The Mysterious Mr. Enter

Any source on that? I'm an MLP fan (though I'm not as active in the fandom as I once was) and I haven't heard anything about the show's writers receiving death threats from self-proclaimed bronies.

In fact, most of the horror stories I've heard about our fandom have turned out to be utter bunk. There was one story going around Tumblr about the voice actresses for the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting sexually harassed by bronies at a convention, and it picked up so much steam that the voice actresses themselves had to go on Twitter and tell everyone that it never happened.

Regarding Teen Titans Go... I really find it hard to sympathize with these writers. You're taking universally beloved characters and turning them into self-important jerkasses, and you act shocked when people object? It's like sticking your dick in a pool of piranhas and acting surprised when you get bitten.

You want to make a goofy non-serious superhero show? Fine by me. We've seen it work several times in the past with shows like Darkwing Duck and Freakazoid. But those shows a) created their own characters, instead of bastardized versions of beloved icons, and b) were actually funny.

Really, I could forgive the TTG writers if they, you know, tried. But they don't. From what I can tell, they just write down everything that comes to their mind after huffing paint for an hour, and boom, there's a new episode.

One recent episode had Robin teaching Beast Boy about the importance of money. Beast Boy reacts by deciding he's going to use bees instead of paper money, and then bees suddenly become the universal currency, and Beast Boy becomes a bee- hoarding millionaire. What.

edited 1st Aug '15 9:15:32 PM by TyeDyeWildebeest

To be fair, we wouldn't have gotten the line "Dance for yo' bees!" It's so random that it actually makes me chuckle thinking about it.

(Dodges an incoming petrol bomb.)

But seriously, the TTG! creators getting pissed. When did that happen?

edited 1st Aug '15 9:27:11 PM by TargetmasterJoe

I remember it happening back when Filli Vanili aired. IIRC, someone sent it to Amy Keating Rogers for how she wrote Pinkie. I'm not sure if I can find that tweet, but I remember hearing about the incident.

Okay, in all honesty, that line is Actually Pretty Funny out of context.

My point still stands, though. Writing incoherent nonsense 100% of the time will occasionally net you a laugh, but it doesn't make for a good show, and it's not even that hard to do. Here, I can write an episode right now:

Starfire's watching TV one day and she decides she wants to be treated like an infant again. No reason, she just does. So the other titans (sans Beast Boy) spend the day feeding her, changing her, playing with her, etc. until Beast Boy comes home, turns into a dingo and eats her. Eating Starfire endows him with super strength and speed, so he uses his newfound abilities to compete in the annual Dingolympics. He ends up winning the gold in the dingo triathlon (running, skateboarding and hotdog-eating) against Mammoth, who we learn is actually 1/256th dingo on his mother's side. But it turns out that Beast Boy is allergic to gold, so grabbing the trophy causes him to sneeze a fully intact Starfire out of his dingo snout. Starfire cries for her bottle and the episode ends.

I literally made that up as I went along and I don't think it made any less sense than your average TTG episode.

edited 2nd Aug '15 4:42:00 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

Yeeeeah...that was like...whoa.

Heh, another Actually Pretty Funny line from TTG when taken in and out of context:

"Driving is a privilege! Not a right!"

edited 1st Aug '15 10:06:42 PM by TargetmasterJoe

One problem that TTG! has that I don't see brought up too often is that the roles of the leads switch around. What I mean by that is that it seems like every episode the characters role change. One episode Beast Boy and Cyborg are idiots while the rest of the team are the sane men, Another will have all the team be idiots or at least devolve into idiocy. Another will have all but one character(usually Robin) be the sane one. The characters aren't consistent. They switch around the roles of the main characters so much its annoyingly inconsistent.

The show needs a definite straight man to play off the idiots. I thought that early on Raven was gonna be the sane man of the group, but I was both proved right and wrong as the show's gone on. The closest this show seems to have to consistent sane men are some of the villains like Brother Blood.

The characters have no consistency because they have no character. They can do pretty much whatever the writers think for them to do.

I will say one thing in TTG's favor, though: the road trip episode had a pretty cool car chase scene.

3727: I honestly can't tell you, because I don't remember where, but it's definitely out there on the Internet. The writers hate the fans of the original show because no one has let them hear the end of how they ruined the original show.

They have quirks(Like Starfire always put the in the wrong place) and that's about it. Even then those quirks will sometimes be forgotten for the sake of the "plot"(If you can even call some of what the episodes have plots) of the episode.

The best way to sum up Teen Titans Go is to just call it "Johnny Test, but with Teen Titans characters". That's pretty much exactly what the show is anyway.

It's more exciting than Johnny Test is and has way better animation at least.

I think when people say that they want Go! to be more serious they mean they want it to be similar to the original series which was a mixture of both comedy and seriousness.

I just read the journal, and it's a trust issue.

To be fair, I have difficulty telling if someone is joking or not unless it's a face to face convo. Or if I at least have vocal tone.

That's usually what people mean.

Pet Sitter Pat, re reviewed.

tl;dr he still thinks it's a bad episode but thinks he shouldn't have reviewed it as quickly as he did, because once he calmed down he would have realized that calling out casey alexander in particular and judging his moral character on one bad episode was uncalled for and unfair.

That video was already up on Daily Motion back in January, BTW.

"I need to be able to trust someone before I can take criticism from them."

Well good luck with the rest of your life, because I don't think any person in their life gets to know even 0.001% of everyone on Earth. And in order for you to put trust in someone, you must KNOW them first. No wonder he hates education. It's full of strangers with different opinions than his own!

Looks like Enter's found a show for his "worst of the 90's" list if he ever gets around to making it. It's called Stressed Eric.

edited 5th Aug '15 8:23:47 PM by Smasher

Would this be the original British version or the American version?

The American version had a lot of things about it changed; they made Eric an American living in London.

He doesn't really mention which version it is. We'll probably find out whenever he does a video review of it.

The American version got pretty poor reviews. I'm not certain if the British version did, but it did well enough to get more episodes made two years later, so...

I've never really heard of it before Enter brought it up. Doesn't sound like the most entertaining of shows.

https://youtu.be/_UcPQUBFLw4 his review of "the return of slade"

Definitely one of Enter's best episodes.

What kills me about the "Return of Slade" is that even if the points they were making were correct they were so heavy handed with it that it kills the momentum of whatever "story" they were trying to tell.