TITANS s3e8: HOME

 

TITANS s3ep8: HOME

“This feels like another set up.”

NO, you, Dick, thunk?

 

There’s so many ways I could start this review out. This is contrived even for this series, which to me, is still on shaky ground and hasn’t really proven itself yet even this deep into season 3, though it has tried.

 

Sorry, this is bad writing. Convoluted and contrived. It feels like the set up for something better coming which may or may not ever come, as this series, again, has not proven itself. At all.

 

Gar goes to Molly for help and gets some info from her (is she part of Jason’s set up?) and does little else. Dick goes off ALONE AGAIN (!) to bring Jason in. Where were the others? Dick gets hurt (AGAIN!) and Jason stands over him. Is the writing suggesting that Jason didn’t kill Dick for the plan of Crane’s? Jason seems to want to reform and come home (thus the title?) but is really back to working with Crane again (he can’t make up his stupid mind). Speaking of stupid, TITANS needs to reform or change the dumbest character in the entire series, Starfire.

 

Starfire is a huge liability now, too, just like Hank, Dawn, and Donna were. Side note: WTF was that scene with Jason going to see a porn observation window and asking the two people inside to role play Hank and Dawn (to make us think Jason really does want to reform?). Starfire is dumb enough to fire her fire at a water pipe that leads to the city water supply? Didn’t she know? How did the villains know that she would fire at the exact pipe? Even so, isn’t leading the heroes, your enemies, to the exact place and pipe a bit risky? Can’t they stop this quick enough?

 

In the old Batman tv show, the water supply was threatened at least three times and all three were better written.

 

While in the scene with Crane’s mother, Vincent proves once again he’s a very good actor, menacing and sympathetic, Crane looks rather stupid, too, as he doesn’t know how to drill through the floor? Jason’s supposed to be a smart Robin (?) too and he doesn’t realize it either. It takes the poor guy that cares about giving Crane some food (who Crane then murders) to give him that info?

 

Oh, and the TITANS, knowing Starfire is having those dream fits, take her on a mission anyway? What if she goes into trance mode during some mission and fries something she’s not supposed to? Is THAT what happened? It’s not played that way.

 

Connor and Blackfire sleep together and nothing is made of it…or rather it’s brought up. Big deal.

 

In an episode where the focus is on Barbara’s roof leaking into her desk at work (did the gold fish die?), you have to know something is wrong and/or that we’re back into the bad writing mode of last season, waiting for something better to happen. Oh, lots happens here but none of it good and none of it making either the Titans or their foes look good or real or even interesting and yes, this is a boring episode for its reaching for us to hope something better will come along.

 

Oh, and Tim Drake gets shot in the back and is drowning in his own blood.

 

Again, no super heroics, and not even horror this time but just horrible events. And super boring.  

 

And if it turns out that Starfire’s entire sensory deprivation tank IS all the events of this season, I’m out and done with this POS.