Further Exploration of Teen Titans (Season 3): The Power of the Mind, Cyborg's Duality and the Obsession of Technological Perfection

Season 3 this is a pretty good season , but I would say the first season , of course , was good , but you know , as an introductory season it was , you know , half and half like not that series . Well , it got kind of serious near the end . Season 2 obviously it was more emotional , you know , with terror and all that .

But now we got season 3 where he's centered around cyborg and his complex of being half man , half machine and brother blood . Everything's very , very interested in his technology and let's just go ahead and get into the episodes . We got 13 , as per usual , so let's go ahead and get into . It .

Starts off with episode 1 , deception , where the Titans basically have cyborg go undercover as stone . Keep in mind that his real name is Victor Stone , so I like the little wink there . He goes to investigate the Hive's newest plan .

He finds out that new headmaster , brother blood , is now in charge of the academy and the plan has been compromised as cyborg gets a little fond of the popularity he was getting being amongst the students and he wants to be . He kind of yearns for going back to being human , even though he'll have like pseudo power , you know .

Because keep in mind that , yeah , he can transform into stone , that's supposedly his thing , but that's not something you can actually do , that's more like a what's up . You know , you that ring to appear as such , but not really .

But I like how they try to establish that cyborg and jinx has more of a connection to each other that gets more was getting a little jealous of stone , even though they already been rivals on a technological level .

So that little rivalry was there too , and even got to a point where the Titans were like hey , yo , so we here to get our boy back , but cyborg was like but I don't want to go back . But what are your thoughts on episode one ?

You know , that doesn't usually happen , like they're usually always an academy for superheroes . There's not really like a school for villains . Except I think it was like this one Netflix . I think it was a show on Netflix or Disney , whatever . I had watched it with my wife . It was pretty good . It was on Netflix . It's like school of good and evil .

We actually have like a school for the good , the heroes and school for the villains and stuff .

You usually see that played around like what happily never after academy or some shit like that for Disney , where they have like the Disney villains had that like their kids go to school for being the heroes and you go to school for being the villains and stuff like that .

But other than that , when it comes down for like actual , like Marvel , dc , there is no school for being the villain like at all . You're just like . You're just a villain , that's just what it is . You might work alongside and type of things .

You're not necessarily a sidekick , because even as a villain , most of the villains are like treat you like shit or anything like that . So understand that there is an academy . I mean , you can hear that and that's not much better like real shit .

But considering the fact there's like an academy for villains and these kids are actually treated somewhat well , like , yeah , you're still treated like if you're weak , you still get picked on and they they encourage that , unfortunately . But when you see in the show there's not much bullying that's actually going along here .

Like some of these villains are actually working together , like literally working together , like they actually do pick me up some stuff and it's like oh hey , you fell , I'm gonna laugh at you , but I'm gonna pick you up and help you along the way , and it feels different . And I think even for cyborg he was confused as hell on that too .

He's like it's a villain academy , everything's gonna be bad and da , da , da , da he goes in . He's like shit . This is just like regular school . Like wait a minute like . I'm confused . I was not . It's like it's not what you expect to happen . So it's like interesting .

And then , even though cyborg , of course , like it , you know how we already talked about the fact that he had to embrace his humanity , but by this point he had already fought two different villains , you know fix it and Atlas , who kept forcing him to embrace his mechanical side .

But he had to understand his human side really is important to try to help him move along into that .

Now he's at a point where he's so much embraced his human side that he's back again fully rejecting his mechanical side and even though he doesn't get turned into an actual human it's just pretend is , it's just like a hologram it still winds up being a weird thing for that and the fact that just looking at himself he's like this is how I would have looked if

I actually still have my normal human skin , then it makes him feel like really horrible and he's like damn . But then in that aspect he winds up building that relationship with gizmo and jinx and mammoth and it's like they actually build a respect and build an actual bond with him .

And this continues on , let much later on to the series too , because they bring it back up all the time . They're like man used to be with us , used to use to roll with us . Don't pretend like that that we didn't have like actual good friendship and so I thought what we ? had was special . It's real shit , though . But that's the thing , though .

Like he did when , when he infiltrated , he didn't he just expected to be kind of simple , be like oh okay , they're just gonna do some jobs and stuff , they don't actually get along , but then you don't realize . This episode makes you realize that , even though gizmo and jinx and mammoth like pick on each other all the time and shit , it doesn't .

It's literally just like kids picking on each other , but they're still having fun per se or they're still actually looking out for each other . And there's something that villains don't do , that shit .

And so it's very weird having because you always have these stories of villains that you relate to because like , oh , they had such a tragedy and they couldn't find a better option or shit like that , and that's not necessarily case here .

These are actually kids that's actually working together , like if they actually would just wanted to save the world , they could actually do that , like they could actually be heroes . They just choosing the freedom of doing whatever . That's just a thing .

So if they decided to go on the hero path early , that's fine , but that doesn't mean that at some point they might turn out to be the villain later on . Or they could go to villain path at first , but they see the error in their ways and decide to be heroes .

So it can go either way , but especially with kids , to where it depends on how impressionable they are . In other words , it's like being a product of your environment , to where most times , people turn out to be the way they are based on how they were grown , brought up into the world .

So if you felt like you were fucked over by life and everything's unfair and essentially just keep getting fucked over , it really tests your character to see if you can just roll with the punches and hope for better .

Or you decide to go to your villain arc and be like , okay , the world want to fuck with me , so I'm gonna fuck with it back true , true , and that's not even the case for a lot of them is the fact that , like so , jinx is the only like .

