[KRWolfblade]

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Originally Posted by Paladin

So, how do you take an awesome premise like an animated adaptation of "The Killing Joke" and COMPLETELY FUCK IT UP?


... you add a sex scene between Bruce & Barbara.

https://twitter.com/acronite7/status/756542233424388096

So I guess this was what Bruce Timm meant when he said the team had to "add a lot more story" for the the film because the source novel wasn't long enough for a feature-length film.

This is really stupid and pointless.

I've seen people trying to defend it by saying that because Bruce and Barbara's relationship happened in the animated series/comics (mainly the batman beyond ones I believe), the film is accurate. No! The Killing Joke or an event strikingly similar to it hasn't been referenced in any of the Timmverse animated series or comics so it's not accurate (as far as I know).

Also, some say that Bruce needed extra motivation to stop the Joker. He's the Joker. That's all the motivation he needed. Even if they wanted to use Barbara as motivation, the incident itself would've been enough, not because of a supposed one-off relationship that isn't in the original source material.

I'll still watch it and hope the rest of the film is faithful to the source material but this is really pointless...