Such a great episode. Such a glorious cartoon. This is the kind of entertainment that children of new generations need in order to learn so valuable lessons.
man, even Femur felt bad about the cost of sacrificing a planet. This was such a great series at portraying believable grey characters like Femur (and to a lesser degree Pelvus) Vizier and King Mantle.
It's good that Femur finally had a use beyond comic relief. I mean, the plan fails, but it *was* a good idea. (tbh I always thought it the planet had exploded as the "doors" finished closing, there might actually have been some damage to the Beast Planet, given there wouldn't have been any room for the explosion's force to spread.
God this episode hits the feels. A beautiful world of living plant life that gave the ultimate sacrifice to stop the Beast Planet only in the end to not put a scratch on the beast. But what Femur said is was true. As long as their is life there's hope. And his little "He's got the whole world in his hands" number there. Shame this show never got another season would love to seen if they find a way to truly stop the Beast Planet.
+SirCraigius Well, in the next episode, the Beast Planet doors are always partly open, when they've always been completely shut in the past when it was not about to devour a world. That doors suggest that something was at least damaged by the explosion of the Jungle Planet's World Engines.
femur just makes you want to hit him and remove body parts from him. the one thing that was weird for mew was when when i found out that Femur was voiced by Garry Chalk who i've always seen voicing leader type charater. i think in my personal option that Garry Chalk had a little too much fun playing Femur as it was a chance for him to get out of the leader roles and into a fun but annoying charter
+Nacirema To answer your question, it basically just yin & yang (dark vs. light), all about balance. Beast planet is a force of nature, an unstoppable force of destruction (Yin), you can't do anything that affect it. And those who's create all the sentient life, planets in this universe is also a force of nature (yang), you can't do anything to stop them from creating life either. It's all nature order & balance. Whether there's life, there's death, pretty simple concept.
+TheMegaUzumaki Well, as I say... the concept of the storyline are based on the "Yin & Yang" and "5 Elements of Life". But the whole story seem to be more complicated.
A living plant world... Man, this show had sci-fi concepts that are still more advanced than some today. And it all looks like mass effect too, doesn't it? I went from watching this as kid and multiple other things to playing so much sci-fi. Looking back, you can see common themes over and over. One single main enemy, an alliance of people or rebels fighting the bad guys, internal conflicts, A hero character leading a special team to do the impossible. Shadow Raiders. - These guys have the alliance but not everyone's into it. - Fire, stone, ice, lizard people, and plant aliens. - Fight off a big all-consuming threat. - The beast planet comes from the sun. Mass Effect has. - Shepherd becoming a Spectre and learning how the galaxy is at stake from an ancient enemy decides to do something about it. He gets the Normandy, a unique, one-and-first-of-a-kind spacecraft build by humans and aliens to go on missions with, and to uncover a rogue agent and a deeper plot concerning reapers. - Different alien races form this special alliance that saves the galaxy three times. - They fight off this all-consuming threat called the reapers. - Reapers come from beyond the galaxy. -They also feature plant aliens known as Thorians. Babyon-5 a sci-fi tv series. -Shadow aliens begin attacking everyone. -People from Babylon-5 form an unlikely alliance to combat the many threats outside and within. -A commander used a unique, one-of-a-kind spacecraft made by humans and aliens to go on missions with. -Shadow aliens were in stasis in a planet for thousands of years. Star Wars is also roughly the same. - An unlikely alliance between Jedi's, redemptive smugglers and rebels. - One big dark enemy, in this case: the sith. Starcraft. - 3 aliens including human species are at war. - Protoss and Zerg were build by ancient xel'naga. - One evil giant xel'naga wants to kill them all. -An unlikely alliance against the evil xel'naga is formed. -Evil Xel'naga exists in another dimension.
Oh, you're right, the explosion of Planet Jungle caused serious damage to one of the doors. Maybe the Alliance didn't care because the idea was to kill the Beast Planet, not to just damage it, so the plan was a failure.
Why didn't they consider taking the planet with them? They only found out the World Engines were defunct later, but everyone just went straight to 'kill the planet', just different flavours. Meanwhile they might have had a place to settle the Fire people.
It had no life signs they could find so figured it'd serve more use as a weapon since there only option now is to keep running. It was the only idea they had that let them go on the offensive.
