A Deeper Dive into Teen Titans (Season 4): Raven's Potential, Social Issues in Animated Worlds, and AI's Impact on Creatives

Anyways , it's gonna be exploring that for the most part and some other episodes that we kinda like . So , without further ado , tokyo Gatsu , let's go ahead and zone in on this .

So the focus is on our girl , raven now , and , even though her thing is not gonna kick into like the third episode , kinda like the last season with Cyborg , there is two episodes before her arc kicks in that I kinda wanna touch on . But the first episode don't touch that dial .

Basically , control freaks back and he's on television hopping from channel to channel using the same device and the Titans get inside the television dimension , kinda like channel chasers .

You know that fairly odd appearance on a special episode , yeah , and the chase between the Titans and control freak and the monster that control freak was on creating , causing damage to the viewers brainwaves , and I like how in this episode , the best way to beat a couch potato is with another couch potato , with our boy , beast Boy .

And then somebody comes in with the real facts and be like no , bro , you forgot about this and this and this Cause . Then that little back and forth between control freak and Beast Boy when it was like well , I had what about this and this and this ? And then like Beast Boy was like no , what about , but about this and this and this ?

And the control freak was like no , this and this and this and this . And then it wound up like that back and forth banter was hilarious , but then ending with the fact that , nope , in the end Beast Boy is the bigger , better and better couch potato .

He knew all this stuff way more than Beast Boy , way more than control freak did , and it was just like bro .

way , otherwise they will flame you for it .

There's a community that knows the manga , because that's a big difference as well too . There are some changes from the manga to to the anime , from the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z as well , so there are some changes into that . Then there's the community that has not read the manga nor seen Dragon Ball whatsoever . They started at Dragon Ball Z .

That's a whole community in itself . And now the fourth community is a community that has only seen Super and seen shorts or bits of Dragon Ball , like maybe the most of Dragon Ball that they have seen is the little TFS clips that circle around YouTube . They still have not actually seen the original Dragon Ball Z .

They've only seen , actually been watching , super , and that's it . That is the fourth onto that . So , because it's such a big differentiation in the huge community into this aspect , it's it's always going to be a big issue because it's always going to be somebody fat checking something else .

Well , goku never did this and this and this and this , and you be like , well , did you know that ? It's like , oh , the best command man wave ever was the , the sliding command man . And then like , well , I mean , I love that sliding command man that he did . That was definitely boss . It was bad as it was unexpected .

But real tall Goku has shot a command man wave out of his feet and before he could fly , that's how he learned , that's how he flew , like that one fight . Like he didn't have Nimbus , he couldn't fly yet because he ain't learned how to do it yet . So does Niggas . To give himself some propulsion , he shot a command man wave at his feet .

That was still pretty boss , especially for the . He did it during a fight and he never did again . It was another one time only situation . The warp command man was still pretty boss , even though realistically it was still kind of stupid , but it was still pretty boss . When it happened , we was unexpected .

We was like , holy shit , this niggas just teleported with the command man . Oh my God , like it's not the first time that he'd have shocked us , specializing in this command man wave in different ways . But then you hit , you mentioned that , and then like bro , what are you talking about ? He ain't never shot in a command man , way from his feet .

I know exactly what community you from , I know . Now , at this point , I'm cutting this conversation short because there's no point talking to you about anything else further , because you do not know anything , and I'm just going to walk away and I nope , not happening , not entertaining nonsense .

But ayo , in dramatic fashion , is that our boy professor took the number one hero for show the show .

He was losing fights in martial arts with Robin . He was in a fight with this new dude , and then keep in mind that Kataro's one of those dudes that's like he kind of fight a little dirty and have like underhanded tricks . So Robin was like feeling defeated . He decided , okay , I need to go to Asia to find a true master and train him in martial arts .

And that's kind of funny too . Like coach got to , we talked about this .

Actually , the funny thing is that something that my brother said , that my oldest brother has actually said when he first moved out , one of the things I had asked him before . I was like how come you don't ever just like come and stay for a long time ? He said nah , bro . He said this city , that we in V town .

He said nah , he said it sucks you back in real quick . He said once I left , I said I'll never go back . I said I may go back to visit , but I will never stay longer than a week . It will not happen To this day , no matter what . Whenever he would visit , he would never stay longer than seven days . He would never even push an eighth day .

He would be gone seven on day . Seven . They would be gone .

It's just the fact that the issue is that you doubt yourself too much . You actually have all the skills . No , no .

That's like extremely tough and Batman can fight him . How come I can't fight him ? And it's like you can just push , like just keep pushing . You got this and really like that's just kind of the whole thing of the episode itself . A lot of times

. It's like sometimes you don't need to learn a new skill per se , you just need to maximize what you got Like . For some people , like let's put it this way , I know for me and Jet Black it works out well for us to be jack of all trades . We literally do a little of everything like literally , and that works out for us .

And it's not that we don't spend time trying to like really try to master something . It's just that we still have to be able to explore options and be able to do various different things versus some people yeah , versus for , like , some people .

You know they have one skill and the thing is , master that shit Like even for yeah , and that's okay , and just like I make a reference to Bakke in this aspect here too , or Love Million .

