Written by Jordan Weiss
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton
Batman (to Harley): "Some things never change, Quinn."
Unfortunately for Harley, she had to learn that lesson the very hard though going by the events of this episode. Much as I'd preferred not to have seen her nearly get back with the Joker and suckered into his web of horror, it somewhat made sense that this episode went there.
Harley's achieved her goal by joining the Legion of Doom and the moment she managed to shoot down on his ideas for a tower, she put a target on her back for him to screw things up for her. By the end of this episode, she lost her crew and worse of all, isolated herself from Ivy, which put the latter in danger to boot.
The romantic scenes with Harley and Joker in the past would've been fine to sit through but given how much the character has evolved in pop culture in the last few years, it did feel like a step back and even Harley should've been more aware that he was going to betray her the first chance he got. Hopefully this time with the losses she had to endure this episode, she'll realise that he's no good for her.
As for the crew themselves - I did like their side plot with Bane. Bane's as wonderfully theatrical as Clayface but unfortunately, it was King Shark who suffered the fallout of Bane not thinking his own mission of revenge out properly. Saying that though - why didn't Dr Psycho use his own telepathy during this particular heist?
As for Ivy - she wanted to take down Planetwide Pavers and reluctantly agreed to let Harley help her only for the latter to be caught up by the Joker, so Ivy went to wreck the place by herself and got captured. For now, I think it was Lex who deliberately set that trap up for Ivy. Harley better get her back next week.
- Fairly sure that Dr Psycho said something racist to piss Black Manta off during Lex's video introducing the Legion of Doom.
- Frank really does need to be added into the main DC comic universe. He's the right hand man that Ivy could do with.
- A few callbacks to the opening episode this week during the latest betrayal of the Joker there.
- Chronology: Not long from where the previous episode left off.
A Seat At The Table certainly saw everything go wrong when Harley found herself separated from her real friends this week with even Batman having to point out that things don't change. Still though, I'm wondering if Harley will actually quit the Legion or be thrown out by Lex when he gets tired of having her around.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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