Titans (DC universe, Netflix)

Agent Coulson

First look at Robin from the upcoming Titans series on DC's upcoming streaming service.

We’re getting a first look at Titans star Brenton Thwaites suited up as Dick Grayson (aka Robin) in the upcoming DC superhero series from Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros TV

Written by Goldsman, DC Entertainment’s Johns and Berlanti, Titans follows a group of young soon-to-be superheroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. In the action-adventure series, Dick Grayson (Thwaites) emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes that includes Starfire (Anna Diop), Raven (Teagan Croft) and others.

The Robin super suit was designed by renowned costume designer Laura Jean Shannon, whose credits include Black Lightning, Iron Man and The Jungle Book, among others.

Titans is slated to premiere in 2018 as part of the inaugural slate of a new DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service

http://deadline.com/2017/12/titans-brenton-thwaites-robin-dc-superhero-series-fphoto-1202218594/

pixelburp

I do wonder what on earth makes an executive look at an increasingly crowded, competitive market and think "me too!". Another streaming service, give me a break.

Slydice

pixelburp wrote: »

I do wonder what on earth makes an executive look at an increasingly crowded, competitive market and think "me too!

Well one thing jumps off the screen..

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Warner Bros

JP Liz V1

http://tvline.com/2017/12/15/titans-hawk-dove-first-look-photo-alan-ritchson-minka-kelly/

Hawk and Dove

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JP Liz V1

April Bowlby has joined the cast and will appear as Rita Farr, who adapts the moniker of Elasti-Girl

The series also stars Anna Diop (24: Legacy) as Koriand’r/Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6: The Series) as Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, Alan Ritchson (Blood Drive) as Hank Hall/Hawk, Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) as Dawn Granger/Dove and Lindsey Gort (The Carrie Diaries) as Detective Amy Rohrbach.

Castle‘s Seamus Dever will also recur, as will Narcos‘ Bruno Bichir.

Source TV Line

Mr E

This ain't your CW DC.
I think it looks great, but comic book nerds are going nuts (not in a good way).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPofXaJ4go

pixelburp

I gotta ask Mr. E, what makes you think it's great?? I'm not being snarky, just that trailer's done and execution seems so wide of the mark, it kinda came out the other side into parody - like it's a deliberate mock-trailer made by CollegeHumour or suchlike.

The "F*ck Batman" line got a laugh out of me, I'll say that. Suddenly "Do you bleed?" feels like Aaron Sorkin wrote it

Mr E

Ah I guess compared to the CW shows (I watch all of them), I thought it looked pretty fresh - bloody violence and bad language helps differentiate it.

I don't know the comics/graphic novels, so I have no point of reference for the source material (if someone's hair is supposed to be curlier or someone's skin is supposed to be a different colour, I really don't give a shit).

pixelburp

Fair enough. Don't really see the CW comparisons myself; like I said in the mirror thread on Superhero forum, I think it looks like a cheap overegged parody of the grim Zack Synder universe. I suspect the F-bomb is going to get an unholy ribbing from fans.

Mr E

Yeah, check out the comments on YouTube for that video. It's mostly being ripped apart.

Rob2D

It looks awful.

DC just can't stop digging that hole can they?

J. Marston

DC should invest in one or two lights. Maybe we could see what's actually going in their dark, gritty worlds then.

Clareman

The only way I can see the fanboys being any angrier is if they got Chris O'Donnell to play Robin

CastorTroy

Well there were these photos from a while back which didn't inspire confidence for Starfire.
http://comicbook.com/dc/amp/2018/04/11/titans-first-look-live-action-beast-boy-raven/

And this trailer doesn't help.

And I'm sure it's the comic nerds they should be trying to please since I think that's more who their network is aimed at. Like who's more likely to subscribe? Comic fans or non fans? It's like expecting non wrestling fans to sign up for the WWE Network.

Taltos

I enjoyed it, bit trite mind. But Starfire? Not sure what happened there but that isn’t Starfire...

CastorTroy

They kind of backed themselves into a corner. I'm guessing the thinking was they wanted to do the Titans but wanted the Teen Titans everyone knew, which meant Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire.
And since Cyborg can't be used due to the movies, they're left with 2 white, 1 green and 1 orange character. And since Beast Boy needs to be green to be loyal to the character they had to cast a black actress as Starfire and keep her own skin colour to avoid diversity complaints.
Still no reason to make her look like a cheap prostitute though.

The linked picture below(It's a big pic so linking) doesn't look as bad but even that wig gives Madusa in Inhumans a run for its money.
Maybe it's just an early costume and she wears something better later on. The fur coat really doesn't help
https://i.redd.it/4ulgulwqksa11.jpg

Not that Starfire in the comics wears sensible clothes.

pixelburp

I watched the trailer again, and only now realised Dick Grayson shot all those thugs with a gun. Sure, Red Hood was into that sort of thing, but this is supposed to be the Dick Grayson Robin, who IIRC didn't go off the deep end ala Jason Todd.

I'm calling it now: DC accidentally uploaded the wrong trailer, and distributed someone's gritty fan-parody instead. The real 'Titans' trailer is somewhere on the DC servers. Uh huh, has to be; they can't actually have meant this

peteeeed

Looks good

https://twitter.com/netflixuk/status/1046778225240801281?s=21

pixelburp

mod: threads merged.

pixelburp

The tone seems all over the place with these promotions; I'd make a guess the ridicule born from the "f*ck batman" moment in the first trailer forced cutting some lighter, more 'adventuresome' versions.

CastorTroy

So they're keeping Starfire's costume for a while anyway.

Trailer does look better though and get to see Hawk and Dove as well

Spon Farmer

Any news yet on when it comes to Netflix?

