on my desk

here, I'm not entirely sure whose it is. I like

how they reprogrammed the cyberbee to do something

other than spy on aximals. Or be a virus. Yeah.

They have multiple purposes. Yeah, they had the

Predacam. He's like watching Tigatron on YouTube.

I like how they, when the scene where they, where

Cheetor says, you know, where Optimus goes, you

know, it's lucky you didn't just shoot this,

and then Rattrap's like, eh, sides he missed,

and you're like, yeah, that too. Poor Cheetor.

Cheetor just can't get a break. I mean, he's

a prize. I felt bad for him because he's like

all slumped. He's like, yeah, this whole body

just visibly slumped. Yeah, I know. He's like,

I suck. I can't shoot the broadside of a barn.

What I like about that episode, though, is when

they start playing the video message and Tigatron's

like, attention Maximals, they almost all stand

up and salute him. They just, all of them, Prime

and everybody else around him, they just kind

of stiffen. when he says attention maximals and

they uh for a second there i was waiting for

all of them to salute the damn video image uh

maybe normally he says what up dudes and this

time he's like oh are you serious holy crap what's

he what's he now yeah so steve do you have anything

else um tiger trend or not tiger trend uh rhinox

uh tells them that something's weird about one

of the moons. One of the moons is hollow. Yeah.

Or he thinks it's hollow. Because it's very,

very, very light. Yeah. Like a feather. Well,

it's interesting foreshadowing for later on.

Look like a moon? It's no moon. That's a space

station. It's a Death Star. It's getting obelisk

on it. I know that we've had like beginnings

of the alien life stuff Like obviously the Stonehenge

thing But would you say that this episode this

this two -parter kind of cements the introduction

of the alien life? Yeah, I think so because I

mean They pretty much say it's alien origin and

whatever built that most likely Well built the

moon because there was another obelisk on the

moon and the tallow. Yeah They didn't actually

say oh whatever built that also built Stonehenge,

but I'm sure it's Titan somehow. Yeah They should

have thrown that in as an additional line And

that, oh, remember that Stonehenge thing? I bet

the ore put Stonehenge rocks on the floating

cloud thing. Yeah. So I mean, that would have

tied it in nicely. Yeah, that's true. But they

didn't. What else you got, Steve? Take deep in

your face. Wait, what? What in your face? He

said dig beat and I said in your face. Whatever

he's digging. I don't know. I guess that depends

on what he's digging. Gold. Anyways, uh... Dingleberries.

A peppermint mine. A peppermint mine. Waspinator

has a, uh... Actually, he's a Hager Tron showing

up. He's like... Waspinator loves victims that

are punctual. And he sounded just like that,

too. Boy, I so have to go back. I've already

got the quote for this episode, and it'll come

in part two. I'll mention it. But I still have

to go back and grab the part where Waspinator

says, Waspinator wants his head. I think my favorite

line. Yeah, exactly. My favorite line was when

Rhinox lays down the law. All the Maximals are

starting to jump on each other, and Rhinox is

like, Hey! Not. Now. And they all go, Whoa! I

like that. As a father, I find it important to

hone skills like that. When your kids get out

of line, it's like... There goes the foot putting

the foot down or when auntie Katie says something

stupid Actually, that's usually auntie Cassie

that says something stupid Katie's pretty good

ahead on her shoulders Well, wasn't she the one

that said the the s -word and Aiden was behind

the couch? Tell me that story It might have been.

