Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-25063315-20140918021608/@comment-25063315-20140920164720

Stuonthis wrote: @CorporateJP - Beast Wars is actually part of the G1 canon. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_cartoon_timeline @Bfeisty - Magnus is indeed oddly strong for an r5 card (which is tossed into blatant irony status being that it's him in a human form). I think they may have done this to atone for the excessive cube-eating up-ramp in difficulty over the last few weeks and/or to give us the means to deal with what they're plotting on subjecting us to next week. Beast Wars and Beast Machines take place in a universe that likely shares many facets of this timeline. While exactly which and how many of these events, or those of the Marvel Comics timeline, occur in that continuity is unknown, a link to the Beast Era timeline is provided for reference here at the points where a major historical event from those shows would occur.Stu, I love you and all my brother, but your link itself kind of tells a different, albeit confusing, story. "Likely shares" and "would occur" don't exactly make anything concrete. I get the whole Starscream's ghost showing up and taking over some jibroni wasp's body, but, at the time, I think it was a rousing move to sell a shit series to a formerly-rabid fan base. A person could argue that Starscream's ghost crossed the plane of existence into another universe. I think somebody over at Hasbro asked them to attempt to tie the Beast series into existence with original, old school G1, but they did a horrible job on that if that was the case. Between Hasbro, Takara, Tomy or whoever is making stories and/or cartoons, I think it leaves it all up to interpretation. To this day, they are all trying to put a puzzle together and the pieces just don't fit, but their current solution is to grind and cut the existing pieces to fit and it just doesn't work. It doesn't change my opinion on Beast Wars itself...it was shit and Mobage should quit pulling it out of the toilet, especially if they are not using latex gloves. My existence is out of wack as we speak due to the fact I have an Optimus Primal in my deck...