User blog comment:Akhil100/No crushes for Robin! Wheres Starfire?/@comment-24.87.48.133-20111126052237/@comment-1038387-20111202233242

(Just about) everyone associates Starfire with the TV series - she hasn't been with the Teen Titans in years, and how she's treated now... (I don't even want to talk about it). Many people here grew up with that series, don't know much else DC, and want to see more of her. Other people grew up with other series, or the comics, or have dug deeper into DC lore, and don't like to see something that has been done already. Or they loathed her. Or they don't care.

I don't think a scantily clad fanservice alien would work in the show (beyond a cameo, you're right on that) because of my old arguments: she's not a sidekick, and has no Justice League connection.