The Failed Series

Fury9033

I've followed this unfortunate series since its birth. From its conception, with Mainframe Entertainment Inc.'s Message Board to its almost forgotten conclusion.  Its EXTREMELY unfortunate that it ended up this way. However its was going to happen.  Mainframe has had a history of making fine shows. This shows forerunner, Beast Wars was prime example what happens when you get good writers to do a show with a continuum. However, syndication at the time of this show's creation was becoming sparse and rare. However Fox's Kids pickup the series' development tab and bought the rights to the earlier series.

This is where EVERYTHING went wrong. Fox's Kid is legendary for its super censors and strict rules about violence. More so than any other network besides Disney's affiliate channels. When first mention of the problem with Fox's Kids on its BBoard. The board was immediately shutdown. This was first sign.  Late they interviewed the writers and it was learn there was huge argument about too much violence in the series content. So they want a lot taken out. Too much.  

Series mentality was based loosely on the mythology of Asian Culture. Yin and Yang.  Good and Evil. In this case Technology verses Nature. The writers had huge challenge to make the show entertaining while living under the burden of super restrictions of blind fools of Fox's Kids. Also so bad concepts were introduced by development team for the show.  Morphing of the characters into their various forms, instead of transforming mechanically and somewhat reliably.

Story went on that Omega Sigma Computer (The original legendary Transformer series mainframe computer on cybertron which created the all Transformers) begins to influence Optimus Primal into trying change the nature of the Transformers from the mechanical to the biotechnological.  A merge of machine and nature to the perfect form. Megaton, for some reason had arrive sooner than the Maximals did from Earth. Had become obsessed with dominating all transformers and disposing of his all his animal like transformer forms.  Apparently writers had stated that Maximals were infact sent to Earth, to the past to absorb the natural state of existence and bring it back to Cybertron so all transformers may evolve into a new state of existence. Megaton captures all the Transformer's sparks (The individual minds of all transformers) so he could merge them into himself. So he could become cybertron itself.  

Series concludes with titanic battle which ultimately forces Optimus and Megaton to merge as one to force next step of evolution on Transformers. Turning Cybertron into this bizarre green grass covered world with old city surface of the planet turned to ruins. With all the transformers emerging in new bodies. The end.

A horrible one, which did not take into consideration on how all the fans of the show felt. If anything else, the ratings for the show reflected this fact. Thus you never will see its like again. Ruining a perfectly good continuum started from Beast Wars.

Moral of the Story? Never allow a network to take over development of a television series.  Like Babylon 5: Crusade and now this series. Networks have track record of wrecking good concepts.

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Fury9033 29 January 2002

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