Quote Originally Posted by KELPIE View Post
Have you read the IDW Comics?

Screamer is basically portrayed as an anti-hero.



It helps when you only have a handful of characters to flesh out.
True, but Prime also had a relatively limited cast too (fleshed out by identical Vehicon hordes). There wasn't even really much effort to develop the characters, just make 'em a bunch of walking/talking stereotypes. Same with RID, at least for the Autobots. We had limited numbers of Team Bumblebee who could've been developed, but not really. And the occasional development that did happen was kinda clunky and less organic than BW (no pun intended). Like Bumblebee would sometimes be more mature and authoritative, but other times regress to being rash and impetuous. Huh? Even Beast Machines handled this better with Cheetor where he was the young adult (mentally equivalent to someone in their 20s). He never regressed to his more juvenile mental states from BW because he had already grown past those stages. It'd be like seeing a grown man playing with t---, uh... never mind.