Titans: Season 4

Titans "Dude, Where's My Gar"

The show needed that. For that matter I needed that.

My reviews were late this week. Because of this show. There is no sugarcoating that fact. I enjoyed the amazing series finale of Star Trek: Picard, and decided I wasn't going to allow this show to make me furious and ruin that good feeling I had yesterday. And when I woke up, and ostensibly could safely watch this, I still put it off. I just did NOT want to watch it. I had no idea it would be a good episode, much less dealing with the Multiverse, but I just couldn't bring myself to suffer through this again.

I don't expect this or next week to turn the show around, or change my dark opinion about it. But this will probably help me power through to the end.

I was in a similar moment of crisis with Riverdale in the third season. I was constantly unhappy with that show, and just hated feeling enraged week after week. I stopped watching that show, which is unusual for me once I've put in a commitment. The problem is it was less easy to do for Titans. Not just because of its ties to the DC Multiverse (which it proved its bonafides here) but because it's the final batch of episodes from the final season. Quitting now would mean I wasted all that time for nothing. Even if the series finale were to suck (and I expect it will) I would feel better about how terrible this show makes me feel if I got there.

I had similar problems with the last seasons of both House M.D. and The Office. Both of those so-so shows utterly imploded in their farewell seasons and I didn't feel I had the luxury to quit them, no matter how bad they were after the years I invested in them before the shows destroyed themselves. I feel that way about Titans. This Multiverse crossover helps though. Big time.

I'm glad Geoff Johns wrote it. A different writer than him, when visiting Stargirl's Universe, would have her dropping f-bombs because of the format change just to provide contrast for the Universes. Utterly unnecessary, and the fact that that DOESN'T happen makes the cameo and transition into that Universe feel very seamless and unobtrusive. A LOT of Multiverse stuff also occurred in the timestream. Them trying to include cartoons into the Multiverse at large is something I'm not really crazy about, but in fairness, I believe the comics already said every DC story, no matter the medium, was a part of the DC Multiverse, so maybe I'm wrong.

The tag with Cyborg and waffles was pretty great too.

This is the first live-action appearance of fan favorite DC hero B'wana Beast. He's a fan-favorite because he's very easy to make fun of. I'm disappointed he isn't CALLED B'wana Beast here to be honest. I don't know if it was rights issue or not. I hope they didn't decline to call him that simply because the name is silly. The entire character is silly, and the show trying to treat him seriously is doing it pretty unsuccessfully.

I've heard of The Green in the DC Universe, but not The Red. Although, when it comes to actual concepts and plotlines from DC Comics, I actually know very little.

I'm glad that was good. That will help me to get along until the series finale. I don't think I'll ever like this show. But this episode occurring when it did means I'll probably be able to endure it to the finale. And that was sorely needed for me. I didn't see how I could have done it otherwise. ****.

Titans "Project Starfire"

Boring and dreary. On-brand for this show.

Why the HELL is Barb actually secretly working with Jason? I DID like Jason saying Tim would be a better Robin than him.

When Dick starts talking about the darkness that consumes you I tune out. It's not just the worst of this show. It's the worst of all superhero stuff.

Crappy week. *.