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

Titans Together Review

Not all of the character introductions in Titans have been well-handled. Gar Logan / Beast Boy’s throwaway introduction in the first episode is an example of this. Jason Todd / Robin 2 (Curran Walters)’s introduction in Together is on the opposite side of the scale. In addition, it is totally unexpected and handled just right (or “just so,” as Arya Stark would say).

Todd approaches a combat situation with an air of causality that Dick Grayson completely lacks, a purposeful contradiction. There is also the fact that Dick Grayson has been replaced as Robin. I am sure that somewhere in the back of his mind, Grayson always thought that he could go back. Go back to Batman, the mansion, Alfred, Gotham, and that life if he choose to do so. It seems Dick Grayson has over-estimated the length of time that he could be away before his slot on “the team” was taken by someone new.

The highlight moment of Together is the fight between the Atomic Family and the Titans at the motel. It is a big fight scene that showcases the resilience of the Atomic Family through their brain-washing and the serum that they all inject themselves with. Though the current incarnation of the Atomic Family meet their end in Together, the factory that created them does not. The mystery behind the Atomic family and the organization that created them is one of the most tantalizing of Titans, one that is hopefully as entertaining as the disaffected nature of the Atomic Family themselves.

A lingering problem since the second episode of Titans, made more aching in Together, is the question of Dick Grayson and his day job. How does Dick Grayson maintain his job as a Detroit Police Detective while not being in Detroit? It is a plot-hole like this that hurts a narrative, any narrative, including Titans. I hope more work is placed into making Dick Grayson’s day job plausible and present in the TV series. Not something in the background that couldn’t for a second be maintained by such derelict conduct.