....wait. We're starting right back at another carnival for the Joker? But we were just at a carnival in 2.13. We could sssssooo have different locals for creepy clown things, right?
This intro is having fun showing off the Nightwing costumes, and the fun electrified toys. HEY MORE TITANS, TOO, Yas and please. Do want the many and more. Since they ended together and should all start together and like
Bruce, you're super low-key when you should be insanely problematic now. Like you're supposed to be midkey-problematic at most times, but given Jason just got murdered you should be far less .... this all.
You should be five hundred million walking red flags.
Barbara pointing out Bruce is always acting weird, because "he's a weird dude." Like. Batty phrasing. But still. This is proper. Because. When isn't he.
Barbara having to tell Dick how Bruce is when someone near him dies is a lot of audience exposition that these two characters wouldn't need to say to each other, and would be better explained to someone else who is also with them.
It's weird to introduce Barbara with the same "hung up the cape" phrasing as they originally introduced Donna, exactly in the next episode after killing Donna.
this is. okay. my problem with this show and this past we keep rehoeing. Is we're back to "weaponizing grief" and claiming Bruce did this to her Dad, Jason, and Dick is that this Bruce?
Dick smacks this drug dealer's head twice, on glass beakers, then basically snaps his shoulder and drops him, and he thinks he's the more reasonable one right now?
the sad thing about all of this is in DC Comics Dick Grayson is the very best thing that Bruce Wayne ever did. He's the poster child, the Boy Wonder, the inspiring one, the one who literally made the brightest light out of the darkness and who even Bruce can candidly admit is the best thing he ever did in his life.
... Bruce killed Joker. Off screen. While Dick Slept.
But even now he sounds removed and remote about it. An actor reciting lines, but not even compartmentalized, and not like he's shattering, which is what it looks is like what was being tried for.
Do we? Do we actually? Because a whole lot of Season One is just about being weaponized and brutal and taking people down super super super violently? There's no reason anyone watching this would think the man the words call him (even if the acting doesn't match) wouldn't be a killer, too?
You really want us to believe in a heartless Bruce, but the whole of everything you deliver is a passive, distant, unworrying British figure. (Honestly, he probably would have made a far better Alfred.)
.... uh. Why are they having Barbara throws the words in Dick's face that she literally ripped apart hearing. And she would never do a Bruce/Dick comparision insult. Ever.
Hank: "The breakup and work together thing is not for amateurs." Dick: "There's nothing going on between us anymore." Hank: "Of course." Dick: "Serious." Hank: "Oh, yeah, sure." B-E-A-T. "You want me to go out and grab a shovel, and help you dig a little deeper?"
Not just like these two boys. But like anytime we actually get the Titans being friends, family, supporting, having the hard conversations, knowing each other, light snappy swears, reminders to forever keep the faith.
Tho I'm sad that we kept the two new-kids who were boys, but both of the new-kids girls are gone into the wind. Our only new girl keep is Kory, who is consistently not in control of her body, powers, mind and that's just not great, too.
They are just backtracking entirely from actually stretching something out across a season, and having any dominoes, or draw out, or linger and struggle with.
How exactly do you want me to believe Jason picked up these skills in less than 48 hours? Also. How do you want me to believe these calls line up perfectly, etc?
I love people talking fondly of Alfred. Please to continue to have all the Titans fond of him. My heart for Hank talking about meeting him at the pearly gates.
This show wants me to find Bruce or Jason scary, but neither of them really come off as scary when it's their own voice and face. Bruce is only scary in past-references. Jason is only scary under the hood with a voice modulator.
Like there's a whole NEXT DAY between our beaten body & Red Hood appearance. There is not a lot of time for Crane to have said anything that would have stayed and stuck, unless you want me to believe baby!Jay was sincerely more broken & devestatingly weaker than you showed him to be.
Jason, you it would help if you didn't spend this whole thing looking like a messed up semi-goth like late teens child. I have yet to actually really worry about you whenever your face can be seen/voice can be heard.
