Current Events > I'm really confused by something in Titans. *spoilers up to E8, Donna Troy*

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In the Asylum episode, Dick is drugged and has visions of his younger self saying that he ruined things. That it was never Robin, it was all him. I took that to mean that the violence and brutality Dick blamed on Batman and the mask was just him. That while he can say Bruce trained him to do those things, he was the one that couldn't put it away.

Then at the end of the episode, Dick looks down at the hallway full of guards he just brutally beat into unconsciousness with a pipe. He realizes there's a gas leak and tells Starfire to use it to burn the place down. When she asks if he's sure, he looks down at his reflection in a puddle of water and sees Robin staring back at him. She throws the pipe into the reflection and tells her to do it.

These two events led me to believe he'd come to terms with who he is. He'd just barely held onto Batman's no-killing rule, but he was done with that. These were bad people and they deserve to die. But then in the next episode, he's the exact same? He says he had to leave Robin behind and tells Donna it's because he was just getting too violent.

Is it just bad writing? Cuz I can believe it's bad writing.

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And now the penultimate episode is devoted entirely to giving backstory to Hawk and Dove?

wtf is this show

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lmao this is an actual line in the tenth episode.

Kori's not a killer. She kills people sometimes.

And Dick is totally convinced that this isn't the real Kori despite the fact that she's known literally nothing about herself the entire time they've known each other.

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And the finale.

The SEASON finale.

Is just a dream sequence where Dick finally does what I thought he did four episodes ago So I guess we just have to assume they burned down the building but somehow didn't hurt anyone?

Oh, and the DC Universe app is fucking annoying. It autoplays the next episode with no apparent ability to stop it. So I only knew about a post-credits scene from a comment on another site and I had to go to Youtube to watch it.

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The show has some very questionable writing sometimes. This continues to be true in Season 2 despite it being much better than Season 1.

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I've got to ask why are you unironically watching titans?

Noumas posted...

I've got to ask why are you unironically watching titans?

I paid eight dollars to watch Stargirl and Young Justice and I figured I may as well.

The show isn't bad per se, I'm just baffled as to why it goes on so many tangents and focuses so, so hard on Dick Grayson. They could have just made a Robin/Nightwing show. They didn't have to pretend to make a Teen Titans show and then only develop one character.

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Why are they suddenly referring to themselves as Titans in the second season with no explanation?

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pegusus123456 posted...

I paid eight dollars to watch Stargirl and Young Justice and I figured I may as well.

The show isn't bad per se, I'm just baffled as to why it goes on so many tangents and focuses so, so hard on Dick Grayson. They could have just made a Robin/Nightwing show. They didn't have to pretend to make a Teen Titans show and then only develop one character.

But yj is amazing, just watch that! It's so good.

Also if they were gonna focus on anyone, dick Grayson does seem like the most logical choice since he's the leader/founder and all.

I did watch all of Young Justice. It was great. S3 was a little weaker and I didn't like that they gave Trump lines to Lex Luthor, but I enjoyed it.

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pegusus123456 posted...

And now the penultimate episode is devoted entirely to giving backstory to Hawk and Dove?

wtf is this show

you can skip that. it adds nothing to the show. pretty sure there's another in season 2

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TwoDoorPC posted...

you can skip that. it adds nothing to the show. pretty sure there's another in season 2

It wasn't a bad episode, it was just so intensely wtf. Heavy vibes of Stranger Things 2 where they interrupted a climax to show what happened to Eleven.

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I think this show might just have bad writing.

You'd think a show about bringing these characters together and forming a superhero team would end with them teaming up to beat the bad guy. Instead, Beast Boy was the only one that did anything and the rest of them only showed up to beat the shit out of him. The entire situation with Trigon would have been more effectively solved if Gar and Raven were the only two in the house.

And I like the idea of Jorah Mormont as Bruce, but that British accent was trying to get out like his mouth was on fire.

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pegusus123456 posted...

I think this show might just have bad writing.

It does. Every character has one arc each (except Gar, who has no character arc unless you count Damsel in distress) that they just keep repeating endlessly until the credits roll. Its really frustrating.

Watch Doom Patrol. Its legitimately great.

pegusus123456 posted...

Why are they suddenly referring to themselves as Titans in the second season with no explanation?

They do explain that. You might not have reached that point yet though since it's not till a few episodes into Season 2 where they go into the background of the Titans.

And it makes sense to focus so heavily on Dick. I mean he's the most popular character of that group by far. I do think the focus is going to start shifting more to Starfire next season at least. But I'm sure they'll come up with some drama to stick Dick in.

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