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Titans: Brother Blood (2022)
The season was going so well...
Last season had three mostly good episodes before falling apart. This season was coming along pretty well before stumbling last ep and fumbling around this one.
Where to start?
Right as they start dipping into "the red" for beast boy(a plane associated with animals) the writers decide Gar can turn into anything with DNA - including viruses. Will he turn into a plant next? Can he also touch the green?
Conner's turn would be a fun tribute if done well but the leather jacket and (outdated) Drakkar? And so suddenly. Poorly done
Tim and Bernard should have been given more time to develop some chemistry before becoming a thing.
Raven's white outfit? It just doesn't look good. They should have just turned her soul self white and left her in her own clothes
Jinx is awesome - sounds like she's died before and this won't be permanent for her.
The science was super cringy. The two bits that stood out: x = x + 1 is about as basic coding as it gets. There is no class down from that.
Three Titans will use sorcery to get Sebastian out of the temple and a Star Labs scientist will put him somehow reassemble his atoms as long as they get them into the room?
And about the mystery of teleportation - Mayhem literally teleported twice in front of Rachel and Raven. Wasn't that a clue?
Did we know already that Kori could boost Raven's power?
Finally - when did May develop an accent?
The Sandman: 24/7 (2022)
Could have done without this one
I know it was mostly right from the comics, and it was wonderfully acted and filmed, but it also really dragged. And all that waiting for that bleak results in the diner. Yeah, wouldn't have minded if they had cut the diner scene.
Titans: Purple Rain (2021)
Never seen so much potential squandered
By such consistently poor writing. It's like all they care about is the flashiness of a scene with out caring if it makes sense based on the characters and what has come before. Like they dont even realize they are writing a serial. And there are no consequences. The Titans do not just morally ambiguous but downright cruel things to each other and other people and there are never consequences.
Part of me wants to wait and bing season 4 but this season I just start my weekend with it to get the disappointment out of the way and then watch something better, like Doom Patrol to cleanse the pallet. I probably couldn't do a whole weekend of Titans.
Titans: Prodigal (2021)
The writers continue to halfheartedly phone in a few scenes
While interns pick out scrabble tiles to fill in the pieces.
Yay, Gar finally turns into another animal! And also mysteriously gets to control other bats. I guess I should be happy there was some surprise to that scene since we all knew Dick was coming back after dying last week in a scene written only slightly better than Donna's death last season. (Dick: "helmet? What's that?).
Thank God Donna is back since she (and Alan Ritchson before her) is the only one left with the charisma to shine through this horrible writing. Related: I don't see what people like about this atom Drake, but angsts teens are my least liked trope (and the reason I gave up on The Gifted) so maybe that's on me.
Titans is squandering a chance to be something great. If Theresa season 4 I hope they'll get writers who care about the whole season and not just a handful of moments. And hopefully they'll write the group as a team and not a random collection of duos and triads.
The New Titans was one of my favorite books and too see this series come so close and then the writers apparently not even try to hold up their end...
Titans: Troubled Water (2021)
The writers only seem to have a vague clue of some dots they want to hit
But barely put effort into the lines to connect them. One video from a known criminal blaming Nightwing and everyone believes he's the villain? I know there's a leak over Barbara's desk but is that seriously enough to poison the whole department? Connor goes all macho with someone looking at Blackfire cross eyed? Jason can't decide if he's with Crane or not? Lydia wasted time in a season that has given us too much of 1 or two Titans and not enough with the team.
At least we got some super power usage, but if they were going to spend what is apparently limited money on Gar's shape shifting it would have been nice if it was something other than him running away.
Cool Raven appearance - hopefully it wasn't just a hallucination. And doesn't Donna have super speed?
I feel like the series could have been something amazing but it was lost on mediocre writing. How did that happen?
Titans: Souls (2021)
My favorite episode since Hank died
I haven't been able to get invested in the show since Hank died and I've been trying to figure out why. I think part of it is that The way Greyson and Gordon talk is so restrained, soft, and clipped that they don't feel like real people. The rest of the cast hasn't had a lot of screen time. Hank and Donna on the other hand have always felt like real characters and real people and they connect so well with other characters. It was great seeing them together in this episode.
I hope Drake doesn't stick around - there are too many characters lacking screen time already.
Also, this episode convinced me that Bruce Wayne should never have been in this series. The actors great,
but I dislike almost everything the show has done with the character.
What If...?: What If... Thor Were an Only Child? (2021)
A nice break
A nice fun break from the darkness of so many episodes (except for that last scene). Just the good side of cringe for me.
What If...?: What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark? (2021)
Only episode I didn't finish
When good writers want a clever character, they write a clever character. When lazy writers want a clever character, they write everyone else as stupid.