So I saw the trailer yesterday and I was really excited for it because who doesn’t love Teen Titans. I remember watching the animated show and it got me reading the comics so I was hyped for this.
Then I watched the trailer. I’m disappointed.
The whole trailer gave of this edgy dark tone which made me confused. And yes I know Teen Titans in the comics had dark story lines and they dealt with dark mature stuff which I like, but this went beyond that. Like I could feel it trying to cut me with it’s butter knife and I can’t get with it.
Now imma talk about the characters starting with Dick. Imma say that I like his costume and the actor that’s playing him, it really does look like robin when I was watching this. But then we get to the scene where he is fighting these guys, it’s brutal especially when he steps on someone’s jaw and breaks it(or was it his neck?). Someone said that he didn’t really kill these guys he just shots in the air to scare them off but I watched it again and it looks like he shot at them, hopefully it’s not the case.
The whole “Fuck Batman” thing doesn’t bother me at all, I don’t give a fuck someone had to say it other than Jason (and maybe Damian).It’s kinda funny to me. Speaking of Jason, Dick really took lessons from him, because that’s what I’m seeing, and I know that in the comics Dick can be serious and angry especially since he didn’t want to be in Batman’s shadow all the time and wanted to do his own thing which I understand, but he would always come back to being that charming, humorous and nice guy that we all know him as. The trailer look liked it didn’t give a fuck and made him violent and depressed which made me depressed honestly, hopefully they change it over time but we’ll see. There’s an episode called Jason Todd which we’ll be interesting to see how there similar personalities will clash.
Next Raven. She looks like a Hot Topic employee.
You thought Robin was edgy, we’ll here is edgelord. Raven has always been like a goth chick in animated and in the comics so it should have made sense but nope, every time she showed up it reminded me of a low budget horror chick and I was not impressed with it.
Her personality was off, she has always been this calm, dark and almost unemotionally character because she had to because of her father who’s always fucking with her so she had to stay calm and be ahead of the game, but this one is screaming, crying and her CGI powers are all over the place (what happened to her white eyes?). I understand that this one is 13 years old and from what I read she’s just discovering her powers. I think they might change her story which I’m iffy about. It seems her and Dick will form a connection with each other which I’m down for(and not the romantic kind you sick fucks).
Next Starfire. Who the Fuck dressed her.
She looks like a flaming Beyoncé from the 2000s. Now I saw all of there costumes way back when it was released and was shocked like everybody else, but they explained that it wasn’t there finally look if I heard correctly and I relaxed. But why the fuck did they show it in the trailer like she’s the baddest bitch. Like no hate on the actress she’s talented and beautiful and I don’t give a fuck about her race, and to the ones that do and are being racist needs to shut the fuck up and stop sucking that white dick for a sec, they cant hire an orange alien actress guys and as long as she can act like starfire then I’m good. However it doesn’t excuse that ugly outfit and those noodles for a hair, I don’t care if it’s based on the old comics I’ve seen cosplayers who do better. Her power look like fire which confused me and again I know her green energy bolts changed colored in different comics but it looks like fire, fix it.
BeastBoy. We didn’t see much.
Other that a few seconds of him jumping. His green skin needs to be fixed, it looks like they didn’t try enough. They could do a Gamora and everything would be fine.
Edit: someone in the comments said that he had a bad reaction to it so I won’t be mad at this and I hope the actor is alright.
I can’t say much on personality since we didn’t see much but hopefully they stick with his comedic side because it looks like we need.
Hawk and Dove. Costumes on point.
But I don’t remember Dove being aggressive out of the duo. Dove is suppose to be the calm, pacifist one since Hawk is cuckoo for coca puffs, but then it shows her fucking people up brutally, and there was this one shot where she slaps someone and there face explodes with blood. They need to explain this.
Cyborg. Not in this you guys.
I been knew this but others didn’t and are angry. I was upset but not anymore, with the CGI they have here Cyborg would literally be a walking tin foil. He looks like a ugly transformer in Justice League what makes you think he would look better here.
Edit: he’s in the new doom patrol t.v series that will come out soon. Doesn’t make sense, it was beast boy who’s was in doom patrol.
Speaking of CGI it’s bad, like they shouldn’t be doing this show bad.
And the if you hear the sounds in the trailer when there fighting and stuff it sounds bad too.
Anyways, this show needs a balance within itself because it’s so edgy which makes it cringy, it’s literally screaming at me “It’s not a phase mom!!” Of all the shows they picked to be hella dark they went with Teen Titans, that’s about a group of teens coming together and being close to one another and trying to fight of the evil in the world but at the same time having fun.
Hopefully they make trailer 2 look better because starting off with this wasn’t good on their part. I want to wish the best of luck with this show and I will watch it but damn this is something.