![]() She’s not used to being helped, she’s not used to being saved, and so I think that Blackfire’s mind actually starts changing. She’s used to that state you find her in more than the state she leaves in. She’s used to being alone, she’s used to being in the pit, she’s used to being in trouble. In that moment her sister wasn’t there, there was nobody, she was alone, but that’s her normal state. “And so what ends up happening is the rage comes back. When Kory walks in, it’s ‘Komand’r’ it’s ‘Koriand’r,’ it’s real names. I think in the beginning, she starts that scene broken but she leaves with a different energy, right? And you see her on that cot, sleeping. Can you talk about where she is in her mind when we first see her? It almost feels like there’s a little manipulation going on even though she’s in her lowest moment.”ĭAMARIS LEWIS: “I think that’s a really great question. She’s got the whole mythology working against her, that she killed their parents and she killed Kory’s lover, but when we meet her in the episode she’s in a very different space. SARABETH POLLOCK: “I really love the dynamic between Kory and Blackfire in this episode. Titans season 3: Damaris Lewis says Blackfire is “used to being alone” In the first half of my two-part interview with Lewis, we talk about where Blackfire is when Kory finds her and how she finally has a chance to speak her truth to her sister. Lewis’ Blackfire might have had her powers drained, but Lewis infuses her character with strength and steadfast conviction, which plays out beautifully as Anna Diop’s Kory stands over her with a scowl of derision. She eventually decides to take custody of her sister herself, hoping that she’s made the right choice. Though the government is trying to protect the planet from Blackfire and her power, Kory realizes she can’t leave her sister locked up no matter how much she wants to turn her back on her. She and Gar find a hatch that leads deep underground, which is where they encounter Blackfire being held in a government facility. ![]() One of Kory’s “dreams” takes her to a field in the middle of nowhere. In “Blackfire” Kory and Gar discover that Kory’s strange sleepwalking episodes are the result of being called upon by her sister, Blackfire. I had a chance to talk to actor Damaris Lewis about her character after Titans Episode 304 dropped on HBO Max. Her reputation precedes her - she killed her own parents - so all it takes is mentioning her name to strike fear in the hearts of people who know her history. ![]() Once her powers inevitably return and she's sick of living with Starfire's Titans friends, Blackfire could become the major villain Titans originally promised.Blackfire has arrived on Titans season 3, and Damaris Lewis brings her to life with style and stone cold ruthlessness. Though her timeout session seems to have calmed the fiery instincts seen in season 2, Blackfire could be a time bomb waiting to go off. This might've then forced a rethink on Blackfire's situation, and a dialing down of her evil qualities into something more comedic, thereby allowing Jason Todd to take center stage.įortunately, all is not lost for Blackfire in Titans season 3. It's possible that between Titans seasons 2 & 3, the decision was made to amplify Jason's role and designate Red Hood as season 3's main villain. Though Titans season 2 ended with Jason distanced from the other Titans and angry at the world, there was no overt suggestion that he'd immediately transition into Red Hood. The reason for Titans' Blackfire retcon could be Jason Todd's transformation into Red Hood. This surely isn't what Titans had in mind when Blackfire possessed an innocent parent and abandoned the victim's children in season 2's finale. She and Kori beat each other up for a while, taking out their respective sisterly baggage, then Starfire marches her evil sister home like a naughty child, lining up a more comedic role for Blackfire. What's the point in a post-credits introduction for a major new villain, only for them to show up next season powerless and jailed? In an even bigger change of direction, Blackfire may not be a villain at all in Titans season 3. That's quite the anticlimax, and makes the hype surrounding her arrival look silly in hindsight. After making a grand entrance at the end of season 2, the raging Blackfire apparently strutted straight into a containment cage. That foreshadowing has been ignored in Titans season 3, with Blackfire's absence leaving her firmly on the back burner, and when Blackfire finally does resurface, Titans shifts the emphasis of her character entirely.
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