While I'm much more positive on Unicron as a whole than you (everyone coming together and beating the spectres of the past and such), and kinda liked how 'screamer went out, I do remain mystified on Starscream's portrayal on the whole, considering Barber was the one who *set up* the Bumblescream friendship to begin with, and I have my fingers crossed OP will do something with it.
Yeah I just...can’t fathom what was going through his head when he wrote their interactions after Bee returned from the dead. Why would he do that with a relationship he himself set up???? But you know what? Part of me was actually fearing this would happen before it went and happened, because it already happened with Starscream and Wheeljack. It already happened with Prowl and the Constructicons. Barber is a serial offender in this respect. The dude apparently just can’t follow up on his own relationship arcs. At this point I feel like the only decent relationship he hasn’t ruined is Marissa and Thundercracker. I’m only hoping he breaks the cycle with OP #25 and gives us something with Starscream and Bumblebee because otherwise the thing I’m gonna know him for from this point on is his utter inability to write relationships.
