Quote Originally Posted by MV75
Funny you mention bw, this season dwarves bw in every way. The first 2 seasons seemed to be on par with bw as they both shared single story episodes on single characters. BUT, animated also revisted characters through out instead of forgetting them and moving to the next.
When did Beast Wars "forget" about characters and move onto the next? That happened a lot in G1 but I don't remember that happening in BW. A lot of characters died in BW at Hasbro's behest.

I'd say Animated Season 3 - thus far - comes close to BW but I don't think it supercedes it. It doesn't yet have the same epic scale that we got from Beast Wars. But as kup said, it's still early days. Also, as good as this season is, it doesn't change how campy Season 1 and parts of Season 2 were (IMHO). To me, Animated pretty much sucked for most of Season 1 (until Megatron returned), was pretty much hit and miss in Season 2, and Season 3 is mostly really good. But with Beast Wars, I pretty much love that entire series. Not a big fan of "The Low Road" but most other people seem to like that ep.

Also, remember that Animated is becoming successful in a time where Transformers is already tremendously popular. As Hasbro's data presented at Toy Fair showed, Transformers sales skyrocketed with the 2007 movie. Beast Wars on the other hand became successful at a time when Transformers was nearly dead and it breathed new life into Transformers and brought it back.

Quote Originally Posted by MV75
And ending at season 3, they arn't following the g1 mistake of going too long past the used by.
I think the problems with G1 were:
+ A big shift toward fantasy (scifi) alt modes as opposed to realistic ones.
+ The introduction of Action Masters who dominated the line.

After all that, they then made the mistake of "going too long past used by" was with G2.