Optimal Situation, Deep Metal, and Changing of the Guard Review

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podcast features Stephen C. Phillips, Mike Blanchard,

and Michael Wilson. Hello, and welcome to the

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I am your host, TFJ1Mike, and I am joined by

Steve Megatron, hello. Hello, hello, hello. And

Peacon Court Michael. Today, oh, hello. Hey,

how's it going? I'm screwed up a little bit.

Yeah, do your little catchphrase thing again.

I can't now. Just say it. You've derailed my

train. Just say it already. Hey, how's it going?

Yes, and today we will be reviewing the first

three episodes from Beast Wars Season 3. I've

had some things going on in my personal life

that I really don't want to bring into this show,

because it just doesn't... It's probably going

to be a headshot, and it most definitely will

be a very lengthy, probably over a thousand word

blog post. I saw money in that post. Yes. So,

I will bring up the positives. I got War for

Cybertron for the PC. Been playing it. Kind of

getting pissed at it because I keep dying. Even

on the easy level. Are you serious? Yes. I suck.

See, the thing is, I'm a button masher, and first

of all, I play video games with just my left

hand. So on the computer, I have to go between

the mouse and the keyboard, the mouse and the

keyboard. So it's like, I can do it, and I can

play it. It's just, it's one of those things

where it's difficult. Let's just say it's difficult

at the least. So I did get more for Cybertron

for the PC. I love it so far. No problems with

it. I really don't care. I'm actually more interested

in the story of the game than actually having

an exclusive character to play as. Because I

don't play online multiplayer. I also picked

up X -Men Volume 5 for completing my X -Men DVD

collection. Let's see. Lupus Convoy sent me a

package in the mail with two RCs. Yay, I now

have RC. Hey, he rocks. Yes, he does. Very much

so. And this toy, wow. Yeah. It's kind of like

Rodimus where it's like, where'd the car go?

It drove away. Yes. You may have gotten the last

two in the world, too. No, I don't think so.

And when people say that she has amazing light

piping, that is an understatement of the year.

I mean... Go ahead. I was going to say, you said

she has piping? No, no, no. Light piping. Get

your mind out of the gutter, Megatron. Lay in

some pipe. Yes. Get down. I'll see. Show me what

you got. Oh, my God. So, Steve, what's been going

on with you? Okay. Well, currently right now

I am working on certain things for the GCR, like

hats, shirts, whatnot. Also, I'm working on something,

a possible project between us and behind the

voice actors. Which I will not name yet because

I don't know if they want that public. Okay.

But yes, that is what I've been doing. Awesome.

What about you, Michael? Buying toys. You mean

stealing them? No, I didn't steal anything. I

got in there apparently after they restocked.

They, as in Target, I wrote a blog post about

this. Everybody should have read it by now. Go

read my blog post, damn it. But, yeah, I bought

a lot of toys, and I called Chrissy ahead of

time and said, you know, hey, they have all the

new toys here at Target. Can I buy them? And

she's like, well, she just spent a buttload of

money. So she's like, well, you know, let's reciprocate

a little bit. I just spent a bunch of money.

Go ahead and buy them. So I said, all right.

Yeah, I got like nine Deluxes and then the two

PowerCore combiner 5 -packs. And then after that,

I went back like a couple days later. over to

Toys R Us and got the rest of the PowerCore combiners

the first wave. So, yeah, I bought a whole lot

of toys. And as opposed to letting them pile

up where the pile used to be, I'm actually opening

them, playing with them a little bit. Oh, my

God, a first. Michael Wilson actually opens toys

before four years from now. I know, opening my

toys. The ones I opened first actually were the

power core combiners. These guys are so cool.

There's a lot of play value here with the fact

that their minicons become weapons for the vehicle,

weapons for the robot, armor for the robot, and

little robots themselves. They finally got minicons

right after I don't know how many years since

Armada. Now we've got minicons that just do everything.

They're like super uber minicons. But yeah, I

dig it. Even the minicons have minicon ports

on them. It's insane. So you can combine your

minicons. Yes. Anyway, I dig it. I would recommend

everyone go out and get them. Even if you don't

want to. Do it. Do it now. No thanks. Get to

the choppa. I like the fact that they are playing

up the whole kid angle for having more towards

kids as far as the power core combiners, but

I do not want them anywhere near my collection.

Really? Seriously? Yeah. I don't dislike them,

and I don't hate them like I hate the movie line,

but at the same time, I don't like them either.

Aside from the movie line... There's not a whole

lot left. I mean, they have Generations, but

honestly... Generations is going to be epic.

Generations started off nice. I've got the War

for Cybertron Prime, the War for Cybertron Bumblebee.

I got Thrust, Autobot Drift, and honestly, I

think that's... That's it for now. That's it.

Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, aside from the power

core combiners and the movie line, what else

is there? There's not a whole lot. I mean, they're

going to have more coming, you know, at the end

of the year toward Christmas. But there's not

a whole heck of a lot going on, Transformers

-wise, if you don't like power core combiners.

And they're already releasing pictures of, like,

Wave 2 and Wave 3. And, you know, it's mostly

repaints, but they're doing it. interesting uh

they're taking the uh they're repainting you

know the commanders that they have and they're

swapping their minicons and repainting those

and then like the five pack you know you've got

the combaticons and you've got the the aerial

bots they're taking the the general or the the

commander or whatever from the the center of

the body right the one that actually turns into

a robot And they're pulling them out of the package

and making them their own two -pack commander,

if that makes sense. So they won't come with

limbs anymore, but they're going to be repaints.

So, I mean, they're really – I think they probably

put an awful lot of thought into how many limbs

do we put in there, who gets limbs, who doesn't

have limbs, two -packs versus five -packs. Because

they're literally dismantling the five packs

and then repainting them and putting them back

out as two packs. Yeah, I could care less. It's

like I said, I don't hate them. I'm just not

interested whatsoever. It doesn't appeal to me

at all. I've seen several video reviews, mostly

from Spada, and I just don't care. I mean, they're

not movie line. Like I said, there's a lot of

play value. I think they're great. Have you,

Mr. Wilson, listened to episode 15 yet? I have.

You have? Yeah. Did you find anything interesting

in episode 15 of the Beast Unleashed podcast?

You mean at the end? Yeah. Yeah. I thought, well,

actually, if you're talking about the recap.

That was the funniest thing ever. I'm talking

about the whole recap episode because of the

outtakes. Yeah, no, I mean, at the end, there's

the outtakes. It was hilarious. I laughed so

hard. I mean, you don't realize how much funny

shit we say until you take all the funny shit

out and line it up in a row. Yeah. Well, see,

I did that specifically because I wrote out the

order for Steve to edit it. I did it specifically.

I tried to have me say something, you say something,

and him say something, and vice versa. So it's

like we're actually having a conversation. Yeah.

Out of context, it's a little strange. Because

it's like, what the hell? Why would I say that?

That makes no sense. But yeah, it was hilarious.

It was really funny. The reason why I asked you

about that is in the episode 15 post over on

PredaconEmpire .com slash Nexus, Godspeed replied

to the episode 15 thread saying, Good show. Love

the host clips at the end. LOL. And Godspeed

actually asked us a question for this podcast.

