Titans recap: We are family
Titans (2018 TV series)
- TV Show
Now that Trigon’s taken care of, it’s high time to get into the meat of Titansseason 2. So far, it seems clear that much of the season will focus on the Wilson family, and I love that.
We met Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, last week. The gray-haired, eyepatch-wearing ex-military man was so outraged by seeing the Titans reformed on TV that he went down into his big arms cache and looked at his Deathstroke outfit sitting behind glass. You could all but hear him saying, in full Keanu Reeves-John Wick voice, “Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.”
We don’t get any Deathstroke this week, but we do get the next best thing: His daughter Rose. This teenage girl has similarly silver hair as her father, and also has her own eyepatch! She catches the Titans’ attention by escaping from the cops in a perilous high-speed chase. Dick Grayson, sitting down in front of the TV news, is immediately enraptured by the footage. At first I thought this meant he recognized her, perhaps from a meeting when he was on the prior incarnation of the Titans, but that’s not the case. Dick just hates seeing a young person in trouble, especially a young woman, and races off to help her.
He manages to get her back to Titans Tower, but Rose isn’t very impressed by any of it. She tells Dick they’re in danger just for associating with her, and that “he” will kill all of them if necessary to get to her. It’s not technically revealed until the end of the episode, but the “he” in question is certainly her father. So far, the parallels between Rose and season 1 Rachel are obvious. Damaged young women on the run from their villainous dads who arouse Dick Grayson’s sympathy and also possess mysterious powers (shadow magic in Rachel’s case, an unexplained Wolverine-like healing factor for Rose).
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