I can't believe I let myself get excited for Titans. I'll admit, I was optimistic when this season began. The show seemed to be improving. I wouldn't say it was good, not even okay, but it was right there, it could've broken out and gave us something worthwhile. Then after the season's best episode (Jericho), we get Titan's worst episodes back to back.
Atonement, a boring episode that sets up useless arcs for each character, only to waste time and make these already bad characters worse. There were some fun moment finally giving Gar something to do, but the incredibly idiotic decisions done by the characters ruined and semblance of enjoyment and hope I had left for thus show. I just adore how consistent the characters are written. Hank and Dawn just break up because... plot?i don't know, but let's extend this asinine storyline.
Fallen, the downwards spiral continues. Dick now in prison starts to get the development he needs to become Nightwing. Some incredibly moronic and futile attempts at character development. Our beloved hero breaks out criminals and attacks guards. This is his "heroic" moment. By the way are we going to ignore the fact that Dick gets the name from these criminals, and somehow later on Stu unknowingly makes the suit perfectly working with the name? Yeah this show doesn't make much sense. I love how consistent the characters are too, like Raven who's supposed to be incredibly shy, and anti-social, but sure she can make friends without a problem. Oh and remember to forget about that plotline where Raven's powers manifest and kill someone. You know what they'll also forget or rush through? Cadmus. Seems like a bad time to start this plot line, but I digress.
E.L._.O., somehow this keeps getting worse. Remember Donna? Yeah she's a part of this show. They haven't really done much with her character, but she's here I guess. Now the real Bruce Wayne comes and unexplainably brings all the female Titans together to abandon their now forgotten plot threads to bring the Titans back together again. Yeah that seems like the obvious choice, it doesn't really make sense to break all together in the first place. Whoops I just forgot that the Titans writers aren't mentally sane while writing this show. Let's go back to our beloved hero Dick. Now he's fighting another hallucination of Bruce Wayne. Oh and apparently the very obvious stunt double of Iain Glen. Yes, he's fighting a hallucination. BRAVO Titans, that's what it takes for Dick Grayson to finally become Nightwing! Now let's have Dick Grayson disappear from his cell without explanation, the same way I can't explain how someone can ruin the Titans so badly. Also let's have Starfire and Raven beat up guards for good measure. Totally necessary cause Bruce Wayne couldn't pay for Dick's bail. Also Dick is literally an escaped convict. The cops should be looking not only for Dick for escaping, but also Raven and Kory for beating up a bunch of innocent guards to try to free Dick. But hey, this episode was shot especially well, I'll give them that.
Faux Hawk, while an improvement form the last episode, still awful! This episode tries to give the answers we needed much earlier on in the season. With all the meandering plots this episode honestly seems useless. Everything that needed to be explained like Jericho being inside of Desthstroke, Rose working for Deathstroke (yeah she exists), whatever the hell is going on with Hank. These are mostly just small things that should've been explained or should've concluded earlier in the season. This entire episode didn't need to happen. It just feels like it's trying to tie up all the loose ends that were actually important, but it's all too late. Notice how I haven't mentioned Cadmus? I have no idea what is going on there, seems like the writers don't really know either. This episode was just boring. Everything in the episode should've been included in other episodes earlier on. Even when this episode attempted to tie some loose ends there are still SO MANY forgotten plot threads that I have no idea how they're going to deal with them in the finale. Now onto the Finale...
