WEBVTT - Batman: The Caped Crusader (Episodes 1-4) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.680 Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for Amazon Primes Batman The 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:23.160 Caped Crusader episodes one through four. Hello, my name is 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.160 Jason Sepsione. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.160 And I am Danny Fernandez, and. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:28.800 Welcome back to the Extra vision of the podcast, when 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.560 we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.279 pop culture. Coming to you from iHeart Podcast, where we're 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.839 bringing you two episodes a week, every Tuesday and Thursday. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.240 In today's episode, we're gonna be breaking down the first 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.280 four episodes of Batman Cape Crusader. I'm gonna be helped 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.120 in that regard by the wonderful Danny Fernandez. Danny, thank 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.600 you so much for helping us out. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:52.560 I am so excited to talk about our detective. Here. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:59.320 Let's throw up the bat single Batman Caped Crusader on 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:06.039 Amazon Prime Video, the spiritual and emotional descendant of Batman, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:11.280 the original animated series. Let's get into it. It's we 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.600 start with episode one in Treacherous Waters, story by Bruce 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:20.040 tim written by Jace Ricci, directed by Christina Soda. Danny, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.920 we have explosions going off across Gotham City. What do 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.160 you think the rent is in Gotham sty like a 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.480 normal studio apartment. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.960 I felt like it's actually not bad. Renee Montoya keeps, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.520 you know, hinting how horrible, and she loves it. She 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.960 loves how you know, gritty this town is, and the 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.720 wealthier people should not be here. So I feel it's pretty, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.440 it's pretty cheap. I do have to say, I'm obsessed 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.520 with this art in the like nineteen forties vibe. They 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.080 just knocked it out of the planet. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.880 Could not agree more So, Explosions are ripping across Gotham City. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.840 There is some sort of new gang war opening up 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.520 against Rupert Thorne, mob boss extraordinaire. Of course, the Batman 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.040 gets involved. Meanwhile, in the Halls of Justice, Harvey Dent 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.480 clashing with Rising Day Barbara Gordon Batman wanting to find 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.919 out more about why are the cops not getting involved 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.760 in the explosions, What do they know about it? Why 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:31.600 is why are details of these explosions not reaching the news, Dabby, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.200 I think it's because the cops are corrupt. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.120 They just might be. Yeah, that feels very Gothamy of 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.160 them and something that Batman Bruce Wayne should know. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.880 So he breaks into PD starts looking around. Then he 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.240 takes a dirty cop dangles of what to find out, Oh, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.320 you know who's behind this? And he gets the name 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:59.000 of Oswalde cobble Pot Oswalde Love Love oswalda rising criminal 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.839 in the mafia hierarchy of Gotham City and also quite 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:08.119 a talented singer, yeah in her own right, also known 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.520 as the Penguin. To find out more, Bruce attends a 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.200 party on Coblepots floating club. The Iceberg Lounge looks pretty swanky. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.120 Also in attendance Commissioner Gordon. Why is Commissioner is he? 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.440 Just look at the talent? The city is incestuous. Everyone 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.520 knows each other. I will say that everyone knows each 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:27.880 other in this city. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.840 These are the problems that the Batman has created himself 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.720 to deal with. So Commissioner Gordon is there? Barbara is there? 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.440 Harvey Dent? Is there? A lot of Gotham's high societies 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.200 at the Iceberg Lounge. The Penguin tries to not very 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.080 subtly troll Thorn, like, oh, it's crazy, all these explosions 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.640 targeting your various headquarters, like what's going on? But then 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.040 Thorn lets slip that actually, like I know all about it. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.360 I know what's going on because I have an informant 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.280 in the gang of whoever it might be that's coming 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.400 against me, and the penguin goes fucking nuts. She figures 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.000 the leak is one of her two sons. It's either Aaron, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.960 her favorite, or Ronald, the more nervous one, and of 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.640 course she kills Aaron, her favorite, but of course it 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:20.839 truth it's Ronald. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.880 Honestly, this happening on the first episode was insane. I 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.479 literally thought Batman was gonna be insane. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.560 I was like, wait, do we just get e merge 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.200 straight out a child right away? 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.320 I'm pretty sure he's like in high school. I'm like, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.560 oh my god. And also Thorn just like, yeah, I 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.560 don't care what happened to this kid. I mean that 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.200 was wow, Yeah. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.919 Very very rough. Ronald fearing for his life and naturally 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.120 so flees. He goes to the cops for protection. They 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:01.719 basically laugh at him. He goes to Barbara Gordon, who 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.520 he I was shocked at how hard Ronald actually had 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:10.240 to pitch himself as an informant to the DA's office, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.400 Like He's like, I know a murders, like I know 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.480 about all this crime stuff, and Barber's like, I don't 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.320 really like, I don't know. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.960 They're just doing their job. Jason. Okay, they're just doing 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:22.440 their job. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.520 That's true. Ronald spills all the beans to the Gordons about, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.800 you know, basically how his mother, the Penguin, is creating 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.520 these explosions. Basically they have like an artillery gun, like 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.880 they have a mortar that they have on top of 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.400 a building, and they're just like firing at whatever target 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:40.680 they want. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:41.800 So how would you not see? 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:47.719 How would you not see? How this is how decrepit 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:48.320 Gotham is. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.040 That's true. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.039 Every day it's like someone is shelling various points in 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:00.240 the city and we can't figure out why. We Well, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.640 the Penguin, now understanding that her son is informing, decides, well, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:09.280 I'm gonna shell the police station. Okay. Batman gets extremely 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.000 active to foil the plan. Meanwhile, the Gordons rush to 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.599 evacuate the police station. And it's a good thing too, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.359 because Batman, this is Batman. You're one Batman maybe like 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.640 Batman Month three, Batman, Like. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.520 We disagree about that? 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.640 You do tell me why you think? 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.960 Because he has a whole layer like, there's no, this 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.000 is not year one Batman. He did not have that 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.400 suit Okay, he was like very kick ass attire. I'm 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.840 gonna say that much like even what we saw, not 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.720 to spoil, but ahead of Catwoman. When I saw her outfit, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.279 I'm like, yeah, you would die like she it's like 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.600 a dress with like I'm like, okay, yeah, that's her 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.320 day one. This Batman, though, has figured some stuff out. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.960 He's been doing this for at least. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.359 Two years, you think two years now. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.080 Also his mobile, you don't have that. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.680 Day sick rich guy, but rich guys, it's just like 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.320 you just like I'll get the mobile. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.040 Like he had like a what is something he had, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.840 like a Ferrari that he put bat ears on. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.200 He had like a yeah, it was like a like 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.800 a Porsche or a Ferrari or something. Yeah, like a 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.040 Bentley that said ears. Here's my argument. Not a lot 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.240 of people seem to be aware that the Batman is 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.320 is out there working. The cops have yet to target him. Okay, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:36.600 Selena is like known as a sketchy person but hasn't 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.240 gone full Catwoman yet, and they don't know each other 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:45.240 yet personally, and so it feels, let's put it anywhere 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.680 within the first two years, but it's certainly very early 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.880 in his crime fighting career. He's still getting the hang 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:56.120 of stuff. Although to your point, has the wonderful bat caves, 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.080 all his weapons, has all the weapons, has like the 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.400 tactical like beat out board, and all the computer stuff, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.120 so he has like all he does have all. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.800 The hardware preseason preseason football. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.640 So Batman does manage to like stop the penguin, but 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.160 the penguin gets a shell off levels the police station 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.480 and Barbara has to tell her dad, Commissioner Gordon, that yes, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.480 the Batman is real. Bump bump, bump back home. Batman 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.040 is like Alfred I failed, which she shelled the police station. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.960 I didn't catch any criminals. I did fight like a 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.160 couple of hench people, and that's it. I fucked up. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:44.960 I love the kind of very dark, almost bittersweet tone 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.719 of this episode in the overall series, where it's like 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.400 Batman kind of like fighting against the tide. It's like 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.080 unclear that he's actually making a dent in any of 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:54.680 this stuff. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.720 Yeah, I do love that he like, you know, there's 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.520 a scene where he like punches out the cops later 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.360 on and they're like, are you sure you want that 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:03.800 in the paper. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:04.440 He's like sure. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.920 I love I love morally ambiguous characters, and I love 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.360 that about Batman. I love that he takes the law 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.080 into his own hands, which technically makes him a villain. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.000 Whenever people I'm such a troll, I've also written for DC, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.840 so I feel like I'm allowed to say this. But 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.480 whenever I'm such a troll that whenever people post, well, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 who is your favorite DC villain, I always say Batman 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.199 and people won't get so mad. He's the best villain. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.800 He's a billionaire who has convinced you to be to 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.840 root for him. That's a villain. