Animation Damnation - Beast Wars "Double Dinobot"
Added 2023-06-15 10:00:05 +0000 UTCOn this month's Animation Damnation, the guys are chatting about the abysmally animated Transformers spin-off, Beast Wars!
The episode covered, "Double Dinobot," which originally aired back on November 5, 1996, raises certain questions like: Why do the Maximals appear to live in that barren, poorly animated landscape? Were we supposed to throw up every time Rattrap was on screen? And should we have allowed these companies to make cartoons with sub-Nintendo 64 animation that felt dated before the show even aired?
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Watching this episode on a YouTube channel that's upscaled it to 4K..forgot how barren the setting of this show was.
Swan Benson
2023-06-23 10:36:32 +0000 UTC"Yes they finally made a (robotic) monkey out of me!" - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-06-20 15:40:04 +0000 UTCGood thing everything I liked as a kid still holds up.
Mark D Myers
2023-06-20 01:32:30 +0000 UTCOh my god I was wrong it was earth all along!
Mark D Myers
2023-06-20 01:22:01 +0000 UTCI hope the rights issues can get untangled so we can get a home release of robots in disguise 2001.
Mark D Myers
2023-06-20 00:20:41 +0000 UTCCode of hero is the best episode of any transformers series.
Mark D Myers
2023-06-20 00:18:02 +0000 UTCThis episode inspired me to read the Wikipedia article on this show(never go to the actual Transformers wiki it is a terrifying nightmare), and, my dudes, you NEED to look into doing more of this show. It gets fucking nuts on a level that is hard to imagine from a kids show. I don't want to spoil anything but I am 100% sure you guys would enjoy talking about it even if it wasn't for the show.
Timothy Cameron Robbins Miller
2023-06-17 21:05:15 +0000 UTCBrooklyyyyyynnnnn be on to you Great episode
James Bergquist
2023-06-16 18:00:54 +0000 UTCThis was the only Transformers I ever watched, and as a dumb 11 year-old, I fucking loved it. But the first season is terrible. Later eps had some interesting moral questions (my Animorphs-reading, my-heroes-commit-warcrimes-and-it's-complex ass was fascinated), and god, but I loved Cheetor. Yeah, the dumbass cat. I also was convinced that Rattrap and Dinobot were going to end up in love, because my young lesbian heart was desperate to see gayness. Would I watch any of it now? Aw FUCK no. Nope. Love the characters, fond memories, never touching it again.
Nora Dallaire
2023-06-16 14:13:12 +0000 UTCLoved Beast Wars as a kid. It gets wild and so much character death.
Ernest Lewis Jr.
2023-06-16 11:50:59 +0000 UTCOh Also Megatron and Dinobot ate heavily implied to have been a couple. Megs is obsessed with him over the course of the series
Jenny Ibrahim
2023-06-16 03:30:01 +0000 UTCBeast Wars is the TNG of Transformers but like TNG the first season is uh. . . Well you saw
Jenny Ibrahim
2023-06-16 03:28:25 +0000 UTCCame for the AD, stayed for the TOTK sidetrack
Vicky I
2023-06-15 22:16:36 +0000 UTCNo, it's a totally valid criticism. I've just come to the opinion that Animation Damnation is just such a misguided endeavor. The curated style doesn't work because if they've never seen the show in question, they're just jumping in blind with no context of what's happening, and spend the episode saying "why did that happen?", "that doesn't make sense", or "that's stupid" about things that were explained if they HAD watched the first episode or, at the very least, LOOKED AT THE WIKI. As for the complaints about the CGI animation, maybe it doesn't hold up, but dismissing the show outright because it offends your sensibilities comes across as snobbish. People have an attachment to it for a reason and it's not just because of nostalgia. You are exactly right, there is NO affection for the medium be found here and I'll be honest, I don't want them to come anywhere near any CURRENT animated shows with a ten-inch pole. Sorry for the rant.
Justine Prudhomme
2023-06-15 19:32:48 +0000 UTCThe big irony of We Hate Movies is they all...LIKE movies, even the bad ones are fun and they have a passion for the medium? These cartoon ones always sound like no ones even really enjoying themselves and there's not enough to talk about for a 20 minute cartoon. There's no expertise or knowledge to draw on because none of them really give a shit, unlike star trek or star wars content. Sorry about the bummer post, I just usually skip these and always feel bummed out when I do listen
G Goldhar
2023-06-15 17:38:03 +0000 UTCAm I insane? I always thought the design of Season 1 Rattrap was cute. Especially when you compare him to Beast Machines Rattrap, who actually WAS disgusting.
Justine Prudhomme
2023-06-15 16:02:52 +0000 UTCwhat'd you guys call beast machines?
Frank Grimes
2023-06-15 13:24:50 +0000 UTCNot enough Brooklyn in this cartoon :(
Eren Keskin
2023-06-15 13:22:55 +0000 UTCLoved Beast Wars when I was a kid! If you want full context on why things are the way they are in the show I can give it to you but I think it’s a lot funnier that you don’t know.
Patrick Risolo
2023-06-15 11:26:40 +0000 UTCThis was called BEASTIES in Canada. LOVED that title when I was a kid, WAY better than Beast Wars. Every nerd boy in my class had the toys including myself. And the spiders one scared the shit out of me as kid 😂
Maurice Jones
2023-06-15 10:43:16 +0000 UTCbeast machines should be next
Frank Grimes
2023-06-15 10:26:58 +0000 UTC
