Next TF cartoon to take place within the 'Prime' Continuity

[GoktimusPrime]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was my favourite, a great character to get girls into the brand. Yes at times annoying especially in the first two seasons, but to put her up there with Binks, thats massive.

The reason why Binks is widely hated is because a lot of his appearances don't contribute to the story. You can omit much of his appearance and not much would change. Daniel and Wheelie were hated in their appearance in the G1 cartoon for the same reason. A lot of Miko's appearances, especially in Season 1, were fairly superfluous. Characters whose screen appearance outweigh their plot contribution are just wasting screen time. That's the real reason why Jar Jar was hated... not just because he was silly and clumsy. Yoda was silly and clumsy when the audience first encountered him in The Empire Strikes Back (re: the way he would go through Luke's stuff etc.) - but then later we learn that it was a ruse to test Luke's patience, so it served a constructive purpose for the story.

I usually don't like any of the human characters in Transformers series. But I found TF Prime's humans to be very engaging and I actually cared what happened to them. I will admit that Miko did annoy me at first but I really enjoyed her character in Season 3.

That's because Miko's appearances in Season 3 were much less in Season 1! And when she did appear, she was actually useful. The same could be said for Jar Jar Binks in Eps 2 and 3 (in Ep 2 Jar Jar was pivotal in passing the act for the creation of the Clone Army, and in Ep 3 he had NO dialogue and only appeared at Padmé's funeral). And that's a credit to George Lucas and the writers of TF Prime that they did at some level recognise how counter productive these characters had become, thus making their presence far more subdued in subsequent appearances. But they should never have been that superfluous to begin with. (-_-) See Threepio is a highly prissy robot who constantly whinges and nitpicks... but he actively contributes to the plot so he's not hated by Star Wars fans like Jar Jar Binks is. Sniffing animal farts and snatching food with your tongue really doesn't add to the story...

It was the same with Sari from TFA I didn't like her until season 3. However when my kids watch it they loved her from the start, just as my kids love all the kids from TF Prime.

Remember these cartoons are aimed for kids.

Sari's not nearly quite as useless as Miko -- mainly because she's the Keeper of the Cosmic MacGuffin. (she'd definitely be more of a Jar Jar without it) Overall kids aren't really into useless annoying characters. There's a reason why children of the 80s who grew up with G1 hated Daniel and Wheelie. A lot of fans rejoiced when Daniel and Wheelie were finally killed off.

I will miss TF Prime my favourite quote is when Ratchet was about to get his transforming cog removed and he was delirious and he said the little easter egg about Bantor the fuzor, I was in tears!!!

I personally found Beast Wars had far more memorable quotes. JMHO.