[ryan]

I've been slowly watching through Beast Wars with my daughters, having never seen it before. I think I even picked up the DVDs from somebody here, was it you DenO?

Anyway, the animation is complete and utter crap. I'm only two discs in, i think, but I barely even notice the terrible CG anymore, because the writing is pretty solid, and the characters are interesting.

My only real problem with it, is there doesn't ever seem to be any consequence to any of the violence. A few episodes ago Optimus Primal was damaged and I thought he said he'd never be able to fly again, but he's been flying ever since. in the episode we watched last night, Rattrap shot Terrorsaur's head off, and the body wandered around looking for the head, and the head could still speak. My girls thought it was funny, but should he be deactivated without a head? and I'm sure he'll be fine next time.
I won't be buying any of the toys, I'll be sticking with 3rd Party stuff right now, and not a lot of that either, cuz money, but it's neat that Hasbro is finally releasing good BW figures.