Because keep in mind , like it's kind of true , what they say is that once you get to a certain age , you just kind of stuck to a certain path , like you spent so much of your time dedicated to this one school of thought that once you see something that contradicts your whole school of thought , you're just like no , I'm way too deep into it .

Now it's like I commit to it . It be coming at that . Sometimes not always , but sometimes it's true , it's true .

But then you have Jinx , which one of us up , we get a chance to dive a little bit more into her character , where it's like she didn't choose to be bad , she was just . She was literally given super villain powers per se .

That's just one of those things like it's like a Mike , your academia things where some of the heroes well , not not just heroes , but villains too .

There was like this prejudice , there's like she was just . They just feel like she was just built to be a villain and therefore she was convinced that being a villain is her was right yeah and that's sometime that's where it becomes like really crazy , into that's like Jinx's ability is it's her name .

That's what it is right so , in other words , she can protect herself using probability to where she can keep herself safe and provide good luck to herself and to the people around her , but there's this Domino that , of course , where it might create bad luck for people around her as well .

So , in other words , like it could be , it's like a shade of gray with her powers it is and so .

, like straight up . Bad luck just how do you make that a hero power ? Like this is like how does it ? It's like what was it that one girl from ? I'm gonna just go back my hair after Damien . Quick reference I got it , I got that game's powers based on blood , like she drinks the people's blood so good how do you become a hero ?

The only thing that actually makes it that is that , unlike Domino , who just has to manipulation , just by being there yeah , that just kind of happens Jinx is able to send the bad luck away , like you'll see it in the show , where she sends like waves of bad luck and she literally , it literally sends like a shockwave , and sometimes a shockwave can actually be

a shockwave that can knock someone back or just affects what it touches and stuff . So she can control where she sends the bad luck to , and that's the only thing that allows her to be able to become a hero per se .

But then that was it being something that we really dive into Jinx , into this , that she's here at the Hyde Academy not because she really wants to be , but because she feels there's nothing else that she can do . And Cyborg has that moment of relation with her .

He's like damn , hold on , you're not a villain by choice , you're not like these other ass hats here .

Well , this new yeah , pretty much relationship between Cyborg and Jinx starts at this moment and then , of course , this whole episode ends where Brother Blood pretty much already knew that Cyborg was a hologram anyway and was like bro , I already knew who the fuck you were . This whole time I just let you just ride here Because I was like we'll see what happens .

I'm curious to see . And now that you've had to experience my Academy , you actually want to be here , don't you ?

This episode is not a foreshadowing whatsoever for this season at all . It's just pretty much another episode , but as one that starts up a new storyline , one that we're not expecting for . You know we get back to the Hive Academy .

We know the Hive five we're going to see them pretty frequently throughout the show is the opposing group to the Teen Titans , Like it's the . Every team has it . The Avengers has various different groups of enemies that they always fight . The Justice League has the anti-Justice League for the .

So we're going to see the Hive five a lot more , but then this is the first time we get a chance to actually dive into the lives of the villains but at the same time , getting a chance of seeing a whole new storyline taking place . Slade is finally dead , so we need another new big bad , and Brother Blood is very obvious .

He's going to be taking on the mantle of the new big bad villain for the rest of this season and next season . So , other than that , that's the only foreshadowing that we have , but not so much into it .

It's just keep him in mind , We'll come back to him per se and it's like OK , and then we move on to episode two . We completely forgot about Hive Academy at this point and it's like it's gone now . So I'm like OK , I guess .

Now episode two the question that , no matter what , when the series ended and they actually still made a continual on the continuation in the comics as well , as also had they did do a reference of it in Young Justice as well too , no matter what , we still do not know who the new red X is . And that's kind of the point too .

But we're trying to figure out who this person is and especially with how , in this version of Red X , in this show is like yeah , he's more like a rebel . He just want to do whatever the fuck he wants . He's not really being a villain , nor he's a hero . It just you know he just using the suit to do whatever the fuck he wants .

And also at least this dude like he's way more bold when it comes to flirting with Starfire . So , robin , you better step your game up around this .

The team automatically goes to Robin and starts pinching him and all types of shit and they're like yo , it's me , and they're like I don't know . Last time Red X showed up he was a hologram , nick .

Like we still remember that scene where it looked like Robin was being attacked and on while I'm getting trapped into an energy net and he's like we're fine , get X go . And everyone runs after Red X to go try to find him and leave Robin behind because he said to do so . But then they find the little hologram over that .

It wasn't real and you're like I don't know , bro , last time you was a hologram . I can't trust it . You might have upped your technology this time and you still playing for the other team and it's like Cyborg . You really can't be doing this . And like when I went to the Academy , I went to the Academy specifically for the mission .

Things worked out differently into that . You did this on your own , don't try it , but no , so we get introduced to new Red X , but then we want to get introduced to something different .

We get introduced to a new power source , a forbidden power source , one that specifically used the power of the Red X costume , and this increases even more doubt into Robin from everybody , because they're like you could have powered this suit with anything , but you powered it with literally a mini nuke , that is what I like .

What if we made a suit powered by Xenotheum ?

Ok , so Xenotheum is extremely rare in dangerous compounds , so dangerous that even reputable members of the superhuman community like Robin are unable to buy it legally Meaning Robin definitely did this shit very illegally . It is very unstable and quite volatile , but this instability makes it highly susceptible as a high output power source .

However , Xenotheum appears to not be radioactive , since several characters were seen handling it without the protection of a radiation suit . So it does suggest that its molecular structure gradually breaks down as it releases energy .

