Deathstroke: Knight & Dragons Review - 7 Ups & 1 Down From The Series Premiere

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1. Too Much Narrative Jumping Too Early On

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Ironically, the only major pitfall that the premiere episode of Deathstroke's series was the very same issue that tripped up his arc on DC Universe's live-action Titans - and that was the fact that it simply gave us too much too soon.

In the opening moments, the show gets so caught up showing us some of Slade's past indiscretions that the flashbacks to some of those actions ended up hindering the flow of the prologue, simply because it was hard to follow what was happening.

It didn't happen too often and, following the 10-year time-jump, it didn't happen again, but it did make the first few moments rather confusing, as we were just trying to figure out what was happening in the present let alone the past.

Now, for the positives...

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