Teen titans episodes - analyzing.

Teen Titans episode 2 analyzing

Sister

At the beginning of this episode we learn that Starfire there's something going on between Robin and Starfire. We like their gentle approach with one another, we're sort of rooting for them.

It makes me feel a little odd that Robin for a moment wants to pay more attention to the fireworks than her. But Star really likes his youthful and playful spirit.

Whenever there's an adorable BBRae moment, Cyborg always stands there as the third wheel. I know Beast Boy said "Told ya WE'd win you a price." But it was Beast Boy who hand it to her.

Raven's reaction to her prize is just the funniest part of the episode to me. It's also an inside joke for the fans considering she's allergic to chickens and hates them.

I have to say that the way the characters are interacting now has improved. This episode feels also pretty realistic and it sticks closer to what the characters true personalities. Unlike in the last episode when Robin and Beast Boy switched.

Here in this episode we meet Starfire's evil sister - Blackfire. It bothers me that she's the only character from Tamaran with black hair, or very dark purple...
When Blackfire introduces herself to all of the Teen Titans I feel like she's introducing them to the viewers because we get to see their faces directed at us. So in a way we are also meeting the Teen Titans. As it is hard to remember every single name after one episode.

We see that Cyborg is very calm and polite when first meeting people but he's actually very energetic and full of life.

We see that Raven is calm, as usual. We also find out why she wears that gem stone. It is placed on her third eye. To quote Blackfire on her Ajna Chakra. Ironically the third eye Chakra's colors are purple or blueish purple, so we know that the color choice of her clothes is not really random.

I can't stand to watch the scene where Beast Boy makes a bad joke and she pretends to think that it's funny. I feel bad for Beast Boy. But at that moment it's the first we view Raven getting on Beast Boy's nerves.

Blackfire hits on Robin and Star can't help but feel jealous. It's kind of annoying how a character who has never met them knows that there's something going on between him and Starfire. Also the sex subtext with Robin and Blackfire's workout out scene makes me cringe.

So in this episode all the Titans prefer Blackfire to Starfire and she feels left out. There's always been a  group where you kind of feel left out or someone new seems more interesting than you. That's why this episode is highly relatable, but sadly in real life they don't turn out to be super villains and things go back to normal. Sometimes we get excluded permanently because our "friends" just don't seem to be interested in us. I know in this episode they definitely would have missed her because Starfire lives there and it's a little different when you're roommates.
They obviously come to her rescue when the robots attack her but it was just annoying to see her being ditched like that.

The problem is that Blackfire to us is played annoying on purpose to us viewers to make us see everything from Star's eyes.
While if she was written out to be a fun character we would have liked her and we would have seen things the episode as if we - the viewers were the cool new kid or as if were already part of the team and try to sympathies with Starfire. I think making her evil was sort of pointless, I guess it was the element of surprise but wouldn't it have been better for her just to be a little attention seeking, just visiting for a while, Starfire admitting to her jealousy and finding a way to get along with her sister?

When they told the police that Blackfire was the real criminal, were they just going to believe her without any proof? Seriously their aliens. Their technology is meant to be more advanced and they don't know how to make sure that they've got the right person? They're just going to arrest the first Tamaranian girl that they see on earth?

I guess a way of viewing it as Starfire would be that it's okay to be a foreigner among other people who get the social rules better than you.
But still that scene where they pull out the most stereotypical Emo phrases they could think of, It's just insulting to think that Emo people are depressed.