AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Probably should've made this thread sooner, but oh well! Teen Titans Go! Aired today. Watch the trailer here. It's not as serious as the original, but it's full of Easter eggs and is really cute and funny. What are you guys' thoughts on it?

I'm a little upset that they flanderized the characters from the original cartoon for this, judging by their character profiles. I would have preferred them to pick up the original cartoon and continue it--they had future seasons planned that never came to fruition when the show was cancelled.

EDIT: I just saw a screenshot of the show and Raven was playing with My Little Pony toys. My rage level has skyrocketed.

Jesus why did they even bother bringing this back? Nothing can top the original besides new seasons.
What I'm trying to say is Teen Titans Please Go

I liked the original Teen Titans because it dealt with serious issues and consequences with a realistic cast of teenagers who just so happened to have superpowers.

This...is not the show I liked.

Yeah.

Judging from the trailer I probably won't like this - they've broken the formula that worked for the first TT animated series.

Today a friend informed me that she watched an interview with the producers of TT Go and they HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THE ORIGINAL CARTOON.

That explains a lot.

Saw it with my lil' bro, giggled quite a bit.
Surprisingly funny, will watch weekly.

This can only end in bad things.

Keep in mind, the first season of TT was almost complete garbage and the show eventually grew a bit to become what it ended up being.

Not to say this show will get serious or follow the same trend, but early seasons of shows like this usually end up being the weird ones out.

I don't understand why this show exists.

Do companies or animation studios even do Google searches, or any kind of internet research, to see what fans like or liked? All they had to do is go onto wither deviantart or tumblr and they could find tons of art and discussion about how awesome he original series was.

People didn't like the original Teen Titans either.

"Why don't they just do a sequel series to Batman TAS? Who gives a shit about Robin and these other stupid kids? Why did they make them all look like generic anime characters? This show is going to be for kids, it's dumb."

Fans don't always know what's best for them, and companies are free to test out new things. If people really don't like it, it'll go away.

The first season introduces the HIVE Academy, shows Raven's darkness and hints at Trigon, Red X makes his first appearance, introduces Blackfire and her dynamic with Starfire, and a whole host of other villains/plotlines. How is that garbage?

It was also filled with teenaged feuds, lolrandom, and other stuff that was really cringeworthy because it appealed "to the kids".

There was good stuff in there yes, but the first season was nowhere near the same as the later ones, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find too many fans that would say it was their favorite part of the series (besides maybe the Red X and season Finale parts).

You know why this show exists? A series of shorts called New Teen Titans premiered on Cartoon Network's new DC Nation block. They were whatever. Got a laugh here or there. They were honestly as close as to the original show as you could get in ~1 minute and having to be more focused on a single joke. No one really praised it but no one damned it either. But after those premiered, people were like "JUST BRING BACK TEEN TITANS GJNGNWFSF", so they did. But what the executives didn't know was that people wanted, you know, the 2003 series to get another season and not for New Teen Titans to get extended into a 22 minute show and have the entire focus of the show be on comedy.

That's not to say Teen Titans Go is super bad or anything. It's just not the same Teen Titans everyone liked. In fact, I would say it's almost as far as you can get from the 2003 series as you can get. You bring up the initial reaction to Teen Titans. The thing is though that Teen Titans actually ended up being really similar to Batman TAS and fans just had a knee jerk reaction. Having great characters and good arcs and nice action and writing. It was more comedic, yes, but so was Batman TAS every now and then. Teen Titans Go is a straight up comedy show that guts the characters, basically making them 2D representations of 3D characters, figuratively speaking of course.

So TTG isn't bad. It's just not Teen Titans.