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- From: aa396@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill Henley)
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- Subject: Re: Christmas with the Joker
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:01:29 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- This was the FIRST episode of BTAS to remind me of (gasp!
- shudder!) the live-action BATMAN with Adam West. (This is not
- a compliment!) This was mainly due to Batman addressing Robin
- with lines like "Robin, I think there's more here than meets
- the eye," while looking at a huge Christmas box with a Joker
- face on it. This episode indicates to me the wisdom of the
- show's producers in making Robin only an occasional character;
- somehow the relationship of the two is an irresistible
- temptation to campiness.
-
- Also, even though this is "only a cartoon," it strains my
- credibility to see the Joker creating all these huge gadgets
- and effects which in real life would require dozens of people
- and a budget of millions of dollars to create. (Maybe the
- Joker gets his equipment ready-made from the Acme company,
- like Wile E. Coyote?)
-
- Also, I missed Joker's sidekickette Harlie Quinn. She's
- cute.
-
- All in all, one of this series' less successful episodes.
-
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- Bill Henley, Assistant Sysop, Cleveland Free-Net Science Fiction
- & Fantasy SIG (aa396)
-