ratcreature | Birds of Prey

Another one in my recent series of neither terribly insightful nor witty episode comments.

I'm sure I wasn't supposed to fret over these kinds of details, but during most of the episode I couldn't help but to think about this liquefying thing. I can go with someone being able to turn himself into water (or mostly water), it is a superhero series after all, and human bodies do contain lots of water; I wasn't even bothered too much by the fact that he could liquefy (and rematerialize) his clothes, or what looked like clothes, though they didn't always rematerialize with his body, like in the shower scene; but when he sometimes was just a little puddle instead of the amount of water that would roughly equal his body weight, my suspension of disbelief deserted me then, and I kept thinking "where is the rest of him?"

A thing that confuses me is the "new" part in "New Gotham," what's up with that? Is that part of the comic canon? What happened to the regular Gotham City?

I have never read a Birds of Prey comic and have no idea about comic canon, in fact I'm not even all that familiar with Batman, I have read maybe a dozen of Batman comics at most, so I'm kind of grateful for the voice over spelling stuff out for me. I liked it during the pilot (though I've read many comments by people who thought it was redundant) and repeating the names and relationship helped me getting the origin stories straight. I like that all the main characters, even the main supervillain, are women, and that the men have only supporting roles, like the detective, and are getting rescued for a change. Though I wish they wouldn't have started turning Detective Reese into a romantic interest, and Helena had really meant it when she said that "guys don't get to me."

I like the psychopathic supervillain therapist so far. What was her name again? Hmm, I looked it up at tvtome.com, Harleen Quinzel. I like her interactions with Helena, so I'm kind of grateful that this supervillain has a "bourgeois day job" as Slick put it. I think their relationship, and I guess eventual antagonism has potential.