I liked this episode, although I was still bothered with a few things. But this episode was a big improvement over the first one. What I liked the most in this episode were the characters Hank and Dawn. They were very well introduced and the actors are assets in the roles. I loved the tension that exists between them and Dick, which served well for a legal conflict. I also liked how they showed Dick the way he was before leaving Batman. although he did not like Dick's excessive violence. And speaking of violence, this episode continues to show gratifying violence, although the struggles are well choreographed. I really enjoyed it when Dawn, Hank and Dick fought together in the past. Raven is an uninteresting character and actress does not help in making her better with her weak acting. But this time, she did not have so much presence. I hope she gets better at the character. Overall, this episode was improvement after the first one. But I still struggle with excessive violence, Dick Grayson looking like Jason Todd and Raven being a flat character. But now I'm interested to see what happen next. I think it's a good thing. Let's what happens in the next episode.
Review by CluisannaBlockedParent2019-02-17T01:33:35Z
Because I'm the kind of person who pauses to read any newspaper article where you're only supposed to see the headline, I got to witness the absolutely amazing homophonic typo "greeted by a grizzly sight."
Anyway, is it just me or is the sound design a bit off sometimes? It feels like on the one hand everything is shot in this "realistic" blueish cold light with blood spilling everywhere and dark and "gritty" characters and plot lines, like the Netflix Marvel series, but unlike in Daredevil etc. all the fighting sounds are still comically exaggerated (bang! pow! wham! woosh!) - not to mention the extremely melodramatic dialogue which even the best delivery (which these actors don't always have, unfortunately) couldn't save. I mean - "Sometimes. When I feel the darkness come out... it feels good?"
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for melodrama, but I'm somewhat surprised by people actually liking this show when I would have expected a lot more criticism from certain groups. I mean, how obvious could it have been that Dove would get fridged? There's no room for genuinely nice people in this world, only uncontrolled masculine violence, PTSD analogies, stone-cold bitches and, uh, a guy that can turn into animals, apparently.