If he's lurking somewhere, who can tell, you

know? They said shit in your face. Yeah, shit

coming out of your mouth is okay, but shit in

my mouth is bad? Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, that's what we're saying. No shit in your

mouth. If shit comes out of your mouth, we're

having trouble, alright? We're gonna go round

over this one. Oh boy. Did you notice Scorponok's

pelvic thrust? No, I don't think so he's like

I got a real blaster and he's thrusting thrusting

his pelvis towards black or acne I Suppose if

you're gonna be pelvic thrusting that would be

the word to point it and he says I'll pelvic

thrust your blaster Make it stop I like the damage

model on pterosaur pterosaur got just a shit

beat out of him by that flying mountain he got

boned yeah he got nailed hard and put away wet

and by the time he got back to the base his wings

are all tore off and his sparks flying off him

and he's all burnt he's twitching too yeah it

wasn't the same Damage model that he was sporting

earlier, but I mean this was a like a new or

better ones I know waspinator was a little bent

out of shape, but not as bad as pterosaur Yeah,

no, too. Well. You know I think that goes back

to the fact that pterosaur is the Starscream

of Beast Wars of the three seasons of the actual

Beast Wars series of course you know Beast Machines

Whatever, but you know Just goes to show you

how much punishment he goes through because he

is the Starscream version in this in this incarnation

of the Transformers and It's like wow how many

times can his head fly off and land in the ground

and just have like that in your it's almost like

that kid like that the night that we were on

The video camera here my hand was like covering

the camera. It's like ah how many times can you

have that same shot? As many as it takes. Yeah,

exactly. As long as it's funny. Yeah. As long

as it's funny watching him lose his head, it's

gonna happen again. Some other reason, you know,

some of these episodes with Terra start losing

his head, I'm just waiting for the Red Queen.

Off with his head! Or whatever you prefer. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, you can't put that back on once

it comes off. It's a can of worms you don't want

to let out. Not refundable. That's right. So

at the end, we see the Tower of Doom. And the

awesome cliffhanger, with Tigatron saying, the

Predacons will destroy the Maximal base and win

the Beast Wars! You know, it's funny you mention

that, because this is the first episode I was

able to use the... the next time previous time

On Beast Wars for the part one audio which people

will be heard by the time that they're listening

to this but the audio I cut it off right as the

the synopsis for the next episode is like primals

like next time on Beast Wars, and then there's

all that audio it cuts off after that, but yeah

This is a very cool first part. I mean, you know,

I think one of the reasons why I don't have a

whole lot of notes is because I just started

watching it. And it was like, for some strange

reason, you know, when I watch these episodes

to review them, yes, I will make notes, but it's

like, wow, they're, at least in my own opinion,

the cartoon is a lot better than I originally

thought back in the 90s. Not saying that I thought

it was bad back then, but it's just I wasn't

into it then, as I am now, obviously. So it's

kind of like reflection looking back. Well and

also a nice part about the episode is it starts

showing all those alien symbols Now that comes

back into play later, yes And it's like ooh,

there's a trap space there Yeah, those little

alien symbols end up on that golden disk and

they also end up in that little floating fortress

that Megatron controls in season 2 Yeah, floating

fortress The one that he forms to make it look

like his head. Oh, you mean in Beast Machines?

No, in Beast Wars. Oh, okay. So the giant Megatron

Noggin is a recurring theme? Yes. Wow, we did

that almost in stereo. No, in stereo. What else

do we have for notes here on this first part?

I noticed that the Maximals got a new skylight.

I had never noticed that before. Normally they

have to lead through the chute and the floor,

but now they've got the skylight that opens up

and he just flies out through the hole in the

ceiling. For a second there I thought you were

referencing maybe someone one of the Predacons

getting thrown either out of or into The maximal

base making a skylight. Oh No, this was literally

it just opens up like a door. Yeah. Yeah, I remember

seeing that now Yeah, it was like too much effort

to animate them actually going down the elevator

there and then popping out or something But it

kind of makes sense though for prime anyway Yeah,

well, and at least once, Air Razor leaves that

way too, so. Yeah. I mean, if you've only got,

you know, two fliers, I suppose, it's worth it

to put a Skylight in. Well, you'll have three

eventually once we go Transmetal. Yeah, but we

haven't seen a Skylight in the Predacon ship

yet. Actually, I don't think I've ever seen them

enter or leave the Predacon ship. They're just

always in there. Yeah. I don't think we've seen

them really leave either. Yeah. That's, yeah,

that's not... Oh. I liked it when Scorponok cooked

Air Razor's Goose. Eww. Well, no, he, like, hammered

her and all that was left was feathers. That

wasn't... Was it Scorponok or was it Pterosaur?

