by Sabrblade » Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:19 pm
- Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
- Weapon: Saber Blade
When they were first making the Beast Wars cartoon, though, Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio were essentially making an entirely new show that had little to no relation to the one from 1984. They wanted to make their own show without any real ties to the old one, and pretty much ignored the G1 cartoon in the earlier stages of Beast Wars. The pilot itself had no elements from G1 in it beyond a mention of "Cybertron" and the unstable crystalline energy being called "energon". The "Great War" alluded to in the pilot was originally just an abstract idea of ambiguity that was meant to get the fans more interested and curious about the show and its world. It was the fans who thought the "Great War" referred to "the Autobot/Decepticon civil war of the 1980s fiction", and so Bob and Larry took a liking to the idea and eventually ran with it.
But Beast Wars originated with the intent of being the first actual reboot series before it was later decided by the maker to throw in some nods to the 1980s Transformers fiction (both the cartoon and the comics), and eventually make Beast Wars the setting for some sort of G1 universe. One that has Starcream in his Marvel Universe profile colors, the Autobot starship called "the Ark" (a Marvel-original thing since the cartoon never gave it a name), the Decepticon starship called "the Nemesis" (a name that originated from Beast Wars since no 1980s fiction ever named the ship), said Decepticon starship known as "the most powerful Decepticon warship in Transformer history" (having no such reputation in any 1980s fiction) for having shot down the Ark (the Autobot ship crashed in the cartoon via G-forces pulling it down, and crashed in the comics via Optimus himself driving down it into the Earth), and Primus existent (who didn't exist in the cartoon, having not been conceived as a thing until 1988). And all of this, the Beast Wars's G1, was regarded as being akin to Arthurian Legend by Bob and Larry.
In complete contrary to my point, however, the Japanese version of the Beast Wars cartoon was definitely (and is officially) regarded as being part of the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity, so Japan made real this point of view, while the West chose full ambiguity.
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
