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I cheated and skipped the entirely skippable one-shot episodes on the third disc of Batman: the Animated Series. How could I not when "Almost Got Him" is on that disc!? One of my favorite episodes ever, and I was sorely in need of the comfort and the laugh. There's so much fun to be had when you sit down such incongruous villains as Poison Ivy, Two-Face, the Penguin, the Joker and Killer Croc at a poker table. All of them talking about how they've nearly "gotten" Batman. Siiiiiiiiigh. The loooooooove....

Also, the doc Voices of the Knight was fun but could have been about two hours longer before I would have gotten bored. Holy Shit, Batman! Kevin Conroy looks like John Glover only less swanky. Are they in any way related? It's eerie!

It's wiggy, too, to see the voice actors not be animated. Even Mark Hamill, who any geek worth their salt knows what he looks like (at any age), got me all confuzzled and strange-ified. Especially when he laughs as the Joker. ::chills:: I love, love, love that he specifically came up with different laughs for the Joker, laughs to reflect his mood (essentially going what Frank Welker does for animals for the Joker), and then they had a montage of scenes of the Joker laughing and I died. Learning things like that, seeing how much fun they seemed to be having when they were working on it (to a person, all the voice actors seemed only to have happy memories), would have kept me interested for a good long while.

There's no way we could just overdub Heath "Snore if you Love Gay Cowboys" Ledger with Mark Hamill, is there? I can't imagine a laugh more piercing than Hamill's, not never, not ever.

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.

Current Mood: amused

Another classic Batman: the Animated Series episode: "The Laughing Fish."

The second I say the title, I bet my entire friendslist knows the episode I mean. Good, I don't have to explain. It's one of my favorites, again, so to date, the second volume of this show is the superior set. And given that I'm still on disc 1, I'd say that's pretty damn amazing. I think this one even has "Almost Got Him," which is probably my favorite episode. But, I say that, and I'll probably retract it tomorrow when I come across another episode that's my favorite.

Anyway, "The Laughing Fish"? Classic. A little more silly-Joker than psychotic Joker...or so it seems. I still don't buy him looking to go semi-legit with the fish thing, but his threatening people who won't patent his product? Pure Joker. Plus, there's the fabulous exchange with him and Harley Quinn where she says "You know you're really sick, don'tcha boss?" And he smiles, nods, and goes "Mmm-hmm!" so smugly, I need to cuddle Mark Hamill right now.

Then there's the ending.

Batman bitch-slap backhands the Joker. If ever there were a better way to put the Joker in his place, it has not yet been discovered by man. I mean that. To the ends of the Earth, I mean that. Yes, two mortal enemies locked in a never-ending struggle to maintain their sanity around one another, blah blah. Day-am, Batman jus' had tah slap a ho.

"Perchance to Dream" is the second episode on my second volume of the Batman: the animated series DVD collection (hmm, shouldn't they have found a way to package it so that that episode was a Two-Face one? Discuss). It's one of my favorites, or at least one of the most memorable for me, as, ever since, I've been able to identify BTAS fans without geeking out on fandom first by seeing if they know the trick that Bruce uses to realize his world isn't quite as it seems.

I still feel cheated by the episode a little, as I know I've read things in my dreams...

But really, Batman has to call up an obscure fact like the hemisphere of the brain responsible for dreaming does not include the ability to read to figure out that his parents being alive, his engagement to a de-clawed (heh, it works on two levels) Selena Kyle, and him not being Batman isn't a sign things aren't real?

How could he ignore this?

The godawful hat on Selena's head wasn't his biggest clue right there that this world was wonky? Sheesh. World's Greatest Detective, my ass.

It's been made official: Heath Ledger really will be the Joker in the sequel to Batman Begins that will be titled The Dark Knight.

I love the title. I could lose the Ledger. I'd love the title more if they just bought out Frank Miller and made it officially The Dark Knight Returns as that's both accurate and appropriate; Begins was pretty much Batman: Year One with a little more realism tossed in. I guess anything linking this Bat-franchise to the old one just won't fly, so no "Returns" in the title.

The Joker, though. I swear to the great noodly moster in the sky that I will REMOVE HEATH LEDGER'S TESTICLES AND FEED THEM TO HIM WHILE I RIP OPEN HIS STOMACH AND FEED THEM TO HIM AGAIN if he messes this up. It flies in the face of the smart casting Nolan and co. pulled off last time. The one character they could have cast better was Rachel Dawes, but she's not a famous character (she's not even canon period). This is the motherf'ing Joker. The #1 Villain of All Time, For All Time. The Clown Prince of Crime. The villain you bring in to scare anyone else shitless.

And Mr. Heath "He Will Rock You" Ledger is going to play him.

This.
Guy.
Will.
Play.
The Joker.

Note: I didn't say he was going to be the Joker. He'll play the Joker. As in "he'll play at being the Joker," kind of like that kid with the broom handle played at being a Jedi. I just hope Nolan has better special effects to fix it up after..

I bought the second volume of Batman: the Animated Series this weekend, and today's the first time I've gotten to pop one of the discs in. Methinks I will do this every day I can for lunch--that's how I got through the animated Superman series so quickly. So, for lunch today, instead of editing the stories for my class, I watched the BTAS episode "Eternal Youth."

Things that stuck out for me:
-Alfred has a girlfriend. Okay, an older ladyfriend, but he gets booty. This is of the good. Where she goes for every other episode of the series? Mystery.

-Poison Ivy uses the term "Gallery of Rogues" to describe the villains (herself included, really) that Batman fights. I find it funny that the term is used within the Batman series itself and not just about the characters in the series. Is that meta or what?

-Batman says that Ivy has "the convictions of a fanatic." Pot, I'd like you to meet Kettle; Kettle, Pot.

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