Nah, I'm pretty sure it was Scorponok. He got

her with a missile. Is this still in part one

or part two? Part one, yeah. Oh, I'm thinking

about aerial battle in part two. That's when

she got hit so bad that she couldn't fly afterwards.

Oh, that's okay. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

Okay. I got it. I got it. It's like she blew

up, and then there's a feather, and then there's

more feathers, and then there's a bunch of feathers,

and yeah. It's like, holy crap, I think she's

dead. And she just came online like an episode

ago. She's dead already. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

No, she wasn't completely dead. I'm not dead!

I feel happy! I think I'll go for a Tigertron

ride now. No, that's not until the second part

of the episode. That's part two. Yeah, are we

ready for part two or do we have more to say

about part one? Bring on part two. I'm good.

Let's talk about riding the tiger. Okay, the

trigger part two. The race for the prize begins

as the Maximals and the Predacons head towards

the mysterious Obelisk at the far end of the

floating island. Blackarachnia claims victory

and interfaces with the device, channeling the

full power of this artifact and the island itself.

But what is the island's purpose? And how does

it relate to the mysterious artifacts seen all

over this planet? Like I said before I only have

two notes for this one Right here shut up rat

trap is always the in -flight passenger. Where's

the movie? Because he's always right he's always

riding optimus is riding on his back. Yeah, wouldn't

he get his tail singed like that Yeah, I wonder

is there flying and he's kind of perched there

and I see like they've got this rocket exhaust

You know the fire coming out of his rocket packs

and there's this tail kind of hanging between

them, you know And i'm thinking that tail he's

gonna have fricassee tail for dinner That does

not look like it would feel good. Yes, and my

uh, my other note was I know I know this isn't

where black arachnia got her transmetal form

But when I first saw this I thought it was because

of color color scheme because of the color shift.

Yeah. Yeah well I thought it was interesting

that uh When she became ruler of the tower, she

turned silver. Kind of the same way that Rhinox

turned silver in Dark Designs. It's like now

she's more evil than before. But I liked the

way she looked, and I thought that was another

Miss Repaint opportunity. Yeah, there's surprisingly

no toy of this. Yeah, I yeah, I would have gone

back and bought You know a black and silver black

arachnia That would have been very cool Yeah

What else you got Michael uh Well in the very

beginning yeah now that we've already talked

about how it ends the back at the very beginning

when they're like last time on and I'm thinking

yeah yeah yeah you know what I just watched it

I know I don't need the five minute recap just

just let me know how it happened let me know

what happened uh you know they they went on drone

through it anyway that's why they make fast forward

buttons Michael yeah but then I might miss something

I don't want to do that so you're complaining

about having to watch a five minute recap but

yet you don't want to fast forward through the

five minute recap because you're gonna miss something

make up your damn mind I will suffer through

it. But then, you know, we get, once we get past

the intro, right, we have an invalid air razor

and she's like, I can't walk, I can't fly, and

Tigatron says, then the lady shall ride a tiger.

And I'm like, wow, wow, wow. Ride that tiger.

Ride that tiger into town! Better watch out,

or you're gonna fall down! And, you know, to

add insult to injury, she rides side -saddle.

Very feminine. I kinda thought, how cool is this?

She's gonna be like this hawk and she's gonna

straddle him. And it's gonna be like this tiger

with wings, right? That's what I thought too,

yeah! I was like, wait, she's riding side -saddle?

What the fuck? Yeah, I thought you know that

was gonna look like he's got two wings on the

same side of his body. That's just gonna be lame

Yeah, she should be She should be straight. Wow.

It sounds so dirty like that. She should be straddling

him and At least if she was straddling him it

would have foreshadowed their combined transsexual

form later They are very big on the foreshadowing

here, so I'm surprised they didn't try that.

