I just saw episode 5 and it is much better than 4&5 which despite being very good from the robot perspective, they were a bit too annoying on the human side. This episode was much more balanced and consistent like the first two so I enjoyed it more.

This 'mini-series' opening is considerably better than the Animated one, not without it's gripes but it does good overall. Hopefully the series will be able to reach the same heights that Animated did in Season 3 but much sooner.

As mentioned by everyone, something that this show is doing right is the fight scenes. You can see what is going on although they did do a kind of 'Bay tribute' in a slow motion scene in the 4th episode but since you could see what was going on it was better executed than Bay's. My only complaint is that it goes too much into '1 on 1s' not allowing epic battles between the Autobots and Decepticons as we saw between the Maximals and Predacons in Beast Wars, hopefully we will see that in future episodes as those scenes were also great for cross-faction character interaction and also showed a 'comradeship' relationship within the Maximals.

The start of episode 5 was very good but I got a bit worried when they had the kid 'hack' into the Government satellite network as I found that very much ridiculous. As a kid, I thought it was ridiculous when Chip used to know how to use Teletraan 1 better than the Autobots and even more so as an adult, so this aspect was a bit annoying for me. Thankfully the 'hacking' attempts did not come to complete fruition so that kind of neutralized that bit. What they went for instead with the schematics was a much better outcome than having the kid with his super powered hacking skills save the day so I am happy with that.

I also thought it was a nice touch that Soundwave did the practical thing and prevented the kids from accessing the satellite dishes by cutting the hard wire instead of wasting time finishing them off. Overall the kids were much better handled in this episode.

So far I am enjoying the show and it is the best current TF fiction by far. However I do share the same view as some like Sky Shadow. The TF characters do take themselves too seriously and that makes them rather bland. Prime is also somewhat boring and talks in slow motion as if he is reading from a book rather than performing, this was particularly obvious when he was quoting his 'classic lines' at Megatron.

What the show needs is more clever humor or as Sky Shadow mentioned, a Rattrap sort of character to liven things up or a Dinobot character to throw some spice. The show as it is now is indeed lacking heart and that is the biggest down side of it so far as much of it is very good. We also need more Decepticons with character - This is a must as Starscream and Megatron can't carry the whole show on the Decepticon side. A bit of soul is needed.