Things Change

[gem]

Well, I don't know how much good I'm doing in starting this thread, considering many of the members here haven't posted in forever... Honestly people, I really miss you all!

Anyway, I just got done watching 'Things Change'. I have to say I didn't like it. If they wanted to put in an episode like that, I think it would have worked much, much better in season 3 or 4. But for the end of the series... -shakes head- It didn't work well at all. And the rest of the Titans should have been much more involved.

Well, go ahead and talk.

[superdavefumc]

i didn't get to see it. wah! could you give me a quick overview?

[gem]

I'll do my best. Basically, the Titans have returned to Jump City, and immediately decide to rent a movie and buy some candy, only to find that the video rental store is closed down, along with the candy shop, the music store, and various other places they remember. Turns out, an office complex is being built. This monster attacks that can change into anything it touches. Water, concrete, steel, you name it. So the Titans start fighting it. While doing so, Beast Boy sees a girl in a school uniform that looks just like Terra, but when he looks back, she's gone. Just to make sure he's not seeing things, he goes off to Terra's cave while the rest of the team chases the monster in the sewers. Turns out, her statue is indeed gone, so Beast Boy believes that Terra truly has returned. He returns to the tower and is doing something on the computer, presumably looking for Terra or something of the sort, then the rest of the team returns, a little bit angry at BB for ditching them. He tells them what happened, but they aren't quite sure about it. They think that Beast Boy may be hallucinating. This makes him a bit mad, so he leaves and walks around town a bit, passing the places he knew that were closed down. He hears a school bell and turns to see a high school. Murakami High School to be precise (Gee, I wonder where THAT name came from!). And, guess who's in the schoolyard: None other than the Terra look-alike. Beast Boy calls out her name, but she doesn't seem to hear him and she socializes with a couple of friends. BB runs up closer and calls out to her again. This time, "Terra"'s friends ask her if she knows him and she shakes her head. Now, BB runs around to stand in front of her and tries to remind her who he is, but she insists that she doesn't remember him. He keeps trying though, and convinces her to go with him for pizza. When she agrees, they go to the pizza place and Beast Boy starts telling stories about the Titans, trying to get her to remember. The only one we actually hear is the end of the Brotherhood of Evil ordeal, and Beast Boy's "brain freeze" joke. She laughs, saying that the joke is funny, but she still doesn't remember. The pizza comes and it's apparently mushrooms and anchovies or something like that, because that was Terra's favorite. The Terra look-alike, however, says that she's allergic to anchovies, and keeps telling Beast Boy that she's not the girl he thinks she is. By the way, throughout all this, the rest of the Titans have been chasing the monster, as they never caught it the first time. "Terra" tries to leave, saying that she has to go do homework on the computer at school, but Beast Boy convinces her to do it at the Tower, hoping she will remember something there. Next scene is presumably after she has done her homework, and Beast Boy is showing her Terra's old room and various other parts of the tower. She still remembers nothing. They go outside and Beast Boy skips a stone across the water, like in "Terra" (I think) She still doesn't remember. Then, Beast Boy (stupidly) throws mud at her, hoping that she will use her power and stop it before it hits her. She, of course, does not, because she doesn't even believe she has powers, so it hits her straight in the face. She gets angry and leaves (somehow, I don't know how she got off the island...) (Here is where I think I might be getting event sequences out of order) Now we see Beast Boy at the diner that he and Terra went to in Betrayal, eating pie. He orders one to go, then he goes to the carnival they visited in the same episode. He walks around, then ends up in the house of mirrors, and all the mirrors are apparently still broken from that night. Then, (bum bum bum!) Slade shows up in the cracked mirrors. There's an exchange between them in which Beast Boy accuses Slade of bringing Terra back and taking her memories and powers. Slade insists that he has done nothing and that if Terra doesn't remember, it's because she doesn't want to. Beast Boy breaks the mirrors more than before, than the actual Slade shows up on the screen and they begin fighting. I suck at describing fight scenes, but by the end of this, Slade has been crushed under a huge rock, and probably would have died... If he hadn't been a robot. For the rest of the episode, Beast Boy pretty much stalks "Terra" around her school, trying to get her to talk to him. She keeps refusing, but then he continues in the library, so she finally listens to him outside before he gets her in trouble. She continues on with telling him that she's not Terra. Beast Boy attempts to give her a communicator, but she refuses to take it. Then, his own communicator goes off, and Robin tells Beast Boy that he needs to come help them fight the monster that they still haven't defeated. "Terra" tells Beast Boy to go, so he finally gives up, turning away and running into a bright light. Fade to black, end of episode.

Oh... You said brief? Sorry about that! ;D

[DragoonBane Forgot Password]

i havent seen the ep. eather but that screams for a new season. i mean terra is back mysteriusly with no recollection of anything. but that does seem to be a truly crappy way to end a series...
TIME FOR HATE MAIL!!!
j/k

[moonchild10]

I'm voting she's not really Terra! I'm voting she's a disgruntled radioactive clone! >.> <.<

But seriously...why did they bring her back so randomly? Why at the end of the show when they couldn't do anything with her? Were they just out of ideas?

I like the episode, it was really well animated. But it sucked as a finale, I agree.

REVENGE! *creates secret sixth season and sells it on the Cartoon Network black market*

[the Azure Sky]

I thought the black market was in cuba....dont we just have like...a dark gray market here? maybe a lower shade of blue....hmmmmm

[gem]

Yeah, the black market in Cuba is much better. -buys plane tickets- (Haha, especially the one in Family Guy....)

[forlong]

I thought bringing Terra back wasn't to bad an idea, but they made Beast Boy into a jerk. He ditched his friends and showed that he didn't care if the city was in danger. How stupid is that? I think one of the Titans (makes a cough that sounds like the name "Raven") should have aproched him and told him to help.

[gem]

Agreed. I hated how he just stalked Terra the whole time and completely ignored his duties. And it bugged me that the rest of the team just let him.

[storiesthatnever]

I cried.

That's all I can say. It left you so empty, confused, and worst off :-XHANGING!

[shadow]

Ugh.. the only good side to this episode is that it made it clear that Terror (or Terra radiactive clone) had no interest in getting back with BeastBoy which is kind of a plus.... but the fact that they ended it like that.... Grrr *turns into giant raging Pikachu* all shall Pay for this injustice(sp?)!!

[terra0rock]

Even though this thread is probably kind of dead, I'm posting my opinion anyways!

I actually thought it made a good finale-ish thing. Yes, the whole Terra-is-back thing should have been way earlier, but the whole idea of things changing is pretty good, I think. Everyone had their own little epiphany thingies. Robin understood teamwork, Raven saved the world from its impending demise, and hopefully got over some of her dark past with it, Cyborg became more comfortable with his cyborgy self, Starfire learned about Earth and stuff, and all that remained was Beast Boy. In the episode 'Things Change,' he recieves a much-needed final kick in the butt to understand that things can't always remain as they once were, and that he can't keep holding onto things from the past (though it drives me crazy that he only mentions Terra in one of the 'The End' episodes, and in 'Things Change.' Surely she must have meant more to him than that, right? Though I'm a BBRae fan, I'm also a Terra Fan, if you hadn't noticed...).