>>106557087>it's brilliant writing.Disagree, with Andrea, Talia and Selina it not only makes sense why it started, why he let it happen and why each left him feeling more broken it also justifies a reservation to let himself love or trust the same way again just fine to get us to Beyond where he's three angles of jaded.
The rest like Lois and Zatana are sort of superfluous, hamfistedly gratuitous in fact when you get to Cheetah and Diana and realize the DCAU staff were just throwing every woman Bruce's way at some point.
But Barbara being thrown into the mix actually not only adds nothing, it subtracts. It makes Bruce come off as someone who is knowingly unsympathetically predatory, no this doesn't help color his later character a darker moral shade it makes his prior relationships with Tim and Dick now suspect in new light, not sexually, I'm not that lowbrow, I mean it suggests that to him vulnerable children are really just tools to his whim. All those jokes about Bruce endangering naive children because it's better them than him become dangerously closer to true. Instead of Bruce taking in Dick to prevent him going down a bad road and seeing a kindred spirit it was Batman just buying himself a meatshield, and Tim was the replacement once the first went soft. It's all calculated, callous, sinister.
Congrats, instead of a tragically over his depth individual who makes the mistake of trusting his best intentions won't go wrong, Batman's faults are no longer accidents, they're intended. He wants the worst, fuck everyone else. His operation is designed to be a honeypot for the naive so he can exploit them. Gordon, Dick, Barbara, Tim, Terry, they're all just things in his utility belt to throw at problems and then throw away.
Bravo, Nolan, the BTAS is now Deathstroke the Animated Series
which by itself actually would have been an interesting original pitch, but that's missing the point of what's being lessened.