My theory is that the only way to destroy it would be to use Null Energy. Bait the Beast planet into firing a null energy blast and then reflecting the energy off two battle moons (assuming the energy is reflected at a 90 degree angle - See S2E01) which would result in the null energy rebounding back onto the beast planet and resulting in entire planetary destruction.
@@MrNintoku That wouldn't work. An _entire planet made of null matter_ went off in its face in the next episode. It slowed it down alright, but didn't damage it. Black hole seems more effective, maybe...
One of the things i love about this episode is that it is femur' who gives words of comfort to the alliance, "as long as life continues there is hope"
Such a great episode. Such a glorious cartoon. This is the kind of entertainment that children of new generations need in order to learn so valuable lessons.
It's too bad jungle couldn't be saved. Damn Beast Planet. 😢
Part of it also survives with Botanica in Beast Machines
"As long as life continues there is hope" Femur :)
man, even Femur felt bad about the cost of sacrificing a planet. This was such a great series at portraying believable grey characters like Femur (and to a lesser degree Pelvus) Vizier and King Mantle.
Mantle was a piece of crap. Nothing Grey about him.
It's good that Femur finally had a use beyond comic relief.
I mean, the plan fails, but it *was* a good idea.
(tbh I always thought it the planet had exploded as the "doors" finished closing, there might actually have been some damage to the Beast Planet, given there wouldn't have been any room for the explosion's force to spread.
iirc, though, it did severely fuck up its "planet grabber" for awhile.
All Hail the Emperor of Bone. When he's right, he's right..
This just might be the best episode of the second season.
He has the whole world in his hands.
_literally_
Keep putting shows on from back in the day, thanks
God this episode hits the feels. A beautiful world of living plant life that gave the ultimate sacrifice to stop the Beast Planet only in the end to not put a scratch on the beast. But what Femur said is was true. As long as their is life there's hope. And his little "He's got the whole world in his hands" number there. Shame this show never got another season would love to seen if they find a way to truly stop the Beast Planet.
wow.......the kamikaze issue, terminal illness, humanitarian issue rolled up in one
And yet most shows today are lucky to even touch on even one important subject at all...well at least while paying some respect to the issues.
DOWSOE You forgot the utilitarian choice. But yes, this episode was grand.
And all this in a well written way. Todays cartoon can not explore even a single subject in a well written way. This cartoon here.....TIMELESS!
I thought for a moment that Cryos would murder Femur.
He lost his shit.
The planet those sentient plants were from was reused as the planet Regalis V from Beast Machines: Transformers.
Damn. They blew up an entire planet INSIDE the Beast Planet. And still.... not even a scratch :(
Well it did hid inside a sun after all and suns are really really hot. I dont think anyting outide a black hole would destroy it.
On the screen it appears as if some structural damage was done but as to how much I cannot say. Not severe I think.
MrNintoku Really? I've rewatched the explosion a few more times and I don't see any signs of damage to the Beast.
SirCraigius It was on the console on the Aurora. Giant Red shading on the Beast Planet "doors".
+SirCraigius Well, in the next episode, the Beast Planet doors are always partly open, when they've always been completely shut in the past when it was not about to devour a world. That doors suggest that something was at least damaged by the explosion of the Jungle Planet's World Engines.
14:00 Now I´m sure that Tekla is a descendant from the Transformers
99% sure that quip is supposed to be referencing ReBoot, another show by Mainframe
Fun fact, Planet jungle is actually the same Planet Botanica visited in Beast Machines
femur just makes you want to hit him and remove body parts from him. the one thing that was weird for mew was when when i found out that Femur was voiced by Garry Chalk who i've always seen voicing leader type charater. i think in my personal option that Garry Chalk had a little too much fun playing Femur as it was a chance for him to get out of the leader roles and into a fun but annoying charter
also you just can't but love femur being the comic releif and want to hurt him a lot
A life sustaining planeta with a working world engine, a home for the fire people would have been my first idea
So the big question: who or what installed those world engines? I bet it was a species similar to the Forerunners from Halo.
+Nacirema To answer your question, it basically just yin & yang (dark vs. light), all about balance. Beast planet is a force of nature, an unstoppable force of destruction (Yin), you can't do anything that affect it. And those who's create all the sentient life, planets in this universe is also a force of nature (yang), you can't do anything to stop them from creating life either.