Hey, guys. Love the show. I know you don't get

the feedback you deserve, so for what it's worth,

I say this is always one of the first listens

for me every time it comes out. The chemistry

is always good for a laugh or two, and the Barney

bit just kills me. Anyway, my question is, what

do you expect from Hasbro now that they have

publicly acknowledged an interest in revisiting

the Beast Wars remakes, new figures? With beast

modes unrelated to Beast Wars, thanks for your

time and keep up the good work. Godspeed. Now,

I did reply to him on the forum saying that we

would answer the question. However, we're not

going to go into great detail about it because

an episode at the end of this podcast's lifespan

will be dedicated to nothing but the Beast Era

toys. So, Michael, what do you think about Hasbro

acknowledging they're still interested in Beast

Wars? I, well, first of all, I think it would

be terribly cool, again, if we got an X9 toy.

If Hasbro's going to do anything with the Beast

Wars, that should be, you know, job one. You

know they're not going to do that. The first

thing they're going to do is probably re -release

the 10th anniversary toys, the ones that were

repaints of the 1996 line, and repaint them in

their Japanese colors. Yeah, I can imagine them

doing that. Yeah, exactly, because when they

came out a few years back, we got them and we

looked at them and said, wow, these look really

good. And then Japan got them and re -repainted

them, and they looked amazing. Not just really

good, but like, oh, my God, I want to import

them. So the first thing Hasbro is going to do

is they're going to think about... re -releasing

those, which again, this is going to end up being

a 15 -year -old toy that they're re -releasing

in a paint job that's already been done in Japan.

They could go that route. They might try to re

-release them in two packs, like versus sets.

Each guy has their own nemesis. You've got Rattrap

and Tarantulas and that type of thing. So they

might try to re -release them like that. I could

see that happening. Of course they're going to

re -release the leader size toys and get another

paint job. I've already got enough of those.

I don't think I need any more. And again, what

I would really like to see is an X9 toy. Maybe...

I don't know if Steve was going to say this,

but I would say an Axalon playset. That would

definitely be something I'd want to see, including

Stasis Pods, the Predacon base. Oh, big accessories?

Yeah, I mean, any of the little equipment that

they used in the show, I would say would be a

bonus. Yeah. You know, I mean, hell, have a custom

Waspinator that has Starscream's... You know,

something with Starscream on it. I mean, I know

that's not much of a stretch from the regular

Waspinator, but I mean, or, you know, have some

more accurate toys, for instance, because a lot

of them weren't very show accurate until they

at least hit Transmetal. That would be the last

thing I would expect. Anything in a remold. Yeah,

but I mean, I would still, I would want to see

figures that we haven't been able to get thus

far. Yeah, yeah. Ravage would definitely be one

of them. Maybe, I don't know, there's a lot of

missed opportunities that they could have done

the first time around that they did not do. My

only problem with Ravage, if they're going to

use an existing mold, I think, and this is just

speculation on my part, I think they would repaint

the Universe 2 .0 Cheetor as Ravage. I'm still

not entirely sure what the difference is between

X9 and the Transmetal Cheetor. The head. Just

the head? I'm pretty sure it's just the head.

And the hands. Yeah, you'd think it would be

easy to produce something like that, though.

That, I would think, would be relatively cheap

to produce. I think just because it was like

a BotCon, you know, kind of set. You know, that's

why they didn't have it here. If they made repaints

for BotCon, you know Hasbro has the rights to

it somehow. They could do it. They just don't

want to. They just want to screw us all over

and make us squirm. Another neat thing would

be I want to say that during the course of our

podcast here, every time there's a paint deco

in the show that we've never seen before, we

go, oh my god, wouldn't it be awesome if they

made that paint deco? Like when Blackarachnia

took over the Floating Island. Or Rhinox becoming

Pred. Exactly! Yeah, things like that. I mean,

you know, little nods to the fans. They probably

wouldn't sell well enough to justify banking

or actually producing them. But, you know, still.

Some of those video jobs look really good. True.

The problem is, and I read this on TFW, I think

it was part of the TFCon Hasbro question and

answer thing. Because as of this recording, TFCon

was this past weekend. Someone asked them about,

do they talk to fans directly about toy design?

And they said, we do not. get unsolicited feedback

or anything from fans as far as making toys.

So we can say as much as we want that we want

a figure of it, unless it's like a public vote

that they put out on their website, we're not

going to see it. The fact that Dinobot made the

Hall of Fame shows that people are still giving

rats ass about Beast Wars. True, and I'm not

saying that people, I mean, I love Beast Wars.

I love Beast Machines. Now that I know what they

are and all that stuff, sorry. I know. I love

Judicious Use of Mute. I know. Hey, I've been

places over the last day and a half since we've

been recording this that just I never want to

ever go again, and I'm sitting here drinking

Diet Coke and eating Mike and Ike's Deal With

It. Places that caused me not to be able to hit

the mute button. Anyways, let's move. Are we

done with this? I hope that answered Godspeed's

question. In other words, we'll discuss more

details later. But for now, let's get to the

show. Silverbolt, what? That's just prime. Well,

what's left of him anyway? He's our ancestor.

We gotta get him repaired. Or we're goners. We'll

never make it. His spark is already joining the

Matrix. With the repair trauma, we'll lose it

for sure. Then we'll have to move it. His spark

can't exist outside a living body. I know. What

are you, nuts? You can't hold two Sparks in your

body? This Spark has the Matrix with it. It's

too powerful. Like we have a choice? First up

today in episode 16 as we start the final season

of Beast Wars here is Optimal Situation. The

original air date was October 24th, 1998. It

was written by Bob Forward. The Maximals are

unconscious as the time stream begins to unravel,

a direct result of Megatron attacking the original

Optimus Prime in his dormant state. Optimus Primal

attempts to merge Prime Spark into his own, keeping

it safe while Rhinox performs surgery. But the

extra soul is too much for Primal to handle,

and his body undergoes a startling transformation.

Dun -dun -dun! Okay, first of all, I've got to

say, this is probably, outside of the other possession

and the agenda, this has got to be the most fan

-wanky episode of the entire Beast Wars series,

the three seasons. Yes, Primal looks up at Prime

and says, Hello, give me your spark. My first

my opinion, this is the best one yet. Oh, yes.

The intro? Yes. I think the intro, borrow it

a little more from Season 2 than Season 3. I

think I would have liked to have seen more of

some Season 3 stuff going on in the intro to

foreshadow what's to come. Well, and they did.

They had a little bit, but I liked how they started

it off with the very first episode of Beast Wars.

Granted, this was an awesome... reimagining of

that first episode part with much much better

detail um but they they did a good job with having

it kind of transition from season one two to

three throughout the uh intro yeah no it was

very well done i i liked it i was surprised to

see it at first and i don't see why because it's

a new season but it was like hey new intro cool

My biggest thing that I love about this is Optimal

Optimus at the end. Before the Beast Wars type

shows up. I love that. That's so awesome. So

technically, Blackarachnia is Predacon no more.

Well, she keeps saying, I'm a Predacon. I'm a

Predacon. Yeah, she keeps helping the Maximals.

And nobody seems to question that she's helping.

It's not like, hey, isn't she a bad guy? What's

her deal over here? I mean, Rattrap brings it

up, and, you know, Silverbolt promptly shuts

him down. Yeah, it's like, does anybody but Rattrap,

who does nothing but complain, mention anything

about the bad lady? Who seems to be doing all,

you know, wandering in and out of places she

shouldn't be. Yeah. So, yeah, I think it would

have been good to bring that up somehow. Yeah,

I guess we could say it's a lack of story, but...

