DC on TV: Titans (Season One)

After watching the four crossovers from the mainstream DC TV shows I decided to try out Titans. Now this was different. Made by DC themselves this was much more what I would expect the experience of "meta-humans" and costumed vigilantes would be. 

Titans was certainly much more of an adult show than than Supergirl or The Flash as entertaining as the episodes I have seen are. Only Green Arrow (who I've only seen in the crossovers) seemed to be a bit more "gritty" and down to earth. I've never really been a fan of the GA who I always saw as a more bleeding heart "liberal" than Bruce who went "dark some years back.

So onto the Titans themselves. These are obviously adaptations of comic characters that sometimes have to be changed for "realism" though Starfire whilst not orange and descended from cats (in the same way humans are descended from apes) did turn out to be well executed. The hair, the attitude, the sheer sexiness of the woman alien or not stole the show in places.

Of course Dick Grayson was a more grown up version of Robin and running from his roots in a new city. His brutal taking down of villains showed how well the Bat had trained him. Heck we even get to meet Jason Todd. Complete C**t he turned out to be, but heck he is on the side of "good" isn't he?

The centre of the story is a young teenage Raven. Gosh does she have secrets which if you are familiar with the comics you will know but there are surprises ahead, which neatly brings me to Gar (Beast Boy) who besides being her boyfriend seemingly only knows how to become a Tiger.

There's secret societies, police hunts even The Hawk & The Dove and did I mention Donna Troy, Wonder Girl? It's all gearing up for the showdown but given this is only an eleven episode season I will have to wait for the next boxed set for the continuation.

We watched the series over three nights and were not disappointed and neither will you. Ten out of Ten. 

And the Doom Patrol show up. Their Season One box set arrived this afternoon courtesy of Aunty Amazon. That's 15 episodes so I may be a while.......