Pretty much radioactive decay , Though more in the chemical rather than energetic way , still is extremely hazardous material and the only safe way to dispose of it is to let it decay . Naturally , you literally cannot destroy it . It has to destroy itself . That is the only safe way to dispose of it . You have to let it destroy itself .

If you try to speed up the process , it is fucking dangerous . It's literally like imagine Superman decided to power his suit with fucking green kryptonite . Like he decided to put on a power suit and powered it with green kryptonite , or even no worse than that . No , Lex Lex who did , because Lex Luthor did that shit .

He made his super suit to fight against Superman and he powered it with green kryptonite and the shit gave him immense amount of cancer . Even though the no theorem is not radioactive , so it won't necessarily give you cancer , it's still very unstable and can still really do a lot of damage to your physical person as well as people around you .

And Robin just up and just did this shit . He just went and got something , illegally at that . This is really set a whole new low , an entirely new low for Robin . Like I said , like I mentioned in our previous episode , Batman will never do shit like this . You know what's funny ?

Like Batman will find ways to get stuff but he will not touch shit illegally , bro . What's funny about this is that , even though this is just my head can and like .

Because I think his deal is that , because he's like a living nuke himself , it shouldn't affect him that much because he is radiation .

Because I'm pretty sure Robin didn't just leave instructions around for the suit To say , oh was powered by Zinotheum , so how would this person know that ? And then keep in mind onto this too , he put on the suit and when he fought against the Titans he very , very easily knew how to do all of the gadgets in there .

Like . This is one of those cases where I honestly thought was like a red hood type situation . Yeah , like maybe it was another Robin . I Mean , I would not put a task , damien , to do some shit like this .

It could have been Jason Todd , like that's just my thing .

But that's the thing is , like it would make sense if it was , because With Jason Todd it's like he's more like that rebel type dude and his well , even though red X suit looks completely Different , but in a sense it's almost like that same vibe going on to where you know he , it's almost like he's playing neither hero nor villain , it's like he just does what

he wants and does what's necessary .

Anyway , if we ever find out who he is , it will create an entirely new story , which , I mean , we probably wouldn't mind , but it's not necessary . It's usually nice to have a villain we have no idea what you've , or anti hero that we have no idea who he is . We could just like . Leave it for me as it is .

The other thing that speculation is that because we're still keeping in mind that Teen Titans is technically a different , that this version of Teen Titans is Very different from comic book canon , very different From a lot of different universes , a completely different universe in itself .

So if we keep that particular aspect in mind , that there's a possibility that this red X could be Jason Todd , it could be reddit , it could be the Instead of going to red hood he went for red X , since it was already there . But that's the only speculations we have . We just kind of just leave it as that .

It's the great mystery to unfold and honestly , I can't really think of too many other shows that can do this , that or has done this , that has actually Created a villain , that we have no idea anything about this villain , that this villain just pops in and out , but every single time this villain shows up it's it's about to be some shit , because this villain

is good . This person is good at taking down a tight , even being grouped up . He's very good at taking down the Titans .

Okay , it makes his mainstream DC debut in a two-issue teaser comic , future state , teen Titans and his follow-up series , teen Titans Academy , where he is presented as a renegade student of Titans Academy and will be responsible for the future downfall of the teen Revealed as a meta human with electromagnetic powers named Rick Petri Rosso , petty Rosso , yeah .

And the legacy of this red ex is also explored with his unknown circuit father . A mercenary thief , much like the anime version , who stole dick grates . His red ex suit as revenge for foiling his plans and Other shit goes along with him . So they actually established that he it's not a secret . It's not a secret anymore .

Yeah , so he's one actually doing this and for a brief moment we wanted to have a nice little team up of robbing the red ex working together to go ahead and bring him down , so that , you know , and of course red ex gets away with some Zenoteum to continue the power to suit .

Robin just said that whatever he , he worked with us , we can just kind of let it slide and I'm sitting here like Robin , what the fuck . Let's run with you , man , but whatever , I guess oh .

I was like what's up ? Anyway , you can read the comic . Yeah , it is out now . You actually can find it in the comic book store . I don't know what issue , it is or anything , but you can find it .

You remember when the transformation episode with starfire , there was this chrysalis eater and it was called a Seronelian chrysalis eater , but , funny enough , there's a writer for the show called serial Nelly . So I'm thinking like that must be like a little joke to where ? Oh , let's just name it after one of the writers .

But in this season , even though we have a Character named professor Chang , funny enough , one of the writers is named Michael Chang . Directed , no , my bad , not written . Directed , my bad .

Like that's how they wind up getting out multiple episodes out , like how they able to do an episode a week Because the fact that they have that I mean , I'm not even mad at it , I just think it's a funny coincidence . I think it's pretty cool though , like getting a chance , like I said , to input and put yourself a little bit into it .

That way you wind up .

It makes it personal , which makes it really good , because it's something that you're so disassociated from you're not gonna care , but if you make it personal a lot of times , you're gonna put your best into it , because you're putting yourself into it literally Right and so , all right , now for time's sake , we're gonna just go ahead and move forward To the next

one . Rick Redex is a very fun character to really talk about and Also is very fun to be able to talk about all these references that the writers are able to put themselves or , you know , directors able to put themselves into it . The next episode was one very quickly that we just can talk about very quickly .

I did reference this already from a previous episode , where you know we wound up talking about how black , how black fire , what was it like for us up out of black ?