Well, I mean, they're eventually going to make

her a maximal anyway. True. So maybe this could

just be considered foreshadowing. Yeah, it could

be. Well, that's just Prime. Or what's left of

him, anyways. D 'oh! He didn't look nearly as

torn up as what I thought he would. I was expecting

to see, like, exposed teeth under his faceplate

or something. That was horrific. Um... Whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Primal... Okay. We all know

of the Transformers Star Wars crossover toys,

correct? This is where Transformers and Star

Wars crossover in universes because Primal using

the force to open Prime's chest. What the fuck?

He's like, open sesame. I thought Blackarachnia

was plugged into Prime or at least plugged into

the. Repair. Yeah, plugged into the Teletraan,

but more precisely, plugged into the repair diagnostics.

Well, she was, but in that scene, Primal has

his hand above Prime's chest, and he pulls his

hand back, and the thing opens. It's like he

willed it to open. He was using the Force. Just

go with it, dude. May the shorts be with you.

I see your Schwartz. It's as big as mine. But

is it as powerful? I don't think so. It's not

the size of the Schwartz. It's how you use it.

Yes, there should be some sort of godly music

with my next note. Ah, Matrix! I like how they

pulled... the Matrix out and that whole scene

where Primal's holding it, and then all of a

sudden his chest opens up and then he gets power

-bombed with it in his stomach. It's like, I

want to give myself a Matrix Hadouken. I was

actually thinking Matrix Bukkake, but yeah, okay.

That works too. And then he starts groaning until

he starts mutating. Oh, reverse Bukkake. Yes,

and then it becomes prime time. A prime Bukkake.

Yes. I'm going to have to explain to you people

what Bukkake is, and that's just not somewhere

I want to be. Yeah, we're not going to go there

for this show. And in regards to Steve's bringing

up Optimus mutating or transforming or whatever

he's doing, Rutrow Optimus, because, yeah, I

just find it easier to take bullet point notes

for me. I don't know why. Did you notice that

now? No, no, I've intentionally done it since

TFG1. But anyways, Optimal Optimus, yes. Yes.

I like how Cheetor asks him, you know, how do

you feel, Big Bot? And he stands up all of a

sudden. You know, he was this crouched over guy,

and now he's like four times the size he once

was, and he's like, in a word. Prime. And then

he just stands up and slams his foot down. Then,

of course, Megatron has to interrupt shit with

his bestest buddy in the world, Inferno. His

bestest buddy. Who's quite, you know, hollow

-looking at this point, considering you can see

through part of his head. Yeah, you know, he

really should have died. I was kind of, I mean,

I could see Rampage, and Rampage looked cool.

They actually cut over to introduce, well, reintroduce

each of the minions, let's say, the Predacons.

And, you know, Inferno's stumbling out. Rampage

is, you know, a crispy critter. The damage model

on him was insane. He was completely crumpled

and just black. It was very cool. You know, considering

the fact that... he can't die and that he had

a missile the size of a house dropped on him.

The damage model looked pretty appropriate. And

it was atomic. Exactly. But no, they should have

left Inferno dead. So Japan wasn't the first

one to see the nuclear bomb. Take out your own

trash, Akihito. Was that another bullet point?

No, that's called an auto -nim from Al April.

As a traveling comedian, he takes the first letter

of, like, Toyota, take out your own trash, Akihito.

Or today, Oriental yuppies often thank America.

Makes a sentence out of car names. Anyway, that's

completely off the wall here. I'm glad you explained

that to me because now it's funny. Yes. In quite

so many ways. I forgot with this episode, I forgot

to grab my buddy that Michael sent to me. I forgot

to grab Optimal Optimus to have on the desk with

me while we're recording season three episodes.

Oh, he's going to watch TV with you. My buddy.

My buddy. He plays with his buddy. But anyway.

Oh, God. God, Silverbolt, you're such a bonehead

at times. And that was a reference to the whole

thinking she was dead thing. Silverbolt. Oh,

yeah. No! Yeah. And then he's like, she's just

in stasis lock. Dipshit. Yeah, dumbass. Well,

what I thought was interesting is there's actually

two no's, so you get double the cliche in this

episode. Yes. The look on Megatron's dino face

is priceless when Transform Up shows up. He's

like, huh? Okay. What? I'm sorry. It sounded

like somebody was rolling over in bed there,

and I didn't catch what you were saying. Oh,

what I said was probably Steve. What I said was

I love the look on Megatron's dino face as they're

flying away because it's just priceless when

transformed Optimal Optimus shows up. He's like,

huh? Oh. He's like, how many forms does this

guy have? Oh, no, just wait. Stay close, Maximals.

It's time to transform and roll out. I love that.

That's just so awesome. You know what Megatron

was really thinking in that scene? Tell us, Megatron.

Good lord. That Autobot Maximal Hybrid learns

a new body faster than Tarantulas could crop

out spiders. I always wondered where those spiders

came from. They came from Tarantulas' rear end.

Oh no! Did you notice why his tires were splattered

open? Yeah. Anyway, when Primal turns into Prime,

basically, he adopts all of his catchphrases.

Yeah. Starting with, freedom is the right of

all sentient beings. You know, still, I'm sorry.

I'm going to have to go back and watch my G1

Shout Factory set, because I do not ever remember

him saying that in the cartoon. It doesn't. It's

on the back of his package. Oh. That's on his

tech spec. Yeah, his motto on the tech spec says,

freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Okay. I don't think he actually ever says it.

In the movies, he does. Well, yeah. Oh, well,

in the Bayfold movie? That doesn't count. Yes.

Oh, well, he says it there because, you know,

at that point, everybody knows it's attributed

to... Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. But yeah, so you get

freedom is the right of all sentient beings,

you get transform and roll out. Yeah, I enjoyed

it, but yeah, it was fan -winking. Well, yeah,

but that's what's so cool about it. Yeah. The

only thing was, is they still didn't get that,

I mean, technically they made it look like Primal's,

or Prime's spark is the Matrix. When technically

that's not true. True. And technically Prime,

although they never showed it until the movie,

the Matrix was never even known about. Yeah,

that's true, but still they had to find a good

way to introduce it with this, and I thought

it was fairly done well. Oh, yeah, but I mean,

it's... Still one of those things that it was

just kind of like, ooh, convenient plot device.

We can transfer Prime Spark easily now. Well,

that's all the Matrix ever was, was a MacGuffin,

so... Yes. Piece of shit metal box. Jumpin' Gyro's

Optimus Sharloun learns a new body fast. What'd

you expect? He changes them often enough. Insert

drums here. Dun -da -da -da! There actually was

drums. I know, that's why I said insert drums

here. Yeah. I was actually expecting Megatron

to pipe in with that, but it ended up being something

about crap and tarantulas. Yeah. Damn it, Megatron.

Optimus' hands are... Let him speak. This is

the best part of the show. Soon enough, I will

change my form, you insignificant worm. Stupid

-ass red dragon. That's my favorite form. No.

That's my favorite body. I think I kept it through

the next show. Yeah, the next show you're just

basically almost ahead. He was ahead of his time.

