Teen Titans TV Show Should Be Game Changer

Teen Titans TV Show Should Be Game Changer

Wall Street Cheat Sheet takes a look at how TNT's upcoming "Teen Titans" TV show could change the gender future of Super Hero TV, and film for that matter, if it proves a success.

By MarvelDash - Feb 14, 2015 02:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Teen Titans
Source: http://wallstcheatsheet.com

Television has changed drastically in the past year. With the advent and mega-success of Super Hero films has brought on a Golden Age of television shows based on the iconic characters. Shows that decades ago could not succeed (see the 90's The Flash) have since become some of the most successful launches of the season. 

Even with the failed Wonder Woman pilot (ironically starring current Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Adrianne Palicki), TV has changed. Shows like Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder have upped the game of female-led TV and proven they can be power players. As of today, ABC's "Agent Carter" is experiencing mild success, and we await the CW's iZombie, CBS's Supergirl and Netflix's AKA Jessica Jones to find out what kind of success they can create.

Wall Street Cheat Sheet has posted an article about TNT's upcoming Teen Titans TV show, declaring it "unlike anything you've seen." But this declaration is not due to the fact that it is the first TV show based on an actual superpowered team, or that it is missing the likes of Beast Boy and Cyborg. Rather, it confronts these heroes replacements in "what sets this new version apart isn't the new team, so much as who composes it: Four women."

As the article points out, even fem-flag waver Joss Whedon recently stated that there is "old-fashioned, quiet misogyny that goes on" when it comes to casting heroes, or more specifically ponying up the cash to make a big-budget film. But television is changing that, and the upcoming Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel films may just put an end to the bad-taste-in-our-mouth films of yesteryear  (Catwoman and Elektra) that caused the studios to clinch up and the thought of greenlighting. 

As the article continues, it highlights reasons for networks not pushing forward more estrongen-powered hero TV,  and declares one reason for there not being "more female heroes has been a denial of their marketability, something that can be proven patently wrong should Titans get picked up for a full run." As we await the balance of genders in superpowered TV, with the likes of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. giving us Skye-turned-Quake very soon, Teen Titans should give us not only our first glimpse of actual powers working together as a team on television, but one dominated by female leads. Hopefully they pack the right punch.

Source: ">http://wallstcheatsheet.com/entertainment/tnts-teen-titans-will-be-unlike-anything-youve-seen.html/?ref=YF

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COREY6487
COREY6487 - 2/14/2015, 3:40 AM
huh???

there are only females in the teen titan show? news to me. and stupid too, need at least 1 guy in there.
MFLuder
MFLuder - 2/14/2015, 4:08 AM
Isn't Nightwing going to be a member or Robin?
SaxoWolf
SaxoWolf - 2/14/2015, 4:09 AM
I hope Marvel makes series for Blade and Punisher.
TonyChu
TonyChu - 2/14/2015, 4:12 AM
The members are Nightwing, Oracle, Starfre, Raven, Hawk and Dove.
SoFresh
SoFresh - 2/14/2015, 4:15 AM
Bwahahaha holy shit.
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JvIce
JvIce - 2/14/2015, 5:00 AM
I'm still bitter about Hawk and Dove.
BruciferKent
BruciferKent - 2/14/2015, 5:36 AM
(ironically starring current Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Adrianne Palicki)
I really hate this part because I don't [frick]in see how it's ironic.
BANEofExistence
BANEofExistence - 2/14/2015, 5:42 AM
Nightwing and Hawk are the only dudes on the team
Odin
Odin - 2/14/2015, 6:09 AM
@MexicanSuperman I think they might be doing the origin story for Beast Boy and/or Cyborg, that's why they aren't in the start-up.
MsDarkPhoenix
MsDarkPhoenix - 2/14/2015, 6:44 AM
Too many women, send them back to their kitchens.
TheRockmore
TheRockmore - 2/14/2015, 6:48 AM
The show is called Titans...get the name right please
Luminus
Luminus - 2/14/2015, 7:16 AM
If these women get into fights and don't so much as smear their makeup, then they've accomplished absolutely nothing for women's equality. I'm looking at you, Agent Carter. How much you want to bet there'll be a forced female-on-female kiss on the show? lol. Pathetic.

This is what's so great about Arrow. At least the Canaries take a beating and have bruises to show for it.

But, on the bright side, let's just wait and see.
Barbaros
Barbaros - 2/14/2015, 7:18 AM
"Teen Titans should give us not only our first glimpse of actual powers working together as a team on television, but one dominated by female leads"

Maybe Nightwing creates his own harem.
1TheFlash1
1TheFlash1 - 2/14/2015, 7:36 AM
i want kid flash to be in this show so bad!
DonkeyTeeth
DonkeyTeeth - 2/14/2015, 8:07 AM
Wait so if they do cast just women are we then going to call this "boobiewashing"?
Oh... wait thats a whole other thing



but yeah I'm sure we'll have to continue with the black/whitewashing labels
Ignition
Ignition - 2/14/2015, 8:10 AM
The first comment... lol.
PAF
PAF - 2/14/2015, 9:50 AM
Pack it up. Agent Carter has failed because her make-up doesn't smudge and there was a "forced" kiss. Gender equality is dead. Thank God for Arrow for showing us that women can fight in $2 party city wigs and they won't fall off.
yunglilmane
yunglilmane - 2/14/2015, 10:44 AM
the only thing i wish is that they were actually teens in the show instead of adults, which is what they will be from my understanding. That wouldve been even more of a game changer, DC wouldve had the only live action teenage superhero team (as far as comics go). They couldve been like 16-18 or something, i think it wouldve worked...
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/14/2015, 3:24 PM
Teen Titans TV Show Should Be Game Changer

Or a channel changer if its turns out being shit.
Luminus
Luminus - 2/14/2015, 10:32 PM
@LubedUp: lol

@PAF: I'll ask you a simple question. If it was Agent John McClain and Hanz Grueber, would there have been a kiss? Yeah, go ahead and be blind all you want.
Shadowmaster35
Shadowmaster35 - 2/15/2015, 8:12 PM
Curious who the women are besides Starfire and Raven. Wonder Girl, Ravager, Solstice, Speedy, Aquagirl, Hawk, Dove, Kole, Terra, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Bombshell, Flamebird, Miss Martian, Arrownette, Joker's Daughter??? Sooo many choices people.
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