No , it was black fire who wanted mentioning about bought like a big girl will slime and shit , and I was like that's a great foreshadowing for this particular episode , where now Starfire gets called back to her homeland because she needs to actually go , because she's a betrothed princess who has .

Now it's time for her to get married , and the person arranging all of this is , of course , black fire Now the grand ruler . I don't even know how the hell she did that . She was removed from the throne . Well , she was removed from being able to become a ruler because of the shit she did .

But then she shows up and then she's able to just to take control , I don't know . And then we kind of get understated and I was able to do that .

I mean it's like yeah , I see what you mean , but I'm saying hey , yo , I'm not even . I wasn't even thinking up there . I was thinking that , hey , yo , he's the premiered on my birthday . Yeah , now you went to get so far like , oh , we're on different way . Okay , got you .

it's like , yeah , I don't know about having this particular episode , but then of course , we find out it's all just a place set up from Blackfire , the patrol , though it has nothing to do about Tamaramp , hold on .

But usually political marriages is Depicted at these things to where you know you're really doing it for other people , for your kingdom or whatever . You don't really care for the other person , the other person don't really care for you . That's why I kind of don't like to where they just make it look like it's all bad .

We were like nobody should subject themselves to a political marriage , but sometimes it may surprise you the way you you may never know if you might actually like that person and then it's like , okay , yeah , it's like it was arranged , but we like each other naturally , so we don't like to think of it like that . It's I don't know .

That's what I'm saying is I just don't like the trope of it to where it's like it's supposed to look bad . I .

It's generally Planned out using events , and the reason for that is so that way To get them to kind of grow up with each other , to already to begin to understand each other before they begin , before they get married , so they have an understanding , have a way of being able to work things out because , like you've been childhood friends , because most people want

to marry their childhood friend . So whenever they arrange a marriage they purposely make them like childhood friends . It's just that a lot of times it doesn't . There are many times it doesn't always work out the best , because you can grow up with a person . That doesn't mean you're always going to like them . That's not how that always works out .

Yeah , it's just going to let them completely take over Temuran , and the people would have just been literally turning into slaves . So it was just Blackfyre again one-upping for herself and that's all it was , and luckily the Titans were there to turn things back around this also .

What I like about this episode is that Beast Boy has a brief moment where it's actually some people were able to ask a lot of questions . I actually seen this question come up on Reddit a lot of times , because everyone questions is like is Beast Boy only limited to be able to turn into animals that he's seen , or just turning animals on just this planet ?

And it actually has been proven both in the comics as well as the show and in various different other TV series as well too , is that Beast Boy is not limited , like he can only turn into other animals , like other mammal type creatures , mostly like mammals , but he can also turn into reptiles and amphibians and stuff too , but as long as it's someone from the

animal kingdom , but he is not limited to just what's on earth he can actually . He can turn into an actual hell hound . He's actually done that as well too . He can turn into demonic animals . He can turn into angelic animals . He can turn into animals from other planets and other realities as well , too .

He has actually turned into a dragon , like an actual mythical dragon that did not exist on I think it was one comic that there were no . Dragons had never existed in that comics whatsoever . You know , even though we've seen with the mother ones , they have been this particular world .

There was none whatsoever , and Beast Boy was still able to turn into a dragon .

This Teen Titan show is the only canon where Beast Boy actually grows old , because we got a chance to see that glimpse into the future in last season on with Dr Bright . But the thing about it is is that , no matter this is the only channel that Beast Boy actually gets older .

Every other Beast Boy literally young justice in the comics and everything like that he always gets killed before he becomes an adult .

Bruh , that would be an unstoppable duo . Like Ben , 10,000 plus Beast Boy .

And it's crazy , bruh Like his ability is hella broken because when he transforms he gains all the powers of what it is . He turned into a dragon and was able to breathe fire . They can do some shit .

But the problem is we do find out in some iterations the cancer was actually never cured . So it's a big struggle into that . And so when you keep that into mind that he's still technically dying as he's living and unfortunately , like I said , I mean , you know what ?

I'm saying Look , man , as soon as you said that the only thing I could think about is it doesn't even matter , Like that song literally ran into my head . As soon as you said , y'all , I'm like dammit bruh .

I want there to be a cannon that he actually becomes an adult hero . That would be . I really think he deserves that .

Like you know , I see every iteration of Beast Boy is always like it's genuinely good , even when he had at one moment where he completely broke down and was just like I'm constantly good to everybody else and I'm always being treated like a shitty little boy and I'm fucking hate that .

And he winds up having a brief moment where he just kind of like mentally loses it . It didn't stop him from being a hero . He'd still care for people .

He's like I know Cyborg has to have a TV in his room Wands up going to the charging station , forces the plug of the game console into the charging station and unleashes this extremely crazy ass virus that Wands up taking over Cyborg and all of Cyborg's equipment and just call out a nonsense .

The next episode , episode five , is one I really wanted to get a chance to talk a little bit about haunted , so this one right here . There's two parts of main focus for me into this whole episode . First thing I understand is this Robin has hella PTSD . We already know this , but this is where it becomes extremely apparent , Literally .

And also , Slade is just a dick . This nigga went to scarecrow , got a special fear toxin and hit it inside of his mask . So if anyone was to touch his mask they would continue to see images of him attacking him over and over again . What the fuck man ?

You know is well known for the back cave to have , like the giant penny coin , the giant dinosaur , where each of those is like one being like his very first villain that he ever took down and one the first time that he was not able to save someone's life , where he realized that he can't save everybody .

