Starfire name5/9/2023 ![]() But what made STARFIRE unique was the concept of Warp Points for interstellar travel. It had an incredibly simple system for building and handling starships and it lent itself well to campaign play. STARFIRE began as a purely tactical fleet-level table-top starship combat game. Over the years the game has been expanded but it remains essentially the same quick-playing tactical starship combat game that it begin as. The first edition was followed by two supplements: the first added fighters and the second included a campaign system. STARFIRE was designed as a fast-paced game of fleet-level starship combat with an easy-to-use starship design system and a progression of technological development. There is no suggestion here that Titans will suck because it isn’t appropriate for children, as the original content was. But to suffocate the humor, the satire, the gags that the cartoon series and comics thrived off? That is the crime that DC is being charged with today.STARFIRE is a game of starship combat that was originally created by Steve Cole in 1976 and published in a revised version by Task Force Games in 1979. If you want something to show your kids, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is out in cinema right now. Maybe even let Robin have a little bit of a depressive moment - he was, after all, groomed by a billionaire to beat up working class criminals after the death of his parents in a horrific accident (at least they got that bit right). It’s true to say that only the unspecified release date will tell, but the saturation of references to ‘inner demons’ in media that once balanced those themes with lightheartedness is arguably becoming a problem and a limit to creativity. Since The Dark Knight, everyone wants to do it - but not all of these beloved stories translate well into hardy, dark fiction. Unfortunately, Titans is another example of the negative trappings of ‘gritty’ superhero remakes. ![]() It’s easy to see what DC are trying to grab at here, and the success of similar approaches to dusting off old favorites has been pretty evident in the last decade. ![]() It’s hard to miss the richness of opportunity that any writer looking to tug forth the darker aspects of a character and their experiences must have missed here, and fans of the character will be left sorely lacking in the specific quality he brings to the team. Considering the ‘realistic’ spin that is evidently trying to be achieved (said loosely), would it have killed someone to suggest that you can have two black actors on screen at once, and perhaps one might even be disabled? Cyborg’s augmentations followed a horrific accident that destroyed most of his body, according to the canon. Where’s the outrage over her reaching desperately across the table for physical reassurance from a pouting Robin?įurthermore, while there is nothing evidently wrong with the casting of Starfire considering the mere wordless seconds she spends on screen in the first trailer, many will ask why the only canonically black character in the original line-up, our boy Cyborg, is missing. How on earth do you get angry at Anna Diop just for being there, when Benton Thwaites’ Dick Grayson shows a whining emo that thinks raccoon masks and throwing knives in the shape of your first initial are a good idea? Don’t get me started on the assassination of Raven’s character from straight-faced goth icon to tortured damsel in distress. The low budget is shockingly evident even throughout the editing of the trailer itself, up to and including incredibly annoying screaming sound effects ripped right from the additional settings of a cheap kids keyboard.Īn important question surfaces having dragged oneself through the trailer. There is every attempt throughout to squeeze as many horror/thriller conventions into the minute-and-a-half mess. The first ten seconds of the Comic-Con released trailer for Titans looks like a bad rip-off of American Horror Story: Freakshow, and it doesn’t get much better from there. It seems as though the controversy surrounding the race of a single character has the whole fandom overlooking just how cringe-worthy the whole thing is threatening to be, from the far more important aspects of style, narrative, and conventions.
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