Reviews

...once I got over the fact that London's attacking the rest of the world (nothing wrong with moving cities, but St Paul's not great as a weapon), much better than I expected, but the story's definitely way too predictable.

I was ready to give this a 8/10. It's dark (almost like Watchmen), it's myterious, the characters are well developed and have flaws, it even made me like Robin. In short, Titans briefly seemed to be (much to my surprise) the third best execution of DC Universe characters (after Nolan's Batman trilogy and Wonder Woman), until they went to see a robot, a mummy, Frankenstein's wife, a weretiger and a mysterious scientist in S1E4. Seriously?

Just finished S2 and am somewhat baffled by how the writers decided to develop the character of Marcella: She evolved from a relatable, complex/mysterious/unpredictable 'hero in a crisis' (S1) into a suicidal, (literally) crazy cop with a dark secret that doesn't seem to have ever had an hour of police training in her life (or learnt how to use common sense). Putting her and her family again right in the middle of a mysterious serial killer plot was unnecessary and felt like "let's try to break several taboos just for the sake of it". It was painful to watch, and, at the end, I was left with something that rarely happens: a total disconnection from the serie's protagonist (turned antagonist). In short: Marcella went from an interesting/different crime drama (S1) to "Let's try to do a mix of 'Silence of the Lambs' with a hint of 'Girl on a Train' (S2) and then aim directly for 'Nikita' (S3)". Too much in my opinion, and does every single character really need a dark secret to be interesting? They way it currently looks like: only her eldest daughter has a clean slate... wonder what they have planned for her in S3...? Wait, maybe she's going to be kidnapped à la 'Taken' and then rescued by her Mom turned undercover killing machine.