But there's one master that Bakke still has some trouble with sometimes and he's a karate master , and one of the things that he kept getting picked on all the time about was this like I think it was like one season we didn't focus as much on Bakke , but it focused on the other masters and the prison riots , the prison breakers , like that one , the karate

master , was the fact that everyone kept picking on him . Even Muhammad Ali Jr picked on him too , and it was like you're just a one trick pony .

And his dude say he's like see , the thing about it is that y'all keep messing me about the fact , saying that , oh , I only like , you only know karate , you only know this , you don't mix it up with nothing like that , you only stick with this . He says you don't understand it .

He said because I stuck with this one thing , I've refined it to perfection , to absolute perfection . And then , like when you still lost some fights , he said that's just cause I'm human , I can get caught off guard . And he said but I learned in almost every single time . This dude has never lost a rematch .

Even if he doesn't win the first fight , this dude has never lost a rematch at all Period , and it's like that's how much he's refined his technique onto that point . He's like nah , bro , like yeah , okay , you may have beat me round one , but a round two . Your ass is grass also real shit .

Even the upper moon demon was like damn , this kid's on a whole nother level , like he keeps doing the same move . But shit , it's actually tough as hell to fight this dudes . That one attack is refined to such absolute perfection that even an upper moon demon is having trouble on that . Like just Also real shit .

Sometimes that's just how that works for some people . Your skill can be so great in this one aspect that nobody else can top it . Like it is straight up your skill and that's okay .

Or the master one is projecting on the two , the jack ball trade saying that , oh , you need to Be more focused on one thing . I'm like it doesn't work for everybody . So it's like you're just kind of Assuming , based on what works for you , that it will work for me , but we're built different . That's it , and I'm cool with that . Are you cool with that ?

Yeah , that's all it is .

That's not how this works . It doesn't work to who gets here fastest . It works to who truly earned it . Yo ass , didn't , he did , and that's why he's about the mountain floor to us . There we go

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walking and all that and the whole point was that sometimes taking the tougher path Makes you stronger . But some people were saying that , oh well , if you're equally happy Taking the easier path , I might as well just take the easier path . And I'm like You're not wrong , but I just feel like I would feel better if I knew I earned it .

Like I , that's like with um the lake chemist annual says it's like Essentially you want to . If you're cocky like someone comes over cocky about what they're doing , is like did they put in the work ? Then they have to write the field cocky about it .

So it's like , it's like a satisfaction knowing that you earn the right to be cocky , you earn the title of whatever you do in your life . Rather than , oh well , I'm just gonna breeze through life . I'm like , yeah , I mean , it's easy and I guess you can't really complain , but at the same time it's like I don't know , just Not for me .

Ai is just a shortcut for companies , for corporate , to rip people off . That's just all what the fuck it is . On some real shit , like I stand by one of my fellow artists , armani , like I , literally just I love this dude's art .

He's working on his own little comic right now too , just like I'm working on mine , and like I love I love looking at his shit too , and he always like he always shares some my stuff also . The thing about it is is the fact that I agree for whole hard .

What this dick says is the fact that literally , he says he one thing he absolutely hates is that people be sharing the AI art and Make it seem like this is their art and it's like .

No , what you did was take a picture , put it on the app and then the app did the work for you and you sit here , look at all this work , look what this work that I did . Oh my god , you put it .

You literally clicked an app , click the picture and now , all of a sudden , you should get thousands of views , you should get all this type of money and shit .

No , like we spend hours upon hours working on our crap , like we literally improve ourselves , get better and shit like that , and you just trying to like steal from us Hell to find out and the actors like underwriter and writers doing the same shit too .

We're literally just like no , because it's corporations are literally trying to pay people for like one day of work To get them scanned into a computer and then they will never get paid again for that project and then say you have to sign over your likeness forever . We can do whatever we want to do with it . And I'll put in this aspect .

There's literally , literally . There's a show on Netflix I will hope we get a chance to talk about it one day , but I mean it'll be a long discussion but there's a show Netflix called black mirror and specifically what this Is AI , going crazy and just not before real .

So the newest season that dropped recently Got a chance to watch with my wife and there's an episode where this shit happens . There's a girl , literally Because she downloaded like for her it wasn't Netflix , but it was like another little stream app that was just like Netflix and because she downloaded , she never read the terms of conditions .

In terms , of conditions says that they can record your life as you're living it and make a show out of it . And so what winds up happening is is that she's literally , yeah , on surreal shit . Look , so she's doing all this type of stuff . She's , unfortunately , she's cheating on her . She's cheating on her boyfriend .

She's as she's a man , she's a supervisor , her job and she's pretty much an asshole . And all that shit gets put out there like all of a sudden , a New show just pops up on the show and then like yo , what's this ?

And then like , but that's my name , and it winds up being an actual Actress , is portraying her like another actress is playing herself , that's playing her in this show , and so what winds up happening is she tries to sue the company because it puts her life out there .

Everybody's coming after her about shit , and what happens is is that even the actress is trying to get on , put a lawsuit in , but part of terms of conditions into it is that , oh no , they are able to do whatever they want to do with your likeness and they don't have to pay you any money for whatsoever , and whatever happens on that show , people will just

see you do it . So , literally like this girl's life is up there and she'll do . She could do the most obscene things . I'm not gonna spoil it , but let's just put it this way she does something really fucked up . And she does something really fucked up on purpose to see if it really will actually air on the show . And it does .

