Five thoughts after watching "Pets" and "Meltdown"
1) That owl is really pretty, and I kind of hoped I would get to see it attack Penguin. (I really don't like Penguin, you guys.)
2) I know it's a silly cartoon, but I'm super uncomfortable with the fact that Penguin and Batman just spent an entire episode forcing a man to do their bidding and there wasn't even a second's lip-service paid to the fact that slavery is not okay. The episode makes no bones about the fact that, despite Langstrom being fully aware of what he is being made to do while Man-Bat, *he is a pet* (and kept in a cage that clearly had bars far enough apart that he could have escaped when he turned back - WHY DID HE STAY THERE?). When Bats shows up, it's not to save the prisoner, it's to stop the robbery, and he uses Langstrom just as much as Penguin did.
Meanwhile, the idea that one device can be used to control any bird whatsoever while another device is specifically for bats seems rather specious to me, since I'd be willing to bet bats are more like most rodents than, say, hummingbirds are like condors. And how is it that it only worked on Man-Bat, and not every single bat in the area? These things bother me.
3) YEEEEESSSSSS I AM EXCITED. CLAYFACE AND JOKER. YES YES YES. GREG WEISMAN.
4) "I'm gonna chop you down to size!"/"Who you callin' tall?" LOL This is hilarious for some reason.
5) I feel like a lot of what happened in "Meltdown" wouldn't stand up to a lot of rigorous analysis (just for one obvious question, does Batman just hang around Arkham incognito all the time waiting for people to try to take revenge on villains?), but, emotionally, it felt exactly right. UGH, such a heartbreaking story...! Like, the anti-Killing Joke, really.
ETA: OHMIGOD, LESLIE, WHY DID YOU BRING BEN? (OHMIGOD, LESLIE AND BEN, I LOVE YOU.)
EOATA: THIS IS THE BEST SHOW. THE. BEST. SHOW.
EJABLTA: I am having so many feels right now. I am having ALL of the feels, in fact. Adam Scott, you are perfect at your job. Also, Ron and April are the best team ever.
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EHFTLTTA: Aw, no, Ann. No... Don't... No...
Also, I feel like maybe we shouldn't be friends with Dave anymore after he turned out to be a creeper?
Also also, did I maybe bankrupt a town when I was eighteen and forget about it? Because sometimes when I watch Bento Box, I feel like I'm looking in a freaking mirror. My entire life is one prolonged game of, "Oh, sorry, did you want right-of-way for whatever it is that's happening in this general vicinity? Go for it! I know it looks like I might be waiting for that exact thing, but I promise I'm not. I'm just standin' here." I DO THESE THINGS. THESE ARE THINGS THAT I DO.
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