Originally Posted by
ZeroBG82
Titans has been consistent enough with this now that it's clearly a theme of the show. The "heroes" are the real villains. Every time they have a chance, they go back to this well and with every single character they use. The writers of this show clearly and demonstrably believe that the greatest supervillains are the ones who call themselves heroes. It's a cynical, nihilistic worldview and it's honestly quite sad to see it embraced so readily, and even greedily, by a show that is ostensibly about some of the DCU's most interesting heroes.
I've said it before, but it's really depressing when you have a show where the "heroes" defeat Deathstroke and Trigon, but literally everything the show presents you is that the pair are absolutely correct in every respect. True, Deathstroke was doing it for the wrong reasons, but removing these heroes from the world is an objective good, as presented. And Trigon was a demon conqueror, but everyone really is a homicidal, evil spirit at heart with no meaningful good to speak of. Hell, even killing off Hawk this season is emblematic. He was the one who had decided he wanted to get out of the vigilante life, and was only back to keep an eye on Dawn. So of course he's the one who gets violently murdered, by an old ally no less.
There are things I enjoy about this show. It's cast being the big one. But I'm increasingly realizing that it's not just that the writing is bad, it's that the worldview is deliberately skewed in a way that the writing CAN'T be good. They can't make these characters meaningfully heroic or good without undermining their core premise. It's just such a huge misstep.