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Isn't Blitzwing the blue Decepticion?
Toys and such he is a Triple Changer that is purple and beige that has a tank and jet form. The director confirmed it to be Blitzwing. They are obviously going a different route than the cartoon/toys with him.
That's not Starscream. That's Angela Bassett's character Shatter.
In general though, this movie is a fukk you to Michael Bay, but Bay is still a producer, so some elements remained. Probably for the same reason as when he said why he came back to do the fourth movie after he said he was done. He didn't want anyone else coming in and doing something better. I just can't see how they can go from this, to what we got in the Bay movies. Especially since we've seen Soundwave and Shockwave in the movies. They can't say that those were protoforms because Soundwave chose an alt-mode.
It seems they are only trying to follow a little continuity with the first film so far from what we've seen. I hope it stays at that.