ZeroWolf wrote:I think saying "the new thing won't affect the old" is perfectly valid, after all look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that's on its (counts fingers) ninth incarnation now? And its still the same core cast. Something new can't take away the old, the old thing still exists, plus there is one thing that while it's very blunt, is sadly true. Beast Wars is whatever Hasbro says it is, if they want to add a new chapter to tf lore where robots with realistic beast alts clobber each other, and call that Beast Wars: Second Impact that's their right, as they own it. It's not perfect but it is what it is,and at consumer level you can choose to consume or not.
The caveat is that G1 movies can keep being remade forever because, by pop culture recognition alone, that is
The Transformers. Beast Wars is a sub-series, a spin-off. It is Batman Beyond, to Batman: TAS. The Batman can be remade time and again, but context is needed for another Batman Beyond/another Beast Wars to Transformers.
Sometimes however, as in the case with He-Man, the New Thing can kill the old thing stone dead. That
does happen in all media.
Hasbro can say what they like, if people don't buy into it, they make it go away. Aligned Continuity, hello? DC's DCYou, Marvel's Heroes Reborn, Venus, the Female turtle of TMNT etc etc
S.o.L. wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:This wouldn't affect the old beast wars just like every other version of tf doesn't impact on the sunbow toon.
It is true, but the funny thing is, the characters in beast wars
did try to affect the G1 toon, season 2 ended so helplessly, I thought they ended the series (ending like ALF with no new season (even though there was an ALF tv movie later)), and it was Hasbro saying transformers was over. It felt like our childhood was being attacked (by the fictional events, but it also made me ponder our actual real life, what if the G1 show never existed and we never had the toys) and there would be no new toys.
I bought my first beast wars toy that same day.
That is probably the strangest take home message I've ever read regarding The Agenda. I thought we were being taken somewhere new, bold and exciting. Alas that didn't happen... At least we got Depthcharge