>>113001806>dude, its just a jokeI've said it over and over: if it were just a joke it would be fine. But the writers are trying to create a consistent world and pose moral issues and make Harley a sympathetic villain or an anti-hero or whatever. If she was just depicted as wacky and morally bankrupt like Peter Griffin the Family Guy from the hit TV series Family Guy it would be fine, it would be "just a joke". But the show tries to:
- pretend she cares about her friends
- delve into her family history and justify (some of) her behavior with her bad role models (especially in this episode where Harley makes a direct comparison between how she treated her crew and how her family treated her)
- delve into the emotional complexity of Harley
- as I keep saying, depict Harley as a moral person and contrast her with Joker and Queen of Fables (with Batman offering this mass-murderer his sympathies in a roundabout way)
And other characters are similarly flawed, let's take a look at Ivy:
- Ivy's behavior being "explained" by having her make plants her friends because she didn't have real friends in her childhood. This is the second time Ivy's lack of friends has been used to explain her eco-terrorism.
- She's not just fine with eco-terrorism; if she ONLY murdered CEOs and blew up nature-destroying factories that would be internally consistent (...leaving aside her wearing what looks like factory-manufactured clothes and living in a city, which is a huge source of pollution, and using electricity to watch TV for her entertainment... but I digress...) she's fine with her plant killing an innocent family. How does that tie in with eco-terrorism? Maybe instead of trying to justify her with "daddy was mad because I didn't have any friends" the writers should just present her as the homicidal maniac she really is.
And the list goes on. The writers are depicting these characters in conflicting ways, not because the story is told from the point of view of Harley Quinn, [cont]
