OOC Penguin? And DVD woes....
Nov. 26th, 2014 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveWatched some more episodes of The Batman last night. I saw the two-parter where Ethan becomes Clayface and the one where he fails to integrate into society again and then decided I wanted a funny episode after all those downers. So I picked the season 2 opener, where Batman and Catwoman are handcuffed together by Penguin, who tries to harness the power of Ra using two Egyptian statues.
It's hilarious and always good for a laugh. And it's kind of cute when Penguin's geishas get jealous of Catwoman, thinking she really means something to him.
But I keep thinking something was a little off with Penguin's characterization in the episode. He has the statues and rigs up a thing in the Gotham lighthouse, demanding money or he'll start destroying populated buildings.
I honestly don't recall Penguin ever doing anything that destructive in any other episode of this series. He seems to just be a spoiled, down-on-his-luck guy who turned to jewel theft to try to reclaim his family fortune. He definitely doesn't seem like the crime boss he's described as in the special features (and that he is in other versions of the character). He endangers Bruce Wayne and Alfred and Batman and Batgirl, but as far as threatening entire buildings of people (even a children's hospital, oh gosh), I don't recall him ever going that far. It just seemed so un-Penguin-like.
I didn't recognize the names of the writers of that episode, so I kind of wondered if that was their only or one of their only scripts for The Batman. That could explain the apparent OOC behavior; maybe they didn't really know how to write for Penguin (although they seemed to do pretty well for everyone else).
And I'm having trouble with my season 3 DVD set. Disc 2 plays fine everywhere, but there's some odd little nicks under the coating of the outer edge of Disc 1 that gives the older DVD players fits trying to handle it. I can only play it in the living room, which is inconvenient and uncomfortable, since Dad can't seem to recognize that a closed living room door means privacy, please and I wouldn't like him walking in on me.
But I don't know whether to actually send it back or not since it will play somewhere in the house. I'm worried that maybe it's a defect present on other copies too, although that seems unlikely since all my other The Batman sets are fine. And I'm also worried that the seller might throw it away when I send it back. I tried to ask what he would do with it, but I didn't get a very clear answer. And it would be such a waste to throw it away.
I was idly thinking of buying another new $20 DVD player this year to have in my room, like the one I bought for the living room last year, and if I did that, the disc would probably be okay there since the player that will take it is a newer model and a second newer model should hence be able to play it too. Still inconvenient to not be able to play it on the laptop, but I'd be willing to put up with that if I could play it somewhere other than the living room.
But so yeah. I wouldn't buy a new DVD player for my room unless I have enough spending money after I get other things, and if the only playable place is the living room, I can't decide whether to keep the disc or not.
Uggggh.
It's hilarious and always good for a laugh. And it's kind of cute when Penguin's geishas get jealous of Catwoman, thinking she really means something to him.
But I keep thinking something was a little off with Penguin's characterization in the episode. He has the statues and rigs up a thing in the Gotham lighthouse, demanding money or he'll start destroying populated buildings.
I honestly don't recall Penguin ever doing anything that destructive in any other episode of this series. He seems to just be a spoiled, down-on-his-luck guy who turned to jewel theft to try to reclaim his family fortune. He definitely doesn't seem like the crime boss he's described as in the special features (and that he is in other versions of the character). He endangers Bruce Wayne and Alfred and Batman and Batgirl, but as far as threatening entire buildings of people (even a children's hospital, oh gosh), I don't recall him ever going that far. It just seemed so un-Penguin-like.
I didn't recognize the names of the writers of that episode, so I kind of wondered if that was their only or one of their only scripts for The Batman. That could explain the apparent OOC behavior; maybe they didn't really know how to write for Penguin (although they seemed to do pretty well for everyone else).
And I'm having trouble with my season 3 DVD set. Disc 2 plays fine everywhere, but there's some odd little nicks under the coating of the outer edge of Disc 1 that gives the older DVD players fits trying to handle it. I can only play it in the living room, which is inconvenient and uncomfortable, since Dad can't seem to recognize that a closed living room door means privacy, please and I wouldn't like him walking in on me.
But I don't know whether to actually send it back or not since it will play somewhere in the house. I'm worried that maybe it's a defect present on other copies too, although that seems unlikely since all my other The Batman sets are fine. And I'm also worried that the seller might throw it away when I send it back. I tried to ask what he would do with it, but I didn't get a very clear answer. And it would be such a waste to throw it away.
I was idly thinking of buying another new $20 DVD player this year to have in my room, like the one I bought for the living room last year, and if I did that, the disc would probably be okay there since the player that will take it is a newer model and a second newer model should hence be able to play it too. Still inconvenient to not be able to play it on the laptop, but I'd be willing to put up with that if I could play it somewhere other than the living room.
But so yeah. I wouldn't buy a new DVD player for my room unless I have enough spending money after I get other things, and if the only playable place is the living room, I can't decide whether to keep the disc or not.
Uggggh.
