Wanted to talk about the movie BBRae wise because I just remembered it exists
UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT: I didn't like Trouble in Tokyo.
Don't get me wrong, I think it was a cute movie for RobStar, but I hated how the writers neglected the others. ESPECIALLY Raven. Because wft do you mean she hit Beast Boy twice for no reason and made a purposefully hurtful comment about his looks?
All of these moments
Are completely ooc for her, and I feel like this is where SO much BBRae hate comes from. When has she ever hit him or acted rude towards him outside the movie without a reason when it wasn't teasing? I genuinely can't connect her movie version to her series version.
Also since we're talking about the movie, girl, wtf is this?
That can't be comfortable to fly on, and also again, being needlessly rude to BB??
So, while this isn't the end of the world and there were Raven moments I liked, it's just extremely annoying how mistreated her character was and how much hate it brought for Raven and BBRae, it makes the movie hard to watch for me so let's just pretend it doesn't exist, okay guys?
I also gotta say, I would be really happy about a 6th season, but they couldn't even get the characters right only about a year after the last episode which honestly makes me pretty worried. This series has so much wasted potential...
Just want you to know that hating on the movie isn't an unpopular opinion AT ALL, like you are so not alone here. Majority of the fandom loathes the movie and pretends it doesn't exist 🥲
There's of course the reasons you mentioned above. They made Raven soooo OOC. But they also stripped all dimension from the other four too. They made Cyborg the "food guy" who just eats everything. They made BB someone who suddenly doesn't take missions seriously?? They made Starfire's whole character centred around Robin, also completely distracted from the mission.
Honestly maybe Robin is the only character they portrayed accurately in the movie, though they still pushed it too far with him also. Him using his duties to stall confronting his feelings for Starfire is so him. But he's never outright DISMISSED her when she's sat there being vulnerable.
It's frustrating because the movie had potential as a storyline, but it was rushed to oblivion and made completely one-dimensional. It was just an excuse to make RobStar canon since they didn't get the chance to in the show, but even the RobStar shippers hate the movie because of HOW they got together. It was all just so forced and random.
Every character we love was done a disservice. I would say Raven especially, since she's never been MEAN and has always had so much depth. They completely mischaracterised her the way someone who's only seen bits and pieces of the show might. "She's dark so she must also be nasty." And you're so right, she's never acted like this in canon. It's absurd.
Such a disappointment, but just know most of the fandom agrees. I personally reject the entire movie completely; Starfire and Robin can confess in another scenario completely imagined in my own mind before I accept that shit 😂
(I also personally don't trust modern writers with these characters anymore, and do not want a S6. I don't think we'll ever get it anyway, but I genuinely think the chances of them fucking it up are like 95%. So I'd rather be without!)
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Gonna be honest, I didn't even pay THAT much attention to the others. I'm pretty indifferent about RobStar so I was just like "oh Robin finally got his shit together and they kissed nice" and moved on. I mostly just focused on Raven and BB lol, I noticed that things were off with the others too, I just didn't really care at that point, they fucked my otp up and I was too mad about that, so thank you for adding all this
Also I'm relieved to hear that Trouble in Tokyo hate is not uncommon















