Thursday, August 24, 2023

My Review of Harley Quinn's 4x07: "Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise"

 


Written by Alexis Quasarano
Directed by Brandon McKinney

Ivy (re Time Sphere): "We're six days in the future."
Harley: "They made it too fancy."

Welp, it's a future based episode and we know what usually happens in those ones. A post apocalyptic nightmare and one that Harley and Ivy might have caused, but mostly it's down to Lex Luthor.

Saying that, Harley and Ivy not being on the same page might have also added to the messy situation given that in the year 2048 they have a daughter named Neytiri, who's a bit of both of them. On the flip side, she's also a traitor to both parents as well.

Yes, all it took for Neytiri to betray her mothers to a control freak Robin was a bag of dirt. Dirt that then got used to scupper Damien's plans to freeze Harley and Ivy for his own personal collection while King Baby helped both Harley and Ivy to get back into the Time Sphere.

Speaking of the Time Sphere, Ivy's motives for stealing it were more down to having for decorative purposes while Harley fed up of no one taking her sleepwalking plot seriously hijacked Ivy's operation. That led to the events of this episode, the two of them working their problems and an apocalypse happening while they were gone.

As for the rest of the episode, the Nightwing murder took an interesting turn. After bragging about clipping the original Boy Wonder's wings, it turned out that Joker didn't actually do it after all. Something which Batgirl also exposed to Dr Psycho's audience a little too happily as well.

With three episodes left we've got three things to resolve. The apocalypse that's currently happening, Harley's sleepwalking story and of course who killed Nightwing. Let's hope for good results for these stories.

- Jim Gordon really does love babysitting the shark babies, even if he lets them play with his gun.
- Nora wearing an Ivy wig to counter the IRS while Superman and Wonder Womam stepped in to try and stop the Cobb Squad getting the Time Sphere.
- The episode's title is a reference to Avatar. Same with Harley and Ivy's daughter.
- Chronology: September 21st then 27th, 2023 as well as 2048.

Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise had fun with it's central idea while also laying the groundwork for the final three episodes (assuming the apocalypse plot isn't quickly resolved next week).  This was another good one.

Rating; 8 out of 10

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