Reflection and Analysis

Titans - You're Tim Drake is Actually Duke Thomas (7/9/21)

So – Titans is the one DC series I won't touch because of how it bastardizes the canon material.

Of course, there's also the casting choice of Starfire which still feels as if it were done for SJW points rather than them thinking about the casting choices in that Black isn't the only type of POC out there and I would have liked to have seen the role go to someone who is somewhere in the middle, but there's that issue of her sister being named Blackfire who is also a bad guy and the connotations with that are just as bad as dressing any POC like a hooker, though with the Hispanic community that kind of dress isn't always associated with a hooker as much as it is in the Black community, but another cultural group.

Well, the casting of Tim Drake isn't going to convince me to come back, but of all the characters to race bend this wasn't a good one. I mean, him being streetwise is a completely different character than canon Tim Drake if not a completely rip off of Jason Todd's character it isn't funny, but there's also the fact up until Damien you actually couldn't tell that a different kid is in the Robin suit.

I'm also wondering why I should be wanting to take interest in these characters they're adding in when the show is notorious for not developing the characters they already have and adding characters in won't help, but instead hinder, but that is envitable given how much overall DC canon got shoved into just the first two seasons rather than focusing on small aspects at a time—and you know, actually making the characters be close to their canon counterparts.

With Barbara Gordon coming in as the Oracle/Batgirl, well, I don't know how they developed Starfire and Dick's relationship but if there is romance there, the relationship is being treated as the relationship done for shits and giggles on Dick's part because he'd gone all emo and she's expected to move onto his "tru luv", though I hold Barbara, despite fans of the pairing thinking otherwise, isn't it, rather than stay with slutty Starfire.

Which, even though her culture practices open relationships, she is not a slut except in certain portrayals and those are the ones meant to make her look bad, or be used as a sex tool, and we're talking one where she's played by a Black woman who is getting dumped for a white chick who is abusive towards Dick Grayson while she's the Oracle because she uses him as a dumping ground for not being able to use her legs anymore, but she also put him into a situation where he either kissed a disabled girl the night before his wedding, or push her away in a manner which might cause problems.

I get that she's supposed to be this awesome icon for those who are stuck in wheelchairs, but in regard to her relationship with Dick she basically sets the president of using your disability to take advantage of other people's good will. Oh—and don't forget that their relationship happened after Jason's death of which Dick feels tremendous guilt. I may not be fond of Starfire being end game for Dick, but I still prefer her over Barbara who keeps getting aged down so that the relationship is seen as appropriate.

Tim Drake – no, that's not Tim Drake but Signal, minus the metahuman powers. You know, Duke Thomas. His stint as Robin was marked by being a part of We Are Robin where looking like Robin wasn't an issue—they weren't even the sidekicks of Batman. And honestly, they've got to be called on this one, that they skipping Tim Drake for Duke Thomas, but stripping Duke Thomas of his name. But then, as my brother pointed out, we're talking about writers who can't tell the different Robin's apart character wise as they're writing Titan and the result is this.

I get the fact there are people who are arguing that this is "it's own continuem in the DC universe", but in reality it is poorly written fanfic green lit to become canon material, but the fact they've confused Tim Drake and Duke Thomas character wise proves as much—that they don't know what they're doing.

"But Yemi, could you be wrong?"

Maybe, but I wasn't wrong about each season ending in a manner that left fans feeling dissatisfied, which is the nice way of putting it. Those writing for existing copyrights need to get it through their thick heads that they're NOT writing original fiction, but a form of derivate work.