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.520 I mean he is absolutely he's certainly outside of the law. Yeah, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.120 and I think definitionly, you're absolutely correct. Not only is 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:47.600 he outside of the law, he is doing stuff because 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.559 he's a psycho like. He is doing this because he 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.280 is an unhinged human being. Right as this show will 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.600 delve into, we continue episode one on two and be 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.520 Villain written by Greg Rucka, directed by Matt Peters. Actress 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:11.400 extraordinaire noted scream Queen Yvonne Francis goes missing the police 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.000 dragon Bruce Wayne, local billionaire, because Bruce went on a 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.120 date with her, As of course Bruce did. Bruce is 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.079 eager to keep the family name out of this, and 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.480 money is no object. He tells Detective Montoya, who renamed 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.040 Montoya currently on the case. Montoya is like, how fucking 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.240 dare you? Your fucking piece of shit? Are you fucking kidding? 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.760 You're lucky I don't bring you in right now. If 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.800 I didn't have a million other things to do, I'd 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.040 bring you it, you fucking asshole, How dare you? Which, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.319 of course Bruce Wayne. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.640 Loves he loves a feisty woman. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.320 In the middle of the interview, Lucius Fox, Wayne's attorney 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.679 shows up and is like, A you're talking about client, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.600 what the fuck? Shut it down? Wayne? Of course, like 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.440 you know, puts a little star next to Montoya's name, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.000 knowing that maybe this is someone I can ally with 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:10.280 in the future. Montoya brings her investigation to Basil Carlow. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.360 A love the name. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.000 I love the name, great mouse, detective. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.120 Love that noted actor in many horror films. And a 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.080 guy who's aging. I think he looks great, but let's 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.160 just put it out there right now. It's part of 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.680 the plots. He's getting up there. He isn't naturally aging. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.720 Jason. I think you're part of the plot is that 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:40.080 he's just always been ugly to people. Okay, I think 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.720 he I like, what's so funny? Yeah, back in the forties, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.400 you can't look like this. But now I'm like, oh, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:49.200 he could have worked. I don't know, like Alan Rickman, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.280 who I think is more attractive, but like very Alan 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.400 Rickman vibes so Bori. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:59.960 Basil is an ugly guy. Renee gets to Basil's apart 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.400 but just nowhere just want to. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.880 Say, It's like, yeah, only you weren't so ugly, Like 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.480 that's how the whole episode is, like, like his career 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.560 and his love life is like, you would be if 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.439 you weren't so ugly, you would be. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.480 The You'd be the greatest star of this, of stage 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.760 and screen, Basle, if only if the folds in your 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:25.600 face weren't so so dramatic. Renna hears him cry out. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.040 She goes in. He stabbed the death Batman chases the murderer, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.040 who is this weirdo with a mangled face under a 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.560 red scarf. Murderer gets away. Elsewhere, we see that Yvonne 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:42.000 is chained up in a luxurious bedroom and her captors 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.560 are applying makeup to her horrific situation. Later red Scarf 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.120 Guy kills the head of Monuscope Pictures, where Yvonne worked. 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.440 Montoya learns that the late Basle was concerned about how 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.920 ugly he was, and also, I have to say, was 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.760 treat like the way people talked about it about it 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.199 was terrible, right. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.200 Right, they're like gaslighting him. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:09.000 Yeah, they're just totally gaslighting about it, and it's it's horrible. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.920 And desperate for better roles to be that that star 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.320 that he always imagined himself to be, he went so 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:22.280 far as to pursue some sort of experimental facial treatment 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.520 that may or may not have been some sort of 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.880 scam some clear if it word. Batman confronts the mass 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.760 man on the studio a lot. It's clear that this 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.640 mass person has access to the studio a lot. Somehow, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.840 they duel with swords on the set and a wonderful, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.040 so incredible set piece that really like. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.839 There was a shit where the shadows were dueling so great. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.520 Oh, it was so cool, shades of like, uh, the 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:47.719 the thirties. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.880 Yeah, like Three Musketeers or Costner's Robin Hood where they 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.520 yield in a little castle. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.760 So so cool. Unfortunately, the set collapses on Batman and 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.760 the man gets away. Under the set, Batman finds two 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.200 of the people that Detective Montoya had recently interviewed, like 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.800 less than an hour ago, and they're dead. Montoya goes 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.880 to see the doctor Ellman, this seemingly crooked plastic surgeon 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.080 that had been dealing with mister Carlo. Meanwhile, Batman discovers 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.720 that the late mister Carlo, who has a rubber, very 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:32.200 rubbery face, is in fact not Carlo. Is Carlo the killer? 