Teen Titans - The Complete Fifth Season
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Teen Titans has always been a strong series. This fifth and final
season is a particular favorite of mine in that it features the Doom
Patrol and the Brotherhood of Evil (BoE is in a number of episodes
throughout the season). Now, I was not a Doom Patrol fan prior. In
fact, I've never even read a Doom Patrol comic. Regardless, I simply
love the characterizations of the team in the show, especially
Negative Man's deadpan delivery of his lines, as is so befitting his
name.
Likewise, Brain having the Hawking'esque voice is beyond perfect.
Here we have a brilliant and evil mind with no body to speak of that
commands immeasurable power. I love the taunting coming from Brain
sounding like a late 80's computer attempting to create speech. It
has a menace to it that one wouldn't expect.
With the Brotherhood of Evil, and the Doom Patrol playing such a
large roll in this season, the feel of the overall story arc feels a
lot more Silver Age, DC Comics than the previous seasons, which for
me is a good thing. While the Slade arcs are excellent, there is
something I like about two super teams duking it out, 60's style.
There's a grandness to that just feels, I don't know . . . heroic in
that romantic, adventure movie kind of way.
There are some other really great episodes as well. In particular, I
enjoyed "Go!," a prequel episode that details not only how Starfire
came to Earth, but also how the Titans originally formed their team.
It's great.
DC/Marvel has had an incredible run of quality animated hero shows,
going all the way back to "Batman: the Animated Series" and this
season of Teen Titans delivers as well. If your looking at a review
for season five, I'm going to presume you've seen the show and like
it, so I am probably preaching to the choir. It's great. You know
it. What else is there to know?
BTW, why in the world doesn't every DVD box set/series in universe
simply list the frickin' episodes in the description? It always
falls to a reviewer to actually tell prospective buyers what the
heck they are considering buying. Does this strike anyone else as a
bit stupid?
To that end, here's a list of episodes contained within the series:
1. Homecoming Pt 1 (Intro the Doom Patrol and the Brotherhood of
Evil)
2. Homecoming Pt 2
3. Trust
4. For Real
5. Snowblind
6. Kole
7. Hide and Seek
8. Lightspeed
9. Revved Up (This one seemed REALLY odd and jarringly outside the
Titans Universe, but whatever)
10. Go!
11. Calling All Titans
12. Titans Together
13. Things Change