He will try his best , but he has to understand that he can't save everyone .

thing . Batman , like Batman , makes his whole cave as him , humbling himself Every single time he goes in there . I humble myself in my cave as I do my bat stuff , like with Robin .

Teen Titans have a trophy room per se of all the villains they take down , but Robin doesn't think of it as much as a trophy as he goes to humble himself of every single time that they face together , that they face these villains , and remind himself of what , why it is that he is the hero , why it is he does what he does .

And it's just that moment of weakness , because a lot of times humbling yourself is not a weakness , but if you're not humbling yourself properly , it can be a weakness . It's one of those things of understanding yourself , understanding what your weak points are and what your strengths are . And throughout this episode , robin does not understand .

He does not understand what his true weakness is , and that's where this fear is able to hit him extremely hard . And throughout the whole , throughout literally almost the entire episode , everyone thinks Robin is crazy . They're like , bruh , you need to take a chill , like something's wrong with you , and then like , and he's literally freaking out , yell at Starfire .

He's like Slade ran right past you and Starfire is telling him like there was nobody there . What the fuck are you talking about ? And it's like it's like we're fighting a ghost . What's wrong with you ? And it wasn't until what was it ? They're trying to find him . Yeah , they're trying to find him .

It controls your blood flow , like everything in your body functions because your brain tells it to function . So literally , there have been some times where some people have woken up out there asleep with bruises on them , like they've been beaten up . And a lot of times .

And there are some cases where some people want to hurt themselves , but there's actual footage of people just like Robin , where they feel like they're getting hit , they feel like they're getting strangled and choked and what winds up happening is that there's nothing happening to them , like they've recorded them for hours , like all throughout their night , and nothing is

physically happening to them . But they wake up and they have these scars , these lesions , these bruises on them , as though something really did happen to them . And that's literally how strong the human mind is .

Is that the brain can shut down parts of your body and make it bruise up , and make it feel and can tell your nerves that something has happened , that when nothing in fact actually has . And that is a real thing .

And there's a lot of and it's really tax on more to mental illnesses as well , too , where it's still a big thing , where a lot of people have various mental , I know , but a lot of people with various mental illnesses are looked down upon , and it's like you're making this up .

It's all in your head , unfortunately , it is true , but there's not shit that many of them could do about this , like you can have medication to take it and stuff , but real talk , there's a lot of shit they can't control .

This shit really happens , and then this moment of like schizophrenia where you're seeing things that aren't actually there but your brain makes you think that that shit is really there and it affects you as though it is really there , and that's one of the things that winds up happening to Robin .

And so it wasn't until , like , raven jumped into Robin's mind and this is where it becomes most effective . Into this , everyone , including Raven , thinks that Robin is crazy .

Until she jumps into his mind , until she's actually able to see things and feel things the way that he is , and then it was at that moment that she's like he is actually fighting Slade , like he's actually fighting in his own brain , and then that's when they finally dissect not really dissect him , but they finally you know , the sideboard runs the scan and they

find out that it is , it was a being like nanomachines inside of him that winds up affecting Robin's mental psyche . That made him feel as though he was actually fighting and seeing Slade . But he wasn't . It was just fucking scarecrow .

And that's one of the scariest things about scarecrow to what makes him such a strong villain is the fact that literally the only thing that limits scarecrow is his technology . If he hadn't been more access to technology , scarecrow would literally be one of the scariest villains , and I will attest to that .

And I would say the video game Gotham Knight yeah , arkham .

He can give you schizophrenia and that shit will fucking affect you forever , like it will never go away . Even if they got rid of it , it still affects you and that's one of the things that Slade winds up taking it on to in this aspect where he puts that shit there and it affects Robin in the worst way possible . But it's one of those .

Also those aspects of don't don't sleep on people who got mental illnesses help them .

Yeah , like people need help , and it's one of those things is like sometimes you don't have to like do something yourself , because there are some people , unfortunately , who suffer so heavily and they are a danger to themselves and to others and that's what you need to let professionals really step in and help them . But everyone can still do something .

If you see someone that is suffering , don't be afraid to call for help . If someone is making accusations like they're going to kill themselves in a joking manner , don't take that lightly . Like talk to people , care about people , call professional help .

Let forget them help , because you never know how serious it actually is to everyone else in the whole show they thought Robin was losing his mind until Raven was finally able to see it the way that Robin is seeing it , to feel it the way that Robin is feeling it , because she felt that punch , she felt that that should knock . She got hit .

She got knocked so damn hard she got knocked out of Robin's psyche .

I knocked you back to one nigga , like straight up . But also real shit though . Like that's a real thing in today . Is that ? Like it's a real thing ? It's a very real thing and I like that . This episode . It's a very short push into it but it's a real thing to understand .

Like it's light , but it's light enough but it's still heavy enough to make you understand that this is something to pay attention to . Yeah , and that is my Ted talk for this episode .

Trapped in a book and wanting to be more powerful , raven learns new spells from the wizard , while growing close to him , but eventually the power to become more than she can handle . And Raven realized that Malkiore wasn't the wizard that was in the book , it was actually the dragon trying to trick her into releasing him onto the world .

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He understands that there's his new spells and it helps him feel very powerful , but he understands that she's becoming more secluded and he becomes concerned about this . He's like , hey , no , are you sure everything is good ? Are you sure everything is all right ?

And so it winds up becoming that little aspect of like okay , like he actually paid again great leadership . He pays attention to his team , he knows when something is off , he knows when something is wrong . This particular thing also tunes in a little bit more .

