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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1204049" data-attributes="member: 505">I thought it was interesting but flawed, which is how I feel about most of the series.  I did enjoy seeing Flash being the focus and not just a goof.  I especially liked the fact that they showed him being able to outmatch Superman in the speed department and hold his own in a fight with him (of course, the next episode they probably will show him unable to catch a speeding truck or a kid on a bicycle or something).And I thought it was cool when Doomsday showed up, but was less than pleased with the way he was portrayed.  Doomsday was intelligent?  When did that happen?  Also, the scene with his rant about how his skin can withstand a nuclear explosion, but then Superman's heat vision penetrates it was a bit much.  I mean, does this mean that Supe's eye beams are hotter than a nuke?  I'm having flashbacks to Hawkgirl batting back a "planet destroying" beam.I would have preferred that Doomsday be given his own episode.  Really portray him as the "even Darkseid's afraid of him" guy from the comics.And how many things can a frontal lobotomy "cure"?  The guys in Arkham run the gamut in terms of problems (schitzophrenia, multiple personality disorder, etc.).And, finally, my biggest problem, Batman built a multi-dimensional gateway.  Wha..?!  Bats inventing a new knock-out gas capable of taking out Darksed?  Okay, I can buy that.  Bats hacking into an alien super-computer?  Okay, I can buy that.  Building dimensional portals?  Sorry, suspension of disbelief has been shattered.There are different levels of comic book genius.  Using Marvel comics (since I'm more familiar with them in certain respects), Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Mr. Fantastic are all geniuses.  But you certainly wouldn't ask Spider-Man to build you a time machine.  Heck, you wouldn't even ask Iron Man.  Overall, my problem with the series is that it suffers from lazy writing.  There are too many dues-ex-machinas in episodes.  It seems that the writers just pull things out of the air way to often.  I'm waiting for Supe's to whip out his "rebuilding the Great Wall of China" vision from Quest For Peace. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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