TV Review: TITANS: Season 1, Episodes 1-7 [DC Universe]

Titans Origins Review

The fact that Dawn Granger / Dove lives after a fall from the top of a six or seven story building onto concrete and survives with her neck and limbs not in casts and braces is so unbelievable (even for a comic book TV show) that if Dove doesn’t have some type of Wolverine-like healing factor, the scene and its result, even though spectacularly staged and executed, shouldn’t have been in the previous episode or this episode of Titans. If you are going to do something like that to a regular human being, show the result of it, in all its gruesomeness, not a 99% watered-down version of it.

It is ironic in Origins – Hank Hall / Hawk is the one with the medical issues that are forcing him to quit crime-fighting. Now his girlfriend, who was previously in perfect shape, might end up being more impaired than he currently is.

The convent scenes in Origins are a trick from the beginning. Not for a second does the viewer believe its the sanctuary that Matt Murdock finds himself in during Season 3 of Daredevil. If it were, Rachel Roth / Raven and her foster mother would never have left or they would have moved to a home near by, not states away.

Though the logic behind the nuns’ locking up Raven for her own good is dubious, the convent scenes in Origins did provide a habitat for Raven to use her abilities to a pretty spectacular effect.

The best part of the episode, like in most up to this point, are the flashbacks of Dick Grayson as a child dealing with the death of his parents and living in Bruce Wayne’s household. Though entirely from Grayson’s perspective, it is fascinating watching Bruce Wayne evaluating Dick Grayson, finding a kindred and apt spirit in him.