That makes people that really kind of started this whole thing of like okay , robin's trying to have a hero . Like , hey , robin , you know Raven's supposed to be Beast Boy's girl , you trying to step in , to slide in and get something , bro . But no , for some real thing , though , it's the fact that it's another .

No , no , like what she did as we was , like they didn't really have a relationship , but more like it was that one moment where , okay , robin and Starfire was finally going to get married and Raven was like , no , I object because I want to be a Robin . Okay , yeah , I do remember that .

She wants to be getting a spellbound between like not a funny spellbound , I've used that phrase before , but she gets spelled by between Beast Boy and Damien Wayne , robin , the Batman son , robin , but ultimately winds up choosing Damien for two reasons One , because she actually did love Damien a little bit more , and second , unfortunately Beast Boy died .

But being in tune with her emotions , she understands a little bit more how different she is from everyone else . Raven is always still having this ongoing battle because she's always always fighting her father . Now we've already got a chance to . We already got a mention of Trigun earlier on . I think it was like season two when we first get mentioned .

So we already have an understanding that her dad is the demon king and she's half demon , but they still don't understand how much she's battling , how much she's still battling herself and so , because of how her emotions are , she doesn't have anyone to train her to use her powers .

She's still figuring out just along the way , like they're working together , everyone's working together , but she , she does no one to really train her . A mouthy , this guy is the only person that actually says I can train you . Like he's the only one that says I can actually help you and actually proves it .

Like he actually trained her how to do this stuff and he's like that's a very good spell . But the spell is unrefined . Let me show you a more refined way of doing it and it works . It makes her feel powerful . It makes her feel like she actually has control of herself .

that worked into that , like you want to be towards a particular plan in the end .

But regardless of the fact that Raven still took those teachings , I like this episode and the fact that , even though , yes , she did accidentally release the dragon by mistake , but she was able to reseal him back , you know , with her friends help she no longer had to feel by herself . Demon sealing technique oh god , for real though .

Oh , hold on , that was funny as shit , but yeah , so they did manage to go ahead and seal the people , dragging back again , and then after that , you know they . Finally she has his understanding . Okay , it's okay to still use her normal powers , but she still keeps those teachings that she's learned .

She does learn still how to refine her magic , refine her emotions and be able to actually make things easier . I would say literally in this she loved . I would say she's leveled up .

This was one of those episodes that was like this was like a just a brief character arc where a character just needed to level up a little bit more , and this was one of those ones that was a great episode into that , of course , not just because the fact that I love Raven and Raven is my favorite team Titan , but just realistically .

It was definitely a great level up episode . Now for this one was funny because this was released in October , but this was a 4th of July special and I remember as a kid , after this episode came out , they played this episode every single 4th of July for like three to four years . They played this on the 4th of July .

Every time it's like Cartoon Network , bro . What the hell ? This one's a very simple . This is just a filler episode in itself . Anything with Mad Mod is a filler episode .

Like bro , what they managed to get Robin his youth back , but bro , like that . That one was like . Everyone was like oh my god , oh no , oh no , I don't want that to happen to me . Hold on a second , let me show you want to fight this guy Like this was pretty disturbing a little bit .

Now I will say one of the funniest things to keep in mind onto this . This particular episode is one of the few episodes that is not available on Max and Amazon Prime . This episode you can only watch on YouTube for $1.99 or on Voodoo for $1.99 . And I don't know why exactly , but I think it's had something to do with just about America in itself .

They were not happy with because I will . I do know that this episode digged a lot of issues because you know Matt , the person who voices Matt Maid , is an actual British celebrity .

But then the thing about it is is that a lot of the stuff that was said here it makes significant , like poke at pokes onto the Fourth of July in America again is independence and shit , and understand that a lot of Americans did not like that .

So you can't find this episode in America very easily , like other places , if you listen to this in another country , you could probably find this episode on Max and on Amazon Prime , but if you're in America , you're not going to find this episode on there .

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You're going to have to pay a little extra dollars to try to go watch this particular episode . Man , I was like dang . But going back to stuff that is on Mac , to Amazon Prime wavelength .

Now we finally get introduced to the second actual storyline for this whole season , not just with Brother , Blood and Cyborg , but now we get a chance to meet Titans East a little bit .

Five episodes later , you get brainwashed by Brother Blood .

He's copied Cyborg's technology and created special doomsday device and is about to fuck shit up . So the Teen Titans and Titans these have to work together in order to try to bring him down . However , brother Blood , it was actually a trap and he really just wanted Cyborg .

Now , this episode had a great ending , you know , getting a chance to see how they were able to finally take everything down and getting a chance to see Titans East actually be fully established , because Titans East was still up and coming , like they hadn't finished making their headquarters yet , they hadn't finished putting things together yet .

They're the first Teen Titans group outside of Teen Titans that was being put together .

This is the first time that outside of comics that we were introduced to Aqualad that wasn't Black and , keeping mind onto this one , I was actually reading the Aquaman comics at this point , so I was very confused .

I wound up having to look this up because I was just starting to read Aquaman comics and stuff , because you know , aquafish Hook , aquaman from Justice League Unlimited . I was like , oh okay , hold on , aquaman is a badass . Now Wait a minute .

He can't survive more than a minute out of water , otherwise he would die because he'll dehydrate and shit . Yeah , that was actual . The original Aquaman was an absolute punk , like they did him . They do , they did Aquaman 30 before , but so you Wait , how was he ?

They made them all bad asses . And that's the reason why the new Aquaman movie with Jason Momoa is so good is because of the remake . If they did that based on the original Aquaman , nobody would have seen that shit . It would have been a huge box office tank , no Right . But yeah , they had to redo Aquaman Like the writers did .

