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Review: Trouble in Tokyo
Topic Started: Oct 14 2006, 03:25 PM (1,080 Views)
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We all have seen TT: Trouble in Tokyo movie, and we all know how good it was... or was it? Sometimes, we're always biased when we watch a movie for the first time. But, once you've read Lizard-Man's review, you may wanna think twice before you declare TT: Trouble in Tokyo as the "Best movie of all time!"

Check out the review here, and don't forget to share your thoughts on the review here.
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LM, when in the Samual Langhorne Hell did YOU become a mod?!

Also, interesting review. Robin is something of a show-stealer. Never much cared for the guy. Having limited contact with fangirls does shelter me from smexy bombardment--if you like, I could build you a shelter.
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Yes, very interesting. I agree with Lizard-man on almost everything. I just don't understand why they made Raven so mad? Was her monthly visitor haunting her? And one more thing, Smexy is so not a word.
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Hated the movie from the start. Thank you Lizard-Man.

I'm not sure if this was in the review or not, but they focussed on RobxStar too much, and shows (to me) that they had no substance to add. Look at the style of the drawing in this particular Teen Titans creation -- unusual, isn't it? The Japanese they put in there was poor quality, too. Who in their right mind says Konnichiwa at nighttime?

Was this really a Teen Titans movie? No, it was an extended RobxStar episode with a climax and stupid ink monster. It was even more awkward watching this at comic-con, with my comic - only friend.

So, Lizard-Man isn't the first to think that way.
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That sounded suspiciously like something I would have wrote LM. Been watching my posts eh? XP

I never even watched the movie, but I got the basic gist of it out of your review. Sad.

After reading the basic gist of everything that happened, I have to say the whole movie sounded horribly predictable. I mean, lets face it, I was hoping they wouldn't do that when the movie was announced, but them going to Tokyo made me shake my head in shame. It's bad enough the show rips off Japanese conventions, did they really have to GO there too? The RobxStarness, Robin being the big hero (which happened in far too many of the episodes I DID see). Predictability to the max.

The thing with Raven has been something I heard about right away, and even as someone who is not a fan of the AS I had to object. I mean, can't they get this girls personality right? She hit Beast Boy maybe ONCE in the entirety of the show, yet whacked him five or six times in this movie if my count is correct. It's like bad fanfiction writers who take Ravens piss poor attitude in the AS to the extreme, or maybe LM's conspiracy theory is right and they pathetically tried to kill off our ship. Either way it's a disgrace and a furthur perversion, to me, of what Raven is supposed to stand for.

In general, the unbalancedness of the entire show has always been a problem to me. The comics were far more balanced in the Titans panel time. They showed what they did in their spare time and had others save the day more then once. It was never Robin's show. One arc dealt with Wonder Girl's wedding, which BEAST BOY oversaw, and did a remarkable job, I might add. Several dealt with Beast Boy and the relationship with Mento, his foster father. Raven had the Trigon and Brother Blood arcs. Cyborg had the running story with Sarah Simms (his girlfriend who seemed to just dissapear from the comic at some point) and an undercurrent of his desire to be human and not the "monster" he is. The story where we learn about Cyborg accident and the reactions to it. Hell, Robin didn't have any MAJOR story's, but he was a competent leader, giving out orders, stratigizing, coordinating attacks, using teamwork. Where the hell has all this stuff gone? At times the show turned into Robin's show, making him like some Gary Stu, and apparently here it is in the movie, full front and center.

Does anyone else find it a disgrace in general that the "finale" of the show, and this is not like Things Change, they had an excuse there considering it was done before they knew the show was cancelled, dealt more with Robin then the others?

Another thing, I've always found the word "smexy" to be ridiculous anyways. The hell? What happened to "sexy"? Do we need to change it into something else so it potentially sounds cooler?

Don't feel bad LM about having to endure the fan girls when the movie premiered. If you recall I lost my cool around that time and had to take a few days off. >_>

By the way, this might not be common knowledge, but I'm one of those "don't care" guys on the RobxStar stuff too. It was way too obvious in what I saw and sometimes stole scenes. I'm never a fan of ships so overly obvious you want to puke.