And that's what prompts is actress to file a lawsuit , because she's like y'all cannot make me do this up here . And they're like well , we didn't make you do it , we made an AI computer did that . And it's like okay , but that's just destroys my image .

Like people are up here looking and looking and there's just seeing me do this and they're thinking that I went up there and actually did this and had a recorded and put on TV and streaming service . And they're like well , there's nothing you can do about it .

You can't file a lawsuit , you can't do anything because you sign Allow your likeness to be used and we can do whatever we fucking want to do with it and there's nothing you can do about it and you won't get any type of compensation for it whatsoever . And that's literally what that episode is all about .

That's literally , and they put that episode out specifically because they , like the writers , literally talked about this . They're like they're , in all honesty , this is exactly where we're seeing is gonna happen with AI and go figure , that's exactly what the corporations are trying to do right now . Hell to fuck . No , just like so for this episode . Fuck that .

Robin earned that shit , fuck that artist , actors , writers we earn that shit . Fuck the AI stuff , man . Like there's one thing to use computers to help make things better , it's another thing to use computers to completely steal our lives . That shit , no , fuck about it . I .

The main thing is it's almost like they want the instant gratification now , or mainly like they're catching in now and Okay , let's just ride the wave while it's still popular . But once the future ramifications kicks in , there was like , oh , we didn't know any better . I was like , oh right , like Bro , like it's been in the media for years to wear this .

This is something that , oh , oh , my god , I'm sorry , but it's like the Simpsons , south Park , just a whole bunch of shows in general to where they foreshadow shit like this , shit like in the comics and movies . They foreshadow shit like this .

To where , yo , like , at the rate that things are going , this is going to be our future and Funniest part is we're ironically Buying into it where , yeah , you know what ? Let's go ahead and have an idiotic receipt where we just have our robot overlords Tell us what to do and shit .

So to completely be like outside because Somebody coded up something . Again one thing it's a skill to code on something too , but you're using your coding to steal from other people and that's fucked up .

But when it gets to the point to where the machine is pretty much doing all the work for you , it's like it's kind of hard to pat yourself on the back , unless it's , like you , just Shameless about taking shortcuts in life .

Yeah , we got a Thank you for this shit happened onto this is because , like so , there was an artist I followed on Twitter Literally took a screenshot of the DM message that somebody sent a private message where it was like hey , I really like your art .

I have your permission to upload your art to this AI app so I can use it on for a sale that I'm trying to do right now . And they're like wait , you're usually like my art . So instead of saying hey , can you draw something for me ? Hey , can you do this for me , can we partner together ?

Some you say , can I steal your picture so I can get paid and you get nothing .

Second of all , that is a very weird thing to just Introduce with and third of all , I know your deals where you just probably just gonna steal anyways , like you did , like how that one dude did our friend monthro to where it's like hey , can I ? use your art . I was like no , I was like that's too bad because I'm using it anyways .

I was like bro , what the fuck ?

on . But again it is just like kind of still points of like the quest , everything is the quest , everything is the journey . Like the journey is the most important part . It's not just the destination , it's the journey getting there . So skipping .

But if I do have something planned , I'm like , okay , that depends on what I have planned . But anyways , uh , the Titans they tried to throw a surprise birthday party , but brave move is just not having to destroy all the decorations .

And later on Titans get alert and they find out our boy , slade , has returned with new powers and has a message for Raven From her father for telling her destiny . So during the battle between Slade and Titans , raven stopped time with her Slade and Robin , unaffected . And yeah , cook , you got to anything to add on to this ?

Look , this episode to me was very interesting because you reintroduced Slade .

But as soon as he gets a bending ability , he has a here . As soon as he gets a bending ability , he is the most dangerous and badass motherfucker there is .

Yeah Damn show they're gonna some real shit Still in air like literally stealing the breath of air from people , just killing murky people left the right , like damn , like that's the same shit that happened with Slade . Slade . The only thing he had was just like combat ability . He's also difficult to kill , but he just had combat ability .

This mother was like oh , I have my combat ability now I can then fire . Oh , Slade started mopping slow mother fuckers like it was nothing , just straight up , just murky , like not murky and killed nobody , but still like just straight up , laying people out left and right , left and right .

And it was like bruh , we thought Slade was dangerous before this news showed up with fire bending powers . Oh , so the point , and then the bad part about it , is this his only job was to reawaken the birthmark in Raven . That was the only thing he had to do .

The highlight about it , though , is that it gave a permission of the season finale , which was interesting , um , yeah , but besides that , her being able to stop time , that was a great addition to her powers .

Yeah , because in the opposite , of darkness is like I mean I know , yeah , we talked about it in the Previously Bob's fans , but I just like how they really trying to lean on this whole concept doesn't be scary , they may .

While he's become the tribe savior , the battle wears out his batteries and there's no place for him to recharge . So I don't got a whole lot to say on that Motherfucking Duncan boy .

It's kind of the only thing I may have gotten from it , but I don't know there was like a lesson to this episode other than this was just like a good entertaining episode to put out there . Like for a filler episode . It was pretty decent . Yeah , don't rely on me .

So anyway , beast Boy wants his moped but got no money of his own . Robin won't buy him one and Cyborg won't build him one , so once again , it's a callback to where you gotta earn it . So he gets a job at mega meaty meat , this restaurant where it sells nothing but meat and you know , beast Boy , being a vegetarian one night , you don't like this .

