The episode could have used that quiet moment to focus on and tie together the character journeys from the rest of the season. The thing that disappointed me the most about the season 3 finale, was that we didn’t see Dick reunite with the Titans. (Also, Titans member Roy Harper was name-dropped, meaning we’ll likely see him in Titans season 4.) There’s also a moment in the episode opening where Jonathan Crane goes from the Batcave to the streets of Downtown Gotham in seconds. Though, it is a nice touch to bring ARGUS into a story as the heroic cavalry before revealing they are a ruthless, uncaring intelligence and enforcement agency. It seemed to only exist to give the Titans someone to beat up. So, it’s been difficult to understand, let alone care about, the whole “rogue cops in league with Crane” angle. The way the whole police plan played out was ridiculous. A number of questionable decisions from the Titans in the “Troubled Water” episode, for example. Still, it’s tough to accept that kind of silliness when it appears to be carelessness with storytelling. How does Gar get his same clothes back after being an animal? How does Dick get into his costume so quickly right before fight scenes? To that I say, ever think about shutting up? (Shout out to the woman with curly white hair who played an uncannily accurate dead lady.) Even the costume inconsistency is something we comics fans should let go. That is the good kind of silly that only really works when characters are magic. So, the fact that the “fix” is some kind of vague power mash-up with Lazarus Pit liquid to bring them back to life is fine with me. A massive failure on the Titans’ part, and truly tragic. In the finale, the baddies kill around 2,000 Gothamites. There’s a Fine Line Between Pulp and Sloppy Storytelling Walters’ delivery of Jason’s “Thank you” moved me. It’s macabre but also touching when Jason asks if Bruce killed the Joker for him. He simply forgives him, and then lets him choose his own path. When Jason admits the depth of his fall to him, Bruce is more like Starfire than Dick. In this season alone, Dick told a story about Bruce sending him into the woods to survive and he had to behead a wolf. Much of the lore in Titans about Bruce Wayne is that he’s a truly sadistic father to his crime-fighting kids. Still, the final scene between him and Iain Glen’s Bruce Wayne was deeply moving. I would have liked to have seen him face the entire team, rather than just Dick and Ryan Potter’s Gar Logan. The arms-length redemption of Jason Todd was not ideal.
The two women simply talk openly and honestly, and when the time comes choose to forgive and move forward rather than, you know, destroy a whole city. As a parallel to the sibling disagreement going on between Dick and Curran Walters’ Jason Todd, Blackfire and Starfire give us a story about the great power of forgiveness. Blackfire became the first love of Joshua Orpin’s Superboy, and he destroyed her only way home.
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