Batman wrap-up

[trinityvixen]

The episodes "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" (incidentally, this is the 2nd episode on the 2nd disc of the 2nd volume of the series, and, yes, for a brief moment, Harvey Two-Face was in it) and "Joker's Wild" of Batman: the Animated Series prove that you don't have to be actually smart to make it in Gotham City, seeing as most of the population is composed of raving idiots. For instance, if you, say, happen to find out that Bruce Wayne is Batman using your mind reading device, might I suggest not trying to make a profit on that information? It's Batman, dude. If you, by some chance figure him out, you'd do well to remember that he's Batman and probably knows you know. The pain. Likewise, if you just happen to go bankrupt building a casino and decide to get a vengeful crazy person to burn it down, I would recommend not trying to pull one over on the Joker. He's not liable to play by your rules, and when he does play, he doesn't exactly play nice.

H.A.R.D.A.C. had the right idea in "Heart of Steel": don't move against Bruce or Batman right away, but try to catch him off guard and don't go it with just two goons. Send at least three. And it helps if they're robots. Really, really strong robots.

It was nice that, in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?" that Batman at least was going to die if there were any more puns. I feel your pain, dude. I got five words for you, Bat-dude: The. Aquaman. Episode. Of. Smallville.

And the "Gotham's Guardians" behind-the-scenes thing? I know the creators understand the world pretty well because they got it so right in the series. It's just they'd do better not to be questioned about it because they can't come up with anything better than "Alfred is a father figure; Catwoman and Batman will never get together; Jim Gordon is a good cop." Majorly "duh" guys. I could also whine about how little attention Rene Montoya got in the montage, or how Catwoman only got a mention because she and Batman knocked boots. Not really an issue. Montoya's awesome, Catwoman's super, we know this. That I was spared a bunch of middle-aged guys talking about them in those eloquent terms is a-okay with me.

Comments

[dotsomething.livejournal.com]

I'm loving your Bat-commentaries :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I know I'm mostly spamming people's f'lists, but hey, Batman! Plus, it motivates me to watch all of the stuff I have, because I can call attention to myself some more.