The most outstanding youth problem drama of the year:
Theme: Although it is painful, we don't shake hands with the world, we understand ourselves. The whole drama didn't grow up, didn't save the world, only had a perplexed exploration of adolescence.
Narrative line analysis: Titan is a heterogeneous narrative, with adolescent rebellion and self-questioning as the core to connect characters and events, and the overall development is around the process of protecting and unlocking the identity of the raven.
There is no clear goal line, not to defeat anyone, but to protect the raven from the chase of the Sannomiya Demon and its subordinates, interspersed to explain the life experience of all the characters. It is guessed that the first season should pave the way for the next few seasons. This unconventional narrative method did not mess up the story of the show, and the IMDB score reached: 8.2/10. It means that the audience's acceptance of this new narrative method is very high.
The main contradictions of the characters (complex):
The first generation of Robin (Nightwing): The self-identity of a teenager. After Grayson lost his parents, he was adopted and trained by Batman. He was devoted to revenge and crushed Batman's "no-kill" justice bottom line and killed his own family. Enemy Zucker, but after revenge, Grayson became more and more empty. He felt his own power and ability. Unknown hatred and rebellion filled his body. When he put on the Robin mask and became bloodthirsty, he began to reflect. He is different from Batman. Batman is his father and guide, but his own philosophy is different from Batman. He lives in the shadow of Batman. He is Robin, Batman’s assistant, and Batman’s "son". "This kind of understanding has deepened his rebellion against Batman’s ideals, and at the same time his conscience is also torturing him. He said that the biggest difference between him and Batman is that Batman yearns for justice, so he can sleep peacefully when he punishes bad guys, but he wants to He was always condemned by his conscience. He had no choice but to leave Gotham and Batman, to think about who he was and whether he wanted to live like Batman (father)? Interestingly, the last episode of the first season, repeatedly Under the guidance of the palace demon, in the illusion, Grayson saw Batman blinded by hatred slaughter the Arkham Asylum. This time, he represents reason, and Batman represents hatred, and expressing puberty is not a concept of time. , But a kind of wonderful psychological state, always lurking under the mature character (adolescent problem: rebellion against paternal law and social rules, constantly figuring out who one is in pain, what is justice and conscience). Adolescence Children need a sense of being needed. Grayson talked about his adoption by Batman, which is just a way for Batman to release himself. Batman wants to be needed, but he is Grayson, not Batman's Robin. In the play, Robin is actually looking for a sense of need in the Raven.
Raven: Raven’s teenage problems are more obvious: 1. Raven cannot face his own psychological gloom; 2. Self-exile and defections: Raven’s mother “abandoned” her after she was born, and her adoptive mother was also affected by her life experience. Being killed, as for Grayson, he himself was a child who had not grown up. Grayson refused the responsibility because he did not find himself. The Raven accidentally learned that Grayson had abandoned himself again to Warhawks and Doves in foster care, and felt that he was abandoned again. The teenagers are like this. They are always afraid of being abandoned, so they refuse to communicate, go their own way, and try not to have anyone Contact, holding a unique sense of "cool"; 3. Self-guilty psychology: After the pigeon was injured by Rachel, the raven guilty of it, and evoked the memory of Spark from outside, and the raven could not let go for a long time. Believe that your own existence will harm those around you and cause trouble to those around you. For the raven, she needs to understand: who I am and how I accept my dark side to accept others. The identity of the raven is actually denying the number of heroes who have grown up. In the end, she did not learn how to face her dark side, but escaped. The adults were teaching and preaching, but for the ability to read memories and feelings She understands that these adults are also imperfect, they are just "older children", and never have the ideal mature adult image in her mind. She finally summoned her father, the Sannomiya, to understand and save Gal, the love and hate of adolescence. There is no reason for this.
War Eagle: Hank, when he was a teenager, he had the experience of being sexually assaulted by a coach, and because of this, he formed a heart knot. He spent his entire life overcoming the original injury and tried to shield this pain through his own strength training. Appeared in Grayson in Warhawks and
In the life of the white dove, at this time the war eagle is angry because of the love history between Grayson and the white dove, reckless, possessive, and hateful. Such adolescent personality is very sketched.
Baige: My father is a domestic abuser and beat her mother. She doesn't understand why her mother will go to London even then. My mother died in an accidental car accident, so I got to know War Eagle and learned of such a "kind", and the two fell in love. The performance of the dove's adolescence is not very obvious, the only manifestation is that she is emotionally at a loss for Nightwing and Warhawk.
Xinghuo: Aliens came to the earth to find and kill the ravens, so as to avoid the ravens summoning the sealed Three House Demon and destroying her own planet. She did not expect that she accidentally lost her memory after coming to the earth. The hunting target came together. The crux of her puberty was very clear. She asked at the beginning: Who am I? I hope to find out who I am by retrieving my memory, but in fact, after adolescence, the child cannot overcome the confusion and return to the past. Instead, he becomes a new person through the trial of adolescence. The same is true for the spark that came to the earth. After the earth, she is no longer the Matari, she needs to know why she lives and who she is.
Beast Boy (BB): Unable to control his emotions, facing his growing strength, he is afraid of losing control. An interesting persona when Gal debuted. Gal is an otaku who plays games every day. He is humorous, but the other side of him is a green tiger who can be transformed into a horror. At first he only tentatively used his transformation to steal game discs, but when he was imprisoned, he lost control and killed the researcher. From then on, the dead researcher appeared in his mind time and time again, constantly watching To the blood-filled self, adolescents feel guilty, not paralyzed by themselves, and panic about losing control after their self-capacity has grown. Sentimental emotion, BB loves Raven, but the shyness of adolescence does not allow him to say that. There is a scene where Xinghuo said to BB at the window: You want to kiss her, I can see it, then do it Bar. BB smiled awkwardly, and there was another scene. Raven’s mother called BB over and said that we should hug together. BB walked away shyly. Love and escape are the same proposition in the emotions of adolescence. They come from self-identification. , Not enough self-confidence and experience.
Teenage Titans: The problems that everyone cannot overcome come from adolescence. They are not a superhero team fighting BOSS together, but more like a group of adolescent children who happen to meet on the street. They have their own uncertain goals and mistakes. Mistakes have come together and can be disbanded at any time, but this rebellious sense of identity makes it difficult to separate them. The narrative motivation of the whole drama has never been: I know what I want, who I want to defeat, and what to save, but A strong sense of rebellion, I don’t know what I am, I don’t know what I want, but I know what I don’t want, and keep evading, until the end of the first season, Xinghuo is still trying to kill the raven, although it is Through the way of pre-memory recovery, it also metaphorically shows the friendship characteristics of this group of adolescent children: they can turn back at any time, friendship is valuable, but the confusion of adolescence is more oriented. Superheroes have seen people who grow up, have seen people who have grown rebelliously, and have grown into heroes from rebellion, but those who have rebelled to the end have concentrated all the myths of adolescence in one play. "Titan" is the number one. Second-rate. The clever thing is that the screenwriters did not prescribe the antidote to them, let them understand the world, and make peace with the world, because the rebellion of adolescence has never had a solution, only constant doubts. From this perspective, this The realism of this heroic drama is very meaningful. It is deeper than the adolescence in "Dog Thirteen". Young people don't always blame the society. Think about their own problems and how can they not do it well?
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