I love this show but I hated pretty much every detail of this episode. It was painful to suffer through idiotic character decisions, unwelcome and uninteresting side plots to add peril, and just all around zero payoff to sitting through it. By halfway through the episode i just could care less if any character survived, not even the kid they put in peril for ultimately no reason whatsoever. I stopped caring about what happened to anyone fairly quickly as not a single character really followed their own character development and was so off the rails i couldn't get into a single decision or POV. First time that's ever happened for me with this show, i have difficulty believing the same writers did this episode.
Ugh... I really really enjoy this show but the three villains in this episode are just gross to watch, like honestly repulsive and not in any regard interesting or enjoyable at all. Nothing like Batman or DC villains, just exceptionally one dimensional psychopaths- evil cult leader, evil CIA agent, evil general. And Martha just puts a bullet in this woman? The Wayne's are both cold blooded killers? It's like a goofy Halloween party not a DC plot. It's cluttered and nonsensical and doesn't adequately harmonize or play with any cannon. I like a lot of spin offs, they don't have to be true to the original, evolution is good but this? Isn't adding anything or going anywhere, it's just dumb. Ultimately it takes away from the texture of the show by removing any stakes and making it just another show where anyone can kill anyone. The whole point of Batman is the contrast between the villains who kill and the Waynes who are healers. Now they're just rich self interested government agent murderers? I mean ok but that sucks and now I'm kinda relieved to know ultimately they get gunned down in an alley because according to this show they both more than have it coming. It's no longer an injustice. And since you can't trust anything you think you know about this IP it's hard to take any of it seriously. It feels like demented fanfic by a serial killer who couldn't grasp the idea some people will not kill, like they were offended by it let alone trying to even grapple with the idea. There's not a single hesitation in any of the murders thus far, not killing has been banished from the plot. In the end, it just makes this show completely irrelevant by making the characters unlikable and that's kinda a dirty thing to do to Alfred which as a character has so many decades of great character development and deserved an honest go at it.
Just watch it on fast forward and the last ten minutes. The whole beginning is just painful and pointless with a ton of wasted opportunity in favor of nonsensical dribble that defies the suspension of disbelief. They've also started to paint Alfred into this sexist and self centered corner I don't particularly love. It's been sprinkled in more and more since the first season, I wouldn't have made it past the pilot if this had been the first episode. I myself am a woman but that doesn't mean i have the compulsion to watch statements on gender inequality in every single thing. If anyone could have been written as a feminist who was unproblematic it could have been Alfred but alas, it's gotta be "historical". Historically not all men were jerks and this is a FANTASY show, I'd have much rather have watched something that was enjoyable and modern. Plenty of ways this whole episode could have been handled and I'm super bummed how bad it came out. Hopefully it's just a one off and next episode rebounds.
Ugh... I really really enjoy this show but the three villains in this episode are just gross to watch, like honestly repulsive and not in any regard interesting or enjoyable at all. Nothing like Batman or DC villains, just exceptionally one dimensional psychopaths- evil cult leader, evil CIA agent, evil general. And Martha just puts a bullet in this woman? The Wayne's are both cold blooded killers? It's like a goofy Halloween party not a DC plot. It's cluttered and nonsensical and doesn't adequately harmonize or play with any cannon. I like a lot of spin offs, they don't have to be true to the original, evolution is good but this? Isn't adding anything or going anywhere, it's just dumb. Ultimately it takes away from the texture of the show by removing any stakes and making it just another show where anyone can kill anyone. The whole point of Batman is the contrast between the villains who kill and the Waynes who are healers. Now they're just rich self interested government agent murderers? I mean ok but that sucks and now I'm kinda relieved to know ultimately they get gunned down in an alley because according to this show they both more than have it coming. It's no longer an injustice. And since you can't trust anything you think you know about this IP it's hard to take any of it seriously. It feels like demented fanfic by a serial killer who couldn't grasp the idea some people will not kill, like they were offended by it let alone trying to even grapple with the idea. There's not a single hesitation in any of the murders thus far, not killing has been banished from the plot. In the end, it just makes this show completely irrelevant by making the characters unlikable and that's kinda a dirty thing to do to Alfred which as a character has so many decades of great character development and deserved an honest go at it.
Just watch it on fast forward and the last ten minutes. The whole beginning is just painful and pointless with a ton of wasted opportunity in favor of nonsensical dribble that defies the suspension of disbelief. They've also started to paint Alfred into this sexist and self centered corner I don't particularly love. It's been sprinkled in more and more since the first season, I wouldn't have made it past the pilot if this had been the first episode. I myself am a woman but that doesn't mean i have the compulsion to watch statements on gender inequality in every single thing. If anyone could have been written as a feminist who was unproblematic it could have been Alfred but alas, it's gotta be "historical". Historically not all men were jerks and this is a FANTASY show, I'd have much rather have watched something that was enjoyable and modern. Plenty of ways this whole episode could have been handled and I'm super bummed how bad it came out. Hopefully it's just a one off and next episode rebounds.
