TL;DR - To my puzzlement and confusion, Titans S02 does the thing where instead of choosing 2 or maybe 3 plotlines and focusing on them, they go and stuff the season with so many things turning a possibly strong show into a convoluted mess.
Neither the new story beats get enough attention, neither the holdover storylines from the previous season get full attention, and all of theTL;DR - To my puzzlement and confusion, Titans S02 does the thing where instead of choosing 2 or maybe 3 plotlines and focusing on them, they go and stuff the season with so many things turning a possibly strong show into a convoluted mess.
Neither the new story beats get enough attention, neither the holdover storylines from the previous season get full attention, and all of the fantastic performances that the cast is giving just adds up to a mediocre and haphazard watching experience.
The Good
Every single actor in this show from the time of Season 01 really is great in their roles, the Titans show really hit gold with the casting. Everybody feels authentic and you understand what everyone and why everyone is doing it, no matter the enormous amount of plot-induced stupidity the writers make the characters go through.
I truly cannot single anyone out from the show, the cast are great actors and this is probably the main reason that you will watch this show if it continues. You will really connect with the performances and in turn like the characters, but at some point, you will get bored at all the idiotic things the characters say and do because of the crap writing going on in the show.
The dialogue writing has a marked improvement from S01, you will only roll your eyes a few times in the show but it is not all that good because the dialogue is well written but the content is garbage.
The Bad
There is so much stupid in this show that some of the criticism leaked out in the positive's section of this review. Truly I think overstuffed and convoluted are two words to really describe this show. It seems the showrunners do not yet realize the casting gold they have struck and hence they make the characters separate every so often and go off on their own dumb storylines because god forbid we get the namesake of the show 'Titans' interact, talk, or otherwise share meaningful scenes together.
I do not know what the writers were thinking, were they under stress to shove un-needed story beats were focusing on just a couple would have made for a better watch and probably easier on the budget. It does the same DC mistake of putting so much into one box that at the end the quantity just deforms the box until it does not look like a box anymore but crumpled and smashed tatters.
The only way that this show knows how to deal with a problem is to introduce another problem, usually, something totally blindsiding the ongoing story beat or force the characters into stupid decisions to cause an additional roadblock. All the season needed was the Titans dealing with the holdover plot points from S01 and introducing the leftover plotline from the old titan's team which were the most interesting parts of the season, we would get to see each of the titans reacting differently to different issues maybe interacting and reacting in different ways to the same issue.
Sadly all the writers seemed to know how to do was to keep making the characters do stupid things and leave, or introduce new plotlines from nowhere and go missing making sure that the Titans spend a lot of the season just not interacting as a team but either alone with other new story beats or in bunches of 2.
A special mention to the editing of this show, holy crap the editing is bad, jarring, and very confusing jumping all over the place. I know people make a big deal with the VFX of the show; there are good shows with crap VFX, but the editing here is something that has no excuse. The editors were either doing their job drunk, under stress at a gunpoint, or really did not care very much.
Final Words
I could go on for paragraphs with everything that just didn't need to be there, or everything that needed more attention, or everything that was spent too much time on.
I have been a fan of Titans all the way from the animated days, and to my excitement, the portrayal of the characters does feel great thanks to some stellar performances, but this show needs better writing and a focused storyline, we also need to see the titans interact more with each other they spend way to much time apart.
With this show, I am into sunk cost fallacy zone, where after forcing, myself through 2 seasons I have invested too much time that I will watch S03, but I will definitely, be expecting the ax after season 03 if the writing does not get streamlined.… Expand
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