Post by Katie on Oct 12, 2018 21:49:23 GMT -5
The series has started appearing on DC Universe (USA) and Netflix (everywhere else in the world at a later date)
For those, you watch online or find links, get cracking to find them. I wouldn't know where to look, but I find get a link onlnine, if I knew where to go.
Here is a review of the show:
In DC Universe’s Titans, the humor is the big surprise
For those, you watch online or find links, get cracking to find them. I wouldn't know where to look, but I find get a link onlnine, if I knew where to go.
Here is a review of the show:
In DC Universe’s Titans, the humor is the big surprise
Batman and Superman have had such a pervasive presence in American popular culture that plenty of people who’ve never read a comic book know their pertinent biographical details: the murdered parents, the exploding planet, the Batmobile, Kryptonite, and so on. The DC Comics super-team sometimes known as “the Titans,” on the other hand, have starred in multiple animated series, a few straight-to-video movies, and one feature-length theatrical cartoon released just this past summer. And yet only devoted comics fans are likely to know much about their history and mythology as a group.
That’s why it matters that Titans is going to be the first original scripted series on the new DC Universe subscription service. When the show’s first season premiere becomes available on Friday, October 12th (with a new one arriving every Friday thereafter, for 12 episodes in all), it’ll signal to superhero buffs that this channel is aimed squarely at them. DCU’s announced 2019 lineup — which will add deep-cut DC favorites like Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, and Stargirl — should drive that message home even harder.
But what kind of DC Comics connoisseur will these shows be for? The ones who love the imagination and whimsy of the 1950s and 1960s “Silver Age”? Those who prefer the social relevance and sophisticated themes of the 1970s and 1980s? Or people who dig the infinite variations of the reboot-happy 21st century?
One of Titans’ producers is Greg Berlanti, who helped develop the CW’s zippy “Arrowverse,” which includes the relatively sunny Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. But judging by the three Titans episodes that DCU supplied in advance to critics, the tone of this new series is more inspired by Netflix’s Marvel Comics shows, and in particular Daredevil and Jessica Jones. The visual design is all dim lighting and deep shadows. The action sequences are bloody and bone-crunching. The characters swear, even more than Netflix’s foul-mouthed Marvel heroes do.
It is much more adult and makes the Arrowverse shows on The CW look like a kids show.
At its core though, this is a version of the Titans that fans will recognize, under all the dark shading and character-tweaks. And that’s largely due to the way Berlanti and his primary co-producers, Geoff Johns and Akiva Goldsman, treat the team’s 1980s origin story as a cornerstone superhero comics text, up there with Batman and Superman’s backstories.
Brenton Thwaites stars as Dick Grayson, the now-grown ward of billionaire Bruce Wayne. By day, Dick works as a Detroit cop. By night, he fights crime in the Robin costume he once wore as Batman’s sidekick. In Titans’ first episode, Dick takes in runaway teenager Rachel Roth (Teagan Croft), a powerful empath with a mysterious past, who senses a connection both with Robin and with Kory Anders (Anna Diop), a super-strong amnesiac who’s been tracking Rachel for reasons she can’t fully explain. By the end of episode three, the trio is traveling together, and have briefly crossed paths with Gar Logan (Ryan Potter), another adolescent on the run, who has the ability to transform into animals.
Titans’ first three episodes seem to be heading in a similar direction with their plot, as the heroes gradually find their way to each other, while being opposed by violent cultists. But here’s no Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, or Cyborg yet. (The latter two at least will reportedly appear eventually.) Raven is now a defiant teen. Starfire is a take-charge badass. Beast Boy, as of episode three, has no personality at all. Only Dick Grayson feels fully on-model, though he’s more like the 1990s version of the character, after he changed his codename from Robin to Nightwing.
Like Berlanti’s CW superhero shows, Titans doesn’t shy away from the trappings of the genre. The first three episodes keep the special-effects sequences to a minimum, but the characters who have superpowers do use them. And while Raven and Starfire don’t have costumes yet, Robin does — as do his two old acquaintances, Hank “Hawk” Hall (Alan Ritchson) and Dawn “Dove” Granger (Minka Kelly), whom he consults about his Raven situation in episode two.
This version of the Titans arrived right as comics were about to undergo a revolution, both in content and commerce. The advent of the direct-market comic-book store — coupled with a wave of independent titles like Elfquest, Cerebus, and Love and Rockets, aimed primarily at adults — helped change the perception of the medium as mere juvenilia, and gave major publishers the license to fill even their legacy superhero franchises with more sex, violence, and despair.
