Editing Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)

Story editor [[Bob Skir]] describes the '''Beast Machine television series''' as a "religious epic novel for television."

By more forgiving Transfans, ''Beast Machines'' is remembered as the series which tried to tackle a heavy philosophical concepts--such as what it meant to live in an increasingly technological society and the dichotomy between the desires of the individual and the needs of society and the paradox of a living technological world--and didn't always succeed.  Many fans, however, are not so forgiving, and recall with hatred the "hippie" agenda of this follow-up to ''[[Beast Wars]]'', and a few went so far as to send Skir death threats, causing him to cancel a convention appearance in 2000.  ''Beast Machines'' followed the adventures of the core ''Beast Wars'' cast upon their return home to Cybertron; there, Optimus Primal and his crew find that the whole planet has been made mindless slaves of Megatron, who somehow escaped his captivity (seen at the close of ''[[Beast Wars]]'').  Throughout ''Beast Machines''' two seasons, Primal and his fellow Maximals learn to balance their technological side with a newly-retconned biological aspect, eventually turning Cybertron into an technorganic paradise.  Like ''[[Beast Wars]]'', ''Beast Machines'' was fully CGI; unlike ''[[Beast Wars]]'', the show did not go over well.  Hasbro's next foray into animation, perhaps as an effort to recover, would be to bring over a year-old Japanese show for consumption in the US, until a new story could be concocted.

==Season 1==
1. [[The Reformatting]]<br>
2. [[Master of the House]]<br>
3. [[Fires of the Past]]<br>
4. [[Mercenary Pursuits]]<br>
5. [[Forbidden Fruit]]<br>
6. [[The Weak Component]]<br>
7. [[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]<br>
8. [[Revelations Part II: Descent]]<br>
9. [[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]<br>
10. [[Survivor]]<br>
11. [[The Key]]<br>
12. [[The Catalyst]]<br>
13. [[End of the Line]]

==Season 2: Battle for the Spark==
1. [[Fallout]]<br>
2. [[Savage Noble]]<br>
3. [[Prometheus Unbound]]<br>
4. [[In Darkest Knight]]<br>
5. [[A Wolf in the Fold]]<br>
6. [[Native Soil]]<br>
7. [[Sparkwar Part 1: The Strike]]<br>
8. [[Sparkwar Part 2: The Search]]<br>
9. [[Sparkwar Part 3: The Siege]]<br>
10. [[Spark of Darkness]]<br>
11. [[Endgame Part 1: The Downward Spiral]]<br>
12. [[Endgame Part 2: When Legends Fall]]<br>
13. [[Endgame Part 3: The Seeds of the Future]]

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