Yeah , but amen , it is money , so gotta Suck it up and deal with it . But his workplace proved to be more than just a restaurant , with this villain named new food yeah . But um anybody got any nooks on this one , I .

So you got this villain named Val you are right , he and let's the help of the Titans to fight this enemy of this vicious fighting on machines called the lacrosse .

And Despite his trans curse , bravery and all that shit , we noticed that he has this very , very this thing for starfight and the rest of the Tamarani and Khan , even giving starfighter this nickname , trock , which causing some discomfort among the team

. Now they say that this episode is a special episode about racism , to where the funny thing is it was cyborg , the main one , that at first pros star about this sort of thing , and At first , you know , starfighter was trying to be cool with value or being mad , disrespectful , and then , when cyborg was like what's up truck ?

I was like don't you ever call me that again . I was like whoa , whoa , I'm sorry , but I didn't mean to offend you . I thought you meant it meant nothing . I was like , yes , it literally means nothing . He's saying that I am worthless and I was like , well , why he say that ? I was like bro , that's just how it is .

But some of these people have value , or it's like they just think Tamarari is just another but savages . So they just call his name just kind of like free to call him saying his monkeys and whatnot . You just gonna have people that just gonna think less of you .

And it's funny because you know , cyborg being half black man , half machine , it's like this will be one of those things where , oh , I see what's going on here , but you know , and then later , eventually , the rest of the team called on to LA map . We didn't like what you were saying to on star park . We're on to you now , buddy .

And I was like , hey , man , just chill out . Man , no , no , no , no , no , she's our friend . No , she's more than just a friend , she's our family . And you come at family , you got a problem with the whole family . Yeah , so it was one of those moments I was like , oh , I thought y'all are different . I was like , yeah , you are .

That's what nigga was before .

exactly , oh the .

Like for the past three seasons , rob is always the first one to catch up the norm that something is wrong into this , but in this case , cyborg is the first one to catch up on .

He can help pick up the slack because he can look at the other side of it . He's able to see those different things .

But it's like you got to think more into it to where it's like , not only because it's like you have this alien that thinking superior to this other race , but it just goes to show that , considering that the team is considered like it's a very mixed race , a mixed bag I'm sorry I'm brain farting today it's like a mixed bag of characters .

You have a white kid , you have a white girl who's like half demon , you have a boy who has green skin , a half black man , half machine and a straight up alien . So it's like you could say they don't really see color .

But it's not even like that , Just moral lines of hey man , like doesn't matter where you come from , it's just how you treat people , that what matters , Like it's a matter of you shouldn't think so highly of yourself that you have to bring others down .

So what does it mean ? Nothing , and it's one of those things that , like they think that you know , oh , it doesn't mean anything at all . It's always nothing to worry about , but Starfire never lies . Starfire is always straightforward with what she says .

No , okay , like sometimes , okay ain't the right answer , but it's the accurate answer , but it's not the best answer and you want to really try to check into that .

And so in a way I want to say , in a way I want to say Starfire , here's your black card You're welcome to do on cook out .

Like that's one of the things like sometimes you got to step up for yourself , like right on some point . I'm just letting nobody call you like that . If it's disrespect , you let them know up in front . That's disrespectful . I don't like that , you know . Otherwise you're allowing the behavior to continue .

If you're just push passive one time , you're saying that you are allowed to say this to me every single time and I will do absolutely nothing about it . I don't care , Absolutely nothing about it .

Essentially he was quoting the scripture in the Bible and excuse me if I'm miswording it , but essentially what the phrasing was going is that if the master strikes his servant and he's broken , then you know he has to like compensate for the servant . If the servant gets struck and gets back up with it again , then you know it's all good .

I'm kind of mistranslated . I'm sorry , but it was the thing . And point being is that as long as you accept their disrespect , that's like saying okay , so it's okay for me to treat you this way . I was like no , it's not , no , it's not so . Yes , you're right , yeah , so you do need to stand up to yourself at some point .

But I still like the way how she's like trying to be in control to where it's like she's not trying to give him the satisfaction , to where she's just she just proving him right about being a savage and whatnot . So at least you try to conduct herself . But she doesn't like completely dismiss it . You know what I mean , so I know how I would feel .

at work . It was like an old job . I literally had this moment to where there was this dude and he was just being mad about something , something about the AC is like okay , I'm gonna need to turn AC down , and he was just complaining and shit . And then he went to me is like apparently he was just yelling and all I heard was something about the AC .

So I was like , okay , let me just do that . And apparently one coworker's like split to me hey man , you really handle that well . I was like you know , it was whatever . But I didn't even hear him say that he was calling me the hard ER . It was almost like my brain just blanked out the whole time . When he was saying that .

I was like , okay , I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that for the sake of my job . But you saying something about the AC , okay gotcha . But yeah , when I went back to that kitchen I was like , yeah , you'd be every really lucky . I was on the clock .

I'm making it very clear that you disrespect me and if you continue to disrespect me , situations will occur . If we are in the workplace , understanding situations will be handled on by superiors . Superiors don't handle that situation . There's always a higher chain to go and I will go as high as it needs to to get your hands on , and I have done that before .

I will do it again as needed . If we on the street understand this , you ain't never gonna cross my path again , period .

