#apprentice pt2

[candy8448]

Oh my i rewatched apprentice pt2

(A couple months after watching it for the first time)

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Oh its crazy

Genuine hype

This intro is actually the craziest and best composed intro to an episode ever, oh my that music track and and the editing, the exchanging of lines it perfection so visually appealing and gripping oh i can go on forever about just thos intro oh boy im gripped

Ive always said how the teen titans ost were amazing dude

Okay but this episode is just so much better even as a rewatch oh boy i was stimming so hard

Slade is downright devious with how he talks to robin, talking about adreniline and how he seceetly likes stealing for slade, oh that scene is CRAZY manipulative

The way that the titans look genuinely devistated at the thought of robin actually being evil

Oh the angst with the apprentice thing, "your... former friends" the way robin spends his nights stealing and his time in the hideout fighting slade, never relenting, how exhausted he must be, his voice actor did an INCREDIBLE job voicing all his grunts pants and whimpers you feel him actually struggling. "After years of training you might pose a threat" OH BOY that reminder for slade that he intends to keep robin here FOREVER, the way slade just grabs and handles and circles robin however he wants when dressing him in his apprentice suit and attaching the thermal blaser to him, the way every time slade brings out the detonator in such a perfectly framed way it terrifies us viewers

The two allusions to batman with the "i already have a father" and the fight being on wayne enterprises

The relief robin must have felt when raven destroyed the thermal blaster, oh and cyborg being like "i dont want to do this" both in the beast within and here, he knows how powerful that cannon is and even if his friends are truly evil, he really really does not want to hurt them and its devistating, cy's conflictions in that short clip is ough.

The seamless transition from the wayne enterprise building to the recording of robin to slade watcjing the recording is so juicy

Oh slade's "good job" when robin attacks him saying how this makes them so alike. OH MAN THE MANIPULATION i feel like a lot of fics forget his manipulation in turn for just making slade super strong but slade was DEVIOUS WITH IT

Another favourite thing of mine about the show's ost is that they always know when to not use any music to make a scene hit HARD and its clear in this episode with the second fight between slads and dick, where they cut out the music and there is just the sounds of cogs moving, footsteps, clashing of fists of weapons, grunts and its just so atmospheric i cant even cope with how excited it makes me

"Good boy, and from now on i would like you to call me master" OH BOY AAAAA

Also everyone has said it, ive said it but slade's voice actor is CHILLING im actually intimidated by him he sends me genuine shivers with that voice and the way he fills a frame

Oh man this clip with slade just looking down on robin and silently detaching and throwig away the detonator! Mwah! Oh the way that he hears the proposition and just... silently considers and does it without saying a word, my man you are disgusting with it, oh it is my favourite part with their dynamic for me, how despite having the chance to kill the titans and avenge his son, slade wants his little bird and will not lose him this might be my favourite thing to come out of this arc

These subtle bits of important characterisation is what i love about this show

Also just the bit where everything is collapsing and they are escaping is so good i cant even-

The composition of every scene puts so much effect into this episode its so good, you lot know how obsessed i am with the apprentice arc and after rewatching this episode i am RIGHT, I AM RIGHT! my thoughts of how dick and slade's dynamic has shifted a lot since watching this for the first time and this reset it to the subtlety of their dynamics that i love. I also just like the reminder that at some point robin WAS much weaker than slade, in fact the reason he grew to be able to be on a high enough level to fight alongside him in the end was because of his repeated fights with him, slade made him stronger in a manipulative and disgusting way and its fesreshing to see robin not be on slade's level again tbh, slade really is that powerful that robin needs his friends to stop hhim, and that is what sets him apart from slade, "slade doesnt have any friends"

Oh man this show is amazing

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[overanalysingfandoms]

So I was rewatching the Aftershock episodes . . . again. When I noticed something. In Aftershock part one - after Terra has taken down Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy - when Robin comes after Terra. He jumps off his motor cycle to tackle Terra and has her pinned and his word choice is . . . interesting to say the least:

Sound familiar???

It did to me. It sounds like a direct echo of this:

I'm pretty sure that this is the only time in the show that Robin doesn't abbreviate his words and I don't think it's a coincidence.

Think about it for a second, who has he just lost because of Terra? Starfire. He just saw her get knocked unconscious and fall of a cliff because of a boulder Terra threw. And who is the only one is the team who speaks this way, not abbreviateing their words like everyone else? Starfire. Also notice the situation with Terra. She betrayed the team and became Slade's apprentice, she is now fighting against them. Remind you of any situation Robin has been in? The situation where Starfire says this exact line during their iconic rooftop standoff.

This also might have been brought to mind because of Beast Boy mentioning his time as Slade's apprentice earlier in the episode and bringing up the similarities in his and Terra's situations.

I think this is a really cool parallel and a nice little thing to pick up on.

Maybe I'm reading far too much into this but I still think that this is entirely possible and no one can convince me otherwise.