The Reboot Teen Titans Go !

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I loved Teen Titans. I have very fond memories of spending hot summer days watching the show on Cartoon Network and then hopping on the computer to play a Mortal Kombat style beat-em-up, starring the heroes and villains of the show, on cartoonnetwork.com. Then, in 2007, after airing for four years, the show finally came to an end. I wanted more, but I was happy with what we got and I always had the option of catching reruns. Six years later, in 2013, we got the unnecessary reboot Teen Titans Go! which is now almost 200 episodes deep. The show is basically the opposite of the original Teen Titans in every-way. Where the original show was an anime styled action cartoon, the reboot has a style that I can only describe as "unoffensive" and one …show more content…

is pretty straight forward. A group of teenagers who are in some way shape or form related to the members of the Justice League are tasked with solving smaller crimes, while the Justice League is busy saving the universe and whatnot. Occasionally, there are plots that grow far larger in scope than a simple warehouse break in, and the members of the Justice League step in, to aid the next generation of heroes, to save the day. But for the most part, the group stays in the vicinity of their "T" tower and their villainous rival team does the same. (It seems even superheroes have …show more content…

By the end of my "research period", in some stockholm syndrome-esque way, I actually grew fond of Teen Titans Go!. (Something I did not notice until my roommates pointed it out to me one morning.) Also I want to make it clear that I'm not blaming the creators of the show entirely, because you can definitely get an idea that they are working under harsh time tables to pump out episodes. This didn't even cross my mind as a reason until one episode aptly named "The Forth Wall" in which the Titans break the forth wall to talk about how there could be better episodes and animation if they weren't working on tight schedules and budgets. And occasionally a bit of brilliance shines through and we get something like The Night Begins to Shine. (click the name to watch it) The episode does not only feature a cool song, it is also accompanied by one of the most bad ass depictions the Titans since the original show. The cyberpunk meets Mad Max style is just super interesting and I would love to see more episodes in that aesthetic and

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