Yeah. Okay, that's super weird, Titans!Wiki, because there's almost no way that lines up at all between the episodes. But at least it's one of the few things you do have listed on this page.
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: did you? did I magically block it out? Like. this season ssssssooo does have some extra writing issues the other season hadn't had.
The movies, the cartoons, the comics, the everything. I keep just like ... waiting for this man to be Bruce Wayne Batman, and I'm getting Uppercrust British Man Who is Emotionally Distant But Not Emotionally Problematic. And definitely not occassionally psychotic. Or uncaring about brutalization child grooming.
You're not wrong, Jay. There is something very, very, very very different between Bruce and Dick than there is between him and anyone else in the whole of the bat universe contingent of people. That's his first kid. Forever amen.
Like, it'd be easy if it's was like S1 says he's "like this" and then S2/S3 he shows up and "is like this," but instead it's the first and nothing of the second.
Like this episode? We're mid "you don't have to wear a costume to be my son." Which also doesn't match up with "day after Jason died I'm running another child replacement algorithm." It's like they really have no handle on Bruce, and how they want his ghost in Dick's past and person in the present or future to really be.
These two playing dressup with their stolen gems, and it's cute, but also this is just not my kids forever out there taking out the bad guys and protecting the innocent. Flirting across bikes and roof tops and high fiving.
Look. I can see the appeal of making love to AU!Barbara Gordon covered in just jewels. So I feel you, Boy Wonder. Even a diminished version of Babs is still made of gold.
Barbara would be similiarly horrified to realize her word had a sniper slam Dick in the shoulder. Which at least makes me remember where we are, after the decade that was the last episode dragging on forever.
~squints~ "did you monsterize Barbara Gordon's basically creating herself into the Nick Fury of DC's whole superhero world as her reaction to her passion to defend the world being so big she couldn't even stop after being shot and not only did she not stop she became the biggest ghost in every machine with every secret and everyones trust" ??????
See, this is why dick is like. "you're so .. different" but he's still so .. attracted, because he can't not be. - and I did love the scene in the bed of them and the jewels. who doesn't want to do that one. just. sits here. and pretends I'm watching it with you, and not, not doing anything again for the 2nd day in a row.
It's hard for me to wrap my head around Dick & Barbara doing b&e's and walking off with the jewels (/not just doing it to get her father's people to show up somewhere), B U T
if I have to exist in an AU where that's a real thing I can at least appreciate that Barbara & Dick definitely went to bed with her in only those jewels that night.
I am curled up for tv tonight if you're playing/reading/watching along, and then I need to hit my game event, but I totally know she's going to ask about herself when I get to tag him back. Because you opened that door, sir.
By which i mean, more of Dick pressing her into a wall and kissing her, and then her throat, rather than listening to instructions. Which, okay. Is kind of cute.
D: "Yeah, I've been thinking. I think we, uh...We make sense." B: "You think we make sense." D: "Yeah." B: "That's what every girl wants to hear. Tell me you've run the numbers and I'll swoon."
Imma be very sad if Barbara doesn't get to be badass in this fight. Barbara was still hell to fight against even in the wheelchair. Taking down multiple opponents.
IIIIIII don't like her looking so small in the middle of this room that should be her greatest triumph. But instead somehow isn't and somehow the NSA is bigger than Oracle. Which isn't a thing either. but is in this world.
Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4
HEY HEY HEY. 11 DAYS LATER. BUT
"Barbara Gordon"
How old is this kid.
Yeah, no. No, Jason. This is how it happens, isn't it?
TITANS SHOW, not Dick Grayson Show
Even if only Gar, Dick, Kory, Connor, and Krypto
Kory: ~asked where Nightwing is~
Kory: Oh, he's around.
Nightwing: ~ominiously brooding on a cat walk thing~
Ddddddiiccccckkkk. Get down out of the shadows and
come be the you that charms everyone too easily.
Cop: "Batman's a sociopath in a rubber S&M outift. Pick better heroes."
but not surprising given Jason's death.