Bah. I better stop now before I piss someone off. >_>;;;

By the way, I question the "good is dumb" thing. Not always. Now, the Punisher is "good", but he is sure he doesn't have any recurring villains, if you get what I mean. XP

On one final note, I found your line about no self respecting ninja wearing pink to be hilarious. That's a problem I've had with Naruto too. Ninjas are supposed to be stealthy, to become one with their surroundings. Bright orange does not help with that I'm sure. XD
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Well written article, LM. I cannot help but agree with everything you mentioned. I have only seen bits and pieces of the movie and, frankly, I was not impressed.

Then again, I should not have been surprised. Early rumors about the movie suggested the staff would take the "Robin, Robin, and more Robin" route, much as they did with most of the show. That is one thing that has always annoyed me. The fact the movie, something i was hoping would focus on each of the Titans, is the same turned me off completely. After all, this is "Teen Titans," not "Moody, Emo Robin Show."

Starfire had a few good pieces, at least, but the others suffered. They simply seemed to be there for the sake of being there because the words "Teen Titans" are in the title. I kept wishing to see more of Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy, and less of Robin. To be fair, I never did like Robin in the series, but he did improve. I came to like him somewhat, even. But Robin in the movie just plain annoyed me.

And what is with Raven? She launches off at Beast Boy with little provocation, which reminds me of a badly written fan fic. She never acted this badly in the course of the series. I agree with dl on that point. I like AS Raven fine. Her sarcasm is funny. But the comic-version of Raven is far superior.

And Beast Boy gets shafted. Plain and simple. That is all I have to say.

Once again, nice article, LM. So true, so true.
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I've decided to wait this long to respond because I wanted to make sure I had a good number of people reading this.

Overall I thank everyone who has given me such kind views towards this review

To answer your first question AL, a few days ago. I'm rather surprised to say the least. Some people expected it but I never truly though Sparky would ask me to join the team. I however accepted and hope to find more ideas for articles soon. However I think it best if I let someone else try their hand, I already put up two.

Also thanks for the shelter idea Al. I could use that when I prowl around the net. Its a fangirl madland out there.

If you ever have the chance Al you can check out my cliche article here. I mentioned you in it, just so you know.

Well enough with shameless self promotion.

True Beast, your answer to why Raven could be so mad in the movie makes sense. PMSing Half-Demons would probably act pretty out of character considering what the monthly visitor does. I read a fanfiction on that actually, I can send you the link if you want its a pretty funny story.

Smexy never was a word. I think it just popped up out of no where.

You could say this was an extended RobxStar episode Spazz. Its not that I didn't mind the fluff it was just I never cared for the ship so I left that part out. I of course still believe your theory about BB and Rae deciding to take-up S&M since it makes the most sense for Raven dishing out punishment and Beastboy apparently wanting to recieve it. I keep looking at the nose scene and I just keep thinking that. Can't help it.

You got to go to comic-con! Dang girl! You are too damn lucky.

We know your feelings on the movie DL, trust me I kinda had no choice but to agree with you after I watched it a few times. Let's face it, the first reaction buzz was overwhelming and not too critical.

Robin was the hero of the movie, which I wouldn't have minded all that much but because he totally outshined every single Titan I cannot forgive it for that. Muramaki and his staff were far too focused on Robin because they immediately think we all love him. I don't know why they think that but I blame the R/S fangirls and their annoying obssession over him, don't mean to put any R/S fans on the spot though. They're good people and I technically support their ship by proxy. Besides Rob/Rae fans obssess over him just as much as they do. At least Sora actually said this movie made her hate Robin. That was a first from her.

I've heard the criticism about it being a bad fanfic version of raven several times by now actually. To tell you the truth it probably comes from once again too much focus on Robin for this movie. They completely focused on that and only that and left all the other Titans to wallow in their misrey as they had to endure Robin's emoness and overshadowing of their far more interesting characters. Raven gets it the worst because, well lets face it she isn't anything like the Comic Raven.

Because our ship wasn't killed in the movie I can leave all six moments open for interpretation. Even though they weren't exactly favourable. Raven never once said she hated beastboy nor said she was not romantically interested in him. She never said she loved him either but that just means we're still the less obvious ship of the show. We survived the movie's slaps and cruelty because of how open to interpretation the moments truly are. Especially the point where Raven points out the all the things about BB appearance. Which I fervently maintain she was pointing out all the things she found cute about him. But thats just me really.

