Good! Beast Wars is just...heresy.
The Beast Wars series had some influence because they tried to write stories to plug earlier plot holes. To its credit, it was at least something other than a shameless retelling of old ideas and plotlines just to sell toys (like newer series have been).
It was a shameless telling of new ideas and plotlines just to sell toys.
–.^
Genesis takes place an long time before the original series and is based on G1, Movie, G2 at face value.
Fun fact: if Genesis were "canon" then no Maximal and precious few Predacons could be the real deal. They would almost all be have to be either reformatted Autobots or Decepticons.
Ravage was the only genuine Predacon who appeared in Beast Wars the way I have it. His re-badge was actually a re-re-badge.
re-re-really.
^.^