HBO confirmed DC Titans would end with season 4, leaving the showrunners with finding a proper ending for the titular heroes and delivering a satisfactory end to Brother Blood. Yet the show delivered an underwhelming series finale with predictable endings, hollow motivations, and unexplained plot holes.
The end of the series marks the show’s consistent problem of underselling its most potent assets, whether it be the heroes or the villains.
I mean, that would have been apparent when Trigon, one of the strongest SOBs the DCU has to offer, was killed by Sebastian at the beginning of the episode. That too so easily! But that’s the least of their problems since the episode just builds our disappointment.
Despite Raven’s fantastical transformation this season, her character didn’t get the face-off she deserved against her brother – or even her father. Her only part to play? Free Starfire so she could save the day, and even that seemed to take longer than it should. It’s hard to believe a sorcerer as strong as her couldn’t wake someone from a mental coma sooner.
This ill-treatment of their most valuable character doesn’t only extend to Trigon or his daughter. Gar’s role as Beast Boy could have more to offer in the final battle than a simple tiger after he got his own episode in The Red and gained the powers to transform into more animals.
In fact, even that battle scene which was supposed to be intense and nail-biting fell flat and was almost predictable to a tee – right from the simplistic solution to deactivating the Icarus gate to Connor’s timely and yet unexplained arrival.
That’s another thing! Brother Blood delivered a hard blow at Superboy, and he shouldn’t have survived – he was clinically dead, for Rao’s sake.
After Dick emerges with a magical cure conveniently available in this dire time, the end of the show might have felt a little more, for the lack of a better word, final if there were a character death, and Connor seemed like the obvious choice. Also, don’t even get me started on the Starfire sacrifice that fell short of one teary end!
Nearing the end of the finale, Starfire flies into the atmosphere and supposedly implodes by using her powers to the Max, which seems to kill Brother Blood and herself. Despite the big ka-boom she flies down after a supposed-to-be-emotional Christmas montage without any explanation whatsoever about her surprising survival. A hole-some end indeed!
After all of that, you know where no hero dies, both villains are delivered a shockingly quick end, and some Titans don’t even get the spotlight they deserve; the last scene tries to deliver a neat end and fails. Am I just supposed to assume they can wrap up their superhero lives and enroll in university, get flying lessons, and potentially have a baby all willy-nilly?
The DC show has always highlighted their most frustrating trait – not being able to balance a good script with the splendid and unbounded potential their characters possess. The series finale marks out that consistent problem by putting it under an hour long-inspection. Did you like the Titans’ series finale? Drop your views in the comments below!
About Titans
Titans is an American superhero television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, and Greg Berlanti. It is based on the DC Comics team Teen Titans and depicts a group of young heroes who join forces in their fight against evil.
The ensemble cast includes Brenton Thwaites, Anna Diop, Teagan Croft, Ryan Potter, Curran Walters, Conor Leslie, Minka Kelly, Alan Ritchson and Esai Morales among many others.
This gritty take on the “Teen Titans” franchise follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find where they belong. Dick Grayson and Rachel Roth, a special girl possessed by a strange darkness, get involved in a conspiracy that could bring Hell on Earth. Hot-headed Starfire and lovable Beast Boy join them along the way as together they become a surrogate family and team of heroes fighting evil.
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