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.840 Who is this guy? Doctor Ellman turns out to be 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.480 Carlo in disguise. He takes Detective Montoya prisoner. He tells 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.240 her the whole story. Ellman gave him the miracle cure, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.160 and for a time it worked, for a very it 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.680 he looked great, he looked wonderful, looked incredible. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.080 You just couldn't be in eighty degree weather. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.400 Yeah, or his face would melt, which it quickly did. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.680 After he goes to see Yvonne to say, look how 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.880 great I look, she rejects Carlo his a face. His 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.840 face immediately just starts like melting and sloughing and changing shape. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.120 Carlo can now mold his face to impersonate anyone. But obviously, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.640 as we mentioned heat is heat and prolonged exposure to. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:20.760 Sunlight again heartbreak apparently, Yeah, like his emotional status is 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.120 a problem. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.800 He next plans to dramatically murder Yvonne to become the 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.320 villain that he believes himself that he's gonna murder her 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.320 in this very Edgar Allan pope hit in a pendulum 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:36.080 kind of way. And I love what happens next. Yvonne, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:42.320 facing danger and death, fucking goes in on Basil, like, no, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.320 you know what, I didn't The performance was thin, it's weak. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.400 I don't buy you as a as a villain, as 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.000 a evil mastermind. I'm just not getting it. I'm not 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.400 It's not there, Basil. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:57.880 I love it. All you have to do is turn 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.960 down men and they crumble. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:06.240 Heat and Basil, Basil absolutely crumbles. Montoya frees Yvonne as 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.280 Batman shows up, defeats Basil. Montoya tries to take Batman 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.320 in of course, after the end of all this, but 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.520 of course he slips away once again. The Batman is free. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.000 What a wonderful episode. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.320 I love I love the called old Hollywood. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:27.400 I love it. Yeah, and the the you know, the 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.400 the continuing nods to the pulpy nature of this series, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:38.840 which again is not a actual sequel to the original 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.800 Batman animated series, but like, spiritually it feels as if, like, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.720 did you love Batman the animated series when you were 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.440 a kid? Can you imagine if I was like, no, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.240 but this is like you loved it when you were 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.280 a kid, and now here's this and it's grown up 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.840 thematically at least with you, even though you could still like. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.320 It's grown up thematically, but yes, you can still and 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.000 that's great that. I mean, that's what I think is 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.360 really nice with quote unquote like kids, Like they don't 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.399 want to watch something that's made for twelve year olds. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.560 They want to watch the thing that's made for adults 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.880 that there is still accessible to them and treats them, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.320 you know, like they're intelligent. So it's a full family affair, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.840 except for the fact that Bruce Wayne has to let 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.199 everyone know that he's constantly getting laid, which I'm obsessed with. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.359 I'm like constantly talking about constantly like sorry. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.000 It was up late with a woman last night. You 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.920 just you know, I love that he's dated everybody in town. 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.440 It's very ancestor to his town. It's it's it's funny 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.159 because Gotham so isolated and it feels like a small 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.600 like Texas town, even though it's a city. It's a 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.800 full blown city, but everybody knows each other. You cannot escape. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:18:05.159 It's Hotel California. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:18:09.480 Ye. This brings us to I think my favorite episode 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:14.399 of this first four episodes of the season, Kiss of 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.680 the Cat Woman, story by Edbrew Baker and Bruce tim 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.280 written by a Dama Ebo. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.080 And Adona, who are very good friends of mine. They're 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.600 the EPs of a show that I'm developing, and they 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.840 wrote two. I think they wrote two episodes. I haven't 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.520 finished the full season, but I've at least seen their 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:29.080 name twice. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.840 Directed by Christopher Berkeley. We open it a at the 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:39.480 museum where there is this wonderful exhibit of fine jewelry 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.680 and of course suspected jewel thiefs. Lena Kyle is there, 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:47.200 as is Bruce Wayne. They strike up a conversation, very 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:51.600 flirty conversation. Of course, she asks him out. She's like, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.400 don't you think it's time? Like you've dated everybody else 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:56.639 ran through this whole town. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.920 Why has he not? I would like to know what's 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:00.399 going on. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:07.359 Uh, this incredible chemistry is interrupted when Wayne overhears a 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:13.840 reporter making a cruel but honestly not that out of 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:20.119 pocket remark about the Wayne's end the wisdom of sauntering 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.720 into crime Ali wearing all your fucking jewelry. I do 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.159 have to say this is it's victim blaming, but I 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.400 guess it's victim blaming. