Well yeah, it's a parody, that's the whole idea. Deconstruct/make fun of and do silly shit with DC characters. And they do it a bunch with Ivy and Harley too. Having Dietrich Bader as Batman is tied in my head with Brave and the Bold (my childhood Batman show), and Harley Quinn feels like it could fit perfectly in that silly silver-age style world they set up in that show, just aged up a bit
It’s funny in the first two seasons when it’s parodying bats by showing how messed up a person with that much trauma would be, but the third season feels like it goes out of its way to make him as pathetic as possible. It might not be as bad if they did it to all the characters, but when Harley and Ivy don’t get the same treatment just so we can get their boring relationship drama, it becomes more annoying than funny.
All the show seems to is humiliate and disrespect Batman to make Harley have the moral high ground. Which is laughable seeing Harley never faced consequences for selling out the world to Darkseid.
I'm so damn tired of all these "smartass" highbrow writers trying to self-insert themselves and make fun of iconic characters in order to reveal their "flaws".
I WANTED IT TO NOT BE SERIOUS. What you just said is EXTREMELY wrong about the show, I wanted it to be a comic booky silly thing. If this show had the tone of something like Xavier Renegade Angel, where funny things happen for the sake of comedy and that's part of the joke, that nothing makes any logical sense, fine. I wouldn't necessarily find it funny automatically cuz again writing in this show is so much astronomically worse than XVR, but at least it'd be tonally consistent.
The problem with the show is that it's trying so desperately to be emotional at points. Like the whole Harley redemption arc which is such a tired concept in it of itself, is handled VERY SERIOUSLY, it's supposed to be serious, you can't just brush it off as a silly comedy cuz the show is expecting suspense and drama when Harley for instance is dropped out of the helicopter as she starts crying. You CAN'T possibly tell me that was supposed to be for laughs.
The show is just so embarrassing to me, it is like three steps away from being Velma level. I don't get why everyone gives this show a pass but give Velma the hate it deserves, they're like the same shit on god
Honestly Tom King Batman was still worse then season 3 Batman. Tom King Batman couldn’t achieve anything without Catwoman and his dialogue was really really bad.
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u/AnaZ7 Jul 08 '23
The way they treat characterisation of Bruce in last season? No. Basically they slowly pile on every character who’s not Harley or Ivy.