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scans_daily2015-02-26 09:10 pm
espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily2015-02-26 09:10 pm
Harley Pitches a Cartoon!
Or rather, Harley tries to pitch the web cartoon Gotham Girls to some executives, "hilarity" ensues.
Yeah, this becomes a touch creepy when you realise that this takes place just after No Man's Land, where Selina was arrested due to Gordon's "zero tolerance" policy towards all costumed criminals, resulting in Selina getting arrested in a sting operation... which then results in Harley trying to drive Selina into a murderous rampage, a la Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal Lecter.
Anyway, the executives say that they like the idea of Catwoman, saying that this makes her sound like a Strong Female Protagonist... though the network won't let them do the thief thing, so they'll make her a secret agent instead.
Harley continues with her pitch,
Note: Maggie Kyle had kind of vanished into the aether at this point.
After deciding that Catwoman (along with her friends Harley and Ivy) are too old in the form Harley describes, they deage them, make Selina a happily suburbab kid with two scientist parents, Harley a 14 year old Korean wheelchair user, and Ivy an African American kid that's memorised the Discovery Channel, who all team up to solve crimes for the CIA.
The executives seem pleased with their revised version of Harley's pitch, though Quinn certainly isn't.
"Catwoman is a GROWN-UP! Her friends are GROWN-UPS! That big, dumb lump of a Ratman she flirts with her grown-ups!
"She steals stuff, she fights people, and she outsmarts the cops!
"You don't need to make all those stupid changes, she's fine the way she is!"
The executives snap at Harley, saying that they know what they're talking about, after all they work in television whereas Harley is just woman who seemingly walked in off the street. IF they want to go for an older audience like Harley seems to be suggesting, "where is the funny"?
Younger kids, they say, will watch anything. But if she wants her show to have all that other stuff, it has to be able to make people laugh too, so what does she have that can do that?
Turns out that she has something that can to that... and it turns out to be Joker Toxin, which she uses to murder the executives in frustration before storming out.
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What the heck was that? Besides a protracted take-that at the animation industry of the time (and seemingly an implied jab at Kim Possible for some reason), it just came across as more than a touch meanspirited.
And unintentionally hilarious considering this took place only a little while before the Darwyn Cooke/Ed Brubaker reboot that mixed up the characters in new ways.
Yeah, this becomes a touch creepy when you realise that this takes place just after No Man's Land, where Selina was arrested due to Gordon's "zero tolerance" policy towards all costumed criminals, resulting in Selina getting arrested in a sting operation... which then results in Harley trying to drive Selina into a murderous rampage, a la Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal Lecter.
Anyway, the executives say that they like the idea of Catwoman, saying that this makes her sound like a Strong Female Protagonist... though the network won't let them do the thief thing, so they'll make her a secret agent instead.
Harley continues with her pitch,
Note: Maggie Kyle had kind of vanished into the aether at this point.
After deciding that Catwoman (along with her friends Harley and Ivy) are too old in the form Harley describes, they deage them, make Selina a happily suburbab kid with two scientist parents, Harley a 14 year old Korean wheelchair user, and Ivy an African American kid that's memorised the Discovery Channel, who all team up to solve crimes for the CIA.
The executives seem pleased with their revised version of Harley's pitch, though Quinn certainly isn't.
"Catwoman is a GROWN-UP! Her friends are GROWN-UPS! That big, dumb lump of a Ratman she flirts with her grown-ups!
"She steals stuff, she fights people, and she outsmarts the cops!
"You don't need to make all those stupid changes, she's fine the way she is!"
The executives snap at Harley, saying that they know what they're talking about, after all they work in television whereas Harley is just woman who seemingly walked in off the street. IF they want to go for an older audience like Harley seems to be suggesting, "where is the funny"?
Younger kids, they say, will watch anything. But if she wants her show to have all that other stuff, it has to be able to make people laugh too, so what does she have that can do that?
Turns out that she has something that can to that... and it turns out to be Joker Toxin, which she uses to murder the executives in frustration before storming out.
---
What the heck was that? Besides a protracted take-that at the animation industry of the time (and seemingly an implied jab at Kim Possible for some reason), it just came across as more than a touch meanspirited.
And unintentionally hilarious considering this took place only a little while before the Darwyn Cooke/Ed Brubaker reboot that mixed up the characters in new ways.