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.760 Yes, and this is a noted you know joke repeatedly 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.400 in Batman canon and Batman movies and shows about them 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.400 going into which I want to say, it's not actually 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.680 crime alley is what it's the nickname for it, exus Like, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.639 why would you go into crime aalley? 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.000 It's not it was not actually crime alley Like all this, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:47.360 although they are. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.280 Pretty there is an Edward e Enigma. I wonder who 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.240 did it. I wonder if it's Edward Enigma. There are 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.560 stuff like that in Batman. But yeah, it's not actually 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.480 crime Ali, and it is victim blaming. Jason should be 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.840 allowed to wear what she wants. It's correct, wherever she wants. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:09.800 That's right. Bruce snaps punches the guy and has to 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.719 attend court ordered anger manager because of this, so he 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.919 ends up at the therapist's office, and his therapist is 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:24.560 doctor doctor Quinzel, pre clown Harley Quinn. And these are 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:29.160 my favorite scenes of these of the of the season 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.679 so far. I just love Bruce absolutely dodging therapy, acting 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.240 like he shouldn't be there. He has not like, well, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.640 I'm fine. What are you talking about? My sex life 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.119 is is popping off? Donnie? You can't meat meat problems? What? 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.440 I am fine? I am past it. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.480 Yes, my parents were brutally slain in front of my eyes. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.359 I moved on from that. And I moved on from that, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:21:00.359 you know, by by diving into the welcoming all arms 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:07.119 of every woman in Gotham City and rub and I'm fine, 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.840 I'm fine. Later in the car ride from the office, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.720 Alfred is like, you know been. I have been wanting 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.760 you to go to therapy for a while. I hope 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.639 you take it. How was it? And Bruce is just 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.320 like shut the flock. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.359 He's like, drop it, drop it. Honestly, that's kind of 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:31.359 on Alfred though he should have taken him to therapy 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.000 when he was little, Like that's a little on Alfred, 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:34.439 I will have to. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.040 Say completely agree with you. I would say it's a 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.040 lot on Alfred, who has been from the flashbags. We 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:48.359 know a betting Master Wades diversions and his toxic response 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.400 to trauma has been absolutely supporting this all the way. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.200 That said, I get it. Alfred's in a tough spot. 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.960 He needs the job and he does care about Master Wade, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.399 but still he gets shut it. I mean, Bruce shuts 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.200 him the fuck down. He's like, yeah, it's fucking this. 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.440 This lady's trying to get in my head that I'm fine. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.120 I'm not gonna let her in my head. Out her job, 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:15.480 it is literally what she's there to do. He opens 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:17.879 up his file that he got from doctor Quinzell and 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.800 he get in. There's a little card in there. Basically 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.320 the doc is like, you know, you know, please come back, 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.440 like I think we're getting somewhere, and Bruce clearly receives 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.760 this as ladies, they can't they can't stop, they can't 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:32.960 stop coming for Big b. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:36.879 Are you saying he's the guy that thinks the stripper 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:37.400 likes him. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.040 There's a side of Bruce Wayne and it's like, here 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:41.640 we go again. 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:43.639 They're coming out, ladies. 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:44.200 What can I do? 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.000 I have to say, I do think that doctor Quinzel 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.720 would sleep with him, so I it might happen. Her 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:55.480 boundaries are you know she doesn't have any boundaries? What Harley. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.119 The very skilled, But yeah, I think the boundaries or 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:06.879 an issue. Later in Selina Kyle's still luxurious apartment, do 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:11.960 we see that Greta, her domestic is, you know, giving 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.440 her shit for back payments and the fact that the 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.680 bills aren't paid and clearly money is an issue. Taking 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:23.280 inspiration from Batman, Selena makes her first catwoman costume and 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.440 then immediately goes on a fucking hot streak of jewel. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.040 Heis like knocking off places left and right. She's like 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:33.040 raking it in. After evading the cops on her latest heist, 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:37.000 she finds herself face to face with Batman, who she's like, hello, I. 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:41.400 Know it would be hot, yeah, both of them, cause plane, yeah, 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:42.680 are you feeling this? 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.879 Bats By the only one that's feeling this. Batman trips 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.280 her with a bowlo wire and she gets arrested. Selena, 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:52.880 it's unmasked and everybody's like, oh my god, it's Selena Kyle. 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.919 We get various bat story flashbacks, which. 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:57.680 Is played by Christina Ricci. 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:02.879