6. Keeping Some Continuity
It has never been explicitly stated if Teen Titans Go! is meant to be a continuation of the previous series. There are several indicators which have been presented in the new show to suggest that there is a connection. For starters, the character designs (while shrunken down and simplified for the new Flash animation style) still retain a considerable likeness to the original series. Several supporting characters from the previous series, including the Hive Five, Silkie, Aqualad, Kitten, Red X, Doctor Light, and Speedy have been included (again designed to resemble the original series). The main voice cast and several of the supporting voice cast has returned to their previous roles as well. All indications would suggest that Teen Titans Go! is in fact a direct continuation of Teen Titans, simply done in a different animation style (which has been done before with shows like Ben 10: Omniverse and Batman: The Animated Series). However, particular episodes such as "Terra-ized" suggest otherwise. In this episode, Beast Boy meets a character named Terra for the first time, who was a central character to the second season of the original series. The inclusion of other characters, such as Silkie and Brother Blood who were introduced after Terra, creates confusion. Her introduction here shows that the writers of the new series are essentially taking whatever content from the original series they choose and creating a new series. If the producers of this series wished to establish a new universe without any connection to previous stories, it bears the question of why they would include so many callbacks and references to the previous series? They would be better off developing their own mythology or actually attempting to maintain the continuity from the original series.