Dc fans Marvel has been killing it with there Netflix shows and DC have decided to throw there hat in the ring kind of by launching there own streaming service and the first episode of the first original show has been released and so here is my review of the first episode of Titans which is also called Titans.
The basic plot of this episode is Rachel Roth (Raven) sees her mother get killed right in front of her and so she goes to Detroit to find Dick Grayson (Robin) all the while a young woman (Starfire) wakes up in Austria with no memory and is determined to find Rachel. For a first episode I pretty much got what I expected out of it story wise but even I was shocked at how basic the story for the episode is but like I said for a first episode it gives you the amount of story that you pretty much need.
Starring in this episode was Brenton Thwaites as Richard "Dick" Grayson / Robin , Anna Diop as Kory Anders / Starfire , Teagan Croft as Rachel Roth / Raven , Lindsey Gort as Amy Rohrbach and Sherilyn Fenn as Angela. Yes Ryan Potter does make an appearance in this episode but it's right at the end like literally before the credits start playing they introduce him so if your wondering why I didn't credit him it's because he's in one scene and has no lines of dialog as for the the cast I have credited they do a fairly decent job it's a pilot episode so of course you can't expect the acting to be perfect right of the bat.
To DC's credit they really have gone all out in terms of promoting this thing and that's something that Netflix very rarely do they release one maybe two trailers and that's it but this show had several trailers and spots released as well as countless images and to me that says that DC knows that this is an important show for them because if this things fails then so does there subscription service.
What I thought was a brave move was the fact that they have pretty much made Rachel aka Raven the main character this series I say it's a brave move because not a lot of people know about the character so it would have made sense from that point of view to make Dick the main character but that goes to show you that DC Universe is being put together to please the fans rather then the average Joe and as to be expected they don't go to much into her backstory which im sure will be explored in a later episode.
Now in my intro for this review I said that they are kind of throwing there hat into the ring with a streaming service and that's because while they have launched DC Universe here in the UK for some reason Netflix UK is picking up the streaming rights for Titans which to me is really dumb on Dc's part since Netflix is there main competition so giving them your flagship show is like your giving them all your money but your trusting them not to spend it but deep down you know they will.
Now I know that this show already had it's haters even before it even premiered and sadly alot of the hate was aimed at actress Anna Diop the actress got so much hate that she had to leave social media and I fell that now is the right time to bring this up but if your a fan of something then please do not hate on the people who make the thing that you say you love by giving someone alot of hate then you make the rest of the fans who actually give a damn about whatever it is there making look bad and even more so when the reason your hating on them is because the actress is black that's just wrong on so many levels.
Speaking of Starfire while she does get a decent amount of screen time they don't really do that much with her in the actual episode I think she's in three scenes which do last a decent amount of time but alot of the time in those scenes is her asking people who she is and there's only so many times you can do that before it starts to come across as boring I mean granted this is only the first episode but even so this is our first time seeing the character in live action give her more to do and give us a reason to care about her.
Again this show got a lot of hate for being to dark and gritty which to me is freaking funny because there is a show out there which is just the opposite of this show and you know what it's called Teen Titans Go! if you want to watch something that's more lighthearted then by all means watch that show and complain how lighthearted it is to me the people who were saying it's to dark are people that cannot be pleased if anything they should have issues with the overall quality of the product and not the tone.
I'm not going to make any comments about the costumes because to be honest the only one we see in this episode is Robins which even then it's in the dark but I can say that based of the released images Robins costume does look really awesome altho i'm left wondering a few things after watching this episode first of did he ever become Nightwing? and second of why wasn't this show set in Bludhaven since Robin lives there it would make sense to set the show there but nope they have the series take place in Detroit and they don't even mention Bludhaven in this episode.
For a superhero show we shockingly had very little action which given that this is a superhero show I guess does make sense but still it's a superhero show we want to see our heroes fight in fact we only had two or three fight scenes and one of them featured the same character but I will admit that the first action scene we got was really freaking cool i'm not going to say who it includes but when you watch the episode hopefully you'll think it's cool as well.
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Overall this first episode really wasn't that bad it gives you the things that you expect from a pilot episode altho I will never understand why the name of the first episode is also the name of the show and if i'm still watching this show by the time it ends it's first season then yes there will be a full review and since this is a pilot episode i'm not going to give it a rating but I will say that it's out now on DC Universe in the USA and Netflix UK if your in the UK I have no idea about the rest of the world sorry.