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<blockquote data-quote="Seaviewer" data-source="post: 94884" data-attributes="member: 57">[ATTACH=full]7850[/ATTACH]I&#039;ve had this for a few weeks but it&#039;s taken me this long to find a free night to watch it.First, no plot spoilers but, for anyone who&#039;s read the &quot;Lost Episode&quot; comic based on Harlan Ellison&#039;s unused script, this is not that story - which is probably a good thing since that was disappointingly boilerplate.Instead, Two-Face is given a new origin story involving all the major Bat-villains and several minor ones. Also, look out for a great bit featuring Lee Meriwether as a public defender.Overall, I&#039;d say this is a better script than that for Return of the Caped Crusaders, albeit without the novelty factor of being the first.On the down side, I hate to say it but I think Adam West&#039;s voice is even worse than before, at times to the point of being virtually unrecognisable. If there are to be further instalments a well-chosen recast could actually be an improvement.Meanwhile, as DA Harvey Dent, Shatner still sounds like Shatner, while affecting an appropriately menacing growl for the Two-Face persona.I&#039;ve also marked it down slightly for some annoying anachronisms such as referring to &quot;Gotham&quot; instead of &quot;Gotham City&quot; and a scene with the Joker flirting with a Dr. Quinzel. Cute; but jarring in a story that&#039;s supposed to be taking place in 1966.So ...***</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Seaviewer, post: 94884, member: 57"] [ATTACH=full]7850[/ATTACH] I've had this for a few weeks but it's taken me this long to find a free night to watch it. First, no plot spoilers but, for anyone who's read the "Lost Episode" comic based on Harlan Ellison's unused script, this is not that story - which is probably a good thing since that was disappointingly boilerplate. Instead, Two-Face is given a new origin story involving all the major Bat-villains and several minor ones. Also, look out for a great bit featuring Lee Meriwether as a public defender. Overall, I'd say this is a better script than that for [I]Return of the Caped Crusaders[/I], albeit without the novelty factor of being the first. On the down side, I hate to say it but I think Adam West's voice is even worse than before, at times to the point of being virtually unrecognisable. If there are to be further instalments a well-chosen recast could actually be an improvement. Meanwhile, as DA Harvey Dent, Shatner still sounds like Shatner, while affecting an appropriately menacing growl for the Two-Face persona. I've also marked it down slightly for some annoying anachronisms such as referring to "Gotham" instead of "Gotham City" and a scene with the Joker flirting with a Dr. Quinzel. Cute; but jarring in a story that's supposed to be taking place in 1966. So ... *** [/QUOTE]

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