And this is this one of the shows that got a lot of praise on Cartoon Network , because it's all the time around the time Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and Disney was doing this Because I think around the same time this was happening , teen Titans was getting popular with this stuff , my real talk that was happening .

We had that's so Raven was happening , some real situations that was happening . On Disney Channel we also had a couple of Nickelodeon shows that was like addressing actual , real issues that was starting to happen and like it's actually becoming an issue nowadays to where a lot of there's a lot of parents as far as what I've mostly seen .

So I'm not going to make a full judgment , but what I've mostly seen is usually conservative white parents . That's usually what's become most notable on the internet . That's just what I'm going to say on that .

But a lot of these parents are frustrated because they're like you don't need to be teaching my kid about this and that and that and they don't know sometimes that lack of understanding it will make your child like come out bad , because one of the things about this is two ways to handle a situation . No , actually , yeah , there's three ways to handle situations .

A lot of times these situations is that you can be someone who's doing something bad . You can be someone who's the victim of someone doing something bad to them . You can be the accuser , the victim or the bystander , and the bystander you don't step in and do anything . You're just as bad as the accuser because you sat there and watched it .

That means you're allowing this , allowing this to happen , and you're allowing this behavior to be shown to you . As far as this , is okay for me to do as well .

But the thing about it is because they were trying to keep the whole thing under wraps anyways , it was more like um , I don't know what to say in this matter because , like , supposedly I was supposed to stay out of it , but with this new information it's like okay , let me slide to the do . And he was like , yeah , don't tell anybody .

And I was like , uh , yeah , here's the thing . I don't normally do ultimatums , but in this case I have to . Either you're going to tell me what you did or I will , because , fuck all that .

I don't want to be in a position to where I'm like I have this information and I'm just letting it slide because you know , just to protect your fuckery , but it's like it'll make me look just as bad for keeping it a secret . So you tell me , am I wrong for like letting my friend know that , yeah , he's not the bullshit A little bit .

But I was like , hey , to be fair , I just thought I don't know , because I would have felt bad for just keeping it a secret . It's like it'll be even worse . I don't know .

Like I've already made this reference on the previous episode , like I was thinking what ? Two episodes ago I think , I made this reference to Jeff Black , where I was like to get cheating and his friend was like I invested in your wedding . I'm getting my money's worth shit like hell . No , he's like you see . You see the ass of that girl .

Like no , no , no , you see the ass of your wife . That's what you need to pay attention to . Yeah , no , you talking about bro . Your eyes is for your wife only . That's my best . Me is paid for y'all to be together .

And it was one of those ones that I was honest with . I was like , look , I'm gonna be honest with you and like you , my friend , you like a sister to me , but that's really fucked up .

And because you like a sister to me , I'm gonna look out to you like a brother would do and , as a brother , I'm gonna tell you that was really fucked up , like for real , it was real fucked up , shit . I'm like , you know , tell him , because he's a homeboy to me , too Awesome . I said you need to tell him .

If you don't tell him , I'm gonna have to tell him . And I'm like and it's not even as if the attack against you , but I don't need no more homeboys having this shit like that . If this happened to you , if he was doing it , I was doing the same thing . I would tell him that he had a better , that he better tell you , or I'm gonna tell you .

And whatever happens happens on stage . I don't want to lose another one of y'all at the same time . It's fucked up and that's the thing .

If it wasn't , if you weren't in friends with both of them , like if you were different with one of the other , then it's just easy to be like okay , yeah , like I don't need to even be in your business and like , oh , you're cheating on them , whatever , that does have nothing to do with me , but if your friends were both with them , then it's like and you

know that shit is like .

So stranded happens when explosion winds up landing all the team , titan , stranded on pretty much five different directions in five different areas of stuff . So , and the thing about is that this episode winds up deriving a lot of tension .

We've had so much tension built up between Robin and starfire , where Cyborg wants to making a joke about Starfire and Robin and it rubs them the wrong way and it was becoming an issue . And now Robin and Starfire are really trying to figure out themselves as far as like , is this who I really want to be with ? Is this really how I feel ?

Because Robin wants to responding in a way that makes Starfire be like oh , I'm not as important to you , and then Robin's like no , that wasn't bad , I was just like responding because I was embarrassed and it became a whole big issue in this . So this episode is real .

It's into that because at the same time , you trying to find your way back home , while trying to find your way back home mentally and physically , like and you see this happen a lot of shows and movies where the character is lost mentally and physically and as they're trying to find their way back physically , they're finding their way back to themselves mentally as

well . This is a really intense episode and unfortunately , I'm sad to say , this is also a second episode that is not available on . That is not available on Max , but it's also not available on Prime either .

But unfortunately , unlike the Mad Mod episode , the Fourth of July special episode that they had , where you can still watch it on YouTube and Voodoo , you cannot watch this on YouTube either . The reason being is because , with it being such a very emotional episode , because of the fact that it deals so heavily in relationship tension , it wound up airing .

They did a couple reruns of this , but not much in . The reason being is because parents actually complained that it was giving their kids Mix , confusing feelings about their emotions and relations with opposite sex .

Raven is off on her own trying to deal with these . Yeah but then with Robin and starfire this the one I mainly want to talk about how essentially cyborg on cold Robin and was like a yo , so we're strength , we're gonna try to get the t-shirt up and whatnot .

