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Originally Posted by Poison Shadow

And yeah, Megatron was still the Transmetal II dragon. He couldn't purge his system of that form because it was too powerful, which he hated, because once he got back to Cybertron he saw all organic lifeforms as disgusting and wanted to wipe them all out. He had a suit built that would restrain his transformation, which gave him a pretty sweet Hannibal Lectre-like facemask. He had some scientists working to rid him of that DNA, but they were never able to.

The biggest problem with Beast Machines is that, when production began with all-new writers from those that had written Beast Wars, Hasbro explicitly told them NOT to watch the previous series or familiarize themselves with it in any way. I believe one of the co-creators said that he eventually found an episode guide for BW with one-line synopses of each show just because he didn't feel right about doing a sequel totally blind. That could potentially be where Rhinox's betrayal came from, because remember, he turned Predacon for one episode during BW.

I hardly remember most of Beast Machines, the only reason I currently remember Beast Wars so well is because I watched all of it on Netflix. I disliked killing off Rhinox in BM as he was my favorite character in BW, but then having him go crazy "kill everyone" when he was mentally restored was even worse considering his nature in the original show.