Has this thread touched on all the Mr Enter knockoffs who REALLY REALLY REALLY hate Teen Titans Go? I honestly like that show. It's stupid, but it's a cartoon for kids. It reminds me of old cartoons in that way where it's written for kids, all the gags are for kids, but if youre a little bit older or in the know, a meme or two is funny every now and then.
I liked the original Teen Titans as a kid, only insofar as yeah it was one of the first "edgy anime" kind of shows, before Adult Swim really took off with it's own anime/nerd culture block. Teen Titans was like a Toonami thing, but it wasnt the best show ever. It honestly wasnt even that good, I dont remember it being anything other than a generic superhero action cartoon with a few episodes of minor character development, like, maybe there was a romance plot between Starfire and Robin, but that's not a groundbreaking concept for a cartoon. There were already shows about teenagers awkwardly exploring puberty and relationships, shows like Doug, without even being cloying, or forced, or awkwardly interjected into a beat-em-up action cartoon. So the "loss" of Teen Titans isnt really robbing, or depriving the world of anything.
I mean, they all harp on how theyve "destroyed a classic" but none of them expound on that or explain what theyre talking about except parroting-in-different-words Mr Enter's talking points. I guess there are a few Teen Titans GO episodes that make fun of the original show, and make fun of the people who really care about it being "ruined" or some episodes make fun of plot points from the original (this is one thing I like about it, it's a kind of self-aware/self-deprecating humor where it doesnt take itself seriously and nothing really matters, just laughs. If you get it, youll find it funny).
I like Teen Titans GO more than the original because it's actually a cartoon, with stupid faces, slapstick antics, dumb gimmicks--the original Teen Titans, if you didnt come into it knowing what the fuck was going on, it didnt really mean much other than it was a superhero cartoon. I think the reboot is actually doing better than the original ever did, I think the original just one day suddenly got cut, but this one is getting picked up and played a lot and that makes these guys furious.
But man these guys get SO MAD about how it's been desecrated.