Well then DC fans this was something that I never saw coming and even until today never even planned on doing but yes I will now be bringing you weekly reviews of Titans and since this is now weekly my score for episode one is a 7.5 out of 10 and now with that out of the way here is my review of episode two Hawk and Dove.
The plot of episode two is Dick is taking Rachel to stay with some old friends of his in the meanwhile a new threat comes after the duo. This episode was really lacking in terms of plot for me the previous episode did a good job of setting up the story for the season and this episode really could have added to it but no instead they choose to add in a rather weak story and also apart from Dick and Rachel none of the other Titans appear in the episode.
Like I just said there was no Starfire or Beast Boy in this episode at all so instead starring in the episode is Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson , Teagan Croft as Rachel Roth , Alan Ritchson as Hank Hall / Hawk , Minka Kelly as Dawn Granger / Dove , Jeff Clarke as Nuclear Dad , Melody Johnson as Nuclear Mom , Jeni Ross as Nuclear Sis and Logan Thompson as Nuclear Biff. The acting from the two main series leads is better in this episode then it was in the first but it's still not as good as it will be come the series finale as for the other actors they do a fine job but tho I was just surprised that Smallville's Aquaman was in this show to really take note of his acting.
For a show based around the Teen Titans there was no other future Titans in the episode and that's something that I can really see hurting the show in the long run since from what we got in episode 1 at least three of the titans will have interesting stories and I was really surprised that they didn't feature Beast boy at all in this episode given how little screen time he had in the previous episode I like many of you thought they were saving him for this weeks episode but nope.
This was the first appearance in live action form for The Nuclear Family and I have to say they came of as really terrifying in this episode and that's something that I prey to god continues throughout the rest of this first season just seeing the family interact before there mission and comparing it to how they are during it makes them seem really creepy I'm not going to give away the end of the episode but the family does something you'll know about if you know the history of Hawk and Dove that's all i'll say.
If you guys follow me on Doctor Who amino you'll know that I do weekly reviews for each new episode and while I have reviewed other shows in the past i've never done a weekly review of a superhero show before so i'm still trying to work out what things I can find in the episode to talk about so don't expect this to be like my Doctor Who reviews were I go into alot of detail because that's a different show and how that shows works allows me to do so but even with this episode i'm struggling to find something to talk about.
What really confused me last week and as well this week is that for some reason the show opens with the intro that plays infront of any DCEU film this show as far as we know is not set in the DCEU so it makes no sense what so ever to have that intro playing in this show why couldn't they have made an intro for all DC Universe shows kind of like how Marvel have one for the MCU and one for Marvel Television come on DC and Warner Bros. get on it.
What was really cool tho is the fight scene that takes place near the start of the episode i'm not going to say who takes part in it because it's something you have to see but if that is the type of fight scenes we can expect to see in this show then i;m happy but I will admit that the choice to have a possibly metal version of "Kids In America" play over it was really freaking weird.
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Overall this second episode had a really weak story as well as lacking the other two main characters but it was also alot of fun and it makes interested in where next weeks episode will go so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.