Finally we're are at Nightwing. I didn't believe it could get this bad, but somehow it got worse... This finale perfectly illustrates everything that is wrong with this series. Deathstroke is handled in the first 10 minutes of the episodes. Just a simple 2 on 1 fight. Nightwing teleports in the beginning of the fight, and then he's able to take Deathstroke with really no problem while the the titans just watch when they could've been helping, and rose just flails her swords around in the background because they couldn't choreograph a good 2 on 1 fight. Then when she finally gets her fight skills back she finally kills Deathstroke. It's just done in such a lame way. This is how we beat Deathstroke?! I mean honestly he barely did anything this entire season, what a joke. I might be mistaken, but doesn't Deathstroke have a healing factor? How does this kill him? Also during this fight while the Titans were doing nothing to help, Kory gets shot and suddenly Raven knows how to perfectly use her powers and heals her. Don't forget Kory loses her powers solely for plot convenience! Jericho is in rose, and they leave. Now we're back to the incredibly rushed Cadmus storyline that wasn't even in the show for half of the season. Gar is being controlled to attack people in the fair, and a mind controlled Conner fights him. The CGI is horrible, but that isn't a massive problem. What is a massive problem is, how the Titans go confront Conner, and he's order to eliminate them, but he just chokes them and throws them around, not killing them. The entire fight is so contrived. Then hank joins in and it's completely unexplained. It really doesn't make sense for him to be here, but he is. Now Conner uses his laser vision (finally), and Dawn deflect it with a glass shard on the ground. What is even happening anymore. Finally Nightwing is back! I'm not exactly sure where he was for the beginning of the fight, but I guess he's here now. He throws some sort of grenade and it literally teleports into Conner's spot, and Conner disappears somewhere. Again, what?! This entire fight is so incredibly stupid, it actually baffles me. This makes absolutely 0 sense, but let's move along. Raven frees Gar from mind control, because the perfect usage of her powers. Seriously though, I'm the start of the season Raven couldn't control her powers injuring the Titans, then a few episodes ago her powers manifested and killed someone without her knowing, but now she can heal people (which she's never done, and has never been established she can do), and has mind manipulation powers?! Now she's back to help the titans as Donna stops Conner with her lasso, and Raven stops him with her powers. Now Dick Grayson with his beautiful suit enters Conner's mind with the help of Raven. What happens now is one of the most absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical things that has ever happened on this show. Conner's mind control is fixed because Dick punches a wall inside his mind revealing light... This speaks for itself. Now Conner beats the underdeveloped Cadmus, and the main conflict is already done in the episode. There's literally still 20 minutes left of the episode. Now random people who have no idea of the context of the fight just start to clap, even though logically they should be running for their lives. I didn't know Titans could become even more idiotic, but then Donna's death happens. An electric pole starts to fall, and you know a pole, just move to the side of it. Some idiot people stay under it and then Donna holds up the pole instead of pushing the people of the way, and when everyone is gone from under the pole she just keeps holding it, because apparently she wants to die. Yep, she dies like that. Nope the villains didn't kill one of the strongest Titans, it was a pole! This has got to be one of the worst deaths in any show. I can't comprehend how the writers thought this was an acceptable and logical way to kill one of the strongest Titans. It actually baffles how asinine this entire episode is. Finally for the last 20 minutes we get a crappy funeral montage that I couldn't care less about because Donna has literally been barely developed, so why would I even care about her. Raven is sent to Themyscira because... yeah I really don't know why, she just is. ELKO is left completely unexplained. Jason is just there and he leaves. The titans have a moment, and they're back together again. The episode ends with another Blackfire teaser. As a finale, this does NOT work at all. A finale is supposed to neatly tie together all the plot threads left from the season, end some character storylines, and tease for the future. This episode barely ties any lose threads. It just ends the 2 main antagonists of the season in a rushed manner, and poorly. Seeing Dick as Nightwing is cool, but based on the previous Dick we've seen it literally doesn't make sense for his cut after to suddenly act like this because of his awful development. None of the character's arcs are ended, they're just left to be forgotten next season. And then we get a Blackfire teaser that doesn't even matter, because we already know she's coming. What can we take from all of this? Titans is bad. I can't see any arguments against this. The finale proves it. It is filled with plot holes, contrivances, conveniences, Inconsistent characters, silly, plain stupid moments, and just had writing overall. It is such a shame so much potential has been wasted for what should be a great show, but what we got is nothing that even resembles greatness. Titans is a disappointment, a disaster, a disgrace, just a really bad show. Titans is the opposite of what a Titan should be.
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