Teen Titans Go! (2013– )
1/10
Not the Worst thing Ever, but we have to treat it as such.
6 January 2018
TTG has become a success in ratings for CN, Kids just love TTG but unfortunately it has over shadowed other shows. TTG is something rare to happen to a show like the Teen Titans, if it were Scooby doo, Justice League, Ninja Turtles, Avengers, Transformers or any sort of set of characters that everyone's use to seeing again and again for every generation and having a show with a new coat of paint for every new audience can be good, the way it was executed was poor. Teen Titans is not a huge name it was a gem in 2003 that grew a cult fan base over time, likable characters, intense plot lines, a unique and sleek art style, great chemistry between characters and genuinely funny moments at appropriate times. Sadly Action cartoons have become few and far between especially on cable TV and when DC & Warner Bros were looking for new martial to work with for an 11-minutes run time like most shows were at the time (Adventure Time, Regular Show, SpongeBob, Wander Over Yonder) Out of Plastic man, Super Best Friends, super pets and all sorts of others like Vibe and the Sword of Atom and princess amethyst mini shorts, they choose the New Teen Titans shorts Which those Shorts were funny and well done, they only worked because they were a nod to the Teen Titans they Were a sign to the fan's saying "Hey, remember these guy's? We know". TTG could have been a decent show or at least an little filler cartoon in between cartoon of another show, but the show-Runner's they chooses were not very talented and likable people. They even stated in an interview that they have only seen a few episodes before. I feel that TTG is a big reason the Cartoon community Has grown so cancerous, it insults the original from time to time, the creators even stated once that they made the show bad on purpose on social media. Saying you made the show crap is a horrible thing to do but considering how bad some fans can get I can understand some of it (Their still jerks for doing so but consider how much hate they get daily). Not to mention the shows success with the air time of it being quite frequent, I know Cartoon Network has a better scheduling in other countries but it is an american Company so what's popular influences whats to be, and when american CN suffers it can make the foreign divisions of CN suffer, shows like the New Ben 10 and Cloudy with a chance of meatballs all trying to make the same cash grab that TTG did and that really hurt the channel in that year and next year was pretty much the year of TTG with a couple of day long marathons scattered across the months. I"m not sure why the people in charge of scheduling at CN do this but, I'm not someone who really bitches about scheduling on live TV, I usually watch TV when New episodes are on or special marathons, most I watch it online but all things considering I'll catch anything that's not TTG when I can. I think the biggest problem most have with the Scheduling is that TTG is always getting Money from that & there for getting money for more seasons. and last year word of a movie was announced. Thank god the Lego Ninjago movie was the true 2nd movie after the PPG's movies to be based on a CN show. Now TTG does have some good to it their are Easter eggs galore, it does have some good color scheming to it the colors pop that's nice, and it does get good episodes, 40% 40% 20%, Girls night Out, The Night begins to shine mini series the PowerPuff Girls Crossover and a couple more like the Christmas ones. But for the most part the Show is bad, dumb jokes, potty humor, Pony references, some bad morals cheap animation and Beast Boy is really annoying. Greg is really bad playing his part he get's way too into character and his character is an annoying little brat and Terry doesn't even sound like Raven form the Original show. The others are fine, not sure why it's just those two who sound so off but whatever. I also want to mention that they do kinda sexulaize Raven here and their and it's really bad some of the worst episodes involve Raven and the amount of Smut art I had the displeasure of taking a 0.01 second glance at can proven it. Sure it's not the worst cartoon ever there way worse out their like San-jay and Craig and Problem Solvers and their are a decent group of people who like it as a guilt please or even a So bad it's good show and I can see where their coming from I have that exact same thing with the new PowerPuff Girls. Despite a lot of Crap it get's Their are good episodes and even mediocre ones can get some moments or ideas that I can get enjoyment from like Princess MoreBucks becoming poor, the Professor hosting a book Club, a 4th PowerPuff, lake monster hunting,I don't see it with TTG but I can understand that their is some novelty to seeing some off the wall crazy antics with characters like these it just doesn't work fully well as a cartoon show, although there is a audience for TTG more show. But that success has really done a number on the Channel, I guarantee you CN would have a much longer golden period it DC just went with Plastic man instead, sure their is the argument not every cartoon needs a big Story Like Adventure Time or Gravity Falls and it should just be a Fun little Comedy to enjoy whenever it's on, and to that I say Yes! there should exist Cartoons that do that as well with ones that have big stories. Shows like Clarence, Gumball and Harvey Beaks show that Simple little Comedy Cartoons can still be as engaging and memorable has something like Steven Universe or Gravity Falls. But Lets compare TTG to Uncle Grandpa, UG like it or hate it, it was someone's Idea they wanted and had the chance to make, it was the Work of Peter Browgardt and the Crew he worked with to make UG has off the wall wackiness as they could make in their own way it from Start to end. TTG however was something that was made because DC needed a show and with a small budget it couldn't live up to the likes of the later released Justice League Action so they just made a bunch of dumb plot lines and jokes knowing full well that people would hate it no matter what, with barely any semblance of the charm, tone or thought for any innovation of the original show. I can't really blame them too much if they were forced into it and didn't want to loose their positions Warner animation, season 1 wasn't as bad as the rest of the show but as they made bank from the kids who love it the show really went down hill say for the previously mentioned good episodes, I feel that when you work on a show like teen Titans go you should at least try with some special episodes and some members might just want to do their own thing for some episodes which led to the good one . Teen Titans Go to the Movies is a movie I hope is good, but won I hope bombs financially. I'm tired of the Rants, the marathons, the drama and the show, I want the original Teen Titans to return on Cartoon Network, I want the show to flourish and path the way for show to be inspired by it, I want other Good Reboots and I want the see audiences old and new flock to whatever the True Sequel is to the Teen Titans not even batting an eye at TTG.
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