And they basically tried on taunt Robin , saying like oh , don't worry , um , we'll make sure we rescue you and your girlfriend later . And she was . He was like oh , she's not my girlfriend . I was like what , wait , I'm not . Yeah , what's the girlfriend's like ? So if I'm not your girlfriend , then what am I ? And then you say Because no .

Well , I like about is that this was genuine confusion from starfire , but it was the implication that we know in real life to where sometimes Whether it's like man or woman , like it could be , them do that's doing it or the woman who's doing it , to where y'all be having these Situationships , being friends with benefits , y'all fooling around , but you're not trying

to put labels on it and then next to you know one of y'all be like . So what are we ?

Oh , this is my boy , that's my friend , or this is my girl , this is a girl that is my friend . And it became a lot of mixed confusions and it was like it's causing too many problems . Kids are not understanding and real talk what honestly I think would have been a really great response .

It's like maybe this is a great opportunity for you to have the birds and the bees conversation with your kid , because obviously they really thinking about it anyway , instead of you trying to skip on this conversation , but no , I mean this is team Titan , so it's like he's gonna be a matter of time . Yeah , you think about

it . The episode is specifically tied to , like , ages eight and up . Like , even though kids six and seven Be watching this . Literally , the age reading on this shit was eight and up , ideally preferably ten .

So in this episode as well , the more that star fire doubts herself , she starts losing her powers . She first started losing the ability to fly . She was unable to fly because she no longer felt the emotions that gave her that ability .

And then she started you losing the ability to shoot her on star bolts because she no longer felt the righteous fury that she had anymore . The more she doubted herself , she limited herself literally , and it wound up my not hours .

Would have been one of minute ? No , no , no , it's . It's funny because I was also going to mention that Robin was trying to explain it without friends owning himself exactly , exactly . It was like I don't want to friends on myself because it's an opportunity that this may happen .

Yeah , cyborg is trying to install the new computer She'll be trying to like overclock himself , I guess , and trying to increase his strength and his speed and efficiency eight times over . And this multiplying um metahuman Billy numerous appears to on the scene and give some cyborg some trouble .

Now , not much , but playing enough , considering what's just going on , because tough you already know . But Think it up , billy numerous kind of remind me of twice from my here at academia , especially in recent times where I've like oh man . Yeah , but that's all I gotta say on . It really is like yeah , this is the episode , the thing .

Um , anybody got any notes on that ?

Yeah , hold on real quick , because I know this one's kind of a simple one into this , but I know we still we wound up skipping episode seven , the prophecy .

She's about to go down , like don't forget .

It was like damn , raven can't have no calming periods whatsoever , like no matter what , she can have no moments whatsoever Without somebody stepping in and be like hey , I just want to remind you real quick , but I remind you real quick , you fucked yeah that's like that moment of like , it's like that bully that tells you that , um , at three o'clock he said ,

when school bell rings , meet me outside . And then , like every class period , he walks past . You like Don't forget three o'clock , nikki , you've already told me five times . Yeah , how many times , bro ? Are you just ? You so bad , you so badly want to get your ass laid out , that you ?

Primarily is just the fact that bruh Can't get a break for shit . Bruh , all right , but no overdrive . Overdrive is also one of those ones where it's like it's another call back again to cyborg , embracing his robotic side and his humanity side as well too . It's just .

It's just pretty much one of those things I'm like hey , cyborg , you have the ability to keep upgrading bruh , just don't stop . Keep going , keep going . But yeah , it's just also really fucked up . Again proves that the titans tower security is bullshit , broken into all the damn time like bruh .

So what happened , though ? Now , this episode was a trip , mother , may I .

And when star fire , as the dental , gets knocked out of the mind control during a mission against the high five , she realized the truth behind mother . May I intend to bring to her fellow teen titans back to teenage maturity .

So , yeah , star fire was essentially the MVP for this episode and , like I said before , even though star fire is the only one who didn't have a whole Season dedicated to her , to be fair , she had a lot of episodes throughout the series . True , she had a lot of moment to shine , so We'll give her that .

So , um , anything else y'all want to add on to this episode ?

It's like the first time we're undoing something like this , so we , then you , make a great impression and as soon as they like you , I was like , okay , let's unload the rest of the bullshit that we put on there . Let's get a little experimental on .

But part one scared the fuck out of me , because this is one of those ones that is like For people who have had , or have ever had , any type of suicidal thoughts . This is a very real thing and this is one of the scariest things and , unfortunately , bringing back me , arresting peace to Jason David Frank .

This is exactly Um something that he has done , same as Robin Williams , um , arresting peace to him as well , too . Both of them have done this exact same thing that Raven did for this episode , where she knows the end is coming in like . It's this foreshadowing for multiple different things .

It is specific about the show itself , but foreshadowing for multiple different things . When , then , someone has accepted the fact that the end is here , that their end is coming , there is nothing that they can do about it .

They have finally reached all the different forms of depression , all the different levels of it , and have reached the final stage acceptance and they accept that nothing is going to change , nothing's going to make it better . The only solution is to end it all , and that's literally the episode being called .

The end Even more solidifies that and what , unfortunately , a lot of people have done . This is something that psychologists have majorly urged on the people .

If you are ever dealing with someone not dealing but if you ever have someone that constantly has always been reserved out and out of nowhere , they're just Trying to make it like the best day possible for you , want to take you places , want to provide and give you something . They're just randomly started talking and seeing more happy out of nowhere .

