Who are your favourite characters in this era, and why?
I really liked Prime, he's got the same heart as our traditional prime but he isn't a commander yet, over the course of the series he grows towards that point, perhaps he would have made it there if there had been a fourth season.

Lugnut. So loyal, to the point of fanatacism, something that's not often dealt with in Transformers fiction. and hi POKE. awesome.

Lockdown and Black Arachnia, one of the first time a Transformers show has dealt with characters who've had their own goals above or below any allegiance to a particular faction to the point where each individual is almost a seperate faction. Swindle almost fits into this description also.

Ultra Magnus - the introduction of the Magnus Hammer as a concept was inspired and has become an ingrained element of transformers lore.

I liked the Megatron who manipulated events even when unable to move outside of a laboratory. Neat concept and stopped Megatron from Crushing the Autobots for the first season. He was soo much more powerful than Prime in this series.

Which characters were disappointing or over-used?
- The Human supervillains could have been left out entirely in my opinion, they are the brand of silly that I've never enjoyed in my entertainment. There were one or two instances where they were used to advance plot or another character that was good but other than that, I would have been happier if they weren't there.

I would have liked to see prowl maintained as a police car. Groove would have been perfectly acceptable to me as the police bike in this show. I prefer when a name is re-used that the character is maintained, or a new character is created instead (bulkhead, Lugnut). in the case of the multiple personalities of Blitzwing, it's probably not such a big deal as blitzwing had never really been very well fleshed out prior to this series.

Sentinal Prime was overused, they did a good job making his character an annoying self centred prick but it was too good a job and he became grating fairly quickly if on screen for too long in an episode.

Who would you have liked to have seen more of in this Series for being under-used?

I would have liked to have seen more developement of Bulkead as the intelligent guy rather than the clumsy smart guy.

and I agree that the dinobots could have been fleshed out more.

The characters that were homages, the newer characters who showed up in Season 3, it would have been great to have more of the overall cast expanded upon and given more than a couple lines here and there.