You should be five hundred million walking red flags.
THE WHEELCHAIR. AS IS JUST AND PROPER AND RIGHT.
This soft small "Tell me," and it rolls out of him.
But doesn't know.
"Your fatherโ"
"Your fatherโ"
So far has no insanity and teeth.
D: ~sighs~
B: ~leaves~
D: ~sighs again & chases after her~
Bruce: ~just sits there~
Just like Dick's original anti-Bruce chip on his shoulder was.
and Jason's (/once Dick's?) bedroom now (this season).
Dick in this show ... is devoid of that.
But even now he sounds removed and remote about it. An actor reciting lines, but not even compartmentalized, and not like he's shattering, which is what it looks is like what was being tried for.
"Red Hood"
Do we? Do we actually? Because a whole lot of Season One is just about being weaponized and brutal and taking people down super super super violently? There's no reason anyone watching this would think the man the words call him (even if the acting doesn't match) wouldn't be a killer, too?
IT'S KINDA CUTE.
Dick: "I do, Comissioner Gordon."
"The one Joker original wore."
"The prodigal son"
But she'd never do it as a reverse comparison to Dick.)
"Keep it professional."
Dick: "There's nothing going on between us anymore."
Hank: "Of course."
Dick: "Serious."
Hank: "Oh, yeah, sure." B-E-A-T. "You want me to go out and grab a shovel, and help you dig a little deeper?"
"Fucked it up again."
Episode 1 Jason & Joker die.
Episode 2 Red Hood & Jason reveal.
"Hank & Dove"
Please to continue to have all the Titans fond of him.
My heart for Hank talking about meeting him at the pearly gates.
like all of the ones last season were Rae.
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S2 Episode 13 Donna dies
S3 Episode 1 Jason & Joker die.
S3 Episode 2 Red Hood & Jason reveal.
S3 Episode 3 Hank dies via Jason
"Blackfire"
Everything is so darkly lit in Gotham.
"You're just like the old man."
"Lazarus"
Yeah. Okay, that's super weird, Titans!Wiki, because there's almost no way that lines up at all between the episodes. But at least it's one of the few things you do have listed on this page.
Did you just say that to ~The Batman~???? Jay.
It's 1000000000% his ENTIRE BRAND.
Sneaking up on people silently,
and vanishing on them just as silently.
kkkkkiiiddd, your smile.
The movies, the cartoons, the comics, the everything. I keep just like ... waiting for this man to be Bruce Wayne Batman, and I'm getting Uppercrust British Man Who is Emotionally Distant But Not Emotionally Problematic. And definitely not occassionally psychotic. Or uncaring about brutalization child grooming.
but it is the Bruce they keep telling us the Bruce Wayne in this world is.)
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"Robin's not supposed to be afraid."
is definitely not a Bruce we've met at any point either.
"To feel better."
but i'm basically assuming this is all we're getting in this one now
"Lady Vic"
and so like WWWHHEENN did she first know you were Robin.
Why are you bleeding out again
FOR DECADES OF COMICS.
I'm not ready for that not to be true.
(Even if you can't really ever truly compare to someone's first love.)
if I have to exist in an AU where that's a real thing I can at least appreciate that Barbara & Dick definitely went to bed with her in only those jewels that night.
B: "You think we make sense."
D: "Yeah."
B: "That's what every girl wants to hear. Tell me you've run the numbers and I'll swoon."
Plus, surprise sneak attack.
"51%"
B: "From your lips."
Which made you easy to take down.
And not Barbara Gordon herself.
HEY THIS IS ONE OF THE SHIRTS THAT HAS A KISS SCENE."Hello, Oracle."
THIS WOULD BE ALMOST CUTE, IF IT WAS ANYTHING LIKE THE COMICS. BECAUSE NIGHTWING AND ORACLE FLIRT ON THE COMMS AAAAAAALLLLLL THE TIME.
But it's just a computer, and she's not behind it.