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Review
In this quirky and fun episode we first find Batman all the way through space on the Green Lantern home world of
Oa, helping out the infamously hot-headed Guy Gardner.
Despite Batman’s warnings Gardner insists on picking up a diminutive alien escorted by the always popular and towering Kilowog. Eventually Gardner exposes the creature to liquid that causes it to get larger and far more vicious, in so doing it begins to wreak havoc throughout the facility including the lunch room. Though hilarious and fun, it is puzzling that with so many great Green Lanterns present such as the esteemed Ch’p cannot manage to take the creature down. It’s only until
Batman gets involved does the situation become resolved.
Granted, Batman is the highlight of the show, but it was rather disappointing to see the Green Lanterns dumbed down a bit. This opening – as usual – has nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
The main plot of the episode starts off with Batman responding to a jailbreak and several inmates with familiar faces (some more than others) fleeing to freedom. Among them are several cameo appearances from the golden days of the
Adam West Batman. To our delight Batman gets help in the form of the illustrious Green Arrow, speeding in on the most inconveniently shaped and sized vehicle ever.
Seriously, there is no way it fits in one lane. Of course, Batman has a fond friendship with the Green
Arrow as they pass back and forth friendly barbs (or arrows?) regarding who can capture the most. Batman in his internal thoughts admits the childishness of it, which actually helped what would have otherwise been a strange and disappointing aspect of their team-up.
After they’ve recaptured all the criminals and are going over their headcount, an elderly inmate makes his late run, but as they attempt to apprehend him he transports them into the past and reveals that he’s
Merlin. This is all fun and fascinating; however, it was a bit annoying that they never explained not only what he was doing in the prison, but also as to why he was running -away- from them? Although Green Arrow doesn’t take him seriously, he goes on to explain that Camelot was attacked by King Arthur’s half-sister Morgaine Le
Fey, in which neither him nor Merlin were a match for and all people of Camelot were turned to stone.
Supposedly the two are deemed worthy to rescue Camelot from it’s stone-cold fate by retrieving the sword from the stone, but Merlin doesn’t say which one it is.
Morgaine, keeping a watchful eye over all of this, sends the demon Etrigan to stop them from reaching
Excalibur. When Etrigan proves no match for the trio,
Morgaine decides to up the stakes by possessing Batman and giving him the coolest set of armor ever. This causes conflict obviously as he battles against his friend Green Arrow, however, Batman manages to overcome the spell. Neither one is worthy enough to remove
Excalibur by himself, but the two of them remove it together and thus defeat Morgaine. Overall it’s a pretty entertaining episode and keeps the show surprisingly decent despite mostly keeping the maturity in the overtones. The animation continues to be surprising at times as it wants you to believe it’s yet another simplistic style, yet it still manages to give plenty of detail. Too bad the same couldn’t be said about the CGI, which there is fortunately none of in this episode.
Also, that Bat-armor was flipping awesome.
“Prison Sequence” Cameos
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