The story team had to create a new series of villains each year, with at least six different colour schemes. So they decided to go with the cookie-cutter 'I am evil, I will destroy everything' design for the villains. But you can tell that GregF and some other writers had some definite potential to create some very complex villains. There was Teridax's 'I am nothing' speech in 2001, and GregF really expanded on the villain's characters in his serials, like TSO, Vezon, Pridak, and more recently the new villains like the golden-skinned being, the hidden Great Being, and the shiny orb guy (sorry forgot name )And I thought that the Rahi idea was cool in 2001, heroes fighting against wild beasts was awesome.