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Episode #18 - Fear Itself
Original Airdate - February 7th, 2004
Slade is back and this time he's after Raven. But the Teen Titans
question why.
Review by Bird Boy
Media by Bird Boy |
Titans Writers
Written by Dwayne McDuffie
Directed by Michael Chang
Producer Glen Murakami
Producers Linda M. Steiner, Bruce Timm
Asst. Producer Kimberly A. Smith
Music by Michael McCuistion
Casting and Voice Direction Andrea Romano
Animation Services by Lotto Animation
Titans Voices
Greg Cipes as Beast Boy
Scott Menville as Robin
Khary Payton as Cyborg
Tara Strong as Raven
Hynden Walch as Starfire
Alex Polinsky as Control Freak
Tress MacNeille as Horror Movie Actress |
Review
The words "predictable", "vident" and "orseseeable" come to mind when you
think about this episode. Yes, it was obvious from the point Raven said she
had lost her powers that she was the one conjuring the little beasts up, but
many people seem to be ignoring the overall fact about this episode: it was
flat out awesome. Between the flashes of light that rippled through
the Tower when the lightning came down, to the animation, this episode
seemed to not only flow really well, but was beautifully animated along the
way.
The main villain of this episode was taken out by six-minutes into it, but
what we did see of him reminded me of two things: Howard Groote and the
script-writer guy from "Sentries of the Last Cosmos" (both from the
Batman Beyond series). He's the ultimate nerd who I'm sure many fans of
this can relate to, and he decided to take it out on a local video store for
not making "Warp Trek V" one of the top movies on their list. This set us up
for the movie rental that Beast Boy made at the end ("Wicked Scary"), which
the Titans proceed to watch and get the bejeebers scared out of them at the
same time. The movie, despite denying it, seems to affect Raven in someway
so that she loses control over her feelings--causing monsters from the movie
to come and attack the Titans in the tower, picking them off one-by-one,
until she's the only one left and is forced to confront herself with
something she'd been denying since the beginning: she was scared.
Much like the other episodes this season so far (sans "Terra" and possibly
"How Long Is Forever?"), it did very little in terms of character movement
and overall season plot movement--but if we continue to get episodes of this
nature, I'll be happy. It entertains me for about thirty minutes, and that's
all I ask for...
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