Bimbo was probably a bit harsh for cartoon Starfire but the others deserved it. To me they overplayed the fish out of water trope which is understandable but eh to me.
Watched the bluray features and you can tell that Johns really gave as much as he could to this. He constantly kept stressing how big it was that this was the first iteration of Titans live action, especially a new dark Robin(Dick). He says this was his first significant work on Donna Troy. He stated that you can't have Titans without Robin & WG as they are the parents of the team.
I like that take. It's definitely in-line with Dick and Donna's dynamic in the NTT.
Come to think of it, I can't recall a time when Johns ever really did much with Donna. I think she made a cameo in his Titans run (during the big Dr. Light fight) and Infinite Crisis, but that's about it.
I like her. The Diop version is actually much closer to the comic version than many realize.
Bimbo isn't the word I'd use, but she was infantilized. Comic book Starfire could have that problem to a certain degree at times but cartoon Starfire took it much further.
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My vague memories would agree with that. Using the definition "an attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman" is a bit different than the very sexualized connotation bimbo has to me, which is definitely not cartoon Kory in comparison to her comic book self. Maybe some of it was at least as much presentation as content?but she was infantilized.
Really disappointed with how they handled the Crush/Lobo situation. It just seemed very generic and it killed all of Lobo’s character development from the last few years. Plus seeing an adult sadisticly beating the crap out of his daughter was pretty horrible. Yeah I know it’s Lobo and hurting people is his thing, but Steve Orlando did such a great job during his JLA run of keeping Lobo’s character traits but also revealing that The Main Man has a soft spot for young underdogs. It would have been far better if Lobo had fought her for a bit only to reveal that he was just testing her and secretly approves of her carrying on his legacy of chaos or something along those lines. Having him show up and being evil old Lobo is just boring and it kinda ruined Crush for me as a character concept.
I feel that way about so many characters in so many books right now.This current run has kind of soured me on Damian and everyone else on his team.
New images from Titans season 2:
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