That said, something The New Teen Titans and the ‘70s / ‘80s X-Men comics had in common was their breakneck pacing. Any given 12 issues from those respective runs could tell three or four full stories, while seeding half a dozen more. Conversely, a fourth of the way into Titans’ 12-episode first season, the team isn’t even together yet, and the threats they’ll be facing have yet to be defined. Titans has promise, and could be the draw the DCU needs it to be, if it’s going to thrive as a subscription service.
That’s why it matters that Titans is going to be the first original scripted series on the new DC Universe subscription service. When the show’s first season premiere becomes available on Friday, October 12th (with a new one arriving every Friday thereafter, for 12 episodes in all), it’ll signal to superhero buffs that this channel is aimed squarely at them. DCU’s announced 2019 lineup — which will add deep-cut DC favorites like Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, and Stargirl — should drive that message home even harder.
But what kind of DC Comics connoisseur will these shows be for? The ones who love the imagination and whimsy of the 1950s and 1960s “Silver Age”? Those who prefer the social relevance and sophisticated themes of the 1970s and 1980s? Or people who dig the infinite variations of the reboot-happy 21st century?
One of Titans’ producers is Greg Berlanti, who helped develop the CW’s zippy “Arrowverse,” which includes the relatively sunny Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. But judging by the three Titans episodes that DCU supplied in advance to critics, the tone of this new series is more inspired by Netflix’s Marvel Comics shows, and in particular Daredevil and Jessica Jones. The visual design is all dim lighting and deep shadows. The action sequences are bloody and bone-crunching. The characters swear, even more than Netflix’s foul-mouthed Marvel heroes do.
It is much more adult and makes the Arrowverse shows on The CW look like a kids show.
At its core though, this is a version of the Titans that fans will recognize, under all the dark shading and character-tweaks. And that’s largely due to the way Berlanti and his primary co-producers, Geoff Johns and Akiva Goldsman, treat the team’s 1980s origin story as a cornerstone superhero comics text, up there with Batman and Superman’s backstories.
Brenton Thwaites stars as Dick Grayson, the now-grown ward of billionaire Bruce Wayne. By day, Dick works as a Detroit cop. By night, he fights crime in the Robin costume he once wore as Batman’s sidekick. In Titans’ first episode, Dick takes in runaway teenager Rachel Roth (Teagan Croft), a powerful empath with a mysterious past, who senses a connection both with Robin and with Kory Anders (Anna Diop), a super-strong amnesiac who’s been tracking Rachel for reasons she can’t fully explain. By the end of episode three, the trio is traveling together, and have briefly crossed paths with Gar Logan (Ryan Potter), another adolescent on the run, who has the ability to transform into animals.
Titans’ first three episodes seem to be heading in a similar direction with their plot, as the heroes gradually find their way to each other, while being opposed by violent cultists. But here’s no Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, or Cyborg yet. (The latter two at least will reportedly appear eventually.) Raven is now a defiant teen. Starfire is a take-charge badass. Beast Boy, as of episode three, has no personality at all. Only Dick Grayson feels fully on-model, though he’s more like the 1990s version of the character, after he changed his codename from Robin to Nightwing.
Like Berlanti’s CW superhero shows, Titans doesn’t shy away from the trappings of the genre. The first three episodes keep the special-effects sequences to a minimum, but the characters who have superpowers do use them. And while Raven and Starfire don’t have costumes yet, Robin does — as do his two old acquaintances, Hank “Hawk” Hall (Alan Ritchson) and Dawn “Dove” Granger (Minka Kelly), whom he consults about his Raven situation in episode two.
This version of the Titans arrived right as comics were about to undergo a revolution, both in content and commerce. The advent of the direct-market comic-book store — coupled with a wave of independent titles like Elfquest, Cerebus, and Love and Rockets, aimed primarily at adults — helped change the perception of the medium as mere juvenilia, and gave major publishers the license to fill even their legacy superhero franchises with more sex, violence, and despair.
That said, something The New Teen Titans and the ‘70s / ‘80s X-Men comics had in common was their breakneck pacing. Any given 12 issues from those respective runs could tell three or four full stories, while seeding half a dozen more. Conversely, a fourth of the way into Titans’ 12-episode first season, the team isn’t even together yet, and the threats they’ll be facing have yet to be defined. Titans has promise, and could be the draw the DCU needs it to be, if it’s going to thrive as a subscription service.