JP Liz V1

https://deadline.com/2018/10/titans-renewed-season-2-dc-universe-new-york-comic-con-brenton-thwaites-1202475584/

Renewed

Agent Coulson

Starts tonight/tomorrow on DC streaming in the States not sure about Netflix here.

It will release one episode every week.

CastorTroy

Haven't read the reviews but looking at rottentomatoes, it's sitting at 82%. Won't get to watch it until Sunday, but hope it is good. Will be checking here over the weekend for comments

Agent Coulson

Well it wasn't completely terrible even though it was a hard watch.


I will give it a couple to episodes to find it's feet and see how it goes.

Taltos

Enjoyed it more than Iron Fist or Black Lightening. Nice dark tone to it. Definitely has potential and one I’ll be watching a bit more of

the_syco

Taltos wrote: »

Enjoyed it more than Iron Fist or Black Lightening.

Agreed. Hope it continues like this.

highgiant1985

I was over at New York comic con and got to see the first 2 episodes of this at the premier screening. What I really liked about it was the dark edges, some nice kills :pac:! I found it a bit raw but like already said it'll find its feet as the episodes progress and I def enjoyed it more than Black Lightening!

CastorTroy

Liked it enough to keep watching. Starfire costume had valid explanation but nothing about the rest of her. She just a vessel for an alien?
Candy Morningstar looked good. Audrey Horne not so good.

Agent Coulson

They have gone full on Motherfcuking castrating R rated which could make this awesome long term.


Also Minka with white hair nice.

Agent Coulson

3 episodes in and i'm really enjoying it.


Also Batman has now been cast.

Slydice

Agent Coulson wrote: »

full on Motherfcuking castrating R rated

What a description! :pac:

CastorTroy

Kory really needs to change her clothes. Not just because they don't look right or the fact that beating people up wearing thigh highs is distracting in a couple ways, but also surely they need washing by now.

Dick tree swinging looked really bad.

Agent Coulson

Episode 4 was the backdoor pilot to Doom Patrol.




There will be a few recasts for when Doom Patrol starts itself with Matt Bomer as Negative Man, Brendan Fraser taking over as Robotman and Timothy Dalton playing Chief for the series itself.



This is the kind of Universe building that has been missing from the DC Film Universe.

CastorTroy

Brendan and Matt were the voices for this episode. They changed the physical actors just.
Hard not to hear Neal Caffrey when Negative Man talks

My knowledge of Doom Patrol is pretty much limited to a handful of episodes from series like Teen Titans, but thought all were really well done here.

Gar is clearly a lot slower changing forms, and

more Tiger Boy than Beast Boy though that may just be early days with his powers.

Agent Coulson

I am really liking this another very strong episode this again.

Agent Coulson

Well Jason is a Dick


They got rid of the fcuk Batman line thankfully.


Top class entertainment.

CastorTroy

That line was in the first episode after he beat the gang. I'm pretty sure it was.

And yeah, they replaced Dick with a dick. Wonder if they'll have the viewers vote to whether to kill him off or not.

Kory finally changed her outfit at least.

And glimpse of 60s Batmobile.

Nightwing debut by the end of the season? Since everyone knows he's Robin.

And we got another example of dodgy Robin acrobatic effects.

Varik

Happy enough with this so far.

Don't consider it a spoiler as it's shown at the end but getting

wonder girl

next episode so there's that

CastorTroy

Hope there weren't any innocent prisoners in that place when it blew.

pixelburp

So how's the tone in this? The trailer made it look so achingly grimdark and adolescent it's hard to see how I could stomach a whole series of melodramatic brooding - does it really lean that much in that direction?

Cantona's Collars

pixelburp wrote: »

So how's the tone in this? The trailer made it look so achingly grimdark and adolescent it's hard to see how I could stomach a whole series of melodramatic brooding - does it really lean that much in that direction?

The trailer doesn't do the show justice. The exposition of characters is well handled and paced.

TheIrishGrover

OK. Watched the first two episodes ...... Not good but not the total disaster I was expecting. Still think it's too much the whole current DC Movie/TV thinking: "It's gotta be dark. Hella dark. And swearing and sh*t. Gotta be down with the kids, they love that. Up the swearing by 20%... no, 40%" It just seems a bit silly.
And Oh my good God what have they done to Starfire? I know it's been said many times before but, Jesus Christ, she looks like a cheap hooker.

Good:
Raven. Nicely portrayed.
Dick Grayson. Yeah, again, nicely portrayed.

Meh:
The tacked on violence and "adult" tone. I have no problem with violence and swearing etc but this comes across as trying too hard. It's like a 2 year-old saying "F*ck". Don't just throw it in there sporadically (And framed so easily removed for wider audience)
Pace of introducing new characters. Wow, they really are trying to hit the ground running. It's almost like they are throwing as much against the wall and seeing what will stick.

Bad:
Star-hooker.... I mean, Jesus......



I waiting for them to change the theme music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqv_LUStxDw

I think I'll rewatch Young Justice until the new season starts.

Cantona's Collars

Starfire's attire is addressed in a later episode,with a bit of humour.

TheIrishGrover

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Starfire's attire is addressed in a later episode,with a bit of humour.

And her godawful wig?

Agent Coulson

Arrives January 11th on Netflix.

CastorTroy

Hmm, of all the people to cast for that role, I would not choose Ryan from Castle.

Agent Coulson

Sh1t that is where I knew him from.

Daxve

Starfire is getting a new look anyway as can be seen in the season finale trailer

Warning this is potentially spoilerish and possibly misleading (there's speculation that it's not what it seems tying into what just happened in the most recent episode

Trigon using reality manipulation

)

I've left just a link to Youtube as the embedded videos first image spoils

Batman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=O8bl2Vurk7M