Quotes
GORDON: Bruce Wayne! Stop where you are!
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GORDON: Oh no, Wayne. No vanishing act this time. . .
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NIGHTWING: I never thought it would end this way. For us or for Barbara.
I still don't know everything that happened.
BATMAN: I'll never forget. I can see it as clearly as my parents' murder.
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BATMAN TRIES TO COMFORT GORDON.
BULLOCK: That's as far as you'll go, murderer.
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BRUCE: Yes?
GORDON: Wayne.
BRUCE: Commissioner. What can I do for you?
GORDON: Drop the act. Ten minutes on Barbara's computer told me everything. Like a fool I allowed you to run wild on your private crusade. A psychotic misfit playing masked hero. Now I've payed for it with Barbara's life.
BRUCE: Jim, believe me, I know how you feel.
GORDON: You can't.
BRUCE: You know how I lost my parents. The only way I could hold onto my own sanity was to take matters into my own hands.
GORDON: That makes us even.
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BRUCE LOOKS AT THE PORTRAIT OF HIS PARENTS.
BRUCE: I'm sorry.
HE RETREATS INTO THE CAVE.
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BATMAN: It's over, Tim. Gordon feels betrayed and maybe he was. He won't give up until he gets me. You have to leave me now. Give yourself up. No one will blame you for what happened.
TIM: What about you?
BATMAN: I don't know.
BATMAN RETREATS INTO THE SHADOWS. TIM RUNS AWAY.
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BANE: I'm pleased you remembered me, Mr. Wayne. You can't believe how
I've looked forward to this though I was hoping for more of a fight though what should I expect from a killer of children. We fight to the death?
BATMAN: It makes no difference now.
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BANE: Please, give you dear Barbara a kiss for me.
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BATMAN: Please, Jim. For Barbara.
BATMAN OFFERS GORDON HIS HAND. GORDON TAKES IT.
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GORDON: Keep cooking like that, you'll have me looking like Harvey
Bullock.
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GORDON: All you need to know is that I love you. All of you.
Review: This episode was ruined in two ways. Number one – the Hype. There was too much hype and word on the Internet about this and the surprise ending was ruined. Number Two –
The idea behind the ending of this story was used to the same effect before in Perchance To Dream. If this episode came before Perchance To
Dream, it would have been better, but the two episodes existing in the same series is just a cheap way of ending the latter – Over The Edge. Without the ending in mind, the episode was fantastic. There was some very powerful scenes between Gordon and Batman / Bruce Wayne. Plus the fight with Bane at the end was great. He also had one of the most 'evil' lines in the episode "Please, give you dear Barbara a kiss for me." That just made his character more cold-blooded. There were also some great symbols such as the final fight held under the Batsignal, and the title itself had many meanings, from Batgirl and Gordon and the literal sense, to Batman possibly going insane, or perhaps Gordon himself losing it. The animation was great, especially the work in CGI that was used when needed to heighten scenes. It was great during the Boat chase, and it was used nicely to give the effect of vertigo at the end when Gordon is hanging on the building.
Although the story was great, (and many of you will hate me for this) it is going to lose marks for the cheap way out of the story previously used. |
