User Reviews

My most anticipated episode and it did not dissappoint. So glad Donna is back. Can't wait for the next episode. This season has been such an improvement hope it gets renewed for Season 4.

Because it's not about 'Titans': mostly it's 'Nightwing & His Amazing Friends'. Come for Titans, get lots of Dick instead. For instance, if they showed paid half as much time attention to Gar's romantic relationships as Dick's...

"Souls" was kind of change for that, as there was no Thwaites and we got mostly Roth & Leslie. And only nine episodes in for Rachel. Remember back in season 1 when she was a big part of the show? Not so much, now. Glad the production staff spent a year getting us invested in her.

We also got a fair amount of Hank, and the interplay between him and Donna was probably the most entertaining part of the show. That, and the Tim/Donna running gag with him calling her "Miss Troy" and her being offended by it.

For those who asked, Hank's presence was presumably to make up for the lousy way the production staff took him off the show, just to make Jason look tough (when he isn't), and a Big Bad. I'm of two minds about this. We got a decent going-away for Hank, and he was kind of a fifth-wheel on the show so if anyone had to die, it should have been him. But I would have rather had Alan Ritchson, who showed here that he could be entertaining. And he's always shown that. At least Hank has a personality. Everyone else but Dick has been pretty much backburnered. At least Ritchson had the acting power to go up against the PS's seeming obsession with Dick.

Want to see what I mean about how the interest is in Dick & His Amazing Friends? Why do we get anything about Bruce? He's feeling suicidal. Who cares? The show is 'Titans', not 'Gotham 2.0'. Donna gets sent back to save... Bruce? Why? It just makes it seem like Bruce is an important part of 'Titans'. Guess what? He isn't.

But the episode taught us more about Tim. But... so what? The only reason Tim is important is because the PS is counting on the viewers to remember who he is in the comics. And do the Titans need another non-powered martial artist? Particularly if they redeem and bring back Jason, like they keep hinting at it?

The tropes about the afterlife, like a train and bridge, were hardly original. Neither were the Dementor-like ghouls. What made them interacting was the character interaction. Tim/Donna, Donna/Hank, Hank being unable to get his guns back and getting other stuff drawn from his subconscious instead (even Hank's subconscious is apparently obsessed with Dick), the Don/Hank reunion (I'd watch a show about the half-brothers fighting ghouls in the afterlife!), and the cinematography.

The Rachel subplot was kind of eh. They spent eight episode keeping Rachel off-screen, and then we had an episode about her learning to move on from being off-screen. The whole bit about how she can't move on from Donna's death, and it's about her rather than Donna, loses its impact because not only did Rachel not seem that interested in Donna in the first place, but at best that was eight episodes ago and one season gap. Even if Rachel felt that way... who the heck remembers or cares?

And parts of it didn't make sense. Lydia wants Rachel to move on from fighting... by having Myrrha train Rachel to fight blindfolded? Or is that avoiding an attack? Granted, the Titans don't do much fighting but that's the best part of the show when they do. Why the emphasis on defighting?

Overall, the episode was better than average because of the cinematography and the character moments. But the PS has set a low bar for the show to be "average" or "better than".

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

I anticipated Hank's last but didn't about Dove. I loved how they use Dove at the end of episode.

Really? So I'm just supposed to just accept the fact that Donna and Tim magically end up together in the afterlife on a train? They both died at different points in time, so did Donna just stay on the train the whole time? Tim Drake apparently flatlined for 90 seconds, so time clearly goes by super slow in the afterlife. Which means Donna was just chilling on that train for years maybe? Who the heck knows? Not even the writers apparently.

Then Hank just happens to be in the area in a car. Was he using Ghost gasoline? Or maybe Death Diesel? Oh he must have just summoned the car and the gas because as we know he's been "getting in touch with his spiritual side". Guess what, he's heard of this magical bridge that you can cross to get back to earth. No I'm not making that up I promise. Just cross the bridge and you're good. That's all it takes. So was Hank gonna be able to cross? I mean his body was completely obliterated. If he made it over the bridge would he just get a new body? Would he wake up a pile of ashes? Doomed to live in an urn for all eternity?

Also, you know Batman? That hero we all love. The guy who never quits no matter the sacrifice, or how many of his friends and loved ones die. Yeah he tries to commit suicide by burning himself. Don't worry though, Donna Troy can teleport now to convenient locations. Such a stupid episode.

When you bring characters back from the dead the audience loses an emotional attachment to them. When there are no lasting consequences to killing off a character it's very difficult to buy into the show. Nothing is permanent so nothing really matters. It's lazy and sloppy and cheap.

Apparently Bruce Wayne went from the baddest dude on the block to a loser that's over life. GTFO here with that garbage.

Lmao that was so silly. I'm not against coming back from death, but the way they did is so bad. They made it seem like anyone dies could get back to life just by going through a "bridge" back to earth. Thats so lame tbh. Not to mention it was so easy that they just had to imagine weapons to spawn them lol.

Honestly I applaud these actors for trying to give their best in such a ridiculous and stupid setting. It was all so ridiculous and nonsensical. Themyscira was so soo boooring, there was nothing special about it. I loved the meta parts where Connor Leslie complained how her death was stupid and when Hank said "this makes no sense". You're damn right, Hank. And what the hell was the point of showing Hank if you're not going to bring him back? I mean, it's a disservice to the character, either end his story when he died or bring him back. Just showing him in hell and letting him strapped there is just pouring salt on the wound. At least Donna saved Bruce because letting Bruce kill himself would be yet another offense from this show towards Batman's character. This was so, so awful.

This season started off so good and had so much promise. This episode called souls has completely lost its soul and what's left is this cheesy melodramatic drivel. I was so excited to finally see them bring back Rachel and Donna but the way they went about it with including Tim Drake was so dumb and cheesy it was cringey. The Tim Drake story is not good and the actor playing him just doesn't seem to fit the character. I was happy to see hawk but then they ruined that with him and the old dove saving people in the afterlife which is by far the worse and cheesiest ending to his story. They should of just left his storyline the way it was. With 4 episodes left in this season I'm hoping it finds it direction back and ends on a good note. If not I believe this will be my last season watching.