Teen Titans, Season 4, Episode 2: The Quest
After being neglected for a good chunk of seasons two and three, existing for 'team leader' purposes and to ship with Starfire, Robin finally gets a spotlight episode! And... it's absolutely generic. I'm sorry, but it's another episode that feels like it's regurgitated from the bag of 'episode plot you can reuse for any cartoon'. Robin heads off to a Chinese temple to learn kung fu, and is humble and everything, and he learns that the journey is the training. The moral is decent, but being placed so late in the series felt awkward. It really felt like it should be an episode featured in season one or season two where the Titans are still learning their identities as superheroes and trying to figure out their place in the world, but here it just feels weird. The multiple fights against the animal people, and the utterly insipid and forgettable villain (whose name I forgot, and I watched the episode two minutes ago) makes the episode a very predictable one. The action scenes were at least decent and cool enough to grab your attention.
But honestly, the best parts about this episode is the other Titans wearing Robin's costume and pretending to be Robin. Raven wearing Robin's costume fits so well!
But overall, it's a pretty perfunctory episode that honestly feels generic considering what we know Teen Titans is capable of doing when it wants to really make a good episode.
DC Easter Eggs Corner:
- Beast Boy, while dressed up as Robin, bursts through a paper-hoop in an imitation of Robin's debut on the covers of Detective Comics waaaay back in -googles- 1940.
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