Talk:Japanese Generation 1 cartoon timeline
The chronological order of BW and BW2 in Japanese continuity
(Maybe I cannot write quite clear, but I still want to say about this.) Uh, this has bothered me for few year after Beast Machines' airing. In my opinion, though it is named "Beast Wars Second", that doesn't means BW2 happens directly after BW's event. Because BW and Beast Machines must be together, and Optimus Primal died in the last, he cannot show up in "Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger" from BW2 portion. Thus, the proper chronological order (maybe) should be (Note: Ignore the BW2 manga):
- Events in Planet Gaia (Lio Convoy and his crew fought Galvatron and his troops) > (Maybe BW Neo can be put there) > BW Megatron stole the Golden Disk > Axalon and Darksyde crash-landed on prehistorical Earth > events in BW > Maximal went back to Cybertron but were attacked by Vehicons > events in BM
--TX55 04:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- ...it had been my impression that BW2 and Neo happened 'while' BW was ongoing. They represent events back in the Maximals 'native' time after the Axalon's disappearance, but before Beast Machines occoured. In short-- the airing order more-or-less reflects the order of events.
- (I didn't think BW2 occurring simultaneously to BW/Metals was ever in question.)-Derik 07:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- One problem with that is that Gaia is supposed to be Earth in the far, far future, after almost all of human civilization is overgrown and forgotten. It doesn't really mesh with the "300 years after the Great War" thing. I assume that's why the timeline's writer(s) placed it somewhere in the indeterminate future. --Swift 12:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
References
You reference two timelines from the KP-era, fine. Are there translations of them for us to read? Is every event listed here for those two timelines? Did you add anything else in? This is a lot of content, and I'm having trouble parsing what came from where, even the stuff that looks like old info looks like it's had a lot of new additions to it. (And I still don't get how BW2 took place further in the future than BW-era.)
Also- what was the name of the manga series with the Trigger in it? I can never remember... -Derik 07:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- Everything in the timeline is taken directly from one or both of the ones cited as references at the bottom of the page (when they had two differently expanded versions of the same historical point, we merged them, but otherwise it's pretty much word-for-word). These essentially are the translations of them, as we didn't add anything of our own in. If you're looking for what info came from which timeline, it's primarily from the longer one in the new book collection, but the Autorooper X Atari one included the expanded G1 episode info and a few additional story points about Binaltech, Robot Masters and of course Kiss Players.
- Not sure on the manga series title, though. I'll have to check and get back to you on that,
--Swift 12:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
