Teen Titans
I hate saying goodbye to tv shows I like. I suppose it's the nature of television that our favorite shows go away before we're ready.
After five years, Teen Titans is coming to an end - and I can't say enough glowing things about the show.
How big was Teen Titans? Even people who don't know the first thing about comics or cartoons know who they are. A few years ago, I helped a friend recover all her tunes off her iPod - one of the prized mp3s off her iPod was the extended version of Puffy Ami Yumi's Teen Titans theme song.
When I was a kid, Robin was really unpopular. He was just a dorky sidekick in stupid bright clothes. No one on the playground wanted to pretend to be Robin - everyone wanted to be Batman. DC Comics had a sales stunt called "Death in the Family" where the Joker blew up a building with Robin inside - and DC invited comics fans to call a 1-900 to vote for whether Robin lived or died. It wasn't even close - the fans spoke and Robin was killed. But now because of the Teen Titans? ROBIN IS COOL. Kids WANT to be Robin. How WILD is that?
Want further proof of how big Titans is? Look around the internet for Wil Wheaton. The guy is no longer USENET's alt.Wesley.Crusher.die.die.die anymore. He's Aqualad. AQUALAD! His Titans East character is bigger than his Star Trek character. Gene Roddenberry has been OWNED by Murakami, Slack, and company.
The last new episode ever airs this Monday night at 4 p.m. on Cartoon Network. It's titled "Things Change" and it's written by the uber-talented and uber-cool Amy Wolfram. This is the official blurb-
"After months of fighting the Brotherhood of Evil around the globe, the Teen Titans are finally back home. But a walk through the city reveals that things are no longer as they remembered. And while Beast Boy wants everything to be just like it was in the past, he has to face the fact that in life things change."
So congrats and thanks to the cast and crew of Teen Titans. You've raised the bar for all of us.
After five years, Teen Titans is coming to an end - and I can't say enough glowing things about the show.
How big was Teen Titans? Even people who don't know the first thing about comics or cartoons know who they are. A few years ago, I helped a friend recover all her tunes off her iPod - one of the prized mp3s off her iPod was the extended version of Puffy Ami Yumi's Teen Titans theme song.
When I was a kid, Robin was really unpopular. He was just a dorky sidekick in stupid bright clothes. No one on the playground wanted to pretend to be Robin - everyone wanted to be Batman. DC Comics had a sales stunt called "Death in the Family" where the Joker blew up a building with Robin inside - and DC invited comics fans to call a 1-900 to vote for whether Robin lived or died. It wasn't even close - the fans spoke and Robin was killed. But now because of the Teen Titans? ROBIN IS COOL. Kids WANT to be Robin. How WILD is that?
Want further proof of how big Titans is? Look around the internet for Wil Wheaton. The guy is no longer USENET's alt.Wesley.Crusher.die.die.die anymore. He's Aqualad. AQUALAD! His Titans East character is bigger than his Star Trek character. Gene Roddenberry has been OWNED by Murakami, Slack, and company.
The last new episode ever airs this Monday night at 4 p.m. on Cartoon Network. It's titled "Things Change" and it's written by the uber-talented and uber-cool Amy Wolfram. This is the official blurb-
"After months of fighting the Brotherhood of Evil around the globe, the Teen Titans are finally back home. But a walk through the city reveals that things are no longer as they remembered. And while Beast Boy wants everything to be just like it was in the past, he has to face the fact that in life things change."
So congrats and thanks to the cast and crew of Teen Titans. You've raised the bar for all of us.
posted by Eugene at 9:24 PM
1 Comments:
Does this mean we can start to see Robin on Justice League now? Or, god forbid, The Batman?
It's...it's just not Batman if it's not voiced by Kevin Conroy and animated in the Bruce Timm style.
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