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* How does Cheetor follow Blackarachnia up what appears to be a perfectly smooth vertical pipe? Does his new beast mode come with magnetic paws? | * How does Cheetor follow Blackarachnia up what appears to be a perfectly smooth vertical pipe? Does his new beast mode come with magnetic paws? | ||
* The first few minutes of this episode where shown on a [[Fox Kids]] Special where they showed previews of all there new shows ([[Beast Wars]] was also previewed, but that was more made of clips of the show then any one episode). | |||
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 Master of the House, quick to catch the eye, never likes a passerby to pass him by... | ||||||
| "Master of the House" | ||||||
| Production company | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Airdate | September 25, 1999 | |||||
| Written by | Marty Isenberg Bob Skir | |||||
| Directed by | Steve Sacks | |||||
| Animation studio | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars continuity | |||||
After their reformatting, the amnesiac Maximals come face to face with the source of their troubles.
- French title: Maître du Conseil
- French-Canadian title: Maître des Lieux
- Japanese title: 野性の調教 (Yasei no Chōkyō, "Breaking of the Wild")
- Spanish title: El Amo y Señor ("The Lord and Master")
- Brazilian title: Mestre da Casa
Synopsis
Underground, where the Vehicons have failed to look, the four Maximals gather. Under the teachings of Optimus Primal, the team try to relearn their new transformations. However, it is no longer simple command codes, but now requires emotional balance and deep concentration since their reformatting at the hands of the Oracle. Cheetor and Blackarachnia manage to use their technorganic transformations properly, but Rattrap still has trouble with his new body. But their time in robot mode is limited, as a rumbling shakes the chamber and a Mole Drone attacks the Maximals. The shock has forced Cheetor and Blackarachnia back into their beast modes, and they take shelter behind Primal.
Optimus leaps in front of the frightened Maximals and deflects the blasts, all the while explaining that they reverted because they lost their emotional balance. Primal destroys the mindless Vehicon with a blast of energy, but knows it's time to leave, hopefully to find a new base and continue their transformation lessons. However, his idea is met with mild rebuff by Cheetor and Blackarachnia. They believe that they should seek out any survivors and reformat them, using them to destroy the drones. But Optimus overrules them, saying they need to get a handle on their new transformations before they go out looking for trouble. They split up to search out a new base. Blackarachnia and Cheetor are paired together (real smart pairing them up, ya big munky), and Rattrap and Primal go the opposite way.
Cheetor and Blackarachnia (with some goading on Blackarachnia's part) decide to go topside. As soon as they clamber up from the caves, they discover that they are in Cybertropolis, the new capital of Cybertron after Iacon's destruction. But there is a problem; Cybertropolis should be home to "ten million Transformers", but the duo find it deserted, and Cybertron InfoCore has been deleted.
Before the pair can investigate further, they are attacked by Aero Drones, and plunge off the side of a building before they can slide to safety. As he runs, Cheetor attempts to transform, but he hasn't found his spiritual center yet and remains in cat mode. Blackarachnia traps two of the jets with her webs, but more arrive. Fortunately, Optimus arrives. He quickly transforms into robot mode and takes to the air, but is soon overwhelmed.
Cheetor and Blackarachnia manage to transform, and they quickly dispatch the drones, Blackarachnia using electrical "stinger" energy and Cheetor's scimitars. Optimus scolds Cheetor for disobeying orders, but is intrigued at their findings. Optimus orders the group to head to the Council Citadel, hoping to find answers. Rattrap moves ahead of the rest of the group but encounters Tank Drones. Optimus orders Cheetor and Blackarachnia to hold off the drones while he investigates inside. When he gets inside, he heads to the chambers of the Maximal Elders.
Reaching the council meeting room, Primal comes face to face with the leader of the drones—Megatron, now encased in a suit of control armor. He greets Primal cordially, and decides to "fill in" the gaps in Primal's memory. Megatron claims that he won the Beast Wars, and that he decided to remodel Cybertron into his own image, one of technological purity, devoid of organic life. Thus, he explains, came the Vehicons, sparkless Transformers who will serve Megatron and crush Primal's "mongrel" Maximals.
