Following this episode, Beware The Batman will be on hiatus until returning back to Cartoon Network on October 25th. At this point, there is no clear sign of the end of this season in sight. Cartoon Network haven't announced a renewal for this series for 2014 either. Given the short-lived nature of Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice: Invasion, anything DC Comics-oriented does not tend to have a long lifespan on Cartoon Network's DC Comics cartoon block.
Episode Synopsis: (Spoilers)
Professor Pyg and Mister Toad are back, and this time, they've set their sights on Gotham's elite couture culture. Leaving clues with words from the nursery rhyme "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," they attack a fashion model named Azura and a clothing designer named Liam Taylor. Although Batman and Katana are able to save them, they miss Pyg and Toad's master plan: destroying the yacht where the after-party for Gotham's Fashion Week is being held.
The Verdict:
This was another episode that treated viewers to the detective skills and reasoning behind the Dark Knight. The opening scene between Bruce Wayne and Tatsu Yamashiro having an elegant dinner was truly a spectacle to behold. Tatsu (along with the viewers) are treated to the environment being nothing out of the ordinary for a change, but of course, to Bruce Wayne/Batman, he is not that naive to his surroundings. He quickly and easily points out all of the crime and malicious deeds around them. I don't know about anyone else but I love these little tidbits that show off Batman being just as good (if not better) at methods of deductive reasoning than Sherlock Holmes himself.
While I was glad to see Professor Pyg and Mister Toad make their return in this series, I thought they would have put up a better fight this time around. With Katana in tow, Batman easily outclassed them this time, whereas he barely managed to deal with them during their initial encounter on this series' pilot. I thought it was a bit of overkill though that Katana smacked the bombs right back at them during the climax of their encounter.
As for Jason Burr, I guess we are supposed to assume that Cypher still has some sort of control over him after the events of "Control" as he has been formally welcomed into the League of Assassins by Lady Shiva at the end of this episode. If I were to speculate at this stage, I think Cypher downloaded his psyche into Jason when he realized he could not defeat Batman and Katana at the end of "Control" as his final Hail Mary play.
"Instinct" proved to be another episode that made it painfully obvious that Katana's training with Batman is far from done. If she truly wishes to excel at being a crime-fighter, she is going to learn to follow her instincts. Fortunately, she wisely followed her intuition about something being amiss with Jason Burr. We can only tell with the following episode(s) on the horizon that her hunch served her right. "Instincts" gets a 3 out of 5.
As for Jason Burr, I guess we are supposed to assume that Cypher still has some sort of control over him after the events of "Control" as he has been formally welcomed into the League of Assassins by Lady Shiva at the end of this episode. If I were to speculate at this stage, I think Cypher downloaded his psyche into Jason when he realized he could not defeat Batman and Katana at the end of "Control" as his final Hail Mary play.
"Instinct" proved to be another episode that made it painfully obvious that Katana's training with Batman is far from done. If she truly wishes to excel at being a crime-fighter, she is going to learn to follow her instincts. Fortunately, she wisely followed her intuition about something being amiss with Jason Burr. We can only tell with the following episode(s) on the horizon that her hunch served her right. "Instincts" gets a 3 out of 5.
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