That would have been cool to have. Yeah, that

would have been very cool to have. This episode

was big on googly eyes. Yep. Big googly eyes

where Pterosaur gets in close and he kind of

tweaks Retrap. Yeah. He gets big googly eyes

there, but he gets saddled instead. Yeah. Pterosaur.

It's like, you know, Optimus isn't the only one

with a rat on his back. He was bad when he had

a monkey on his back. Now he's got a monkey on

his back. My, uh, the actual quote for this episode,

I mentioned it earlier that I'm probably gonna

have to go back where Waspinator says, I want

his head. The actual quote for this episode is

where he says, uh, to Pterosaur, Pterodactyl.

in the end he he he he tercer never learns though

just like I wonder why I got my ass shut off

in the last episode could it be because I'm using

energy weapons and what does he do this episode

he opens up with the energy weapons it's a wasp

nader caught it he's the dumbest one on the show

uh huh You know, something I'm noticing, because

I'm actually just browsing the wiki for this

episode, Megatron is absent in this entire episode.

He is not shown at all. Huh. Yeah, I guess you're

right. Well, I know I'm right, because it's not

listed in the wiki under the episode where it

says Featured Characters. Yeah. Because the numbers

indicate order of appearance, and under the Predacon

side you have Black Arachnia, Scorponok, Pterosaur,

and Waspinator. Well, this is all about you know

the various Predacons trying to gain power that

they all strive for No, I know, but I mean you

would think that that the leader of the Predacons

who you know you would think that Megatron and

show up somewhere Yeah, I was gonna say didn't

Megatron send them there, but he would have been

in part one. Yeah. He was in part one Yeah, he

was in part one. He's not in part two He may

have been in there when In the original draft

or something, but just didn't make the cut. Yeah

Megatron can't be a football player this year

Yeah Well, they had they cut him for all the

explosions Blackarachnia takes over and there's

nothing but just you know laser fire. What'd

you guys think of her voice change when she took

over? That was kind of cool Yeah, I think it

became a little more, you know Godlike, for lack

of a better term. Yeah, very true. That's what

I thought was strange, was that every time the

tower fired, it would have to have a warm -up

period. And she actually mentioned at one point,

oh, we have to get in there while it's warming

up. Or recycling, or whatever the term was. But

then when she takes over, it doesn't need to

warm up anymore. She's just blindly firing all

over the place. Which didn't make much sense

to me because you know I understand that she's

trying to shoot the maximals But there's only

a few of them on the island and they're pretty

close to the towers She just blasting the whole

island just for fun. Yeah, it didn't make any

sense, but I'm thinking You know Michael Bay

went back in time and directed this episode.

No, he said I need more explosions I'm gonna

need a but ton of explosions on this episode

because that's my thing And the next thing you

know, you've got her firing blindly all over

the island. I was surprised that, you know, this

never -ending torrent of fire that she's raining

on the island didn't destroy it. You know, it

actually took Tiger trying to blow up the engines

before it was destroyed. But the crash was epic.

That was a very cool crash. Oh yeah! Yeah, I

thought they did a really good job animating

that. Oh yes, they did. What about you Steve,

what do you think? Um, I like how they inverted

Blackarachnia and yet again, no repaint. Yeah.

Which would have been cool to see had they actually

had the correct, uh, um, or had a good toy base

instead of basically a repaint of Tarantulas.

Yeah, you know if the toy would look more like

the TV version, that would be worth, I don't

know, maybe sending over to Frenzy Rumble and

having them give us a good one. Yeah, you know,

it was something that you and I touched on when

we talked about, well, this is actually us coming

from the future again, when we recorded Toy 51,

where I talked about Airazor's Fox Kids Repaint

toy, the fact that she has no face, and the fact

that she's not cartoon accurate at all whatsoever.

Yeah, you know it just goes to show you that

you know I don't think there was a transmittal

air razor in the show I Don't think no there

wasn't but what I'm saying is is that at least

have something that's cartoon accurate of air

razor whether it's her Her regular face or whatever,

but I don't I don't know well. I think that the

I was about to say, I'm looking right at it.