However, the Maximals manage to survive the Vehicons, their technorganic bodies and Spark-powered ingenuity foiling the mindless might of the drones. Frustrated by the Maximals' survival, and with some goading by Primal, the enraged Megatron breaks free of his harness and transforms into his Transmetal 2 beast mode, deactivating the drones in the process. Primal and Megatron fight, but Megatron reconnects to his control harness, and summons more Vehicons, mocking Primal all the while. The Maximals arrive, and barely manage to drag Primal away.
When the Maximals inquire about what happened, Primal tells them that this all happened because he failed to destroy Megatron. However, it is now up to Primal to correct that mistake.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Vehicons |
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Quotes
Optimus: "Free your minds, let go of old thinking, focus on the transformation within."
Rattrap: "Hoy...what's with all the hocus pocus? Just give us the command codes so we can transform already."
Optimus: "It's not that easy, Rattrap, the Oracle had melded us into a balance of both machine and living tissue. Command codes and onboard computers are things of the past.
Cheetor: "So what are we, robots or animals?"
Optimus: "Both and neither."
Blackarachnia: "Well that sure clears it up."
Optimus: "The key is finding the balance in yourself, then and only then can you truly say...I am Transformed."
- —Optimus teaching the Maximals how to transform in their technorganic bodies.
Rattrap: "I am transformed, I am sooo transformed I can't even believe it!...ehhh".
Optimus: "Just let it happen, don't try to make it happen."
[Rattrap tries to force himself to transform]
Optimus: "Can you feel it?"
Rattrap: "Oh! I feel a breakthrough coming..."
- —Rattrap tries to transform but fails (and makes a dirty double entendre at the same time).
"Aww, come on, ever since we got to Cybertron, all we've done is run and hide."
- —Cheetor, who is way more right than he knows.
"Cybertron is now my domain. You may bow before your new lord and master."
- —Megatron lets Optimus know who's in charge.
"I am the future. I have forged this entire planet into a single elegant machine. A vision of technological purity and order. You you four mongrels would dare contaminate that vision with your accursed beast modes."
- —Megatron speechifies.
"What's wrong, Megatron? Your single elegant machine having trouble multitasking?"
- —Optimus burns Megatron.
"Look at yourself, Megatron. See the thing you despise the most. Cybertron will never be pure so long as the beast exists within you. You've failed."
- —Optimus while holding Megatron by the beast neck.
Notes
- How does Cheetor follow Blackarachnia up what appears to be a perfectly smooth vertical pipe? Does his new beast mode come with magnetic paws?
- The first few minutes of this episode where shown on a Fox Kids Special where they showed previews of all there new shows (Beast Wars was also previewed, but that was more made of clips of the show then any one episode).
Animation errors
- In one shot were Primal is running to the door to the Elders counsil room one of the Cycle Drones has Thrusts Colors whom has not appered yet
Continuity errors
- Blackarachnia seems to know an awful lot about the Cybertron InfoCore even though she only activated on prehistoric earth during the Beast Wars.
- Megatron is scarred across his right eye. Unless something happened to him between the end of Beast Wars and the start of Beast Machines, the origin of that scar is a mystery, which, to this day, has not been explained.
Transformers references
- Megatron's dragon form looks like a patchwork cyborg rather than the smooth reddish version it originally was; as we find out in subsequent episodes, this is due to a large number of failed experiments to rid his body of all organic elements. His robot form has apparently undergone alterations as well, since the cloak covering his body appears to be integral to it rather than a part of the control helmet device he is continuously plugged into.
Real-world references
- Megatron's control room is full of floating screens that he controls at a whim. These are very similar to the floating windows that appeared throughout Mainframe Entertainment's original production, ReBoot.
Home video releases
- DVD
2004 — Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Returns — Volume 1 (Geneon Entertainment) — Japanese audio only.
2006 — Beast Machines: Transformers — The Complete Series (Rhinomation)
2007 — Transformers: Beast Machines — Season One: Volume One (Sony)
2007 — Transformers: Beast Machines — Season One: Volume One — Reformatting (Sony)
2007 — Transformers: Beast Machines — Complete Season One (Sony)
2009 — Transformers: Beast Machines — Intégrale Saison 1 (Sony) — French audio only.