But I became optimal. Oh, no, no, no. Let's not

go there. Spoiler. Optimus' hands are bigger

than your weapons, Megatron. But mine are more

powerful. I took down Optimus Prime with a...

How shall I say it? Give me your face, Prime.

No. Yes. Yes. I'll take your face now. Waspinator

and Inferno splat alert. What else is new there?

Inferno got it good. Oh, yeah. I love his splat

alerts. Yeah. He's getting them more frequently

now, and Waspinator's getting them less and less.

Waspinator actually gets away with not being

splatted at all in the next one. Yeah. That's

true. Yeah, true. I find myself going into Twitter

talk with this next one. Optimus done need no

guns against you, Rampage, because he just smacks

him in the face. I love that. The look on Rampage's

face when Optimus appears. He's like, oh, fuck.

He's like, well, I'll shoot him anyway. Look

at the size of this guy. This is just wrong.

He just looks up, up, up, up. Okay, there's a

face. Well, seeing as how Optimus is just ridiculously

powerful, in retrospect, it probably would have

made more sense to kill off Quickstrike. kill

off Inferno and let Ravage stick around. You

mean, oh. Ravage. Ravage. Because Ravage was

just ridiculously powerful. He took out pretty

much everybody in the few scant minutes that

he was on screen. But, you know, they had to

kill him because he was just too powerful. But

now you've got Optimus, who's just, again, way

too powerful. Yeah. So what do they do? They

take the base with them. Well, what I was going

to say was cue the violin quartet or the violin

trio because that ship sure won't fly now with

it going the Titanic route. Snap into an ass

and falls underwater. It was a pleasure playing

with you gentlemen. As they go into the sea.

Yes. And my final note is the most epic note

of this episode. We're moving in. And the last

epic. I would say this episode was a pretty good

continuation of the end of Agenda. Yeah. And

it was nice to see all the Preds with the exception

of Ravage. coming back, despite the fact that

they all should have been dead. Very dead. Each

and every one of them. Well, Quickstrike and

Inferno. Rampage, sure, bring him back. He can't

die. And Waspinator, yeah, because he got infected

with Starscream's indestructible spark. You could

use that as an excuse, sure. I mean, technically

you can use that as an excuse, but look at him.

He functions with just a head. He was ahead of

his time. With his hand. Put hand overhead now.

Let's pull a Mr. Freeze here. He could facepalm

himself all day. And it wouldn't hurt. Without

the rest of his body. But, yeah, there were some

nice key points, though, in the episode, besides

the great many awesome quotes that were brought

up, where Primal's voice becomes considerably

deeper. When he gets his new form, kind of sounding

like Optimus Prime. Puberty. Yes, he hit massive

puberty. He grew in such large proportions. He

says, I'm now fully erect. That's one large trans

monkey. Trans monkey? That's kind of gross. Anyways.

No, no, no. Not a tranny monkey. A trans monkey.

There's a big difference. Yeah, but he changed

his looks four times and, you know, never mind.

But, yeah, it was nice to see Primal's pieces

that he had on his arms used as deflector shields,

which, if you notice, he never really uses those

very much in the future. Like, he uses them to

guard a couple things once or twice, but he doesn't

use them. Well, the only thing he really has

to guard, I mean, obviously, is the Matrix or,

well, Prime Spark. Well, just build a wall around

it. That's basically what his arm... Arm... Armor?

Arm armor is what I'm looking for, and it just

didn't come out. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's what

the arm armor is for. But here, he's basically,

you know, proclaiming. He should just carry around

a sign that says... Look at all the cool things

the toy can do, kids. He's doing it for the sake

of selling the toy, not so much for the sake

of the story. This is another issue. I wish they

would have made a 100 % accurate Optimal Optimus

based on the cartoon version. It is. 100 % accurate?

It looks like it is. If you look at it, his head

is so freaking small. Okay, yeah, I will agree

with that. And the gun barrels should be able

to fold underneath somewhere in that front so

that they aren't sticking out so damn far so

that you can still have them look halfway decent.

The only problem with that is they come with

this whole front piece of the toy, this whole

thing that moves with the head, because it's

a whole piece. It's not just his head that can...

Oh, I realize that. The whole point of it was

because they have missile launchers on it. That's

the problem with the toy. And this is one of

the few Beast Wars toys that you can actually

shoot your eye out with. You'll shoot your eye

out with that Transformer, Johnny! Because when

I got the bullets in there, to begin with, when

I first purchased it, I could not figure out

how to get the damn bullets out. I can't either.

And shot myself in the face. I don't know what

the button is either, and Michael won't tell

me. How to get them out? You don't know how?

No, I don't want to know how because I don't

want to shoot my own eye out. I thought you downloaded

the instructions. That little lever on the back?

Yeah. With the two knobs on it and the little

bar? I got it, and it just went behind the desk.

Well, shit, there goes the missile. It's behind

my desk now. I'll never find that until I move

out of this apartment in God knows how many years.

That's why they give you four. Well, Michael...

He didn't have the other missiles. He only sent

me one, and the one I have now is gone under

the desk, behind the desk in the black hole that

is behind the desk. If you've only got one, then

you might as well not have any, right? Yeah,

I know. I like Tarantulas' little droids. They

were like transmetal versions. This is the first

time you see them since season one. Yeah. And

they have their own little special insignia.

Do they? Yes. I saw the picture on the TF wiki.

I didn't notice it online, or on the actual show.

See, I did. I've gotten quite enough of the little...

just because I've watched Season 3 so many times

that it is actually my favorite season of Beast

Wars. That's awesome. I like at the end where

Optimus Prime, when his spark gets returned to

him, he reactivates, leans up, looks at Primal,

and then he goes back to Stasis Lock. Yeah, that.

Now, there's another thing. The art for this

episode of the Beast Unleashed podcast will actually

be Optimal Optimus holding the Matrix as right

before he puts it back into Prime's chest. The

alternate art, much like with the Starscream

episode, will be Optimus Prime's glowing eyes.

That'll be cool. Yes, it will. You know what's

funny about the head sculpt of Optimus Prime

and Optimal Optimus in this episode? What's that?

It's exactly the same with a few minor tweaks

to Primal's head. Yeah. Like, very minor. Yeah.

I still love that quote at the beginning, though,

where Optimal and Megatron start arguing in the

middle of the arc. Oh yeah, take it outside.

You wouldn't dare fire in here. It might upset

history. We have four million years to clean

you off the walls, Megatron. I might risk it.

Considering that Megatron just tried to blow

up Optimus Prime's head, I don't think he really

cares about altering history. Yeah. You'd think

he would be trying to provoke a firefight. Oh,

exactly. And then Rattrap jumps in. Oh, for booting

up cold, why didn't you just shoot him? I'm trying

to not resort. I'm trying not to resort to that,

Rattrap. Well, here, let me do it. Boom. And

he's like, no! And he basically bitch slaps Rattrap

around. He just uses his big ass hand and slaps

him and he flies away. You know, the one thing,

and I really don't want to get too much into

this as far as the toys go, because we're going

to be talking about the toys, but I noticed about

the toys, especially since I have it right here

next to me, he has opposable thumbs on both his

hands, which makes no sense. It helps him hold

his gun, which you don't actually have. Well,

send it to me. See, that's another thing. You'd

never see Optimal use that gun. Yeah. No, he

just uses his chest guns. Well, yeah, he has

his boob guns. Wow. Talk about a third nipple.

