Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-1038387-20190125144314/@comment-5624498-20190126195118

Agreed this quartet of episodes weren't as good as the first nine. I did see some things that I liked, though. Random observations:


 * Disappointed that Metamorpho and Katanna were just kind of there. No lines for Katanna and we only get brief insight into what makes Metamorpho tick.


 * I'm guessing they sent Forager to school because it's the only way to really keep him under cover. Heroes have real lives and Superboy has enough on his plate with keeping an eye on Brion Markov. Though I will admit that "Fred Bugg with two G's" has been stuck in my head and cracking me up.


 * I thought the Cyborg origin was handled well, but they did wrap up that arc too quickly. They could have left it a mystery as to what's really going on with him and how he finally gets control over the Father Box for the second half of the season. It was the same way with Jaime Reyes in Season Two, coming to terms with his Scarab -- they didn't just neatly resolve it at the halfway point.


 * "Nightmare Monkeys" is one of those episodes that requires a second viewing to understand everything that's going on. But upon that second viewing, it was a clever way to tell Beast Boy's story. Now we know he didn't simply get his powers through a blood transfusion with M'gann, we know about his ties to the Doom Patrol and why he left The Team. Also, we get greater insight as to why Wally West's death hit him hard. I'm hoping to see more of him in the second half of Season 3.


 * And, yes, it was fun to see the creative team willing to throw in Teen Titans Go jokes. Though now I wonder if TTG will decide to have Earth-16 Beast Boy pop in for a visit.


 * Nice to see Holocaust get a cameo.


 * It's still too early to tell where things will go with Deathstroke and Tara, though the creative team has shown it will have its own take on stories from the comics. It's possible that Tara Markov actually allowed her uncle to activate her metagene and that Deathstroke is working on behalf of the since-captured Baron Bedlam to finish the objective of bringing Markovia into the Light's domain.