Lindsay Ellis: [on Transformers Animated] This show, unlike the G1 cartoon, also featured effort, which right off kind of reveals the problem with writing Starscream has his little shitheel self and maintaining any kind of internal logic to the show. Which this one, you know, tries to. The result is that he's going to do his thing and inevitably gets booted from the Decepticons almost immediately because he is the way he is. And then he spends the rest of the series trying to take over from the outside.