That is always , always A drive for concern .

Yeah because when someone has been reserved and they are randomly just deciding to be open out of just happiness , it's usually and in many , many cases it has is this They've accepted that the end is happening and there's nothing they can do , and they're wanting to make the final moments to be as good as possible Before they finally end it all .

Yeah , and it is a scary shit , because that's exactly what raven does in this whole episode .

There is somebody that does , please seek help

. The end is not the end like . No , there is , there's always another option . Yeah , there's always an option , see , because there's a part two and a part three , exactly but obviously , yeah , it wasn't the end , and then , on top of that , we got another season afterwards , so literally , it's not the end . So in a whole movie after that too .

So come on , but no for real . But this is a real touching episode and the fact that it was a being , it's a great symbolism that addresses a real issue .

There are many people who will do it to try to make the last moments as happy as possible , not for them but for the other people , because they know that it's going to hurt them when they end it , and that's just where it becomes scary . But that is my thing on this episode . It's a very important thing that has to be mentioned .

Um , it touches base very personal on me . I have mentioned on our podcast before that I have had a moment , I've had multiple moments of suicidal thoughts of where I really thought about ending it and Luckily for me , like I've had , friends and family have been there for me , so I never did it .

But it is one of those real things into that that has to be talked about . You can make it through . There is better . It doesn't always feel like there will be , but there is better . Just don't give up . Don't give up and in this case , luckily Raven didn't , because now we have part two . But what do y'all guys thought some part one ?

You just got to hunt the good stuff and you know what I mean . Just do what you can . It's good to have a good support system , so as long as you got your support system in place , usually that'll work . Now I'm not saying it's gonna always work . There'll be caveats to that , of course , but that's a good lesson to learn .

It's good to see it in the show , too , because it helps you too . It literally it helps millions of people around the world . So it's good to talk about always , to discuss it .

been saved and they trying to save us , so like I think literally shows like this is one of those things that helped me Be able to like realize that there are other options .

You know , sometimes I've been raven , where I just wanted to just like accept it all but then , just like raven did , I also accepted my friends and decided there is a way to push through this . You know , it's just what it is Trygon is . You could call him your enter , you call he's . Literally is ravens interdemic .

It's unfortunately her abusive , horrible father as well , but it is literally her inner demon and it's that battles all the time and she battles him on a daily basis . She has to meditate on a daily basis to control herself . Her emotions lash out when she , like raven , is the full embodiment of depression , of severe depression and anxiety , literally in the comics .

In the comics and in this show , and it's one of those things is like she has to be able to control her emotions , because some people when they deal with depression , they can't control their emotions . So whenever they like , when they express emotion , it's never like simple , it's like zero to 100 , like all of a sudden you was like you was reserved .

Now you just 100% angry , like you just jumped out of this and it's like no , I was balling up these feelings all along , just never Let it out . I never got to 20% , never got 30% . It was just every time I was there I balled it in and that's what raven does all the time . We talked about this in previous episodes .

You know me , jet black , we talked about this in previous episodes and even in the swapped episode two when it became where raven first understood . You know , sometimes it's okay to let out some emotions .

You don't have to let it out when you're at 100 , let it out when you're at like 20 or 30 , you know like you can let it out early on Before it becomes a big , major blow-up , and that's one of the things how raven's powers is . Her blow-up of emotion is a literal blow-up , burst of her powers . It causes issues , it causes problems and so it's like that .

That's like raven's entire story , for this whole climactic thing is a symbolism for depression and anxiety and stuff and it's like it's some real shit . It's important to understand that you can keep pushing through and fight your inner demon , no matter how much it feels like your inner demon may be destroying the world around you .

That is destroying your friendship , it's destroying everything to you . But in real talk , if you believe in your support system , they are there to help you . Like in his one of those days and understanding and I'm probably jumping a little bit ahead onto this one but in part three , where Raven had to understand she's been focusing so much on her inner demons .

She forgot her inner angel . She forgot her mother side of a family , like , even though she says her chance as Rezmethion , xenthos is the champ that she learned from her mother as far as literally the mother's planet and understanding there , like them as a control to keep your inner demon under control .

She forgot what that really was , you know , until part three , where she understands the reason I'm saying this . The reason this incantation is the way it is is saying that I am better than my inner demon .

No matter how much I feel bad , no matter how much I'm constantly being beat down by my own negative thoughts , I am still better than my negative thoughts .

. Everybody wants a face in multiple different things , but part one focuses specifically on Raven trying to make everyone be happy Before shit hits the fan .

they thought , ok , what Raven did also release Tara from her being turned to stone . So they were like , ok , let's see Tara's back to you and she was gone , but there was no explanation to how he got free from the stone .

Part three is already getting interesting because , like we have this point where , like Trigon betrays Slay , which Slay has fulfilled his role as faithful servant , and Trigon promised and Trigon like pretty much essentially promised to restore Slay back to life again . This is true self .

And then we've come to find out that because we find a Slay , that's actually a zombie and that's pretty yeah , oh .

In fact , I will say I don't want to like , I'm not going to spoil it , but that becomes a major plot point and I've already said this before I absolutely hate Teen Titans go , absolutely hate it , but the Teen Titans go first of all . Oh , oh , oh .

