THE NOISE THAT JUST ESCAPED MY MOUTH WAS NOT HUMAN
Pffffftt kkkkkhahahahahahahaha
Bahaha this is amazing!
(Since everyone else is doing it too…
Veeery fitting.)
another-lifetime:
The Slade thing does bug me, A LOT but I think they’ve ignored it because the show was never coming back. They put him in the cartoon for a reason, but they were never picked up for the next season, so they just gave her a happy ending in the comic. I think if the show were to continue, we would have seen another outcome. :/
But there’s the thing! The comic took a completely different turn then what I think they would have done in the show, making it not canon to the show (to me anyway). It just seemed like a derpy cop out. Along with making Terra a princess. There was NO reason to make her a space princess. Where are we? Disney World? Because all of the main females (Raven and Starfire) were basically princesses too.
Maybe that’s just my opinion but I do not consider Terra a princess. At all.
Well, to be fair, the writers of Teen Titans Go! weren’t the ones who made Terra a princess. In NTT, she was the illegitimate daughter of the king of Markovia and his mistress who was given earth-moving powers with the help of a Markovian scientist who worked for the country’s royal family. Also, Raven isn’t a princess. Arella isn’t anything close to a queen, and Trigon’s not really a king. I know that Arella referred to the Azarathians as “her people” but I don’t think that we were supposed to take that to mean that she was royalty. Finally, the fact that she had royal heritage doesn’t really mean much, since she pretty much gave it all up.
I agree that Terra’s origin story in TTG could have been a better, but how else could she have been granted earth powers without the help of science that only royalty could afford?
Still, I would really love to see/hear your take on what Terra’s origin story should be, since I adore your comics and stories.
I know about all that. I read up on it. And I still think it’s a cop out and I’ll go into that in a second.
I know Raven isn’t really a Princess as well but she’s still the daughter of Trigon, which is pretty close since he is the incarnation of all evil. Basically the king of it. I was just saying that she was the daughter to someone who had a lot of power. I didn’t mean it in that way. xD
Honestly, I don’t really think that they needed to get into her back story that much. At least not at the time. It wasn’t really relevant to what was going on during the time of “Things Change”. We were more concerned with where things were going to go, not where she came from or how she got powers. And after what Slade had said about her going around the world to try to help others (only to lose control of her powers and be more destructive than helpful) seemed like a pretty solid background to me for the time. We didn’t really have to know about the fact that she was a princess or how she got her powers if they were going to go with that. Or that could have been explained at a better time in a better way. Besides, we don’t need an explanation for every super hero on how they got their powers. We still don’t really know how Titans East got their powers, where Jinx came from, or what exactly happened to Cyborg when he had his “accident”.
… But I just really wish they hadn’t completely forgot the fact that Slade existed and was obviously plotting. He had plenty of time to come up with something while the Teen Titans were fighting the Brotherhood. I’m pretty confident that he thought the Brotherhood was just a bunch of morons, that they would fail, he’d be able to come up with a much better plan, and execute it successfully on his own . But instead of focusing on what he was doing, they just flipped him off of the face of the Earth. That’s what really upsets me. It would have been SO much more interesting.
Oh gosh, thank you! XD But I honestly don’t have a complete story yet. I’ve got some ideas in mind at the moment but there are still some holes to fill up… We’ll see what I can come up with!
another-lifetime:
The Slade thing does bug me, A LOT but I think they’ve ignored it because the show was never coming back. They put him in the cartoon for a reason, but they were never picked up for the next season, so they just gave her a happy ending in the comic. I think if the show were to continue, we would have seen another outcome. :/
But there’s the thing! The comic took a completely different turn then what I think they would have done in the show, making it not canon to the show (to me anyway). It just seemed like a derpy cop out. Along with making Terra a princess. There was NO reason to make her a space princess. Where are we? Disney World? Because all of the main females (Raven and Starfire) were basically princesses too.
Maybe that’s just my opinion but I do not consider Terra a princess. At all.
i joined tumblr for the lolz: I really do think that was Terra, and that she remembered everything.
She just wanted to forget and have a normal life.
Just…in her mannerisms, she always seemed so sad when Beast Boy was talking to her…
My derpy interpretation of the comic and argument against the connection between the show and the comic.
As far as I know, Slade didn’t really show up in the comic when he was pretty much the only villian at large by the end of the show. And he’s the most dangerous. So it doesn’t really make much sense.
And let’s not forget that Slade just doesn’t show up for NOTHING. There is always a reason to what he does. It was probably some cryptic clue.
