Monkey Business
Feb. 2nd, 2008 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bradygirl_12I’ll admit that I was a little puzzled by this episode. The credits include Dick but he’s nowhere to be found in this episode, and not even mentioned! Barbara is Bruce’s partner throughout this story, and all of a sudden she’s started college!
I find that a little odd, too, considering that she seemed much younger just a few episodes ago! She was supposed to be older than Dick but not by a lot of years.
Anyway, the story involved college students who are largely ignored by their peers ingesting chemicals that turn them into beasts, just as Kirk Langstrom used to do to become Man-Bat. He’s supposedly reformed and comes up with a antidote that Batman uses to turn them back during one of their terror sprees, but the whole story just seemed odd to me with all the little things puzzling me.
What, you couldn’t mention that Dick was off with the Teen Titans, and if there’s no Titans yet, maybe he was in bed with the flu? The Justice League was mentioned when Batgirl asked Batman if it was time to call them in, and he (paraphrasing) answers: “For a monkey? They’d kick me out.” Well, it was a huge gorilla, but you get the idea. J
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LOL
Date: 2008-02-04 03:33 am (UTC)I'm sure the JL wouldn't have kicked him out. I mean, they had their own share of monkey problems (::coughcoughgorillagroddcoughcough:: ) but yeah, I was also puzzled and displeased with the lack of Dick Grayson.
And also confused with Batgirl's sudden leap to being a college student. Apparently though, Batman was just as surprised since he did not seem to remember Babs graduating from high school... *at all*.
On a side note-- doesn't this sort of blow the Babs/Dick relationship idea right out the window? I mean, she's 18 and he's like... 12. xD
/rant.
♥,
Supes
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-04 11:35 pm (UTC)It was almost like an episode of a previous season except for Dick in the opening credits, the mention of the JLA, and Babs now in college!
Very, very strange.
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-04 11:41 pm (UTC)Very strange indeed... xD
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 02:51 am (UTC)Not only Nightwing in that ep, but Joker, whom I find quite amusing in this version of his bad ol' self. :)
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 03:27 am (UTC)But I much prefer Harley Quinn. Hehe. She's so cute; she's the bad girl you love for sure.
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 04:40 am (UTC)Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 04:50 am (UTC)It was aired as Superman: TAS episode World's Finest, 3 parts?
Batman has the best line in there ever. =)
Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 05:01 am (UTC)Re: LOL
Date: 2008-02-05 05:15 am (UTC)I got the Batman/Superman movie for 10 dollars at Toys 'R' Us.
But yeah, Joker is aboard Luthor's plane and it blows up.
Harley goes 'Puddin'' and Batman replies 'At this point, he probably is'
=) I would highly recommend the movie to you if you can find it though. It's amazingly awesome; much better than you would think.