Does she really have a third nipple? Yeah, you

need to look at that. Look, it's got laser sight.

It's a functional nipple. Lock, load, fire when

ready. It's a firing nipple. It's a firing nipple.

Oh, my God. So you say there's a burning sensation

around the nipple? No, I'm saying there's fire.

Fire coming out the nipple. That's what I'm saying.

I just can't control it. Give him some Preparation

H. As opposed to Preparation A through F. We

are creating the Season 3 outtakes right now.

Right. Just put a little bit of baby powder on

it, and little Vaseline will feel much better

in the morning. It'll be fine. So, anyway, yeah.

I think that's it for this episode. To digress

a little bit, I don't know where the hell we

were going, but I was surprised to see that they

moved the entire bridge of the Axalon into the

volcano. Yeah, that was a pretty cool feature

to see them actually do. Because it kept their

main room that they were always in anyway. The

problem I have with this will come up with the

third episode we'll be reviewing today in Changing

of the Guard. If they moved the entire bridge

of the Axalon in this episode, why the fuck didn't

they bring Sentinel with them? Because Sentinel

went down with the ship. It was in the core.

Right, there was that whole episode with Rattrap

the Ninja as he surfed his way down to the core.

I know that, but I don't ever remember Sentinel

being in the core. I always remember him being

in the main console part. That's how they controlled

it, but it was actually inputted into the core

because that's what Rattrap had to press to deactivate

it before he got hit with a massive cannon. It's

been a while since I've seen Season 1, so okay,

I'll give it to you. It's been a while. Yeah,

but that's about it, except for the crispy ice

-cold slag quote that I liked so much. Crispy

ice -cold slag. It would have been cool to see

them actually continue Beast Wars up until G1.

Can you imagine that screwed -up timeline? Yes,

don't even go there. I want them to go there.

No. Bring back the original voice cast. Let's

do it. No. Beast Machines didn't happen. That's

an alternate timeline. Shut up. There's a lot

of people who say that. Well, I mean, I still

like Beast Machines. Don't get me wrong. I would

have liked to have seen them continue this for

at least another season. There were so much more

possibilities they could have done with the G1

characters. It's just that Hasbro cut them short

and wanted to change gears. Well, you know, kind

of screw the rest of the cast. I think the further

adventures of Waspinator on Earth with completely

voiced by Scott McNeil would be an awesome show.

Just give them back Dinobot and Waspinator and

have them go back and forth on the planet trying

to see who can rule who for the next four million

years. That would be interesting. Last one standing

gets to meet the Autobots. Dun, dun, dun! This

game's not for you, kiddy. Cheater to Optimus!

We got... Now it's you and I, old friend. Activating

emergency transformation. Scanning now. Activating

transformation sequence. Alert. Autobot X detected.

Vector 9, 5, 8. He's here. Depth charge. Maximize!

Up next is Deep Metal. Original air date, November

1st, 1998. Written by... Oh, what? It says written

by, written by Larry Dottilio. Geez, Rhino, nice

way to fuck up the booklet. Losers. We need Shout

Factory. Enough with this BS. Are you done? I

don't know. Why don't you check back in ten minutes?

In space, a Cybertronian ship with a mysterious

occupant is tracking the lost Protoform X, the

science experiment now known as Rampage. The

ship is pulled into a wormhole and crashes on

prehistoric Earth, where the pilot is reformatted

and emerges as Depth Charge. Depth Charge and

Rampage meet at the trade and trade blows. What

is the lost history between these two bitter

enemies? Slag the High Council. Yes, slag them.

Slag them all to hell. We don't care what they

have to say. They're no longer important. Yes.

As much as I really could care less about Rampage,

and I will be saying that through the next two

episodes, I found it very interesting when he

stops and he looks up into the sky and he's like,

ooh, Rampage remembers something or someone.

I thought that was kind of cool. I thought it

was kind of inexplicable because it's like Death

Charge isn't even in the same time yet and yet

he's like, ooh, somebody's coming. Somebody's

coming for me. And it's like, well, what makes

you think that? You just got a feeling in the

back of your head that somebody's floating around

9 million years from now who wants to come back

in time and find you? Somebody's coming. Somebody

tasty. It always interests me how the scanners

pick up the life forms. And replicates them.

I've always found that really cool. I found the

original opening Beast Wars 2 part of them going

into the little chamber thing. I found that cool.

Especially when we haven't seen one underwater.

The underwater scan is very awesome, I thought.

Well, this is the first time that we didn't get

an alt mode hint before the scan. Oh, yes, we

did. Yes, you did. You saw a manta ray fly by

before the... Yes. Yep. Okay, I must have missed

that. Also, there's a hint to his beast form,

or his vehicle form. Look at his star hopper.

Yep. It's exactly how his metal form is. When

he got hit with the blast, it... altered his

superstructure to take on that. Yeah, they never

really explained what that time warp was. It's

just... He was following the trail into the past

and then into the same way the Maximals followed.

And he hit the transwarp signal. It's just a

very convenient transwarp, you know. Oh, yes.

It was very convenient. Floating through space.

But the only thing I can put together with that

is that maybe he came through a different part,

not hit by Cybertron, like one of the satellites

somewhere else in the galaxy, and ended up intercepting

it on his way back to the past. Like one of the

residual shockwaves. Well... that would kind

of explain why he got transmetalyzed on his way

through, but it wouldn't, you know, explain that,

you know, as far as if that's how he got through

time, if that's the same, you know, residual

transwarp that the Axalon and the Nemesis went

through, then, uh, I think it's one of those

things. That's the question. Well, true, but

I think it's one of those things where you have

to just, Do suspension of disbelief. Yeah, I

suppose. The writing in this series is so well

done that you don't normally have to suspend

your belief. True. Suspend disbelief. And normally

we wouldn't. Well, see, normally I think we would

if we weren't reviewing it. So, I don't know.

Because normally in a, like if somebody's normally

watching this cartoon. They're not doing it for

review purposes. They're doing it to enjoy it.

And even though, according to Steve, there are

some horrible episodes like The Low Road, which

is just awesome. You know. If by awesome you

mean Assassin shouldn't be watched by anybody,

then yeah. The Low Road is awesome. No, it's

not. Yes, it is. It's hell in a can. No, it's

not. It's a can we don't want to open. Why universe

hate Waspinator? You were born. Waspinator has

no room to bitch in this episode because he doesn't

get splatted once. Yes, he does. Oh, no, he doesn't.

Okay, okay. No, no. The why universe hate Waspinator

line came after Megatron sent him out to do something.

Yeah. Okay. Because Waspinator doesn't like to

work anymore. He likes to mooch off the system.

Yeah. I'm really surprised he gets any lines

in this episode at all. Dang, Cheetor never gets

a break, man. I'm so sick of that. I'm so sick

of Cheetor never getting a break. What? I'm going

there. Going where? Because of my pussy. Oh,

damn. He said he hates water. His jets got jammed.

He didn't know what to do. I mean... Do you ever

use mute? No. Sorry. If I have to blow my nose

before the record, then you have to plug your

face. We'll fix it in the editing. Bullshit.

No, you won't. You never do. I don't edit anymore.

This is all Steve's job now, so I'll make sure

he fixes it in the editing. To hell with you.

