Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
Um... Gok... I'm not a kid and I love Animated.
I like Animated too, but I just find that the show doesn't attempt to appeal to me as an adult as much as Beast Wars did. IMHO there's a lack of substantial character development and episodes that deal with deep issues like Transmutate (right to life/abortion) and Code of Hero (bravery/cowardice, suicide). There's a also a lack of character depth too IMO. Sentinel Prime just seems like a jerk because he just is... like a shallow one-dimensional high-school jock archetype. Depth Charge is a jerk too, but we know why... the guy's got issues up the wa-hoo with deep-running psychological/emotional scars that can never heal.

I have a love/hate view of Bulkhead... on one hand I really want to like this character - but Animated writers just don't want to develop his character any deeper than being a big dumb brute. (-_-)

Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
Plus there are character types that have never been done that well before. Bulkhead is the best and most original new character type since I-don't-remember-when. Blitzwing is a more endearing multiple personality than Galvatron, Punch/Counterpunch or Savage/Noble. And Sentinel Prime is an Autobot jerk in ways that Huffer, Gears, Sideswipe and Rattrap never were.
As I said, I'm sorely disappointed with Bulkhead. I so wanted him to be more than meets the eye, but so far he's been pretty much "what you see is what you get." And big dumb lumbering brutes is nothing new, the G1 cartoon Dinobots and Trypticon were pretty much like that. I think Punch/Counterpunch suffers from the same thing that G1 Thundercracker did - a character with underused potential. :/ G1 'toon Galvatron was a 'tard-monkey so yeah, I won't argue about him.

I personally can't compare Noble/Savage with Blitzwing because Noble/Savage is at best only semi-sentient. In terms of Transformers with multiple personalities my favourite would be Car Robot's Gigatron who had 10 different personalities and voice characterisations in his different modes (e.g.: Gigabat = jerk/bully, Gigadragon = menacing/monsterous tyrant etc.). The RiD dub didn't carry this over unfortunately.

And I don't object with Sentinel Prime being a jerk per se... it's just that there's nothing more to him. As I said before, Depth Charge was a jerk but Beast Wars clearly explained that he's a tormented soul. Yeah, it is cool that we have an Autobot who's basically a bad guy in some ways and gives other Autobots (particularly Optimus Prime) a good basis to interact off (e.g.: forcing him to become more assertive). But Sentinel just seems like a shallow "jock" archetype to me.