Merciel wrote:"
"His Silicon Soul": This one of the most poignant BTAS episodes, maybe the most poignant. Robot Batman being in agony about how and why he's a robot, and begging everybody to fix him, is just searing. And then he gets dominated by his creator HARDAC and hijacked into doing evil, and then he takes the chip out and regains partial mastery of himself and suicides because he thinks he killed somebody.
so sad
Merciel wrote:SEASON ONE EPISODE TWENTY-SEVEN: "Mad as a Hatter"
I finally looked this up on IMDB and realized that Amazon has all the Season 1 episodes out of order. This is supposed to be ep. 24, between "The Forgotten" (which was way earlier for us) and "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy."
Why does Amazon have the episodes out of order? You would never show any other series like this. Why did they reshuffle the episodes on BTAS?
Anyway the reason I looked it up is because I wanted to see who did the Mad Hatter. I thought it might be Pooh/Kaa but it is not, it's Ratty from Wind in the Willows. So I was wrong but pretty close.
This is a much better episode than the last one. I guess Paul Dini probably wrote a lot of the best ones.
This was a very satisfying proto-Jessica Jones storyline: good villain development, good stalker escalation from the excessively Nice Guy (who thinks nothing of abusing other people, of course, but insists that he'll treat his One True Love specially) --> direct relationship sabotage via mind-controlling the boyfriend --> just straight-up hijacking Alice's brain because he does not, in fact, value her as an independent person and just wants her as a possession. I liked that the Hatter (a) blamed Batman for "making me do this" and (b) blamed his homely looks for keeping him from happiness, when in fact what we hear from Alice is that he was just so quiet that she never even knew how he felt (hence the friend zoning, which of course the Hatter can't take).
So everything is (of course) down to the Hatter's own behavior, but he refuses to see that and blames externalities for all his own actions.
ain't that always the way with these guys
The Alice in Wonderland shout-outs were pretty good too. Making the boss the Red Queen was obvious but still good, and the appearance of the jabberwocky (plus the show trusting us enough to believe we'll get that it's the jabberwocky without having to be told explicitly) was solid.
good times
Shotfrog wrote:Merciel wrote:SEASON TWO EPISODE TWO: "Perchance to Dream"
Huh, I did not realize Joe Lansdale wrote for BTAS.
This is a pretty wild episode. I liked how profoundly horrific the messed-up text in the books and newspapers was. It's a very Lansdale touch and it's super effective in conveying that kind of Lovecraftian dread where the world is subtly but profoundly wrong and you stumble upon that wrongness in a way that breaks your brain (at least if you're an adult; Stephen King observed in It that kids have more flexible minds and will just accept and work around the insanity that breaks adults, which I've always thought is a neat observation that I'd like to do something with. But anyway!).
I felt a little bad for the Mad Hatter here. He really was willing to give Batman his first-edition Matrix utopia. He could so easily have killed Batman, but he didn't. And this is the thanks he gets!
Overall this is a real weird episode that's heavy on atmospherics and makes zero sense plot-wise, which is about what I expect from Lansdale. Good times.
This is my favorite episode. It burrowed real deep into my psyche. I think about it all the time.
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