The elaborate technology and design of the “Anatomy Of A Loser” science project bugged me...

I figured that maybe Irene was going to have died in the fall and the one walking around was a conjuring by Madison that was eventually going to disintegrate, but never considered that Irene had actually never been real in the first place.

This gets a “fresh” rating from me. I liked the constant uncertainty of who had the psychic powers. The highly stylized production design reminded me of some of the 80's Twilight Zone episodes (when that passed for special effects). And since we are viewing through the eyes of a teenager, the world is slightly over…

Actually, the explicit reveal of the conjuring happened with the key to the balcony. After they use it, it disintegrates, and it is explained that it dusted away because it had fulfilled its purpose. The pencil from the cold open appears inside the desk after the camera pans up then back down. Madison conjured it for…

To be fair, the people engaged in the uproar after the Killing Joke comic came out were also people who weren’t buying Batgirl comics. Based on sales alone, they assumed nobody cared about her.

How are they screwing this up? If you are going to add material to The Killing Joke it is so easy to make it better than this.

I’m a firm believer that there’s some way of tackling The Killing Joke proper that deals with her becoming paralyzed without as many problems (not that it’s completely unavoidable, at the end of the day it still sucks to make a popular character suffer).