nurikochan

There were a handful of nice character moments for about three characters, but Dick, Connor, Garfield and nearly everyone else suffered from a combination of poor writing and lack of episode time.

There is too much going on and the entire Starfire storyline is entirely unnecessary for the whole season, and especially for this episode - they should have focused on Red Hood vs Nightwing properly, as well as Tim Drake and those involved in his storyline.

Characterisations and plot continuity are way off a lot of times or simply don't make sense, and some characters are just so badly written you can't care enough about them to even hate them.

The season started promisingly, then faded... and then we are left with this entry. Too many loose ends and I fear the rest of the season won't adequately tie them up.

For fans of the comic books across the decades, this episode certainly highlighted the important relationships between Bruce and two important people in his life - Harvey and Dick. They are two very different kinds of relationships he has with them, but we see how it affects the things he does, and the faith and trust he has in them.

It's a great episode for showing more of Dick's personality too, getting a good number of trademark Robin one-liners (some can be found in the Quotes section), as well as showing some more tension between the Dynamic Duo.

Some reliable detective work, character cameos, villainous chatter, heroism from characters, discussions of motivations, and dramatic lighting effects are among the numerous small details that add to this great episode. Minor things such as developments in the plot that really shouldn't have happened, except for the sake of being a plot device for the time-limited cartoon, are few and forgivable.

A great episode from start to finish.

It's amazing how in the span of about 20 minutes we can get a rare look into Bruce's headspace and what he's feeling. The path he chose to follow by becoming Batman is taking it's toll, and he has to consider if this life-consuming calling is truly for him, or not.

Bruce is blessed to have Alfred and Dick in his life. There wasn't a load of time to do so but in only a few scenes we can see how much these two very important people affect him and are affected by him. And of course, we see his relationship with Jim Gordon - another important person in his life.

Definitely one of the better and more meaningful episodes in the series.