Teen Titans, Season 3, Episode 4: Crash
It's a filler, funny episode and despite just having the cast (and guest star Gizmo, who definitely outshines his HIVE buddies at this point) muck around with an absurd plot. It's also far, far more entertaining than the serious yet bland previous Starfire-Tamaran episode. It's not the best thing out there, and the moral is basically 'don't fuck around with potentially-dangerous-things' and 'ask permission from your friend before you use their things', because Beast Boy wants to play like the newest Torrented smash hit game, and apparently it's such a gigantic thing that.... um... Beast Boy needs to use Cyborg's super-high-tech computer? What kind of insane game is that? Jeez.
It's mostly a comedy episode as Cyborg gets infected by a virus that causes him to see everything around him as food, while Beast Boy enlists Gizmo's help, and the two of them shrink down to enter Cyborg's system. They had to fight the computer virus -- which somehow apparently have replicated into like an actual robo-bacteria army, because computer virus totally function like real-life viruses. It's all just some insanity, with some hilarious visuals with Gizmo and Beast Boy.
I thought it was awfully dark for them to leave Gizmo behind and not even make a token attempt to find him. Yeah, the kid's a villain and he's a total douchebag, and he did try to 'deactivate' Cyborg instead of fight to the bitter end and hope for the best or whatever, but come on. He actually kept his end of the deal and didn't try to betray the Titans -- he just didn't see that he could save Cyborg by turning into, well, snot.
It actually strikes a bit of a balance between comedy and Beast Boy's guilt, and while we didn't really get proper character development beyond 'Beast Boy feels sorry', it isn't as annoying as it could be, considering a good chunk of the screentime is taken up by Beast Boy and Gizmo, two of Teen Titans' most noisy and annoying characters. It's actually some good fun between them, though this episode, I must stress, isn't a particularly good one.
I wonder if BB escaped from Soto's collar in Every Dog Has His Day by turning into an amoeba.
ReplyDeleteCan he turn into an amoeba? I don't remember if he could do it in the comics, but even something relatively small like a bug or a worm would probably do the trick.
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