Titans Season 1: 4 Ups & 1 Down From 'Origins'

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1. Too Many Timelines

While one of the episode's main strengths lay in the fact that it shed some light on the origins of some of our protagonists, it also paved the way for one of its greatest weaknesses.

Dick Grayson's backstory was relayed through a series of flashbacks, but that wasn't the only time we took a trip to the past this week. Right as the episode started, we were reintroduced to Starfire, who was sitting in her car watching Raven being kidnapped by The Nuclear Family. As she did so, the episode flashed back to two days beforehand when she broke into the Roth house and did some investigating, where she retrieved the photograph of Raven and beat up some police officers.

There was nothing wrong with the scene, it was just featured in the wrong episode and would have worked much better as a teaser at the end of last week's outing.

As 'Origins' is already a flashback-heavy episode, throwing another random flashback of Starfire into the mix (that didn't delve into her origins) really set it off on the wrong foot, as the episode jumped around between the present day, two days before that and fifteen years prior to all of it within in the first ten minutes. It made for an incredibly confusing and disjointed opening sequence that was unfortunately rather hard to keep track of.

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