Horrible for the original Aquaman , but no . So Aqualab , from what I've always read , had always been a black Aqualab and I always remember him being Black Manta's son who wound up in a sense rebelling against Black Manta and joining Aquaman actually joining the Atlanteans versus trying to bring everything down . So I'm just saying it's this one . I see this Aqualab .

I'm like this Aqualab is , is Asian . I was confused as hell . I was like wait a minute . And then I found out there's actually two Aqualab . They both go by Aqualab that does not make me . I mean then they kind of do that in .

They go into a fight and Beast Boy winds up getting knocked into a batch of chemicals and these chemicals cause more of a mutation in his brain . But we find out it's not just him that gets attacked . Okay , how do you ?

. But I feel like this whole episode felt like a metaphor for Jim Bros and taking steroids , because notice how , with this villain , adonis , he was like this Jim Bro type dude . He was boasting about a strength and then Beast Boy getting on knocking to some bath of chemicals .

It wasn't steroids exactly , but you know how when people are trying to beep up , get stronger , they might take us . Yeah , they might chew us up and get more aggressive . It was kind of like that going on it was .

Your hormones affect your brain levels as well too , and it's very much tied into the fact that someone being more aggressive or having strange behavior has a lot to do with testosterone and estrogen levels that's inside of your body . Something wrong with ?

That's what makes each of us unique , but also can affect us in more sickly ways as well too . But yeah , so I can definitely see into that aspect because it does happen . When he gets into that batch of chemicals , like Beast Boy becomes extremely aggressive . He turns once he transforms . He immediately transforms into like pretty much his version of a werewolf .

He just calls it man beast , but it's significantly more than that Like . It's kind of like a mix of a wolf , a bear and a griffin kind of thing .

You know Raven leaving has a moment where she tries to talk to him and then Beast Boy attacks her .

He's starting to have some mental issues or he's like shit , am I really doing villainous shit too ? Now too , like what the fuck is going on ? And he's getting ready to contemplate leaving the Titans because he's just like you know what I'm not on , belong here , no more .

Then you find out , no , wasn't Beast Boy , was actually Adonis , who also Got changed into like a man beast as well . So that's like oh , okay , gotcha , no , we understand now . We understand , okay , but we had this episode really got changed the center around . How much beast boy holds himself back .

Um pet , yeah , they like . When this episode came out . I will say more number . I say Mars . Our DC made a lot . My cartoon network and DC partnered up and made a lot of silky plushies and those things sold off the charts .

This episode was not much into it , other than the fact that , like Everyone thought we thought that like mothman was about to like kill everybody , though Like he released all those different moths and then , you know , silky winds up turning into a giant moth as well too , after star fire bonds with her , bonds with it so much and everything , but then turns back

and then they're like , oh , we can keep this one , like , yeah , we'll keep them as a pet . And now we introduce to the new silky that eats everything , everything . And I was like , okay , that's a little bit crazy , bono .

So this one episode just revolved around and getting the pet , and like star fire getting a pet , it's another little filler episode , but pretty fun , definitely very fun . So far , like there's only been like one Eh filler episode and that was like season two . What was it ? Was it like season two of the car ? My sideboard's car gets stolen ?

But the thing that kids me is this this is one of the ones where I was like I would have loved it had been tidy too soon because soul eater wasn't out at the time , but this would be a great like soul eater thing , whereas , like I'm , turning in any inanimate object turn into a sword , turn into a scythe , turn into whatever we bought , likes my oh , it'd

have been so fun . But yeah , you can't make that particular . But no , this one was a very funny episode in itself . Where you know bunny raven , this becomes the main star of the show into this episode too . She's the one of the main ones .

That really helps out , because the amazing mumbo needs to pull a bunny out of his hat and keeps giving raven carrots , and raven's like I don't even like carrots . She ends up eating the carrots because she's a bunny . Oh , and cyborg was a bear . That shit was funny . That's it was . I was like you turn and cyborg was so pissed he said you turned me .

But that movie was actually pretty interesting . But there's a brief moment that it was actually very interesting . I was surprisingly in tune with the movie from beginning to end and I was .

I did not think I was going to be , but there is a brief moment in that in that movie where a cyborg talks about is there another world where they can be , where they're all different animals and stuff ? And I thought there was going to play a reference on to the Teen Titans episode of that one , but they wound up not doing that .

Everyone was a completely different animal , everything was like a different sea creature and I would have loved that that had an actual reference to this particular episode where we got a chance to get back Bunny's and Monkey , starfire , robin , robin and like Lantern , like an enemy object , beast boy . An enemy object boy .

Titans , yes , where we finally have cyborg is helping out the Titans East be able to finish putting things together . Like you said , this one's a being a moment where , like the first episode , the original Titan , the wavelength episode , as well as also now the season finale , we get a chance to focus more on cyborg versus brother blood .

And this one right here , this finale , is two part finale , probably one of the apps , probably definitely one of the best season finales out there , the only one that I would say probably be better than this one , at least in my opinion .

I'm going to say is yeah , season four finale was probably better than the was only thing that was better than this one , but this one was one of the best season finales to meet per se , because we get a chance to really dive into . We get a chance to really dive into cyborg , understanding what it means now to not just be half man , half machine .

We understand more of what it means for cyborg to be a machine . We understand what it means for cyborg to be a human being .

