#he lost a significant swath of his life and bruce never got to watch his son grow up it's fucking sad | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

navree · 2 years

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there's a lot of reasons why that titans show wanting to do batfam specific arcs, especially death in the family/under the red hood, flopped so hard each time, but one of the biggest is that they basically brought jason back after, like, a fucking month and it basically negates the entire thing

#personal #i mean the entirety of the stupid plotline makes me want to go mad #like i think they do actually have bruce kill the joker in retaliation which is like well then what's jason's problem then #that was the main sticking point for him #and then they have bruce like actively looking for replacement robins which like???? he didn't want another robin????#he was DONE with robins until tim full on blackmailed his way into the position like a little fucking menace #but like a huge part of the tragedy of the whole thing is the amount of time jason missed #jason dies as a shrimpy fifteen year old (like i think he's under five foot i think he's canonically 4'6??? baby!!!)#and then he comes back and he's older and more jacked and significantly more jaded #than he was in his 'i'm robin and being robin gives me magic' era #he lost a significant swath of his life and bruce never got to watch his son grow up it's fucking sad #and more importantly bruce had a lot of time to sit with this loss #to try and get to something of an acceptance and understanding that it happened and there's no way to change it #the *entire family* did they all had to take a lot of time to come to terms with that #and then suddenly jason's back??? and all that attempted healing gets thrown way out of whack because suddenly he's here again???#listen there's a way to do death in the family/under the red hood to make it a huge gut punch in a tv format #it's a bit difficult because it's such an iconic and well known arc that people can sometimes be blasé about it all #but there's a way that you can make it Work and work really well (as always i have thoughts)#titans uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh titans did not do that. at all. they beefed it.

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