Five Page Preview of IDW Beast Wars #9

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:That dialogue almost seems to be mocking the plot of The Agenda. It isn't really a good idea to poke fun at something of higher quality.

To be fair, the characters in the show called Megatron's plan "madness" too.

Would have been hard to sell the toys that were already in production at that point though

I don't mind them poking fun at it. Might mean they're making more changes then we think.

Sabrblade wrote:Yet, he admitted to himself the enormity of what it entailed and, in his hesitance, held off going through with it until all of his other options were exhausted.

If not for Blackarachnia, it might have paid off too.

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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Always lamented the backtrack on that cliffhanger. Season 3 could have been so much more interesting. Set within a dystopian, alternate future

We got that dystopian future. It was called Beast Machines.

Touché

ZeroWolf wrote:Would have been hard to sell the toys that were already in production at that point though

To be fair, looking at how different the TM 2 line was. It wouldn't have been too far a leap to assume that was the "alternate" cast of Season 3. There was no Primal in that line, after all.

ZeroWolf wrote:I don't mind them poking fun at it. Might mean they're making more changes then we think.

Cynically, I'd say that is a nod to the fans. With a realisation this series won't last long enough to reach that point.

Oh dear, we're back to "this" type of aesthetics now, are we? Perhaps this is the "dystopian" future mentioned in a post or two above?

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Yet, he admitted to himself the enormity of what it entailed and, in his hesitance, held off going through with it until all of his other options were exhausted.

If not for Blackarachnia, it might have paid off too.

He would have been better off not going through with it. The future without the timestorm ever happening at all would have yielded him a better conquest of Cybertron, this time with Predacons instead of Vehicons, and which would have lasted for years with Predacons hunting down and executing hapless Maximals before they'd finally give a more concerted fightback years after Megatron took over. Megatron's timestorm in the past changed all that and resulted in the Vehicon-takeover and Spark War instead.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:To be fair, looking at how different the TM 2 line was. It wouldn't have been too far a leap to assume that was the "alternate" cast of Season 3. There was no Primal in that line, after all.

There is no way Mainframe would have taken the existing cast they spent two seasons developing and discarded them for all-new people. Especially since that would have required creating completely brand new CG models for everyone when they were trying to save every buck they could when making the ones they already had (Tigatron and Blackarachnia being modified from Cheetor and Tarantulas, Ravage being modified from TM Cheetor w/ Tigatron's head, etc.).

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Cynically, I'd say that is a nod to the fans. With a realisation this series won't last long enough to reach that point.

In that interview I mentioned Burnham saying that Razorbeast was originally gonna be someone else that Hasbro vetoed, Burnham also revealed that the Ark and its occupants are currently "not on the table" for this series.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:That would lead me to believe this series has a predefined length of time attached to it, assigned by Hasbro. Given the Beast Wars show narrative pivoted entirely in that direction for Season Two.

Twelve issues is the current plan, with more to come should the series do well enough.

Was there any clues to who the vetoed character was?

I see, thanks Sabrblade. In some cases, if the comic survives past 12, it'd be good to see more toy only characters. There shouldn't be that many that hasbro say no to, other then the magnaboss combiner of course, if the bw grimlock theory holds true.

Sabrblade wrote:We did get Magnaboss Ironhide in the first issue.

I did mean more of the ongoing cast.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Always lamented the backtrack on that cliffhanger. Season 3 could have been so much more interesting. Set within a dystopian, alternate future

We got that dystopian future. It was called Beast Machines.

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Touché

In fact, now that I think about it, if one were to jump immediately from watching "The Agenda (Part III)" to "The Reformatting" and "Master of the House", that would kinda feel like history was rewritten, with only Blackarachnia being chummy with the Maximals and Megatron's dragon mode unexplained but which be written off as part of the history rewrite.

Of course, later episodes directly calling back to BW season 3 ruin this, but still.