Saturday, September 03, 2022

My Review of Harley Quinn's 3x08: "Batman Begins Forever"

 


Written by Jamieson Borak
Directed by Vinton Heuck

Harley: "Holy shit, you're -"
Bruce: "I'm Batman."

Crime Alley, huh? It's been likely less than five minutes since we've had some depiction of it in something and here, we've got Harley rooting around in Bruce's memories courtesy of a returning Doctor Psycho. I mean, this is the third time Psycho has helped into someone's mind. You'd think lessons would've been learned by now but seemingly not.'

To find Frank, entering the uncooperative Bruce's mind was the only thing to do. Of course for Harley and company, it meant reliving that scene in Crime Alley over and over again. Until Everyone else got kicked out of Bruce's head and Harley had to remain to help the troubled guy out.

I mean this was a brilliant way for not only some delightful nods to things such as Batman 66, Batman: The Animated Series as well as certain live action movies but also it was a great way for Harley to find out that Bruce and Batman are the same person while the pair of them tried to escape from Joe Chill. Of course you can never really escape the past.

Bruce's own guilt being the real chasing them was pretty obvious but effective. For all her goofing around, Harley did seem committed to helping Bruce as vest as she could and it did seem like she was getting a little through to him. As for Bruce's reasons for stealing Frank in the first place, that certainly took an interesting turn as well to boot.

Bruce thinking he can take Ivy's general plans for Frank by resurrecting his parents does feel like something Bruce would normally be against. I'm surprised even in this continuity that Alfred, Robin, Batgirl and Nightwing are going along with it and by the looks of it, it does appear that Bruce might have made a massive mistake with this plan.

- The opening credits were styled like Frasier as Doctor Psycho had become a radio therapist/podcaster. Killer Croc is a bigger hit though.
- King Shark sat out most of this episode and retreated to his kingdom while Clayface tried to get some information out of Thomas Wayne in Bruce's memories.
- Congrats to the show on scoring a fourth season. Nice to know these next two episodes won't be the last.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.

Batman Begins Forever was a fun way to cover some very familiar ground and like mind trips episodes we've had in the past, this one was another massive hit. Easily the best episode we've had this season and I'm hoping the last two will deliver.

Rating: 9 out of 10

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