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In what ended up being its final season, “Titans” ended its run by continuing what it’s done in all its previous seasons and that’s having moments where it looks like it’s going to be brilliant, only to fail to deliver and never quite get out of mediocrity.
The plot was all over the place this season, with a poorly defined threat and a lot of mumbo jumbo involving magic. And just as the season finally started to bring everything together, it took several months off and lost all that momentum. Not only that, once it came back, it shifted gears to stall the storyline once again. Even the character arcs were somewhat muddled this season. While there were some interesting wrinkles for some characters, many of them really didn’t amount to much.
For the most part, Nightwing and Starfire only had minor plot lines. Beast Boy and Raven each had more relevant stuff, but hers was wrapped up by mid-season and his took longer to develop but didn’t have that great of a payoff. The meatiest stories went to Superboy and Tim Drake. While both were pretty solid, the conclusions felt a little anti-climactic. The show’s big bad never quite worked. They did a great job of making him a sympathetic character, but his full turn to evil was kept getting delayed just as it looked like it was going to happen, and when it did it wasn’t all that interesting. Not to mention his powers were never really that clear so his threat-level wasn’t apparent enough and his master plan came out of nowhere and didn’t make a lot of sense.
Overall, the special effects still looked really good for the most part, and there was some decent action. Also, the updated costumes and looks for the characters were much better and leaned more towards the comic books.
The fourth and final season of “Titans’ was another mixed-bag. While it leaned even heavier into more comic-accurate territory, the overall story and big bad were letdowns. There are moments where a great show starts to appear, but then the writing on both the main plot and the character arcs drop in quality and the show becomes average at best.
** out of *****