User Reviews

The last few episodes have been a surprisingly gripping improvement for an otherwise serialized, edge-of-your-seat, laugh out loud animated program. Harley's journey since her journey to Bane's therapy pit has hit a much more somber tone that we're used to, but it doesn't dispose of its humor or its characters to achieve its dramatic arcs. Nearly everything in this show feels earned, which is a great achievement for a show juggling this many moving parts.

Highlights of this episodes - I never thought I'd say it, but Sy Borgman?! Dr. Psycho and absolutely shredded Riddler who is voiced impeccably by Jim Rash come in a close second. I loved Harley's decision to not rope her best friend into another one of her back-against-the-wall escapades and the ensuing consequences. Christopher Meloni once again has my heart as Commissioner Gordon.

This writer, who also wrote Season 2 Episode 6, also known as the flashback Joker episode, clearly understands the underlying drama of the connections these characters have formed over the last two seasons, and it's rewarding to be building to what feels like it's going to be a satisfying conclusion.

In regards to the other reviews for this episode, there had to be a countering opinion to the other two nit-pick riddled reviews for this episode, otherwise I might not have written. The logic might not be sound behind the ethics of a certain character's big choice this episode, but do you really need air-tight logic in a show with a talking plant that smokes weed and para-demons that are at the whim of a brawl against an ancient grandmother? It's funny how people pick and choose when to complain about a show like this. It makes you wonder, in a world where every decision made by these characters made sense, would it be nearly as dramatic or engaging? I don't think so. Get over it and try to have fun.

From the beginning this show has always been about the fun and the humor, about exploiting comic book tropes and about making fun of itsself and the nature of it's stories. We've had episodes make fun about deus ex machina moments, hell in episode 5 (I think) they even had 2 people watch Harley Quinn inside Harley Quinn who talked about how Harley just defeats The Penguin and Joker in kind of a Mary Sue fashion.

So, did you understand what this show is about?

Not everything has to 100% make sense in this show, and you shouldn't expect that. At it's heart this show is less about the story than it is about the character growth and development. And the comedy of course.

I think there was a lot of potential for this episode. Story wise I like some of the decisions they took. We get to see Riddler escape with Dr. Psycho, who is actually full on evil now. We get to see why and how Joker returns, with actual reasoning and tying back to season 1. I really appreciate how they don't seem to be forgetting about these things, like the parademons actually have consequences. However at the same time it seems like the parademons have become any other disposable army. I did like how Gordon couldn't do anything to help though, that was funny. I really like the ending where Harley has to bring back Joker. We got a brief, but funny Batman appearance. This was an all around funny episode, but not one of the funniest. In theory this should be a great episode, but the logic completely breaks it. Harley is free to go into a bar even if she's gotham's biggest criminal. She conveniently happens to find Joker with amnesia. There's an attack by some faceless thugs who are soon to be revealed to be working with a now buff riddler, who is partnered with Dr. Psycho. I actually like how it all tied back, I really like riddler, so its good to see more of him. However this entire time I'm asking myself where are all the other villains? Where's Batgirl? Why did Gordon arrest Joker and not Harley? Regardless turns out Dr. Psycho has this helmet and now he can control all the parademons. He even controls King Shark, and Clayface, which is pretty dumb. Sy Borgman can't be controlled because he has a metal skull, and Dr Psycho wants Harley to be in control to see how she loses, but what about Gordon? There's an excuse to not mind control King Shark and Clayface, maybe he can't control animal brains, and Clayface is clay. Though the Shark King one might make an inconsistency with Psycho being able to control Parademons. Regardless, I just think there was a lot of logical problems in the ending of the episode, and it goes further. There's a shield now around the entire building they're fighting on, and Dr. Psycho gets knocked out by one of Sy's MISSILES. King Shark and Clayface are trapped in a net, which makes no sense for clayface, and they're forgotten for the rest of the episode, just like Riddler. Somehow the characters know that they need to use a missile to break the shield. How? I don't know, plot? This is where it gets real messy. Sy decides to commit suicide, by blowing himself up because he has some sort of oil in his veins. So we get a tender moment between him and Harley, which didn't work for me unfortunately, because they literally leave Dr. Psycho there unconscious with the helmet, and they dont remove it. which would've seemingly fixed everything. Dr. Psycho wakes up, and he doesn't do anything to stop Gordon or Harley when he could. Sy shot a missile earlier, so apparently he only had one. Gordon can't shoot Missiles from the batwing because he doesn't have access, so why doesn't he ask Batman? Well it is revealed later that the parademons had taken out the communication systems, so Gordon could shoot missiles, and Sy didn't have to die... So what was the point of all of this. This is some of the worst writing I've seen for a character death. Unfortunately based on the concepts/potential, this should've been a great episode, but because of it's huge plot holes, dumb character moments, and overall contrived/convenient plot, this episode is one of the show's worst. It is an improvement though in terms of the storyline. I really loved this show in Season 1, and the first half of Season 2, I just hope that the show can recover in it's last few episodes.

The old man died because Jim Gordon would not use the rockets on Batman's ship, oh wait he did use them in a scene before hand but when it's time to escape for some reason he said he wasent allowed so the old guy had to Sacrifice himself. What about clay face and king shark ? The worst thing that happened was that they brought back joker, the last thing the villains would want is the justice league back. They still have the mother box they could've just gone to apocalypse and told darksied that pshyco is using the army