Teen Titans Go! Thread #2

...to introduce these specific characters to a new generation?

EDIT: Pagetopper. Dang it.

edited 3rd Aug '15 2:08:27 PM by TargetmasterJoe

I remember the show specifically stating this is NOT a spinoff, but more of a pseudo-spinoff.

"We be we baby!"

well they can call it what they want but if it looks like a dog and barks like a dog....

I think it's "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck."

"We be we baby!"

How are we defining "spin-off"? Obviously it shares no continuity with the parent show, but I'm not sure that's necessary to be considered a spin-off.

yeah i'm sorry, the exact expression was escaping me at the time.

It's an expression that lends itself to mutability.

The true reason is because not having to go through the whole song and dnace of introducing the characters, setting, and backstories. Being a spinoff of a prestablished show and cast does half the work for them.

Then why not use the Justice League or just the Bat Family?

‘My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

except that Go! is very likely the first time most of their demographic came into contact with these characters, so it doesn't really matter. and when you take that into consideration the show does just fine, they've pretty much never needed to go too in-depth with any of their backstories or the setting, and the show is still a success.

that's been my whole point, the kids are unfamiliar with the old show, so just use different characters.

edited 3rd Aug '15 7:15:24 PM by wehrmacht

Teen Titans was an extremly popular show, the TTG shorts on DC Nation were well received, and the original show was no stranger to bizzare humor. The execution may be in question, but they were a much more natural fit for the show's format than those other guys you mentioned.

Pretty sure it wouldn't matter who the characters are. It think we would be in the same boat if it was the SBFF.

‘My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

I keep hearing this^note I'm only quoting you because it was most recent example., but thinking about it, I still don't really believe the original show's characters are that foreign to the target demographic. After all, the Titans were still relevant as they were a part of the DC Nation shorts as "New Teen Titans", which I'm pretty sure Go! was based on.^note IIRC, some of those shorts were still airing when Go! (and Beware the Batman) premiered, before the network cut the shorts shortly afterwards. I always assumed that they used the characters because of the "New Teen Titans" shorts, and that was that.

Now I'm not denying that kids nowadays wouldn't be aware of the original show, but the Titans themselves weren't completely absent from television before Go! premiered. It'd make sense to have the characters, who at the time were already mostly appearing in comedic shorts, jump into another comedy format, especially if the target demographic already sees them as a comedy team.

That said, I'll maintain that part of Go!'s polarization problem is that it isn't the "New Teen Titans", which had a different style of humor compared to Go! (i.e. less Take Thats and black comedy elements), but seemed to be largely well-received by the older fandom. Go!'s tendency to poke fun at the (various) fandom(s) and critics also doesn't help matters.

edited 3rd Aug '15 8:04:05 PM by Customer

i'll admit that i'm not that familiar with the shorts that preceded Go, so in that sense yeah the characters probably had some marketability left. i'll have to go watch a few and see what if anything changed between the shorts and the show itself.

Er, take it from a guy whose seen them. They are vastly different. In a lot of ways. You'll know what I mean when you see them for yourself.

Actually the notion of Slade as a Deadpool expy is funny, and may be a bit meta, given that Deadpool was originally inspired by Slade/Deathstroke the Terminator (even his name, Wade Wilson, as opposed to the Terminator's Slade Wilson). Rob Liefeld was an enormous Teen Titans fan — was even a part of the fanzine Titan Talk, and his Image series Youngblood was based on a pitch he had for a Titans spin-off team (3 guesses on who Shaft was supposed to be).

Mi gusta psycho clown that ruined children-friendly entertainment.

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

The most obvious different between the shorts and Go is that while go has a superhero setting it's ultimately more general humor, while the shorts were (usually) more geared towards DC and Teen Titans related in-jokes and parodies.

The concept of Go was clearly based on the shorts, though.

edited 4th Aug '15 6:21:12 PM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

There are no levels of low that some haters can go through. To the point of attacking one of the storyboard artists of the show.

http://snaggle-teeth.tumblr.com/post/125859475497

Good lord, people. Stating that you don't like a show is one thing, but bullying the people who work on it and even outright stating you hope to make them commit suicide is bleeping uncalled for!

edited 5th Aug '15 12:55:18 PM by kablammin45

"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"

Dear god. Did they literally have a suicide attempt at the studio?

"We be we baby!"

....Yeah that kinda sounds like they did. I mean I really really dislike this show and all but I'd never go that far with my dislike.

Doesn't sound like they had an actual incident at the studio, just had someone (the bolded text in the blog post) tell one of the people working on the show that he enjoys trying to goad people that work on the show into suicide. The post itself is mostly just telling people who hate the show to not go overboard with their hate and move on if they don't like the show.

edited 5th Aug '15 1:44:01 PM by Customer

I for one, don't even feel one way or the other about it. I may have said some stuff about it in the past that was negative, but this is just sad.

"We be we baby!"

Yeah, that shit is inexcusable. The easy solution if the show really angers someone so much is just to not to watch it.