Written by Bryan Edward Hill
Directed by Akiva Goldsman
Bruce (to Dick): "Come on Boy Wonder, this is your show. The whole night is about you. Saving your ass. Chasing your ghosts. Let's see what you got."
For an episode that was titled after a certain vigilante billionaire, he was more of a snarky sidepiece than anything else. Hell, he wasn't even really in the episode as Bruce's appearance was courtesy of Dick imagining him in order to work through his guilt over a lot of things, namely Deathstroke.
I've been mixed on Iain Glen's general portrayal of Bruce so far in the show and there's a part of me that feels he's rather miscast in the role. Saying that, I did love the generally pithy version of Bruce we got here and while it's something I wouldn't want to see all the time, it did more or less work for this particular outing.
In this episode alone, Dick managed to track down Wintergreen by seeking out on one the latter's ex-girlfriends at a burlesque joint while Deathstroke decided that mind games was the next logical step to go with dismantling the Titans once and for all. Unfortunately this also involved several characters unfairly blaming Jason for messing with their heads.
This was not a great episode for Jason. His experience with Slade has definitely done a number on him and when it looked like he was connecting with Rose, that ended the moment she realised that Dick knew about her brother Jericho, a mystery which will be resolved by next week no doubt. Then there was being blamed by everyone else for the pranks and the near suicide attempt that Dick fortunately managed to stop.
Getting back to Jericho and maybe some personal bias is slipping in here but I refuse to believe that Dick would willing kill Jericho. Unless it was a case that the latter went evil and Dick had no choice or that Jericho chose the Titans over his father and Deathstroke just killed his son out of revenge/anger and so on. Thankfully it's one mystery that we don't have to wait any longer for an answer to.
As for Conner - he spent most of this episode nearly at death's door until Kory and Rachel banded together and healed him. There was also Eve escaping from Cadmus and bringing Krypto to the tower. If anything should reunite the team, it's got to be the cute dog who can shoot laser beams from its eyes and fly. As for Eve, really hope that she's not a future casualty but I wouldn't be shocked if she was though.
- Deathstroke drew crosses to get to Rachel, left alcohol for Hank, a photo of Ellis for Dawn, the orange soda for Donna and those pictures for Dick.
- Two episodes in and we've gotten full frontal Conner. Um, yeah, that's it really. Oh and this version of Mercy doesn't seem as enamoured with Lex as other incarnations have been.
- Anyone else find Iain Glen's homage to Batman 66 funny? That and his Alfred accent as well. On a serious note, are we ever going to get a scene with Bruce and Jason though?
- Chronology: From where Conner left off.
Bruce Wayne might not have been a showcase for the title character in question but it didn't really waste Iain Glen's talents either for that matter. Saying that though, it's time for the gang to take more direct action with Slade, move on from what previously happened and be a more united front. Aside from that, I really enjoyed this one.
Rating: 8 out of 10
No comments:
Post a Comment