Anyways. You got a new computer and you haven't

figured out how to edit on it yet? Let's not

go there. Let's just not go there. I am Batman

-ta. I'm really getting sick of Rampage already.

Just because of the whole... Because of the whole

same tune over and over again, I want to feel

your pain and terror and all that bullshit. That's

not the only thing he wants to feel. That's why

DepthCharge is here to put him out of his misery.

He's like the twisted version of Bane meets Scarecrow.

And then DepthCharge is like Batman coming to

wipe his ass on the floor. Talk about a slippery

fish. Squish, squish, squish. He's going to go

get crabs. I think it's – oh, God. Pineapple

under the sea. No. No, no, no, no. I don't care.

No, stop. I don't care if you make Team Rocket

references from now until the end of the show.

I will not ever say that ever again on this podcast.

Ever again. No. I think I touched a knife. No.

It's nice to see the Cybertronian Adventures

in flashbacks. Yes, I do like seeing that. The

what? Cybertronian Adventures. Cybertronian Adventures.

When Primal's telling why Depth Charge and Rampage,

they flash back to the... Colony Omicron. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. X got hungry and decided to eat all

of Depth Charge's friends. I actually said my

didn't realize this now, but I was kind of making

a pun. on Activision. It's nice to see the Cybertron

adventures in flashbacks. Fucking Activision.

Not that anyone would buy War for Cybertron for

the Wii, but anyway. What's wrong with him? Eh,

probably rust. You know what this has turned

into? Depth Charge, I mean. Because Rattrap is

liking jumping back and forth. This is the new

Dinobot. I mean, essentially it is. Yeah. He's

filling that gap, plus he and Rattrap are at

constant wit's end with each other. Yeah. Bouncing

back witty banter. Yeah. I think that Death Charge

is just a dick, kind of. He's more of a dick

than Dinobot was. Yeah, Dinobot, at least they

were almost playful. back and forth. Even up

to the point where he died, they were still kind

of playful back and forth. Whereas Death Chart's

just like, get out of here, kid, you bother me.

And he's like, you crazy kids, get off my lawn!

Well, not quite to that point, no. But yeah,

he's like, alright, you guys all suck. And, you

know, he just has open disdain for Primal. Well,

he'll reiterate that next episode. Yeah, yeah.

And my final note, so we can actually move on

to somebody else and I can stop talking is, wow,

I really hate depth charges. Backpack. The backpack,

his whole tail. No, not his tail. Not in, in

robot form though. The wing things on his back

and everything else. It just reminds me of a

toy, how toys have backpacks on them. It's a

kibble. I'm fine with it. Whatever. Yeah, it's

okay. It's like his shield. Whatever. At least

he doesn't look like, I don't know, Rampage.

With all the legs hanging off? Yes. Some kibble

is just, you know... It's meant to be. It's unforgivable

kibble. Yes, it is. At least he doesn't have

lips on, like Dep Charge. Dep Charge has big

lips on his face, or on his chest. On his chest.

Well, it could be worse. He could have eight

eyes on his stomach. I could deal with that.

Anyways, Michael, what do you have for this?

Oh, my God. Oh, damn. That sounds like a bad

pop song. Come here, X. I've got a present for

you. Michael, what do you have for this episode?

Yeah, we start off with Inferno getting a lot

of lines. More lines here than I've heard him

say. Aside from Yes Royalty or For the Colony,

more lines than I've ever heard him say. Where

he's basically having dialogue with DepthCharge.

Or DepthCharge, I'm sorry. Dialogue with Rampage.

Before Rampage bails on him. Right. And he's

like, all right, I'm going to go here, and you're

going to go there, and then I'm going to do this,

and then you're going to do that, and ha -ha,

and he gets down there, and nothing goes as planned.

This is the only time I really feel sorry for

Inferno. I agree. Well, yeah. And then on top

of that, on top of that. They don't start firing

on him until Optimus has already left the base.

Adding insult to injury. Mm -hmm. It's nice,

though, that if they're going to keep Rampage

around, since he doesn't die, they're at least

going to give him something to do. Now he's got

his counterpart. Exactly. He's got a nemesis

of his very own. A banjo -playing platypus? Wait,

Perry the banjo -playing -patapus? It's Kirkish.

I'm sorry. Sorry, I can't take your incessant

cross -cartoon whatever. As I was saying, he

gets impaled! Woo! About time. Well, you know,

it's neat because you don't normally see that

in a kid's television show. And despite the fact

that he's got this huge spike going through his

chest, it still doesn't stop him. He keeps coming.

I just want to say about my cross -cartoon references,

it's all your fault because you kept saying Nemesis.

That's Doofenshmirtz's... Well, you know, in

Transformers continuity, Nemesis has a complete

different connotation. True. But you were using

it in the good versus evil thing. Curse you,

parry the platypus. No. Curse you, parry. Wait,

is that the Baljeetles? And Steve is sitting

over there like, what the fuck are they doing?

All I'm hearing is you talking about butt beetles

and something else. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah. What? Blah, blah, blah.

So, yeah, anyway, the whole episode ends with

Rampage blowing up a ship. They're very quick

to take out the ships. Well, that's because Rampage

is like, oh, no, you came. You're going to be

stranded just like me. If anything, Rampage should

have jumped in that ship and took the hell off.

Rampage doesn't want to because he has more fun

torturing people that can't kill him. He could

have flown back to any colony and done that.

Yeah, but what's the point? He purposely wanted

to torment an already damaged soul. Besides that...

Megatron still had half his spark, so he'd kind

of still be a little bit screwed. No matter where

he is, it's like a remote control that keeps

on buzzing. Not if he's under the water. Eh,

it works. Well, Megatron was like, whoa, where'd

he go? He's gone. He's disappeared. He's not

on my scanners. But he didn't immediately reach

for the spark chamber to squish it a little.

Well, that's because he's like, where the hell's

he gonna go? Well, for all he knew, he already

got in the ship and took off. Well, he knew the

ship was already destroyed. He could have gotten

on the ship and attacked Megatron. And Megatron

would have shot his balls off because Megatron

blew away Prime's face. Okay, I need Megatron

to say the whole give me your face thing. Fine.

If Rampage were to come after me, I would tell

him. Give me your face. Yes. And then I would

cut out his spark and make him eat it with a

spoon. And some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

A nice Chianti. But that's all I got. Okay, what

about you, Steve? This was the first episode

to have underwater scenes. Which I didn't even

notice until I saw the bubbles. I was like, holy

shit, they're underwater. I love that. That was

actually pretty cool to actually see underwater.

They've gone three seasons and finally get the

technology to go underwater. But none of the

other guys can go under there. Even the transmetals

can't go under there. Only DepthCharge and Rampage.

Which leads me to another problem later in season

three with a certain tarantula being able to

build an entire underwater monorail system. But

that's... Something to be seen later. Yes. Yes.

And, yeah, there's no way that Rampage would

just, poof, disappear from scanners. That's just

retarded. If you're underwater. Yeah, that's

just a plot screw -up. Somebody was writing it.

It must have been on something when they wrote

it. Completely forgot what, you know, was going

on. Probably took a break, coffee break, came

back, was like, where was I? Oh, yes. We don't

know where Rampage is at. Okay, let's go on.

