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5.0 out of 5 stars I Can't Believe I Missed it the First Time, Nov 30 2003

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T. Sparks (Leesville, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beast Wars Transformers: The Complete First Season (DVD)

When Beast Wars first came out, I was in middle school and at the wonderful age where I had judged myself too old for such things as "Beast Wars" and "Transformers." So I missed out on perhaps one of the best science fiction shows of the 90s.

About the 11th grade, I determined I didn't give a rip if anybody cared if I still liked Transformers, but by that time, Beast Wars was gone, and had been replaced with the questionable Beast Machines. I read up on the Beast Wars, though, intrigued by what I had missed.

So when Rhino released the first season, I bought it as soon as I could find a copy. I was not disappointed.

The episodes are all well-made, and the story writing is also well done (except for the episode "The Low Road;" ugh.) My personal favorite episode is "Possession" which features the return of original Transformers character, Starscream! Another top-notch episode is "Law of the Jungle," which has a surprisingly mature look at death, sacrifice, duty, and honor.

Basically, everybody in the family can enjoy "Beast Wars"--there's enough technobabble for hardcore Sci-fi fans, humor for the kids, and plenty of action and adventure throughout.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Transformer series..., April 1 2004

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"fleetlordavtar" (chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

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Beast Wars!!
At first, with nostalgic prejudice for the original 80's American G1 series, I was POSITIVE that Beast Wars were second rate. It didn't help that I never caught the show's initial run in order or that i only occasionaly saw an espoisode now & then, so the plots/characters never seemed to make sense.

Only after watching the original G1 series on DVD I noticed the glaring difference in quality. I realized that the G1 series were just glorified toy commericals, but Beast wars had high quality writers, very good story lines, and highly interesting charcters/charcter interactions, Beast Wars was a real program. There was also the minor things that bugged me from the originals that were fixed with Beast Wars, like when they transformed they were relative to their size, NO changing size (small item to huge robot) to fit the show/toy line. There were many tie ins with the original series including a special guest apparence of three decepticons in diffent episodes.

The CGI animation was good for mid 90's, bright, clear colors with shimmering metallic surfaces show thru excellent on DVD (that's on only a stero TV, on HDTV it's heaven). A waste that the environment was bland & rather empty. The animals didn't appeal to me at first, but when u thought about it, it ended up fitting into the story better. Then there's none of those ANNOYING humans that wear only one set of clothes and have the transformers alway having to save them from terrible situations they make for themselves.

I was disappointed that there is no subtitles or language options. The menu interface is rather cumbersome to select things. Then for those that care, there are barely any extras like the faces behind the voices or staff caring on with blah blah blah...

I purchased this DVD set and anxiously anticipate the rest of the episodes of Beast Wars and Beast Machines!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best cartoon series ever with the most advanced graphics, Oct 4 2010

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The Beast Wars series is often shunned by many people who believe it is a ripoff from the Transformer series. In my opinion the Beast Wars series is better in all aspects than the Transformer series. The graphics in Beast Wars is highly advanced compared to Transformers. The fact that machines change into several different animals (Beast Wars) is more interesting than machines turning in vehicles (Transformers). In Beast Wars there is always something that changes like the machines getting different forms, Some characters dying, or new characters being introduced. This keeps the viewer interested because they are excited to see what changes come next. In Transformers the characters do not have their own personalities, Optimus says a command and they all follow without question. In Beast Wars each character has his/her own personality. As a result there is arguing, fights amongst each other, and some charcters disobeying orders. I think that the character personalities puts humour into the series and makes it more interesting to the viewer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars success at last
the first season is more then i hope for.you cant get a better version then this.i must say you did good.i have been looking all over for this. Read more

Published on April 27 2004 by reggie

5.0 out of 5 stars Where it all begins...
Finally finally finally, someone listens to our begs and pleas to bring this great series to DVD. Rhino, I applaud you. Read more

Published on Mar 25 2004 by S. Logan