DC Universe, the streaming service which launched in September, has released its first original series, Titans. This isn`t the Teen Titans team you`re probably more familiar with. This is a more adult team, in a darker world, based on the DC Comic series of the same name. While this opening episode may be a bit tough to swallow, the series, as a whole, gets a lot better.Titans follows police officer Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites), who brings his vigilante justice as Robin to Detroit. He comes across a troubled girl named Raven (Teagan Croft) who is being hunted for unknown reasons. On the other side of the planet is Starfire (Anna Diop), who has no clue of her own identity or where she is, and you don`t begin to figure out how she fits in to all of this fully until Episode 3.Raven comes off early on as the series` MacGuffin, the character everyone is after for one of two reasons: to kill or protect. However, she`s coming into her own as a super-powered being, and it turns out she doesn`t need much protection at all. Her story is compelling and incredibly interesting, although there are more questions than answers presented in the first episode, a theme that repeats itself ad nauseum. She and Robin have this forced mentor/menteeship that`s very new but has a lot of potential from an audience`s perspective. It`s a focal point for this and following episodes, with good reason. It`s complicated, intriguing, and paints these familiar characters in a new light. These superheroes don`t always act like the good guys. Sometimes, they have to make hard decisions that make them seem `not so super.`On the flip side of the world, in Austria, is Starfire, and the audience will be just as confused as about her as she is, especially because of the fact she`s not introduced until relatively late in the episode. Starfire--also called Kori--is seemingly a club kid who is maybe a secret agent who`s possibly in love with a mobster/club owner. There`s a whole lot of confusion that d ...
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