| bigtakilla said: Wow, I am completely shocked. When I heard Tara Strong, Mark Hammil, and Kevin Conroy were coming back to do one last movie I was blown away in excitement. Then I heard there was going to be added story to flesh out Batgirl a little and was even MORE excited.... And then I seen it... When she's not getting beat up, she is being raped or chasing Batman (like a girl who "likes likes" a guy chasing Batman). The only scene of her winning a fight is to show she can't handle being a super hero, so she quits. It's not just a movie I will never be able to show my daughter (which I initially eventually was going to, she's a bit young now), but one I would be embarrased to show my girlfriend. If anyone thinks Bayo is bad because the title character is being sexually objectified, watch this movie.... |
Sounds like a very good adaptation, much better than the state of the film universe.
Batman as a hero goes through a lot of shit. If you think the killing joke was bad, things get a lot worse for him. His world is dark and and often very depressing.
Also, the purpose which I think you missed of Batgirl was that she was seen as sexy, intelligent and independent woman. She was Batman's female equivalent in many ways just as he is seen as a sexy, male, intelligent and independent man. She was a hero to many and the desire of many fans.
This story arch essentially takes someone that men and women absolutely loved, someone that many men had as a pinup and care greatly about and then literally tore her apart. This showed how far the joker would go to break Batman, how far Batman will go to hold onto what he believes, how strong Batgirl is to recover from it and how she reinvents herself. It took Batgirl to the edge, but readers got a good understanding of what Batman physically and mentally had to go through. You think you felt bad watching it, imagine how the bat felt!
This story was incredible in terms of character building, exploring their depths, their strengths, their fears, and was really testing even for readers. To simplfy it to the sexualisation of Batgirl woukd be doing Batgirl a huge disservice.
There is so much more to these characters that is completely ignored just because someone thinks it's about sexualisation.