I don't want to be called the conspiracy theorist of the site. I'm the conspiracy expert because of how much I know about them but not a theorist. If muramaki and staff WERE trying to kill us off they did a poor job with it. BB's moved on from Terra as evidence to the japanese girls chasing him and obviously he's not going to go out with any of them since this was just a vacation. Raven never really said anything to support that she hated Beastboy and she was probably just on her period like True beast suggested...or praticing S&M like Spazz and Al believe. It was a poorly made attempt to kill our ship and just leaves us open for interpretation. Yay us! Also my theory can be proved with scientific facts, (Points to picture of Dealy Plaza where Kenndey's car is passing by) If you look up in the center of the Grassy Knoll you'll see a shiloutte of what looks like Muramaki...what?...oh sorry. Thats just a bush. But the face on Mars definetly looks like Muramaki!

Okay enough with the bullcrap conspiracies where were we?

Robin didn't have any major stories because he got those in the Batman comics. Teen Titans was always about the group as a whole a never once focused on one person for the majority of a story...ever. The only reason Robin got so much episode screen time in the AS was because Murmaki wanted to have a character that would seem COOL to audiences. Too bad they modeled Robin off of Skateboard culture and gave him the most stereotypical cool guy additude it made most of us hate him. Its not that I don't think Robin is a good character or hero, I just think he's overated. And it angers me to think that he got so much undeserved screen time in a show that wasn't supposed to be all his. That and I hate Dick Grayson Robin. If this was Tim Drake Robin and was a lot more outgoing and actually made a good pun or two then I would have liked Robin better. If Muramaki just sat back and stopped for a second and let one of the other Titans save the day just as many times as he did then I'd like him better. I liked Haunted to be sure, but only because it made Robin see how annoying Emo he was and how incredibly paranoid and schizo he was. In truth I like Beastboy better because he is not a basket case of emotional stress and can still be serious when he needs to be. Titans Together is proof of that. And as always "Things Change" never happened and Beastboy moved on from Terra.

Its no excuse if they thought up the story before they knew the show was cancelled. Having Robin up so front in center that he outshines all of the Titans throughout the movie is unacceptable no matter what time frame. And I'll never forgive Muramaki for that disgrace of an outfit they gave him to wear.

As I said before Dl, Smexy is a crap word

I know you lost your cool, but I never liked Robin throughout the series and never really enjoyed many of his episodes. I couldn't relate to him at all and he never seemed cool to me at all. He reminded me of a lot of my fellow students in high school. From then on he never had a chance. So you can see why his overuse in this story really puts me at odds with it.

The "good is dumb" thing was said in "Spaceballs" DL. Its meant as a joke. Especially considering how stupid some bad guys can be. Also Dark Helmet got his butt whooped in the film, so his belief got quashed didn't it? Relax though, I don't believe it myself. Considering James Bond Villians.

Of course I get your drift DL, Frank Castle wouldn't be himself if he let people live. Then again, Jigsaw managed to keep coming back for a few comics until he was eventually killed off.

Yes I have heard of your problem wit Naruto. Apparently though according to one of the show's fans I'm friends with Naruto is starting to wear more black...although I'm sure he still shouts his annoying catchphrase again and again. "Believe it!" Still the show has high Japanese quality animation so I'm not going to call it out on that...just Naruto...because he's not a very good ninja.

Thank you Changeling! That's two girls I have found so far that never really liked Robin. You are saved from the pheriphal pit of fangirlishness. Thank goodness.

And yes BB did get shafted...especially with that accused cat kiss/kick scene! How I hate that scene!

So all in all it comes down to Robin being the super-awesome-cool hero while the others are forced to deal with him outshinning them all. That's my whole beef with the movie! If they tried to give all the characters face time I would have been fine but no! We have to deal with Mr. Robin and his emoness! God!

I'm thinking of re-writing this movie in the near future, for that is how much I hate Robin and his over-emphasis. When I iron out the details I'll give you a summary for it. Hopefully it will sound better then this "Robin gets to play the big hero" that we got instead.

Thanks for reading guys
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The movie should be renamed Teen Titans: The Robin Show, and he needs some REAL vacation, maybe to an island in the middle of nowhere, so hi fhinaly can relax a little from his "we are heroes" attitue.
Also like Lizard points on the article we had the perfect chance to see beast boy battle and show that he can kick som a$$, but nooo robin has to appear like the only hero and took al the credit
I blame Raven behaviour(sp?) because of the jet-lag

Apparently the word "smexy" is a mix of Smart and Sexy




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Smexy. It makes me laugh. ^O^

And I am proud to serve, LM! I am a BB fan-girl, though not of the crazy sort. And I was very much upset at how shafted he got during the movie.