Robin's never been my favorite character , but still at the same time , like bruh , like he's the butt of every single joke and it gets it feels overly played out a lot . Yeah .

She made like a cardboard fortress and I was like , no , don't underestimate Starfire .

That was being a major importance in the movie , like they pretty much announced it early on in the movie , like at the very beginning of the movie they announced it's going to be a major plot point , that it has to do with Raven's powers , but it's just pretty much that's kind of .

Something very important on for this episode too is that Trigon heavily relies on Raven's powers , like he relies it used to be relied on all of his children's powers , but the only children that he really has , that actually it has a power that intunes to him is Raven , because her demonic side , her inner demon , literally , is that fucking powerful .

It's the only thing that's powerful enough to fully embody him and all of his energy , and that's what makes Raven that much more deadly .

That literally is like was pretty much the embodiment of him and the only person that actually would have been able to stand not so much stand up to him , but it's the only one that would have been a full embodiment of him . And he's like I can pass on my energy to someone finally , because , like he's , like all my other children were worthless .

Nobody else had it .

to be a little great . We finally get the true embodiment of white , of white suit Raven . It's one of those ones like white suit Raven is as badass as Black suit Superman , like on some real shit . Literally having like the ultimate embodiment of your true power , we get white suit Raven Actually hold on , I take that back .

opportunity to let out your rage and you can let out in the best way possible .

She needed to work his ass , and sometimes that's just kind of how it is , you know . That's why in some therapy they have the boxing gloves , the little like boxing moppers or something like that . No , bop them sockers . That's why it's the bop them sockers .

Like I've mentioned before , the end doesn't have to be the end . Sometimes , you know , seek help , get that therapy . A lot of times you may have to finally lash it out .

There's some people who've been , who've had their childhoods fucked up , and it might have been a relative , it might have been someone that they thought was a friend , it might have been someone that the family trusted all types of shit . You don't have to end it .

Sometimes you just get the therapy and get the help and you have to be able to learn to let , to be able to let that shit go . It's not easy to do . Letting go does not mean forget . There's no forgiveness , there's no like oh , forgive and forget .

No , you forgive , but you move on and you continue to learn and grow from the lessons that you learn from this situation , even if this mistake is not something that you caused . It can be somebody else that caused the mistake that unfortunately caused the trauma to you and it sucks . It is completely unfair .

At the same time , you owe it to yourself to keep pushing and keep moving . You owe that to yourself . Keep going , keep pushing . You got this and that's like the biggest thing for like this entire , like three part finale is keep pushing . But that's all that I got . That's my little ending point on to this one . I enjoyed this season .

This is one of the best seasons out there . I enjoy that fucking stranded episode . You know , like parents talk to your kids , bro , don't cancel shows . That brings up good questions , good questions , okay , like , for example , I'm putting this way I pray with my kids every single night . We pray every single night before we go to sleep . It's important , okay .

My son asked me a question tonight . That's very important , okay . My kids like watching Peppa Pig , and my kids actually asked my son , my oldest son asked me . He said daddy , he said why is it that we pray when we go to sleep , but Peppa Pig doesn't pray when she goes to sleep ?

And I'm like that's a great question , not one that I can answer at 8.15 at night , when your bedtime was at eight o'clock , but this is a great question to ask . Like you know , your kids have questions and it's important to educate them and let them know .

You know you don't have to let them know all the details of shit , but at the same time it's still important to explain and talk to them . And if you need help on how to talk to your kids , guess what the internet is there ? The internet has still got some bullshit , but there's some parts of the internet that is actually helpful .

How do I talk to my kids about religion ? How do I talk to my kids about love ?

You can have a love language as a kid . It changes through your teenage years and as you have an adult it's very different . Like as a kid , I never really liked receiving shit . That was just me . Personally , I was a very weird kid . I never really liked receiving shit .

For me , my love language was just knowing that you appreciated what I gave you , or just appreciating the love that I got . As I got older , I liked receiving shit . I'm just putting it this way . I got a Nintendo Switch . I love playing video games .

You know , like someone wants to buy me , like my brother's bought me my Nintendo Switch for my birthday a couple of years ago , I appreciate that . Yeah , I play it on time .

We are going to proceed with part five in just a moment . We can have it out by tomorrow because you know we're trying to put it out in parts . So we are going to work on part five . And , with that being said , just to add on to what Koki Katsu was saying , yeah , parents have to talk , don't let the TV be the only pair in the house .

And also the racism , like the race in the episode is like a yo's , like sometimes you have that talk to racism is not okay .

Um , it was something like , uh , yeah , I'm sorry , I'm sorry , but it was like I'm kind of again , I'm kind of praying for it today , I'm sorry , but uh , oh , yeah , one more thing Sometimes with our circumstances , how we grow up , it may not be all our fault , but , like what Koki Katsu said , that , uh , we do owe it to ourselves .

We do have that responsibility to do better for ourselves . So , with that being said , it's like , yeah , just do the work , don't take shortcuts . Do the work and you probably have results , like you just keep pushing forward . It's like what that one quote said by Winston Churchill uh , success is not final , failure , it's not fatal .

Is the courage to continue that counts ? Yeah , so yeah , with that being said , that's all we got . Uh , we are zoning out and remember to stay nerdy , and great things are coming . Take it easy , ladies and gentlemen .