Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons

It's like they did no research. Deathstroke isn't a kind hearted, compassionate, loving, caring family man that reads bedtime stories to his kid and would overthrow a dictatorship for the good of the people when he was payed by that dictator to do a job. He's a cold-blooded, borderline psychopathic, hitman killing machine. Disappointing considering I've wanted a rated r animated Deathstroke movie for over a decade now, and I finally get it and it's this. We deserved better than this. Read the comics next time. Do research.

You may or may not expect a good story with a character like Slade Wilson who is shady at best and mostly shown as a carnal being. But you would be surprised the writers worked out the story of one of the most skilled nemesis of Batman and the Titans into a story of family and complex desires of soldiers who are out of commission. Written and directed beautifully, this movie joins the legion of DC animated masterpieces. With art looking unfinished and unpolished here there, it provides a good cinematic experience with visceral action sequences and twist and turns in the stories very fabric. The title although is metaphoric but the plot lives upto it.

A DC character used as a look into masculine traits of men that aren't often addressed in society today. This is a character that never suppressed any of those traits and it shows the consequences of what happens and the type of life that it could lead to but on an exaggerated scale. I was impressed by the story it told and the animation was great. Much better than I expected.

The animation style is probably the best aspect of this 'series'. So is it 12 episodes or a film? Both were released this year, same name with different release dates. Leave it to WB to be disorganized and to just shove content out there. So in other confusing aspects of this, Jericho has a different power set than ever seen before and is a quasi villain again? He's blond and blue-eyed like the comics, but played by an Asian trans man in the live action show last year. I imagine being a DC fan today is confusing with such drastic changes to the same characters across the books, shows and films. Adeline is portrayed pretty well, except for her 'late 90's cartoon Rogue' hairstyle later in the episode. It's also weird to introduce Rose, but no Grant and well before Terra. Wilson is a thinner black man now. That's new to me. Anyways if you can get past the violence, gore and character changes; then you may enjoy this.