I think that the non -transmetal version of Air

Razor is more cartoon accurate. Oh, okay. Well,

I haven't seen that, so... I've got it right

here in front of me. I'm trying to kneel down

and look at it without actually... Ripping the

headset out of your ear. Exactly. It doesn't

quite stretch all the way across my room to my

shelves, but... Yes. But yeah, actually, my Air

Razor is like... front and center right here

on the other side of the glass, but I just can't

seem to see. It looks like I have little kid

fingerprints on my glass, so I can't see her

very well. What else about this one, Steve? You

got anything else you want to talk about? I like

how they actually had Blackarachnia and some

kind of a power thing basically running the show

for once instead of having like Terror Sword

try and steal the power, whereas this is like

is not even like she's trying to gain control

of the Predica and she's just wanting power for

herself and whatever means she can get it. Yeah.

I think it turned out pretty cool. Oh yeah, overall

I mean the two -parter itself it was a good story.

I didn't really have any issues with any of just

the the overall plot lines. I find it very difficult

to believe that Tigatron could have survived

the the radar thing falling on him but You know

in part one, but just overall it was a good story

It wasn't like wasn't like I couldn't hear that

he was pushed into the snow underneath it though

true It's kind of like you know when someone's

being chased by a steamroller And they get pressed

down on top of this or under the steamroller

wheel and it's like oh You know they're dead,

but they're not really dead because they're pressed

into the cement I should so have the judge doom

squeaky voice put in that little space right

there You remember me, Eddie, when I killed you,

brother? I looked just like this! So I think

that's gonna do it for the trigger, two -parter.

Oh, you forgot to mention that at the end they

kill Mothra. Huh? Mothra! The hell are you talking

about? Ah, there's this butterfly that floats

around the whole episode and at the end they

kill it off. Just to show that all life is dead

and paradise is now officially lost. Oh Yeah,

it's a little butterfly and it comes back scorched

and lands at Tegatron's feet. Oh Okay Yeah, you

know now that I'm thinking about it There's another

g1 reference to this entire episode. Well, not

the entire two -parter but At least the island.

The island is pretty much the Golden Lagoon.

I don't know, that's what I thought of it as

as well. Because if you go back to the G1 episode,

the Golden Lagoon, it's Beachcomber finding this

totally separate, thriving place with this golden

water, sewage, whatever, piss, whatever you want

to call it, outside of the battleground that's

going on across the wall of the mountain. Same

thing with this. The only difference is that

it's a floating island, but it's pretty much

the same thing. And silence. Uh, yeah, you completely

lost me. Alright, uh, sure, I'll buy that. Alright,

anyway. That's it for this episode. We'll be

back with the outro. You just run! Yeah! Listen

up, you oversight thug deck! Try a little taste

of this! Yes! Do it! Do it, Tigatron! Maximal

Base almost in range. Five, four, three! May

I be forgiven for what I must do. What?! No!

NOOOOO! Yeah! What do you suppose that beam was

all about? Some kind of signal? A message. We

were given a paradise. All we had to do was live

there in peace. But we proved unworthy. And the

paradise is no more. You are listening to the

Beast Unleashed podcast. Arr, I'm not done yet!

Alright, we're back. Do you guys have any other

final thoughts about the trigger before I go

into the outro? I think that Optimus should sing

Narwhal. No! Shut up! We're not going into that,

no! Wow, we almost made an entire episode without

bringing that crap up. And I managed to bring

up Monty Python at least once, too. Well, I didn't

even notice that, but I'm not even gonna deal

with it. Here's Team Rocket blessing on you!

Shut up! Steve any final relevant thoughts to

this episode? Overall pretty good episode or

two -part to watch it's not really that boring

like a couple of other episodes coming up later

this season Which I'll be able to vent on at

that point, but yeah, yes this this is a good

episode a lot of a lot of humor in it and Lot

of foreshadowing to later. Yeah and poor Cheetor

man. He just I Feel so sorry for Cheetor. He's

a kid. Yeah, you know, but he just can't get

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