Huh… I never thought of it like that, very interesting :’D
I guess my only form of argument would be that… I kinda just doubt the writers would go for the whole “Slade and Terra were trolling them” but I guess that’s just me… I mean, the ep was meant to be a bittersweet farewell-ish type thing. And considering all the plotholes this show usually has… yeah…
But I like the idea XD
I wouldn’t say that Terra is trolling them. It’s all on Slade’s part if what I’m thinking is right. But when is that guy not trolling?
And honestly, I can’t really hop on the bandwagon where people believe it was supposed to be a “farewell” kind of episode. Part of that is probably because of my shipping problem but at the same time, there was still a bunch that was yet to be answered.
Alsoooo, plot holes? Teen Titans? You gotta be tripping because I think the show pays very close attention to detail. I mean, I guess there was a couple of rough spots in the second season with Terra but that’s all I can really think of. And that’s why I think Slade had a bigger part than what we think.
… Sorry that I’m blocking up this blog with these posts but I’m really curious on this subject. It’s interesting!
Ooh, I like this theory, and it would have been a GREAT arc to explore if they had ever gotten a season 6. But if this WAS their intention, wouldn’t they have hinted that Slade was involved at the end?
I WOULD LITERALLY KILL FOR ANOTHER SLADE/TERRA SEASON, THOUGH. (Not exactly in a shippy sense; it’s just that their dynamic is absolutely FASCINATING and disturbing and all the things this show does best.
Actually, if they didn’t want Slade involved, they wouldn’t have had him/his robot self show up in the first place. He didn’t need to show up at the end to be involved, he already was before then. That’s my argument against that. xD;
I know! That would have been really cool…
She just wanted to forget and have a normal life.
Just…in her mannerisms, she always seemed so sad when Beast Boy was talking to her about her old life, and some of the things she said, it was pretty clear (to me) that she remembered all the bad things she did, and she didn’t want…
I personally disagree. And this is why:
Now, you guys seem to think that she wanted to live a normal life? I’m assuming that came from the comics (since I’ve never read them). I personally believe that the show and the comic weren’t exactly connected. But my reason for that is because I think Slade actually had something to do with everything that happened in Things Change.
Everyone seems to forget that Slade exists when they talk about this episode. They just concentrate around Terra and BB’s interaction or what happens in the comic.
Slade knew about Terra being in school and claimed that she didn’t want to see Beast Boy anymore. Something tells me that he was up to something, like he was trying to make it seem like Terra wasn’t interested in the Titans/Beast Boy/having powers anymore so that they couldn’t use her help. If they did have her help, they probably could defeat that element changing monster if they got it to turn into stone or something. It was probably his monster anyway.
And, honestly, I think Slade probably found her and was quite brutal to Terra after he figured out that she had been freed from her stony state (I honestly believe that she was freed on her own after Raven’s arc but he could have somehow freed her too for all we know). I mean, she betrayed and killed him. Slade doesn’t take betrayal very well (after seeing what he did to Robin in Haunted and how much spite he seems to hold against Robin in general). I can only imagine how he felt about being put through Hell, being forced to serve Trigon to get his life back, and having to fight side by side with the Titans on top of that.
I’m guessing after Slade caught up with her, or how ever they came to cross paths again, he messed with her mind as part of his payback. He does like to use psychology to manipulate and he’s REALLY good at it. Not to mention that Terra is kind of easy to break. And while he was toying with her mind, he might have convinced her to try to forget about the Titans, forget about Beast Boy. Not totally sure how he managed to do that but it didn’t take too much for him to manipulate her in the second season. Perhaps he threatened their lives? Her life? BB’s? Who knows. But it must have scared her into agreeing with Slade or something.
Besides, where the hell does she live anyway? Who does she live with now, if anyone? Surely she has to pay for school and couldn’t just randomly show up there, conveniently getting enrolled out of no-where. This is just one of those things that just drives me nuts to think about.
Anywho, in conclusion, I think there was a lot more that was going to be relieved to what was really going on with Terra and Slade, whether or not she was actually going to join the Teen Titans again.
If Slade really was behind the reason why Terra had “forgotten” everything, then having Beast Boy “move on” would have been a victory for him. And that’s really bad.
Sorry for randomly popping in but this is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile and felt like putting out… Somewhere. xD;
^ (My argument for the episode Things Change. Just thought I’d reblog it here, too. I’m interested in reading what others have to say about my thoughts, whether its for or against it. I’ve been wanting to debate this for some time now. xD)
