Polite Dissent

Teen Titans was a repeat, Spellbound. This one was on originally two or three weeks ago. Raven, feeling like she doesn’t fit in with the rest of her teammates, loses herself in a good book. When one of the characters in that book comes to life, she helps him until she learns…the truth. Not a particularly good episode, though I did like seeing Raven in her white outfit.

Justice League Unlimited was yet another repeat. It was the debut episode again, for the third time.

Batman Unlimited was a new episode, and a fun one. I missed the first few minutes because I was rounding at the hospital. I came home and asked the Polite Wife which Batman it was.
“A new one,” she said. “It’s called Q&A.”
Sounds like a Riddler episode I was thinking, and then Alfred mentioned something about a game show.
“Uh oh,” I told her. “The villain’s going to be Cluemaster.” Sure enough, a minute later when the game show scene was shown, there he was: Arthur Brown, a.k.a. the Cluemaster.
This was a clever re-imagining of a fairly lame comic book character (now known mostly for being the late-father of the late-Spoiler). In the TV episode, he was a child genius who had been a regular game show winner until he missed a question he felt was rigged. Now, a decade later, he’s getting revenge on the people he feels wronged him. Did I mention he’s so incredibly obese he needs a special chair to get around, and he’s that fat because he’s eaten all of his consolation prize: a lifetime supply of candy bars?

I do have one question, how did he manage to build an acid pit in his basement (and do you think I can talk the Polite Wife into letting me have one)?