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Review Oh no, another episode with the Outsiders? That certainly didn’t sound appealing to me, and my low expectations weren’t improved any with the annoying teaser. Batman and Green Arrow take on the rather hideously interpreted Catwoman, but without any pre-establishment whatsoever, they immediately delve into the romance between the Dark Knight and his “Cat Burglar” foe. Not only coming off as pointless and far too forced, it’s incredibly hypocritical as well. In the falsely-titled episode, “Night of the Huntress!” Batman scorns Blue Beetle for letting his romantic interests get in the way. Batman even lets Catwoman eventually get away despite the protests of Green Arrow. If this had been any other hero doing this, then Batman would have spent the entire time verbally ripping them a new hole. Brave and the Bold’s writers dabble into the end-all, be-all stature of Batman. Ironically, the main story involving the Outsiders trio is the redeeming aspect of this episode. The past Outsiders exploits in the show have teetered on the edge of ridiculous and obnoxious, however, this time they’re given the opportunity to be involved in a decent story. Batman comes across Psycho Pirate who is holding the Outsiders in a series of stasis-like pods, and feeding off their anger as he provokes them through nightmares. Not entirely original, but it does differ enough from episodes of previous series that have used similar plots, and keeps a fun aspect throughout it that never gets annoying. Batman has to round up each Outsider and break them out of their nightmares by witnessing each of their tortured memories. This is where you expect it to get into clichéd nightmares for the characters, but fortunately they managed to take a unique approach to them. Out of the three, I have to say I like Katana’s the best even though it was the one that was most borderline-cliched. Metamorpho had nearly the weakest one, but it was still well done – and made this manifestation of Metamorpho somewhat interesting. [ Back to Reviews ] |