Yeah, that's okay. We can live with that. Yes,

but yeah, as for the other stuff, pretty much

covered it. The banter between Primal in Depth

Charge was pretty cool, though, where Primal's

telling Depth Charge, X is not alone. He's a

Predacon now under Megatron's control. There

are six of them. And then Depth Charge looks

back at him and says, got to hand it to you,

Primal. When you screw up, you do it big time.

But thanks for the tip. And then he leaves. I

like that. When you screw up, you do it big.

And he also says, well, this crew needs something.

Next episode. Oh, that's in the next? Oh, I thought

it was in this one. Okay. So should we move on

to the next episode then? Yes, Amasa. Quickly.

We must pursue Waspinator. Out of my way. I got

a job to finish. No! Waspinator has the Sentinel

control module. If Megatron gets his hands on...

That's your war. I got my own. Perhaps you should

remember what it means to be a Maximal. If you

dare call yourself that again. Save your voice

box, Bolt. He's got what he wants. Come on. Let's

get after Waspinator. up today is Changing of

the Guard. And this episode, original air date

was November 8th, 1998. Written by Evan Summers.

Okay. I guess that was a typo. No. They mentioned

that in the TF wiki that it was wrong. Evan Summers.

I don't know. It's correct. Is it? Yes. bouncing

off wiki and what i watched earlier with my notes

so what was i you're probably looking at steve

sack or sacks what an awful directed by i can't

imagine going through grade school with a name

like that or sacks yeah can i get to the episode

description please Yes, go ahead. Rhinox is unable

to connect Maximal technology to the ancient

Autobot computer systems, Teletraan 1. Rattrap

goes searching for Sentinel, the Maximal's computer

automated weaponry defense system, now at the

bottom of the sea. The murky depths prove to

be a dangerous place for Rattrap. Um, hey look,

a blackface joke. What? Michael, you should have

caught on to that, considering you were on ToonCast

episode 23, which was Tom and Jerry. Yeah, I

know, but I don't remember where in this episode...

In the very beginning, when Rhinox is trying

to hook something up, it explodes, and his face

is all black. He's got soot all over his face.

Oh, like a Looney Tunes moment. Yes. I didn't

notice that. Maybe I was looking somewhere else.

I understand the referral now. Yes. I see where

the problem was there with the writing. It says

written by Evan Summers, whereas apparently there's

only one M in Summers. Oh, well, whatever. Yeah.

Oh, boo -hoo. One M in Summers. We all prefer

triple Ds, so it doesn't matter. Anyways. double

for me. A handful means you have to use two hands.

And that's too much. What? Okay. Let's not. He's

joking. Oh, okay. No. Cat toy. I love Cheetor.

Cheetor is awesome. And did you notice that they

use in the little flashback of him thinking about

it, they use the original Cheetor design for

the cat? Yeah. That was awesome. That was awesome.

So essentially you're looking at the quote, what

are you grinning about, litter butt? I was just

thinking with you inside, this would make a swell

cat toy. Carny music. Is that the underwater

music? Yeah, when Rattrap... It's funny that

Silverbolt hears it through the intercom, and

then he's like, what's going on? I never got...

See, I thought, yeah, when that scene first happens,

because it doesn't start happening until Rattrap

starts moving the pedal thing, and he gets the

hang of it. I thought it was just music that

they put in there for... For the episode. For

the episode, for that part. And then all of a

sudden... It's getting feedback on Silverbolt's

walkie -talkie, which that's another thing that

pisses me off. They have inner ear comlinks or

chest comlinks or leg comlinks or crotch comlinks.

Why the hell does he have a damn walkie -talkie?

Because the regular system was down. He couldn't

contact anything underwater. Apparently the same

glitch that hit Rampage not being able to be

found hit Rattrap not being able to use his comlink.

I thought it was because he couldn't turn on

any external systems. That was true, too. He's

like in stealth mode. Oh, okay. Despite the fact

that he has a heads -up display. Yeah. Why do

I feel like I'm watching an episode of Sequest

DSV when I watch this one? I love Sequest. I

love Sequest, but this so reminded me of that

show. That was a good show. I liked it. Oh, it

is a good show. Only because of Ted Raimi. Well,

and Jonathan Brandis, but anyway. Oh, God. Hey.

You got the tiger beat cut out up on your wall?

Tiger beat. No way it could be this easy. Stop

jinxing yourself, Rattrap. Yes, and the big eel

comes out and jumps into space and he starts

cowering and beating on the glass. He's flailing

like, ah! He's like, I'm scared of fish. That

was funny. I laughed. I laughed at that too.

I did too. This is very interesting. This is

a very serious note here. and very topical to

this episode. Why does Megatron all of a sudden

have such an interest in Sentinel? It makes no

sense. Granted, it would have been his advantage

if the Maximals couldn't get it back, but still,

all of a sudden, we've gone, what, since Season

1 that they've had Sentinel, and it doesn't take

him until Season 3 that he gets all interested

in it? I think he wanted it primarily so that

the Maximals couldn't have it. Yeah, I think

that was more so his ultimate goal. That and

he can protect the base was something that the

Maximals themselves invented that he got his

ass kicked with numerous times. Yeah, I mean,

at this point, the Maximals aren't going to be

attacking anything. They're in full -on defense

mode. Without a shield, that's all they can do.

True. And they even go so much as say that in

this episode. Waspinator 1, Doggybot Zippo. Come

on. Waspinator 1. Did I actually watch this episode?

I watched it earlier. What happened during this

episode? It's basically a rat race to get this.

Yeah, rat traps underwater. And then when they

get them out, I mean, it's just constant. Somebody's

knocking somebody down, shooting somebody over.

And then the next group is grabbing the device.

And then ultimately it ends up with the Predacons,

obviously. Yeah. Because, you know, let's face

it, Depth Charge gets in the way. Yeah, I haven't

gotten to that yet. It didn't look much like

Depth Charge was saving anybody's butt. No, he

was still doing his own thing. Yeah, it looked

like he was thinking. Well, I wonder what they're

up to. It sounds like they're getting their asses

handed to them, and then he kind of runs into

them. Yeah. It doesn't look like he was saving

anybody. Oh, look, I drove off Waspinator, but,

you know, he's carrying the thing that we were

trying to get. Rat trap pinball. Cheetor was

right. It would make an excellent cat toy. Ding,

ding, ding, ding, ding. Tilt. Tilt? There always

has to be the tilt. In his eyes. Yes. Okay, that

power dive was just awesome and also Waspinator

splat alert. I like that scene. Waspinator having

good day. Not get shot once. And then he's, you

know, of course, down on his luck. Of course.

It wouldn't be a Waspinator -centric, you know,

splat alert if he didn't get blown up at least

once. True. Fucking depth charge. Why is he always

getting in the way and stuff? Asshole. That is

exactly what we just said, yeah. Yes, I know,

but... You're catching up now. Yeah. And my final

And Steve has to say it. Say what? Say what?

Face palm. Do I actually have to? I can't get

the big red button to turn it on. Do I actually

have to give you the line so you can just say

it back to us in Megatron's voice? Sentinel,

on line. There you go. Alright, so Steve, what

did you think of this one? Um... It was interesting

to see another Rattrap -centric episode for once,

being that he hasn't actually had any decent

Rattrap times. I like where Rampage came up and

tried to pop Rattrap until Depth Charge intercepted.

basically kicked him out. It's like, nope, this

is my fight. And then they, of course, ensue

hell upon each other. Rampage actually uses his

Rampage Terrorize. Oh, yeah. In which he never

does before, and he might possibly after, but

I sincerely doubt it. And it should also be noted

that this is the last fairly Rattrap -centric

episode of the entire show. Yeah, pretty much

from here on out, it's either going to be, you

know, it changes from episode to episode. Cheetor

will be getting more so the spotlight than a

lot of the other Maximals besides Primal. Oh,

yeah. Of course, Depth Charge will get a little

bit more time, being that he's the new guy on

the block. But it seems like the older they are,

the less likely they are to get a prime time.

