Thursday, May 27, 2010

The Batman - The Joining Parts 1 and 2

These two episodes of The Batman revolve around synthetic aliens who visit other worlds to steal technology and subsequently destroy the world. The Joining has come to destroy the Earth and uses Wayne Entreprises technology to do so. When Batman is in problem solving mode, he is seen at the Batcomputer searching for information and formulating a solution. Batman has to reach his company's headquarters to send an electronic signal that will trigger the fail-safe in the Wayne technology thus rendering the Joining useless. Batman's first attempt fails as the Joining blocks the transmission, but through Batman and Lucius Fox hacking the system and overriding the Joining manually, the signal is able to be sent and the world is able to be saved. The episode ends with Batman being teleported to the Justice League Watchtower, which Batman has already thoroughly hacked and knew about for months.

Even though Batman has a supporting cast of the Martian Manhunter, Batgirl, and Robin, it is Batman who does the information technology saving action at the end of the day. In most other Batman stories that I have read or seen, Batman usually is the one kicking the butt of the villain while his team deals with the information technology issues if there are any.

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