After that brush with dignity, back to Batman.
Title: Solve Me
Fandom: Batman (1960s TV Show)
Characters: Riddler, Batman, OC
Warnings: Depression, discussion of suicide.
Summary: “What is the question every man asks and every man will solve, but no one can tell the answer to?”
Author’s Note: And my descent into depravity continues. Unsure where this fits in relation to my other two fics. One ( Read more... )
Fandom: Batman (1960s TV Show)
Characters: Riddler, Batman, OC
Warnings: Depression, discussion of suicide.
Summary: “What is the question every man asks and every man will solve, but no one can tell the answer to?”
Author’s Note: And my descent into depravity continues. Unsure where this fits in relation to my other two fics. One ( Read more... )
Why have I never seen Wertham cast as an Arkham employee? It's such a natural, I love it!
The guards tipped their hats in his presence, a gesture that always made him feel a little uncomfortable. He was as much a civil servant as they were.
This is such a perfect little line, so very 60s Batman!
Obviously the whole conversation is just amazing--Riddler as trying to avoid thinking about the Final Riddle makes such sense, and Bruce's desperate compulsion to reach out to him--it's clear he's just as trapped by his own obsessions, it's just that he's been so careful to channel those obsessions into good. The way that plays out in the exchange between Robin and Batman at the end is marvelous and painful and just right. Also, I just love this line:
A bit presumptuous. Batman thought most of his foes could share that title, but then again criminals never liked to share.
Your ability to be true to the tone of the show and Batman's tendency toward earnest homilies without ever sounding ridiculous is just flat-out amazing to me. Fantastic work.
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Why have I never seen Wertham cast as an Arkham employee? It's such a natural, I love it!
I needed a default 'narrow-minded psychologist' character and Wertham seemed the perfect man to steal. There's no Arkham here, but I figure at least a few of the odder balls at the prison would get put on the couch. One of the things I do keep in mind, albeit in a very small way because logic does not apply in Gotham, is that this is set in the late 1960s, and has different ideologies from us on gender and sexuality.
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One of the things I do keep in mind, albeit in a very small way because logic does not apply in Gotham, is that this is set in the late 1960s, and has different ideologies from us on gender and sexuality.
Ah, that actually ties into something that I remembered later I loved about this--how the Riddler clearly has bipolar disorder, but neither Battenburg nor Batman have the specific vocabulary to describe and label it, even though they clearly understand the facts of the case fairly well. I really like the way you "play by the rules" in what you can and can't say here...
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Ah, that actually ties into something that I remembered later I loved about this--how the Riddler clearly has bipolar disorder, but neither Battenburg nor Batman have the specific vocabulary to describe and label it, even though they clearly understand the facts of the case fairly well. I really like the way you "play by the rules" in what you can and can't say here...
*did-research-on-this-mode* At the time, what they had was manic-depressive illness, a slightly more crude definition of the same basic concept. And I'd better damn well know because it took way too long to find the necessary chunk of the DSM-II for my purposes. Turned up on some random dude's blog.
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