It's all nature order & balance. Whether there's life, there's death, pretty simple concept.
+TheMegaUzumaki Well, as I say... the concept of the storyline are based on the "Yin & Yang" and "5 Elements of Life". But the whole story seem to be more complicated.
A living plant world... Man, this show had sci-fi concepts that are still more advanced than some today.
And it all looks like mass effect too, doesn't it? I went from watching this as kid and multiple other things to playing so much sci-fi.
Looking back, you can see common themes over and over. One single main enemy, an alliance of people or rebels fighting the bad guys, internal conflicts, A hero character leading a special team to do the impossible.
Shadow Raiders.
- These guys have the alliance but not everyone's into it.
- Fire, stone, ice, lizard people, and plant aliens.
- Fight off a big all-consuming threat.
- The beast planet comes from the sun.
Mass Effect has.
- Shepherd becoming a Spectre and learning how the galaxy is at stake from an ancient enemy decides to do something about it.
He gets the Normandy, a unique, one-and-first-of-a-kind spacecraft build by humans and aliens to go on missions with, and to uncover a rogue agent and a deeper plot concerning reapers.
- Different alien races form this special alliance that saves the galaxy three times.
- They fight off this all-consuming threat called the reapers.
- Reapers come from beyond the galaxy.
-They also feature plant aliens known as Thorians.
Babyon-5 a sci-fi tv series.
-Shadow aliens begin attacking everyone.
-People from Babylon-5 form an unlikely alliance to combat the many threats outside and within.
-A commander used a unique, one-of-a-kind spacecraft made by humans and aliens to go on missions with.
-Shadow aliens were in stasis in a planet for thousands of years.
Star Wars is also roughly the same.
- An unlikely alliance between Jedi's, redemptive smugglers and rebels.
- One big dark enemy, in this case: the sith.
Starcraft.
- 3 aliens including human species are at war.
- Protoss and Zerg were build by ancient xel'naga.
- One evil giant xel'naga wants to kill them all.
-An unlikely alliance against the evil xel'naga is formed.
-Evil Xel'naga exists in another dimension.
It's GRAVEMIND.
20:30 Hey wait is that scanner implying they actually damaged the beast planet? Why did no one key in on that?
Possibly because the damage wasn't enough to actually have any long-lasting effects.
Oh, you're right, the explosion of Planet Jungle caused serious damage to one of the doors. Maybe the Alliance didn't care because the idea was to kill the Beast Planet, not to just damage it, so the plan was a failure.
They could have taken a few more plants to give them better hopes of surviving.
sadness episode!!!
Only someone from Planet Bone could think of a plan like that :9
I'm willing to bet Cyros was planning to do Femur with the same thing he almost did to Cryos and Graveheart with a BOMB! Oh the IRONY.
If only the World Engine was working, they could have use the planet as a colony for the Fire people.
19:25 No. NO! NOT AGAIN! Once again, another helpless planet gets devoured by the Beast Planet.
Not exactly, since it blew up.
Why didn't they consider taking the planet with them? They only found out the World Engines were defunct later, but everyone just went straight to 'kill the planet', just different flavours.
Meanwhile they might have had a place to settle the Fire people.
Bad idea for the people of planet fire
How? The trees cover entire planet.
They scan for intelligence life before deciding to kill the planet.
It had no life signs they could find so figured it'd serve more use as a weapon since there only option now is to keep running. It was the only idea they had that let them go on the offensive.
That, and the world engines were completely fucked, and theres no way for them to tow the entire planet.
Why didn't they use it to house fire????
World Engines are damage beyond fixing. Beast would have eaten it. Also fire people on a planet of plants not a good combo
8:28
The Alliance needs to find a Black Hole. It's the only way.
My theory is that the only way to destroy it would be to use Null Energy. Bait the Beast planet into firing a null energy blast and then reflecting the energy off two battle moons (assuming the energy is reflected at a 90 degree angle - See S2E01) which would result in the null energy rebounding back onto the beast planet and resulting in entire planetary destruction.
@@MrNintoku That wouldn't work. An _entire planet made of null matter_ went off in its face in the next episode. It slowed it down alright, but didn't damage it. Black hole seems more effective, maybe...