Heck, everyone but Robin was shafted, but I digress.

Personally, I was hoping for more Beast Boy and Robin interaction, because there was hardly any in the animated series. That, and the Robin I liked during Seasons Four and Five (he was not nearly as emo and obsessive, which is an improvement). But I suppose that was too much to hope for.

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Dick Grayson is a character that has really degraded over the year, more or less since Marv Wolfman lost creative control of him, being pushed by editors and eventually hack writers getting a hold of him.

He used to be a chivelrous young man who you could trust. Even likable. Now he's a prick who sleeps with a lot of women and always seems to be emo, whether it's the comics now or in the Teen Titans animated series.

Personally I think the creators of the show should be blacklisted for the things they did to the Titans. It was like The Robin show, with him having four really neat sidekicks.

Robin fit the cool guy stereotype so well it sickened me, like a Gary Stu. Tim Drake was a far better Robin. Had the fighting finess of the previous too and the brains to solve cases himself, but he wouldn't have been cool enough. *eyeroll*

I'm not gonna rant about the show though. Too easy and I don't feel like it right now.

Anyways, since you handled the review for this movie, I hope you don't mind if I take care of the review for Judas Contract when it releases. No offense meant here, but being the big comic guy here, I'd probably be more qualified for comparisons and the like.

I lost my cool and apologized, but things have cooled down now. No intention of actually seeing this movie. Whenever it comes on... well, thats what CourtTV is for. XD

I've never seen Spaceballs, but it's on my "to watch" list. I heard it was funny.

Frank Castle is the best anti hero ever created and his motivations make more sense at time. He targets the mobsters and big guns, which is actually smart. When you let people like that go, they keep their iron grip on their assets, creating more deaths of innocents and trouble. Sometimes, the only way to get the job done is through a vigilante like Castle.

Frank Castle, The Punisher, is frequently at odds with the tights set and their ideals, so there are NEVER really any recurring characters on the hero or villain side. The only ones are Microchip, who betrayed Frank in Punisher MAX volume 1 and was killed, and Colonel Nick Fury, one of the few people he has some respect for.

On the villains side, considering he kills them, Jigsaw and the Russian are the only two villains to ever really reoccur. Jigsaw was eventually killed though in a massive final battle, where Frank finally killed Jigsaw. The Russian was one hell of an annoynace that refused to die. He was nearly killed, but saved and enhanced. Didn't help him. Castle took care of him like only he could. Since then there haven't been any real reoccuring villains, minus some in Punisher MAX who appeared in two storylines, such as Nicky Cavella, who did something so dispicable I can't describe it here. It was beyond horrible to do to Castle. >_>

Naruto is a decent show, and Naruto himself is not a crappy ninja. He just is at the start. I just have problems with some of it, like the openness of their arts, the lack of stealth and many of the history of ninjas. It's like an alternate version of ninjas. Not bad, but not HORRIBLY great either.

Now Changeling, I'm sorry to say that I don't think Beast Boy and Robin could have ever truley gotten along in the series. Even in the comics, the best their relationshipo was at was a decent working relationship, not friendship. Tim Drake, on the other hands, is on good terms with Gar, but the shows is Dick Grayson, so... >_>;;
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Kassad thanks for the investigative sleuthing on that accurssed word. Now that I know what it means I can call Robin's outfit for what it is... unsmart and completely gay. That makes the word "Unsmay!" Say it with me friends! Robin is unsmay!

Robin in season 4 and 5 was less of jerk and emo. He had more brother like aspects instead. My only complaint is that he made the Trigon arc way too dark. And I agree with DL that the whole thing was extremely rushed. If they gave me an episode that focused more on Robin and Raven's suppossed friendship "Bond" maybe I would have accepted Robin sudden additude to be the secondary character for the arc as less out of the blue and more reasonable. I'll never understand why Rob/Rae fans like that Trigon arc so much. It was good sure, but its at times way too dark, forced and randomly out of the blue. Try hard enough and I'm sure any of the other Titans would have fit the bill to play as Raven's secondary character for the arc just as good as Robin. Maybe even better actually. I'm not saying it should have been Beastboy though I'm saying one of the other Titans would have made just a little more sense then Robin. However he did manage to be a good supporting character...I just can't really see why it HAD to be him.

