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Tomk: There were a lot less clues and no Ivy name-dropping like with Scarecrow. It made sense once it was revealed, but I didn’t pick up on it in like the first minute as is the case with some other stories, say featuring Scarecrow.
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Bruce ultimately isn’t when he realizes all the new spouses have green eyes. Jimmy: Obviously there was something going on with Bats for him to so quickly get married and give up being Batman and the title kinda hints at it being pheromones, but we’re you surprised at all with the Ivy reveal? Jimmy: On the DVD there is a deleted scene where that liquid that kills the plant people, melts the Batmobiles tires. Tomk: It’s true though! Every other time she took the car out, it got crushed by a giant bull or ripped apart by a visiting Superman foe! Jimmy: I knew you were going to mention that. Though kudos to Barbara for driving the Batmobile this time without wrecking it. Tomk: Yeah, or at least cut back on the Robin/Batgirl investigation. Maybe not a feature length film, but maybe a two part episode. It seemed like a night had passed, though Bruce says he has been seeing Susan for weeks. I know part of the story was the fast courtship, but even that seemed a bit much. Often they are finding ways to pad three segments of Batman action set pieces and this definitely felt like it could have been more flushed out. But that moment when she sprouts the vines and has that wife line, that stuck with me. There was no real time to develop her as a character or to suggest a real romance. Tomk: It might have helped with a longer running time. That she was alive and didn’t want to die. But at the same time, harkens back to the start of this convo. It’s almost like that sympathetic shot of her is out of place. Tomk: Well, she does have that super creepy line where she says, “I’m your wife.” But that is immediately followed by a shot of Batman scowling and throwing his wedding ring into the ocean. We have that shot of Susan which could make you feel bad for her (though Robin would have likely just melted her anyway had she made it above deck). And at the drop of a hat attempt to kill/abandon their mates and side with Ivy. They do nothing throughout to gain our sympathies. Which, as I think about it, is a nice contrast since I think that character was voiced by Linda Hamilton and we’ve seen some Terminators sink into fire.
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Tomk: But are we supposed to sympathize with them? That last shot of Susan Wayne sinking under the waves…
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Especially when she tears the skin right off one guy. Jimmy: Yes, and no less creepy this time. Hard to say, though, since they could just be mindlessly following Ivy’s orders, and we’ve seen her pull out plant/human clone things before. Jimmy: Fair enough, but not able to speak and carry out complex plans. Jimmy: We touched on this a bit in the Clayface episode, but if the plant people have sentience, consciousness and appear to feel pain…aren’t they alive? And Robin is murdering them left and right on the cruise ship.Īnd yes, we did touch upon that, but regardless of feeling pain, plants are alive anyway. All good things must come to an end, and so Jimmy and Tom finish up The New Batman Adventures with the episodes “Chemistry,” “Beware the Creeper,” and “Judgment Day”.īruce Wayne has met the perfect woman and is giving up being Batman?!? How can that be?!