That's not so much the case when we get to Beast

Machines, but yeah, you're right. For Beast Wars,

that's pretty much how the rest of it's going.

Yeah, true. Poor Rhinox doesn't get much love

at all. He gets some. Although he should have

turned Transmetal, and then people would have

gave a crap more. Yeah, see? I've been saying

that all along. Well, even in Beast Machines,

they spend the entire series looking for him,

and then toward the end, he's like, here I am.

I traded. Well, yeah, dark designs. So, Michael,

what did you have for Changing of the Guard,

the final episode today? Just a few things. The

Predacon's got a spy drone. Which, you know,

we haven't actually seen since Scorponok died.

Yes, this is very reminiscent of it, minus the

beast -y looking form to it. The little bee.

Yeah, this one looks like a little ship or something.

Well, it looks like the bee, just without all

the beast, you know, aesthetics to it. Yeah.

Yeah, I was like, oh, I miss Scorponok. Nobody

else is going to chime in and be like, I like

Scorponok, too. He's dead. He needs to stay dead.

Stupid half -charted moron always dropping shit

on himself. Yeah, I guess he should stay dead,

but Laserbeak, they could have brought him. Anyway,

yeah, I like the damage model for Silverbolt.

You really enjoy damage models. I do. Whenever

they trash somebody, when they do it really good,

I mean, it's one thing just to, you know, make

them look like they got hurt. Like, I'm on the

ground and I'm holding my head and going, ow,

I'm hurt. But no, this is like, you've just been

trashed and your arm is off, you know? It's just

his flesh wound, your arm's off, you know, that

type of thing. I like that. I always like it

when they go the extra mile and just... you know,

completely mess somebody up. Because, you know,

as far as 3D modeling goes, that's a whole new

model. That's not easy to do. No, because they

just duplicate the one, and then they just get

to say, okay, remove this, remove this, put a

little glitch here, damage this, just remove

this, damage it, damage it, burn it, fire, fire.

But, yeah, but he, apparently somebody put a

lot of effort. in building this completely unique

3D model of Silverbolt being damaged, and he's

just fine a minute later. He forgot. I know.

It's like, um, I got better. She turned me into

a newt. Mm -mm, better. I got better. Um... And,

uh, yeah, I cracked myself up. This is sad. By

the time you get to the end, did Dep Charge officially

join the team, or is he still like, yeah, yeah,

yeah? He's more so on their team. He'll help

them if he's around, but he's still going to

keep with his primary objective. I hate to equate

him to this, because the person that I'm going

to equate him to is so much more awesomer. than

he is, but DepthCharge is pretty much Batman

when it comes to the Justice League. He's not

a full -time member, but he's there when they

need help, and they will need help. See, I was

actually thinking like Tigatron in the beginning.

Tigatron was more of a loner, but he was more

of a... one of those guys that... one of the

PETA guys. Wait, PETA has men on it? I thought

it was all women. It's people for the eating

of tasty animals. Oh my god! Don't you know the

only way they can get people to actually pay

attention to those stupid things is by having

a woman's boobs on them? Yeah, you know what's

sad too is I will find those commercials and

little short videos online and then eat steak

while I'm watching the boobs. It was like, oh,

yeah. Nom, nom, nom. Take that. Take that. That's

right. In your face, people, for the ethical

treating of animals. Actually, I meant to say

people for the eating of tasty animals, and it

came out with their actual name. I don't know

what the hell happened. Yeah. Wow. Is it actually

people for the ethical treatment of animals?

No, it's people eating testicles always. Okay.

I don't think that the prime rib is from the

nether regions of the... But they'd like to think

so. I don't like to think so. Do we have any

other notes on... What the hell's the name of

this damn episode? Changing of the card. I'm

good. Steve might have something. They had that

scene where Inferno knocked a tree down in front

of Rattrap and Silverbolt. His comlink was on

the wrong side. Something minor. It was just

a technical glitch. Other than that, I would

have to say this episode was pretty good, despite

the fact that, for the most part, Sentinel doesn't

even get brought back up again until other victories.

Yeah, I was actually thinking this was a bit

of a throwaway. It pretty much was. It was, hmm,

we don't know what to write about, so we'll write

about Sentinel. Hmm, something that we really

haven't talked about since the agenda, but we

really don't plan on using it again until other

victories for its five -second... A MacGuffin,

you say? Yes, pretty much. Which is kind of sad,

because Ian James... Sentinel had so much potential.

Well, not only did Sentinel have so much potential,

but... So much. What I mean to say, if Megatron

would stop interrupting me, you stupid red dragon

asshole, is that it's a shame that Sentinel pretty

much dies come other victories because Ian James

Corlett did such an awesome job with the voice,

I thought. You know, that's something I thought

was interesting, is that he does the voice, and

you know that he... He doesn't just regulate

a computerized voice for Sentinel. He actually

gets excited when there's something to be excited

about, like when Transmutate was in danger. It's

like, oh, holy shit, things are breaking, and

he's doing it as Sentinel. And I'm surprised

that he didn't give a little bit more personality

to Sentinel when Megatron kind of... Give it,

like, a darker tone. Yeah. Or sarcastic or something,

like, yeah, whatever, you know. Sentinel, now

online. Yeah, yeah. Take that, maximal scum.

Now I have the bullhorn surrounded by guns. Screw

you, Rhinox. In your face. In your ass. Wow.

Okay, and we are going to go to some quotes,

maybe some episode audio, and then the outro.

We will be back after this. Hey, this is Cheetor,

and you're listening to the Beast Unleashed podcast,

Ultra Gear. Here's quote number one. Stay close,

Maximum. It's time to transform and roll out.

Quote number two. Jumping gyros. Optimus sure

learns a new body fast. Yeah, well, what do you

expect? He changes them often enough. And quote

number three. Stand and fight, vermin! Oh, yeah?

Shrivel up and die, yeah? So to end that dark

mess of a hole that was our final episode in

this episode of the podcast here, I kind of...

equaled it off with, we'll be back after this.

So, Michael, did you have anything else you wanted

to bring up? Oh, I had just noticed that in the

last episode, we had Rampage and Death Charge

actually going underwater, and it was like, ooh,

underwater, cool. But this episode, the changing

the guard toward the beginning seemed to me like

the writers were trying to figure out a way of

getting somebody other than those two underwater.

And here we have Rattrap in a bubble. Now he's

got the means to go underwater and a reason to

go underwater. So we have somebody other than

our two swimmers doing it. It was neat. Probably

a little unnecessary. Maybe they could have asked

DepthCharge, pretty pleased with Sugar on it,

to go do that for them. But, yeah. That's about

all I had. Okay, then. So, thank you for joining...

What? Thoughts. What thoughts? You're full of

crap, Wilson. Oh. Never mind. Well, you tell

me that every time you critique a podcast episode,

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