Then again lets face it, Muramaki himself said that the series was mostly about Robin and him growing up. Into what? An even more obssessive emo freak?

You're exactly right about the cool guy stereotype DL, Robin played too much into Punk and Rebel audiences. He drives a motorcycle, he wears hair gel, he broods, seriously tell me exactly where people get off liking him? Cause I never saw any reason as to why I should. I never once could relate to him. At least with Beastboy I could see a little of me in there. He didn't get the attention he deserved throughout the majority of the series.

Ah nuts, you get the movie Bruce Timm works on while I'm stuck with viewing the white Trenchcoat Robin in my mind forever! Only joking. Its only fair that you review it. Let's face it I try to keep up with the comic mythos but I never get out to the store much. "Judas Contract" is all yours my friend, just let me do my own short review in the comments section after you review the film and we'll call it even.

As I said before DL, everyone loses their cool. You'd be surprised at how much I usually do.

Spaceballs is good, although somethings are really odd. But its a parody, so it only makes sense if they are. I mean Hot Shots II was a parody of the Rambo films and they had an exploding chicken!

I was reading up a little on Deadpool and I kinda think he's like the Punisher without any morals. That and the Punisher never breaks the fourth wall. Deadpool does it constantly.

I'm glad there are no reoccuring villians in the Punisher mythos, otherwise what would that do to Castle's street cred?

For me, I'll always liked the Ninja Turtles better anyway. Now those guys were ninjas! And they didn't have annoying catchphrases. Well Michelangelo did, but he was the surfer dude and Cowabunga was technically only used as a battle cry when they engaged the enemy.

Well they could have at least tried to give BB and Robin some kind of team friendship with each other DL, they didn't even give much of an attempt before season five and even then it wasn't expanded on. I'm not saying they would of succeeded considering we're talking about Dick Grayson here but they could have at least tried.

I've been thinking about it a lot actually and I think that there is a way Beastboy could have done his awesome final battle scene against Daizo's ink form. First of course the movie would have to focus on all the Titans and not just primarily Robin. You know, give them all ample screen time and oh I don't know NOT HAVE ROBIN BE THE ONLY TITAN WHO CAN SUCCESSFULLY BEAT A BAD GUY IN THIS FILM! I mean it was sickening to see Robin just jump out of nowhere and beat dozens of enemies in that final battle scene while his far more powerful teamates were struggling to even hold them off! Have all the Titans get a fair chance at bashing in the ink bad guys, perhaps even let them fight ink versions of themselves in great numbers! That would have been cool. With the focus being on all the Titans they could all get hurt at the end by Daizo and Beastboy could have been the last one standing. Then it could have been more like the finale of the Justice League "Cadmus Arc" where Flash took down Brainiac/Luthor. That was an awesome scene in JLU. Beastboy could have charged at Daizo in all his animal forms pried out Robin and Brushogun himself and saved the day! Oh but no, its all Robin's show so we get that ending.

Well screw split milk, I'm getting a video game in few hours that will allow to kill hippies as an alien bent on world conquest. In the meantime I still encourage all to find a way to make this movie more fair to all characters and not just make it a crappy Robin episode where he's super emo. I encourage you to be creative!
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To be honest, I've seen a lot of the fourth season, and the whole thing seriously played off as forced, far more then any other animated series season I've ever watched. They were playing the "they understand each other" card so much it got beyond believability, especially considering there wasn't an episode remarking on this friendship beforehand.

In fact, a lot of the Trigon arc was very much changed around. In the comics Raven actually became possesed by the demon side of her and fought the other Titans, Raven actually died, Trigon was actually destroyed instead of defeated, it was Arella, Lillith and the souls of Azarath that destroyed Trigon. So many things. I'm probably going to do an article comparing and contrasting seasons with what they are based after.

The ending was also changed, the story itself seemed forced, Robins friendship with Raven came out of nowhere and felt extremely forced. Once again Robin is the big hero. To be honest, season four was rather sad in general. How sad? I think the last season of X-Men: The Animated Series is better then that one, and that's very bad. The last season of that show utterly blew, thanks to decreased production values and immenent cancellation.

