Corgi
Giving Titans another try, and I'm on the S1 episode giving the background of Hawk & Dove.
Corgi
They managed to make them even more joyless and pathetic than the New 52 did to, well, everybody. I feel bad for the actors.
Corgi
No Chaos & Order, no magic at all, and Don Hall gets about five seconds of herodom.
Corgi
S2 E2 'Rose', and they cast a 6'1" Scotsman as Bruce Wayne. Not sure why they didn't get the 6'2" Irish-American, but at least they're physiologically similar. The art department's a bit odd with hair colour and such, though.

Their Slade Wilson's a terrific actor... who's about half a foot too short (and I think they even have him in lifts).
Corgi
Still trudging through this, and... [jawdrop] YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT. YOU SCUMBAGS.
Searra
I'm sure they did, and I haven't seen anything past the first episode.
Corgi
stares sourly at a NON-GINGER BARBARA GORDON. What do these people have against redheads? Either they're recast brunet/te or Afro-NorthAmerican.

In better news, Iain Glen is seriously earning my respect. He is a reasonable stand-in for Kevin Conroy, for when Kevin is not available.
Corgi
...what, being shot in the spine wasn't enough, you had to come back and take off her leg? (season 3, ep 2)
Corgi
The guy they hired for Hawk is a find, though. He's built like a brick Watchtower, he can sing for real (not that that's relevant, but it's nice) and he's got loads of charisma.
Corgi
It took them three seasons to put Kory in anything like a work uniform. Mind you, it took them 90% of S1 to get her out of what looked a lot like a hooker outfit.
Corgi
OK, you know how I said The Boys is 'despicability porn'? They've managed to make Titans, despite a generally excellent cast, just plain unlikeable. Not unwatchable, but unlikeable.
Corgi
One of the things they're doing that I actually get to like is giving Beast Boy's actor a chance to show off his expert-level martial arts moves. Ryan Potter's stepfather is this guy:

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Corgi
...exactly how many people know the Batman's secret identity at this point? All of the Titans are casually referring to 'Bruce' in front of everybody - capes, cops, civilians and crooks.
Corgi
Does nobody have the respect to at least say 'Mr. Wayne'??
Corgi
CORGIS!!
Corgi
I gotta commend them for hiring Savannah Welch - she's a real amputee instead of putting a green sock on a two-legged actor. I wish they'd fixed her hair, though.
Corgi
It's the way she sits in the wheelchair - you can tell it's not SFX.
Corgi
'Leg Shmeg - Gratitude is my painkiller' - she got run over and dragged by a truck in 2016, so she's still relatively new to this half-clank business. ;-)
Corgi
DONNA: I know you always hated me because I'm part human...

[headdesk, with vehemence] Amazons may be inherently magical, but nobody's ever said - nobody with a brain - that they weren't human.
Corgi
Donna is either a Patriarchs'-World orphan, or a magically-created duplicate from a mirror, or moulded from clay because of idiot revisionists having to make Diana into Yet Another Zeusspawn because the world needs more of those.
Corgi
Finished S3, which still had gloom and cruelty, but seemed significantly less pointless and more super-hero-y. Still has a handful or so of inexplicable / unexplained stuff (continuity error type things), but a little easier to overlook.
Searra
I don't even know what Donna's backstory is anymore. I'm still not fundamentally opposed to the idea of Diana as a demigoddess, but there are plenty of other deities.
Searra
Athena seems like an obvious choice.
Corgi
Her original Titanic storyline had her brought back to the Titans' place of exile to become Coeus's 2nd wife - his first, Phoebe, was killed in some way I can't remember.
https://www.theoi.com/...
Ironically, they're using the Roman spellings instead of transliterated Greek in the comic.
Corgi
The current, post-52-patriarchal-disaster-version, is they gave Diana's proper origin to Donna. They've as much as ruined the story and significance of the Themysciran Amazons at this point from what I've seen.
Corgi
Have I mentioned loudly how offended I am by the Zeus revisionism?
Searra
You have mentioned that, yes.
Searra
This is part of why I stopped reading comics. "Character X has an odd origin, let's change/modernize them for the current audience."
Searra
And the flip side of that which is "We have a valuable legacy character, therefor nothing that ever happens to them can cause a lasting change. "
Searra
These people have been heroing for decades, let them retire and give new characters a shot.
Corgi
Well yeah, but the valuable legacy characters definitely sell books, and that's the priority - unfortunately.

That being said, 2nd gen characters are Blue Beetle, Aquaman, The Question, Superman (part of the time), all the Robins, Wonder Girl x2...
Corgi
...they've allowed the Batman to get old in some cases, they've made Alan Scott gay, Zatanna's little brother popped up out of nowhere....
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