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Starscream is… a great role model???

since I’m studying to become a teacher, we had some extra class about stuff like school safety, what to do in case of earthquake, rockets, terrorists attack etc.

And when we learn what to teach the kids about being what to do if you’re being kidnapped, and I realized something. 

when our teacher said to tell the children to ignore all that they’ve seen their favorite heroes do in tv because that’s really dangerous I realized that tfp Starscream is a perfect role model for what you should do in a situation like that! he got only one thing wrong. 

//and that wasn’t really him. that was a really forced plot convenience as far as I’m concerned.//

I might make a post later detailing exactly how great he was doing, but first I just wanna draw attention to 2 facts:

1. that him acting in the most mature, responsible and safe way is obviously being framed by the show as him being a pathetic coward with no backbone as opposed to the irresponsible, suicidal and borderline insane behavior of our “Heroes”.

2. Agent Fowler. just. WHAT THE HELL. the Autobots are dealing with a familiar enemy whose kind of their size, plus they’re a bravado-filled suicide squad and we have no idea what kind of training (if at all) they had. 

but you??? you are a special agent of the USA,  you were an army ranger behind enemy lines. YOU HAVE TO KNOW BETTER THAN THIS. what are you even doing??? go to the corner and think about what you’ve done!

I just found the best Starscream screenshot.

I mean – the adorable smile, Optimus kicking Dreadwing’s aft in the background. Perfection.

it almost looks like a selfie. Starscream would 10000% take a selfie with his enemies destroying each other in the background

 since some people seemed interested this post, I thought more about the similarities between the Seekers & the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire, and I found quite a few parallels that I intend to talk about in more depth when I have more time. but this is one I just have to talk about now, at least briefly:
The Name – in the second rebellion, the leader of the rebels was called “Bar Kokvah” which literally translates as “son of a star”, and after his own pride led to the failure of the rebellion he was renamed “Bar Kuzeivah” which means “son of lies”. 

side note: in Hebrew referring to someone as a

“son” of something was kinda like defining them – in the way a parent makes the child – that thing is the core of that person. 

(there are other versions that claim his real name was  Bar Kuzeivah & it was changed to Bar Kokhvah during the revolt but honestly, both versions fit Starscream so idrc)

that could not be more perfectly Starscream if I made it up… (which I, obviously, didn’t)