We get both sides equally a cyborg Because in this one brother blood decides to upgrade himself and literally and also upgrade his technology where he's copied cyborg technology and we finally get a chance to see that pretty much the evil cyborg , the full cybernetics site I don't remember what it was called in the comments .

Give me a second because I'm looking that one up ?

It does not , not for this , not for this particular season , not for the show , but in the comic cyborg sent his robotics has a sentence of its own and it winds up recreating itself in its own negative cyborg type thing . But it's not a negative cyborg . I forgot what is that , what is called ? But it actually has its own name .

I can't remember what it is , but it was a playing , a good reference back into that one , because we get a chance to see all these robotic you know anti cyborgs fighting everyone . But then these cyborgs have cyborgs powers , like , well , his powers to have his controls .

They have his jet packs , they have his sonic cannon as well too , and it's like cyborgs freaking the fuck out because he's like they're mean . He's like , holy shit , this is .

This is really creepy and like this would be really creepy when you have a villain that obsessed with you that they make multiple , pretty much clones of you and send those clones after you . That would be very , very fucking freaky .

So that way , because cyborg is able to build himself up and he's able to repair himself , so sometimes he needs something that auto repairs itself . So he has an AI system integrated into him to auto do that .

basically a counterpart but you also reminded me of what I used to be .

So why was it being just plot armor for the episode for the season three finale Then where brother blood ripped cyborg apart ? He was about to integrate him and then all of a sudden , cyborg just magically brings himself back together , all his pieces just float into the air and he just reintegrates back into himself again .

I guess what made him to OP , but still , like y'all just did him so dirty on that one .

In Titans East , he winds up being the leader there and just like when the first episode , where you know he doesn't quite want to go back to the Teen Titans , but he knows he needs to go back , that's where his friends are and this is sense of duty , it kind of same this one ends the same way too , where they're like , we would appoint you as the leader ,

as our leader , of Titans East . But , and he actually wants to stay .

So it's almost like they're kind of winking at the audience saying that he's going to come to a time to where cyborg is going to part ways with the original team to , you know , the other team by Titans East , or maybe you'll go forward to help up with the Justice League or whatnot . Either way , it's like he could be gone for any reason .

And then , you know , Aqualad was being appointed as team leader .

Now I will say we finally get a chance to really see Masi Minos in this , in this two part special part .

Let me tell you , when I saw Snake Eye Dreams on YouTube shadowed him by the way he was doing a breakdown on strongest heroes , strongest bills and whatnot .

And with the way he broke it down to where we kid flash , I'm like bro , like he can literally walk on running laps around Masi Minos because he doesn't require both someone else to touch him in order to run fast . And with the way he works , it's like , since it's only just him , it's like he can do more .

It's like with Masi Minos , it's like it's under the implication that they still have to be holding hands . So it's like , yeah , they could be like a tag team and it works that way . But if they're split up , just like what happened in season five we'll get into that later- it's almost like they're useful and it's just dipped in your heart .

Plus , also , it makes kid flash even better is the fact that , like all the flashes well , not all the flashes , but most of the flashes are able to do this where they don't just run fast , they have control , they have in tune speed force itself , so they can go in opposing speeds where they can either work like does it ?

It's not really like being super fast , like you are accelerating your own cells in your own body to a point to where you're doing this shit . So it's like there's more to it than just running fast .

There's one where Superman is talking to the flash and he asked for a moment with the flash . That's uninterrupted . So what they both do is that they both speed so fast that time stands still and so that way they can talk without anyone interrupting and nobody can hear it , because the conversations happen so fast that even technology can't keep up with it .

Right now , like Batman , can't even tune into the conversation , even if you wanted to , because that's how fast that they were going .

So they had one moment that was like that , and then they also had another moment where Flash and Superman were talking and he had this iconic phrase that comes into this , where Flash eventually just says he's done talking to Superman and then Superman is like you know , you cannot run me . We had a race that one time and I won .

And then Flash tells him that was for charity . And then literally run so fast that Superman can't catch up . Like literally . Like we have , superman can turn back time by flying around the earth in this reversed orbit . Just still bullshit . If you reverse the orbit , you're not turning back time , you're just going to cause massive destruction on the planet .

So , yeah , like it's different to that and Masi Meadows , unfortunately they're not . They're not actual speedsters per se , like not speed for speedsters , they don't have any type of relation to the speed force whatsoever , but they have , unlike the flashes , we have , molecule manipulation .

Masi Meadows are polarity , like literally one is almost nothing , nothing but pure negative ions and the others like pure positive ions , and what winds up happening is is them together per se winds up creating a force around them that repels them from wherever they're at and that's where allows them to move extremely fast .

They're literally just controlling magnetism in itself .

What the thing about Masi Meadows is what I would hope would have been a case is that maybe they could have developed their powers more to where , understanding that they're based on polarities and actual magnetism , that they could probably both touch an object and make it float , and probably like almost have like telekinetic powers , but not quite telekinesis , because

they're just controlling polarities .

The sideboard was like hmm , robin , that will actually listen to me , yes , but no , for real speedy was still a rebel at this point , varying to him , to his comic book , to his comic book counterpart .

I'm trying to say that speedy that is kind of still trying to be on his own , like yeah , so yeah , but other than that , I mean it was to me it was a great two-part special .

I don't have anything else that I kind of want to mention right now I have to go ahead and get off , but was there anything real quick that you want to talk about ?

We got links down below the episode , we got more reviews coming up and , like I said , I'm going to start doing some 3D printing after this . So you stay nerdy , my friends . 3d things are coming and we're going to go ahead and zone out of here .