[5.9/10] This felt like another season 1 episode of Teen Titans. The premise is ridiculous. The theme is simple. And it’s mostly fights rather than character or storytelling. Suffice it to say, this one is a step down.
I don’t have a ton of beef with the Titans falling into a subterranean land where dinosaurs are real. It’s a familiar pulp trope, and this is a fantastical world. But something about them chasing Dr. Light with the help of an ersatz Tarzan and a girl who can turn to crystal so he can use her like a club is too silly for me to buy into. Kole and G’Nark are pretty meager characters to begin with, and the episode spends more time on skirmishes with a D-list villain than developing them.
The closest we get is that G’Nark is scared of modern technology, lights in particular, but overcomes that due to his connection to Kole and desire to save her. That’s a fine enough idea, but not really enough to build an episode around. Likewise, the fights made me zone out pretty quickly, as even an Aurora Borealis-infused Dr. Light is a yawner of an antagonist.
Overall, this is one of the weaker Teen Titans episodes, and the kind that I’d naively hoped the show had put behind it.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2021-08-26T18:40:25Z
[5.9/10] This felt like another season 1 episode of Teen Titans. The premise is ridiculous. The theme is simple. And it’s mostly fights rather than character or storytelling. Suffice it to say, this one is a step down.
I don’t have a ton of beef with the Titans falling into a subterranean land where dinosaurs are real. It’s a familiar pulp trope, and this is a fantastical world. But something about them chasing Dr. Light with the help of an ersatz Tarzan and a girl who can turn to crystal so he can use her like a club is too silly for me to buy into. Kole and G’Nark are pretty meager characters to begin with, and the episode spends more time on skirmishes with a D-list villain than developing them.
The closest we get is that G’Nark is scared of modern technology, lights in particular, but overcomes that due to his connection to Kole and desire to save her. That’s a fine enough idea, but not really enough to build an episode around. Likewise, the fights made me zone out pretty quickly, as even an Aurora Borealis-infused Dr. Light is a yawner of an antagonist.
Overall, this is one of the weaker Teen Titans episodes, and the kind that I’d naively hoped the show had put behind it.