Welcome to Boomb Tube! For the fourth week in a row we talk exclusively about Teen Titans Go! but also take a look to the future of next Saturday. Spoilers ahead!
This week, Beast Boy felt that he wasn’t receiving enough attention so he allowed Starfire to think she had murdered him and that he was now a ghost tied to her for the rest of her time on this mortal coil. Since Starfire is portrayed worse here than she is in The New 52, she believes him and does all of Beast Boy’s chores. The other Titans catch wind of this and try to punish Beast Boy by convincing him he really is dead with one of Raven’s intangibility spells. Beast Boy, who seriously has no moral compass here, decides that being a ghost is great and he can now go jump into a volcano like he always wanted to. The Titans follow him to prevent his actual death before the spell wears off, until they also horrifically die in the process. Cyborg gets killed by a mountain lion and Raven is killed by what Starfire describes as “just random lasers.” Their ghosts then tell Beast Boy not to jump into the volcano when he reveals he knew about the spell all along. Which would’ve been a good thing to say earlier, before his friends all died horrifically. Beast Boy also ends up dying and all the ghosts stand around the volcano laughing, stuck forever in their ethereal forms and unable to pass on to the next life. Because Beast Boy wanted some attention.
Well that wasn’t very heroic of anyone was it? Yeah, it’s played off for laughs but everyone dying horrifically due to Beast Boy craving attention. Of course, it is all played off for laughs but it’s really hard to laugh when everyone is so shallow as a character; especially Beast Boy who here has the same “Annoying Cool Character” archetype that most lazy kid’s shows have. Yes, an annoying character can be funny but if annoying is all they are it becomes hard to not want to turn off the TV. Especially when some of the jokes are just so flat and not even really there. Nearly every week each episode just feels rush, and this one is no exception.
Final Verdict: 3.2 – Pass.
Now thankfully, there was no second segment to this week’s Go! episode so we can take the time to talk about something else: this Saturday’s premiere of Avengers Assemble.
The trailer can be found online, as can the first full episode on iTunes and as of right now, it’s a pretty hard show to judge. For one, it seems incredibly unlikely that it’ll be, as rumored, a continuation of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. That’s probably for the best if the trailer is any indication. Focusing on the movie’s six, as well as new point of view character The Falcon, this show takes most of it’s cues from the Joss Whedon’s film. Like the one part where Iron Man says “Oh yeah. We have a Hulk.” Remember? Like in the movie you paid 10 dollars to see. Now you can see the same lines said again but, instead of by Robert Downey Jr., by Adrian Pasdar from Heroes. Good.
Hopefully Avengers Assemble won’t try riding the film’s coattails for the entirety of its run. A few shout-outs to the movie are expected; the whole show was based on the premise that it would attract casual viewers who liked the movie. Thankfully we’ll know this Saturday when the one-hour premiere airs (or you could go on iTunes and get it for free. Your choice.)
