Of course you doubt it, you're letting your hate of those few cameos blind your perception of the story. Again, they didn't concoct anything. The show left those plot points open so it was easy for the story of the comic to make use of them.Onslaught Six wrote:I doubt that, since I've long established my opinion that those "reasons" you're probably saying were concocted so that they could do the cameos in the first place. And to try and please BW fanboys who hated the series anyway.
As andersonh1 said, just setting it in the same era is not sufficient. If you do a 'meanwhile, on Cybertron' story, you'd loose any reason for them to have beast modes and thus the justification to call it Beast Wars. You claim BWII and Neo proves otherwise, but those stories don't primarily take place on Cybertron do they? They all go to Earth. BWII explains why they needed beast forms similarly to Beast Wars, setting them on a planet with an environment dangerous to their robotic forms. And while Neo skips the explanations, it's conceivable they may have adopted those forms in preparations for their mission which essentially started out by picking up where BWII left off.It's set in the same era as the BW universe? That's literally all you need to do to put it in there--that common time period and the fact that they're Transformers. In fact, the very existence of BWII and Neo--two shows that take place in the same time period yet are mostly unrelated--proves that you can do this. Because it's been done!
I don't think that's necessarily true... Sure, you can cover a wider range with a larger cast, but that doesn't mean a small cast wont have just as many interesting story possibilities. And I think you loose some room for characterization if you go for a large cast of characters. Really, that's part of why BW stand out, it was known for its characters and great stories.Shockwave wrote:Bigger armies = more characters = more interesting story possibilities.