Like I said, Robin show with four really neat sidekicks. Robin did more growing up in one arc of Batman's comic then he did in the show. Honestly, I never can see what people see in him, or this show for that matter. If you wanted to see some real character development from Robin you could just watch the Batman: TAS two parter "Robin's Reckoning" and get more out of that with the character then the whole Teen Titans show, which is sad since he was quite possibly the most central character.

Beast Boy is very relatable to me in many ways. He reminds me of Flash from JLU and of myself in many ways, with the joking to hide pain and the like. In general, I relate to the other Titans far more then Robin plain and simple. I mean, why should the show have been HIS party? He gets all kinds of character development with Batman and is in about every Batman series, but the other Titans DON'T. We'll see Robin again, a LOT, but the other's we'll only see occasionally and, if we're lucky, in a new series of Teen Titans if the Judas Contract movie does well. In general, with the whole show I feel ALL the Titans got shafted.

I'm rather anxious to review the Judas Contract movie because this is like a dream come true for me. Marv Wolfman, George Perez and Bruce Timm are all working on this. The two original creators and the man responsible for the stellar DCAU. There has never been a better pedigree for success. I eagerly await the Terra arc to be done right, because now I know it will. The moral implications will be there, Terra will be the sociopathic monster she is, Gar will grow up, we'll see the Titans work as a team and not have it degrade into Dick's show, Robin will be the chivelrous young man he's supposed to be. Hell, we might even get a Batman cameo, seeing as this is the arc Robin became Nightwing, and Bat's had something to do with that.

Of course you will be able to do your own review in the comments section. XP

Now that I think about it, Punisher has gotten the animated series shaft. He only appeared in two episodes of the 90's Spider-Man and a small cameo in X-Men. I say give him an animated series, pull out all the stops on it, package it for the adults and put it on Adult Swim. Oh, and get Garth Ennis for writing duties. It'd be a goddamn goldmine I'm telling you.

Castle needs not worry about his street cred. He always get's the job done. Being a former Navy Seal and having serious training will do that to you. Hell, you should have seen him in the Marvel Knights Punisher series. He whupped Wolverine, shot him in the face, the groin and ran him over with a steamroller just to get Logan out of his hair. XD

Anyways, there are several ways the movie culd have been improved I'd bet, but it would start with Robin not being the center focus. It's generally my thought that team shows should have a balanced feal with the screen time of each member on the episodes and arcs that don't deal with one in particular. On the episodes I did see, Robin always maintained a fairly present background and was always annoyingly there. Maybe we'll get lucky, get a new series out of the Judas Contract movie and see a real Titans series. Lord knows we could use one.

On the whole, I'm ready to forget this whole debacle of a series (plus the movie) and look to the future. Judas Contract here we come!
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I've had more own ideas on how I could have done the series better. Mostly I would have tried to connect all the arcs in one way or another to create an expanding storyline that was completely interwoven. I wouldn't have had Raven die at the end of the Trigon arc or had her turn against the Titans, but I most certainly would have put a character that had a better bond with her then Robin instead of forcing it upon the series fans.

In general DL I have high hopes for the Judas Movie too. However we'll be waiting awhile till then so I hope that we can all remain patient enough till we get it. Perhaps we'll have a few squeezed out bits of TT comic info while we wait but we'll have to see.

I always sight the episode "Titans together" as the true series finale and ignore everything else. Because that was the only episode that really had BB in his prime as a leader and showed what he really could do.

I find all BB-cenetered episodes superior to any of Robin's episodes, even Haunted because while that was Robin best performance it just refirmed what I already knew about him. He's schizo-paranoid obssessive jerk.

If you need some tips on how to do some movie reviews may I suggest where I got my sinicle approach from to provide you some pointers. Badmovies.org is one of my fave movie review sites. I'm a huge B-Movie fan of course and let me tell you don't knock'em till you try them. Some of them are pretty good drive-in cult classics that you should try looking for. If you want to see where I developed my style for writing this movie review I suggest you head on over there for a quick peek at some the reviews. I won't give you the link because, well its spamming of course. Just google it I'm sure you'll find it.
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Judas Contract review? Actually, I was gonna ask DeTroyes or Pliskin to write the review once it's released.

Nah, it won't be necessary. I've got two great writers on the team. I'll let dl do the review once it's released... maybe. :P
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Oh! Toying with me are you? T_T

Just kidding. I can't wait to see it. They need to hurry! DL at your service, ready to review upon release!
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