Sanche7
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This is from an interview with the guy who plays Dick :
How aware are you of the anticipation behind Dick becoming Nightwing?
THWAITES: Well, if it’s anything like myself, very aware. When I signed onto this, in an early meeting, they were telling me in the first season, it would be about the transition of Dick becoming Nightwing. That’s where all that training came from, in the preparation that I would become Nightwing. But, the way the story had it, we had other elements to deal with, so we went down a different path. The whole time I was very anxious to read the pages of what the story and the journey of Dick growing into Nightwing would be.
For a number of reasons, it provides an opportunity a character to realize his potential as superhero. When that happens, we feel a sense of confidence watching it. We know we have a leader who is going to win every single time on the screen. But what it also does is gives us an amazing opportunity to build up the power of Deathsroke. We spent a lot of energy and time explaining to the audience how dangerous and serious this villain is. I feel it was worth putting that time on the screen and teasing to the audience that this bad guy can only be put down by another intense superhero, which we all know is Nightwing.
So I guess in episode 13 the transformation will be complete and he takes down Deathstroke. That's a whole lot of time dedicated to one character, hopefully it pays off. Also, I agree they did a great job building up Deathstroke as a great villain but by putting in all these filler like episodes in between, they have diffused the tension that was built up
How aware are you of the anticipation behind Dick becoming Nightwing?
THWAITES: Well, if it’s anything like myself, very aware. When I signed onto this, in an early meeting, they were telling me in the first season, it would be about the transition of Dick becoming Nightwing. That’s where all that training came from, in the preparation that I would become Nightwing. But, the way the story had it, we had other elements to deal with, so we went down a different path. The whole time I was very anxious to read the pages of what the story and the journey of Dick growing into Nightwing would be.
For a number of reasons, it provides an opportunity a character to realize his potential as superhero. When that happens, we feel a sense of confidence watching it. We know we have a leader who is going to win every single time on the screen. But what it also does is gives us an amazing opportunity to build up the power of Deathsroke. We spent a lot of energy and time explaining to the audience how dangerous and serious this villain is. I feel it was worth putting that time on the screen and teasing to the audience that this bad guy can only be put down by another intense superhero, which we all know is Nightwing.
So I guess in episode 13 the transformation will be complete and he takes down Deathstroke. That's a whole lot of time dedicated to one character, hopefully it pays off. Also, I agree they did a great job building up Deathstroke as a great villain but by putting in all these filler like episodes in between, they have diffused the tension that was built up