Time to take a look at Titans, the show that is still going on for some reason. Season 2 debuted on the DC Universe app in 2019. Season 1 had some great moments but had a pretty dull story and all the edginess you could ever want. The season opener for this season I covered as a rage review, it spent the first half concluding the season 1 arc in a pretty poor fashion, and the other setting up the events of season 2 as Jason has joined the Titans and Deathstroke is ready to enact his revenge or something. Let’s dig in and take a look at what season 2 has to offer in earnest.
Rose
3 months after the events of the last episode. We open with
Dick and Rachel talking Titans in the middle of a coffee shop where everyone
can hear them. Back at the Tower, Jason and Garfield are doing training
battles. Jason has prior combat training, Garfield doesn’t and there’s no chance
they’re doing a transformation this early on in the episode, even accounting
for Jason's blindfold, there’s no way Gar should’ve won that fight, so why does he?
Oh right, Jason needed an excuse to get pissy with everyone.
Dick eventually gets through to him by remind him he’s the
one with the most experience and has leadership skills, apparently.
After the credits, we cut to the San Quentin State Prison
where a certain unsavoury character is getting an early parole. It looks really
goofy when he uses his powers. Hank is teaching a guy named Ellis to ride a
horse as he and Dawn are enjoying their retirement. Kory is in Chicago, working
with Donna Troy on a case against Shimmer. Kory is considering staying on
Earth.
Rachel is reading the Art of War as she falls asleep, as she
does some magic CGI goo surrounds her and when she wakes up, she has scars. Gar
comes in and they both agree that Dick is going a bit overboard with the
training. They’re thinking about heading after Kory but are interrupted by a
police chase going on outside.
The police seem to corner the suspect but in a surprising
turn they don’t immediately draw their guns and shoot her, she instead kicks
their asses and escapes, though not without injury. Dick heads off and finds the girl unconscious in the street.
Hank wakes up one night and finds that Dawn is not in bed
with him. Instead she’s taking down a meth-lab run in a garage by 3 complete dipshits.
You could’ve just called the cops and tipped them off, they wouldn’t have
lasted 5 seconds and they’re all white so they might’ve even survived. Hank asks her
how long and she responds with a month.
Just as the argument is about to go somewhere, Ellis from
earlier walks in and blows up their house with the goofy light effect Doctor
Light used earlier. The girl wakes up in the tower and attempts to escape as
Hank reports the incident to Dick. They stop her but Dick’s attempts to coax
her down don’t really work, and she’s being light on details like who it is
she’s running from.
Kory and Donna take down Shimmer relatively easily and Dick
makes a call to Bruce, who says that Dick stops running away because Bruce became
a tangible enemy as opposed to being mad at fate. Yup, this bullsh*t again.
Bruce’s advice is to keep her in the tower, as whilst she’s scared she’s not
capable of making life or death choices. Donna gets a call from Roy Harper (who is not in this show) and splits
off from Kory, who’s then abducted by another Tamaranian.
Dick is about to let the girl go but makes the offer of her being part of the Titans, giving her a phone with his contact number. The girl
finally reveals her name to be Rose when their car suddenly lights up and
explodes. Jason meanwhile uses facial recognition software to find out who Rose
is, she is Rose Wilson, daughter of Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke.
Not a hugely eventful episode and I don’t think trying to
make Doctor Light seem intimidating in this manner is working very well. Sure,
he can kill long-distance somehow but it looks like a bad Doctor Who villain.
Rating 6/10
Ghosts
We get a rundown on Slade’s origin from Garfield,
ex-Military, worked for HIVE and underwent enhancements that only he survived.
Dick claims it’s old Titans business and is cagey about the details. This is
interrupted by the arrival of Donna, Hank and Dawn, all here to take down
Doctor Light. They’re none too pleased to hear about Rose still being in the
Tower, Deathstroke was apparently involved in the team disbanding the last
time.
Rose claims she went after Deathstroke believing him
responsible for the death of his brother, her battle didn’t end so well, Dick
gives her an eyepatch so now she can look just like Daddy. Time for another
training session with the young teens as Jason goes against both Gar and
Rachel, and this time they’re all blindfolded. Again, Jason's victory, as the only
one with any prior combat training was a foregone conclusion but pissing off Rachel
had the unfortunate side-effect of awakening her demon half who goes on to almost
kill Jason, he does not take this well. I’m pretty sure by now he knows
full-well who Rachel is so… Dick move.
Speaking of Dicks, Dick calls Gar away for the mission. Oh
yeah, there’s this subplot with Kory and this Tamaranian whose I don’t care to
remember. Kory’s being summoned back to Tamaran to take the throne after the
death of her parents. I find it weird that they call Kory’s sister Blackfire
rather than her Tamaranian name, Komand’r. Rose and Rachel bond over bad dads.
Gar is being tasked with monitoring power grids, which makes
me wonder why he picked Gar over say Jason, though Gar covers for Rachel’s
earlier outburst that Dick just missed. Jason won’t tell Dick because of his
bruised ego.
Arthur Light and Slade are in a room together and Arthur
asks what the plan is. For now it’s a strictly observational plan, trying to work
out the new members and establish their roles in the team. Pick off the weak
ones and let the rest come to them. We get a scene with Hank and Dawn, and
another with Kory. Donna calls out Dick for being secretive and honestly kinda
fucking stupid.
Speaking of being stupid, not letting the others come along,
when they find a lead on Doctor Light, especially the really to prove himself
Jason. I get not wanting them killed but he’s clearly powerful and very much
aware you’re coming; they could be a valuable edge. Because Dick doesn’t have a
costume at the moment, he doesn’t have access to his gadgetry so he’s barely
useful in the fight.
Still, Donna pins him down with a bike and he runs away like
a little bitch! Though not without Hank injuring his leg, well, grazing it a little. Hank’s
pissy that Dick got distracted saving a bus full of people and Jason is pissy
for not being allowed to come alone, he tries to punch Dick but he easily deflects
it. Dick vs Rose, Dick wins both rounds but Rose clearly has training.
Kory heads back to her ship, but it interrupted by a
phone-call from Rachel who tries to guilt her into staying. She’s worried about
how her power is manifesting itself through her, making her become the person
who killed her father 24-7. Damaging to both her and everyone around her. Kory
reveals her ship and traps what’s-his-face inside. She leaves with a warning
that legions more will come for her.
Hank and Dick talk, and actually laugh together briefly.
Jason comes to ‘help’ and does so, finding Light instantly. But Jason wants to
head in with Gar and ‘verify’ first. Of course Jason is in full Robin garb, and
Gar only notices this when they arrive. They investigate subway tunnels,
splitting up, and Jason literally stands right in front of Doctor Light. Jason
gets beat up and blinded but of course, fighting without the use of his eyes is
exactly what the training has been about so he gets his second wind.
He beats Doctor Light but then Deathstroke shows up by the
time Gar catches up, both Doctor Light, Jason and Deathstroke are gone and all
that is left is a blood stain.
It has a decent climax but I’ve seen shows accomplish more
in half the time.
Rating 6.5/10
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