It's really one of the great disappointments of the reboot to me really, is that you haveso much characterisation put into, not just people like Harley but the city of Gotham as well, and it was all thrown away for something that doesn't ring as true.
Maybe its just me, but I loved the work that Paul Dini did in his various series' to flesh out the backstory of Gotham and the people living there. Really the only writer who seems to treat Gotham with that sense of history like Dini seems to be Snyder, and with him not all the things he has changed have gone that well.
Such as the Mr Freeze retcon... now, here's the thing, although the DCU version of Mr Freeze took things from Heart of Ice, even before the reboot he was an entirely different animal to the DCAU one. He was a callous bastard before HoI and he was a callous bastard afterwards. People getting upset that he wasn't the same is kind of a bit strange, as the comicbook version was never the "if they only leave me alone I'd cure Nora!" type of antivillian... if only because Nora was killed in the same issue the HoI-influenced Mr Freeze was introduced in.
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Maybe its just me, but I loved the work that Paul Dini did in his various series' to flesh out the backstory of Gotham and the people living there. Really the only writer who seems to treat Gotham with that sense of history like Dini seems to be Snyder, and with him not all the things he has changed have gone that well.
Such as the Mr Freeze retcon... now, here's the thing, although the DCU version of Mr Freeze took things from Heart of Ice, even before the reboot he was an entirely different animal to the DCAU one. He was a callous bastard before HoI and he was a callous bastard afterwards. People getting upset that he wasn't the same is kind of a bit strange, as the comicbook version was never the "if they only leave me alone I'd cure Nora!" type of antivillian... if only because Nora was killed in the same issue the HoI-influenced Mr Freeze was introduced in.