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You know what's still amazing?
Jul. 24th, 2008 01:26 pmBatman the Animated Series. After we went to see The Dark Knight, we got to talking about the episode of BtAS called "Almost Got Him," in which the Joker, Two-Face, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, and Killer Croc all talk about how they almost killed Batman at one time or another. The part that came up which is STILL my absolute favorite.
Two-Face finishes telling a long story about almost squishing Batman under a giant penny.
Joker: So, who's next?
Croc: (bangs fist on table) ME! So, there I was in the sewer, Batman coming at me. He was getting closer, closer...
Poison Ivy: ...and?!
Croc: I threw a rock at him!
::PAUSE::
Poison Ivy: So, Harvey, whatever became of the giant penny?
Two-Face: They actually let him keep it!
Croc: (petulantly) It was a big rock.
I almost died laughing. I also watched, while I was at it, "The Man Who Killed Batman" and "Trial." Interesting thing about "Trial" is that it, incorrectly to my mind, postulates that the crazies of Arkham created Batman, not the other way around. Tim Burton's Batman suggested the same thing--"I made you; you made me first." So odd that two Batman adaptations that otherwise borrow so heavily from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns would run contrary to his major thesis in it--namely, that Batman brings out the freaks, and without him, they fade away. It's just so odd to think of how easily I agreed with the Burton/BtAS view without thinking about it for so long. When it comes down to it, though, I agree with Miller. (And Nolan, seeing how much he borrows from Miller's Year One and The Dark Knight Returns.)
Two-Face finishes telling a long story about almost squishing Batman under a giant penny.
Joker: So, who's next?
Croc: (bangs fist on table) ME! So, there I was in the sewer, Batman coming at me. He was getting closer, closer...
Poison Ivy: ...and?!
Croc: I threw a rock at him!
::PAUSE::
Poison Ivy: So, Harvey, whatever became of the giant penny?
Two-Face: They actually let him keep it!
Croc: (petulantly) It was a big rock.
I almost died laughing. I also watched, while I was at it, "The Man Who Killed Batman" and "Trial." Interesting thing about "Trial" is that it, incorrectly to my mind, postulates that the crazies of Arkham created Batman, not the other way around. Tim Burton's Batman suggested the same thing--"I made you; you made me first." So odd that two Batman adaptations that otherwise borrow so heavily from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns would run contrary to his major thesis in it--namely, that Batman brings out the freaks, and without him, they fade away. It's just so odd to think of how easily I agreed with the Burton/BtAS view without thinking about it for so long. When it comes down to it, though, I agree with Miller. (And Nolan, seeing how much he borrows from Miller's Year One and The Dark Knight Returns.)
