(APR-2013) Beast Wars Era - Rate it

[griffin]

The Entire Era/Series as a whole (you can include the Japanese parts if you want), how does it rate in the world of Transformers:

- Best Ever
- One of the better ones
- Average
- Not very good
- I refuse to have anything to do with it

[KalEl]

In my Honest opinion, Beast Wars was and is the overall best Transformers series ever made. If you haven't seen it, you need to watch it! If you have seen it, watch it again!

[GoktimusPrime]

Beast Wars = Transformers Renaissance.

[i_amtrunks]

Best series ever, because instead of getting talking toys in 30 minute ads showcasing how cool they were to sell toys, we got characters in story arcs who developed and learnt and changed to sell toys.

Beast Wars is one of those few shows that gets better to watch (storyline wise) the older you get. However never does it feel as if it is dumbing itself down to the target audience, or treating them as though they are dumb.

It also started the turn into focussing on a smaller range of characters to move the action forward, something that has best been seen in Animated and in Prime decades later.

[Autocon]

The Best.

[BigTransformerTrev]

One of the better ones in my opinion. I'd still take G1 or Animated over it any day though:

Positives:
*Long story arcs
*Great character development
*Plots interesting for adults as well as kids
*Proper homages to the G1 cartoon
*Cameo's by G1 characters (Ravage, Starscream, the deactivated bots in the Ark)

Negatives
*Instead of awesome huge robots turning into tanks, jets, trucks, race cars etc you have small robots turning into rats and crabs?!!? Boo, boo I say!
*Small groups. I know that makes for more character driven stories but I liked G1 where you had huge casts and giant battle scenes. Real armies on both sides rather than small gangs
*Weak bots: I saw a Predacon get taken down by spears - spears for Primus sake!