Additional Images Review What’s this? A silhouette pair of unmasked heroes? A sliding door revealing a secret passageway? Starting off with some of the most prominent references to the Adam West and Burt Ward days, this teaser immediately pulls you in to enjoy the classic Batman and Robin team-up. This time to battle the colors-obsessed villain Crazy Quilt. Unfortunately, this is where the episode begins it’s slow but definite downfall. Batman and Robin exchange puns and taunts with Crazy Quilt as they have to dodge a tank outfitted with a strange rainbow-beam weapon that never really comes off as threatening. Oddly, Crazy Quilt meets a blinding defeat when Robin uses a mirror to reflect the beam back towards the villain, and he’s overwhelmed with the light. This is actually rather problematic, though, as we just saw the beam bounce off a mirror surface and destroy what it was reflected to – meaning Crazy Quilt should’ve lost more than his sight. The teaser ends with the dynamic duo happy as usual with their dual defeat of the maniacal villain. Sadly, none of that is reflected to the rest of the episode. As it starts off with a slightly more interesting use of Solomon Grundy than the teaser of “Night of the Huntress!” Robin – now sole protector of Bludhaven – responds to the police call for “big back-up” and takes no time in defeating Grundy, all the while sporting a rather unique and underrated costume based on his Earth-2 appearance. Fans are quite split on the costume design, but I find it to be one of the few good things about this episode. After the defeat of As Batman forces the pair to team up, they go after Crazy Quilt and they’re both certain that he is out for revenge. Now, if you’ve been following this series closely then you’ll be left wondering why this is such a big deal when Crazy Quilt was already on the loose in “Day of the Knight!” As the writers have done, however, let’s just ignore this and move on. To counter-balance and attempt to justify Robin’s angst, the writers have turned Batman into an utter jerk which never comes off as wholly convincing, and simply leaves An unfortunate side-effect, though, as Crazy Quilt comes off as simply an after-thought to the Boy Whiner dynamic. Despite being voiced by the legendary Jeffrey Tambor, he never seems of real significance, especially as his role is simply repeated from the teaser. Combine that with the ignored first appearance from “Day of the Knight,” and you have a completely disappointing villain, for an almost completely disappointing episode. I recommend just watching the teaser. [ Back to Reviews ] |
