Many of the show's detractors have said they wouldn't mind it so much it wasn't using the Teen Titans (and specifically the team from the 2003 cartoon), but for me, it being the same team from the 2003 show is a huge part of the humor, and a lot of the comedy wouldn't work half as well if it wasn't them, if it still worked at all. Khary Payton (Cyborg) alone makes so many of the jokes work just from his performance, and I actually find Beast Boy hilarious in this series when his humor in the 2003 show was lucky to get so much as a chuckle out of me most of the time.
The 2003 show always straddled the genre border between comedy and drama. Reviving that same team for a full-on comedy show doesn't just make sense, it just plain works, and it works even better because we do know them already from that (slightly) more serious show.
What matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. - F. Rogers.
Look, I\'ve seen like two episodes of it, and it\'s nice they got the original V As, but it\'s terrible. The original show knew how to balance comedy and action and I still didn\'t like Beast Boy. Now everyone\'s base comedy level is Beast Boy from the original (excluding Starfire, who doens\'t seem to have changed much) and when they go for \"comedic\", it just comes across as screechy and annoying.
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I want to dislike it, but...
Well to be honest, when I heard Go was going to start airing over here I was already set to tear it a new one. I was fill of piss and vinegar after hearing horror stories of this apparently childhood-raping abomination set to ruin everything good about the original Teen Titans series. But I decided to at least watch some of it first.
So I watched the first episode, and much to my own annoyance I found myself laughing. Yeah the plot was absurd, but the fact that they had the same voice actors from the original series saying such absurd lines just made it funny for me. Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, I watched another episode, and then I went online to watch more episodes of the series.
To me, I actually found the series hilarious. As I said above, the simple usage of the original series voice cast adds so much to the humor for me, having the Titans wildly out of nature being reinforced. It's funny to imagine Raven being into a My Little Pony expy (doubled by Tara Strong's other well known roles) as well as Trigon being both a sitcom dorky dad and a demonic overlord.
Yes, the Titans are all out of their minds and completely insane, but the fact that the show points that out at least makes it fine by me. I recommend at least trying it out before passing judgement on it. You might find yourself pleasantly surrised by the show