This is when that kid’s show excuse comes up saying that plot points like this can be glossed over because children aren’t going to care. There was lots of inspirational talk about the power of the individual, a public ceremony involving creepy white robes, and an after-party with a DJ spinning Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love Of All” and Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings.” Which goes to prove that even in real life, adults do really stupid shit in the hopes of bettering themselves, but investing $300 million based on the predictions of a phony psychic without doing some sort of background check is completely unrealistic. After hamming it up for Nostromos to gain entrance to the brotherhood, Bruce learns they have set up a superfund to protect themselves from the forthcoming economic collapse: “The Great Fall.” The account contains hundreds of millions of dollars, which makes you wonder just how these men were able to make so much money if they’re too dumb to see through Nostromos' scheme.Īs stupid as the premise of the episode is, it does tap into the surge of self-help semi-cults in the early ‘90s, which I remember my own parents falling prey too. Bruce's remarkably quick elevator change is just another example of Marks taking convenient, yet illogical, shortcuts to keep his plot moving. Unfortunately, the writers can’t do an episode where two lame villains figure out that Bruce Wayne was Batman, because Batman’s more careful than that. Despite being batarang-ed in the leg, Lucas is able to get away from Batman by creating a smoky diversion, but he never even considers the possibility that the costumed superhero jumping out of the elevator shaft could be the man that was just sentenced to die in it. The next day, Lucas tries to kill Bruce Wayne in an elevator accident but is stopped by Batman as he tries to escape. In fact, the word that showed up most in my notes for this episode was “stupid.”īruce lifts Nostromos' fingerprints at the party and discovers that he is truly an ex-con/actor by the name of Carl Fowler, who has teamed up with special effects man Lucas to create his psychic persona. Does anyone know what they’re trying to go for with Nostromos' eyes? Because it looks really stupid. No one spills water on the goddamn Batman, and Bruce gives Nostromos a death glare that is answered by the psychic’s empty stare. While at the party, Nostromos pulls his psychic routine on Bruce Wayne, warning him that he’s the next person in danger, then shattering Bruce’s glass and probably getting him very wet. After her father leaves, Lisa suggests that Nostromos' predictions come true because he makes them happen, and she tells Bruce about the secret brotherhood her father has joined, because apparently Ethan Clark doesn’t understand what secret means. While dining with friend Ethan Clark ( Murder She Wrote’s William Windom) and his daughter Lisa ( Melrose Place’s Heather Locklear), Bruce Wayne learns that a fortune teller called Nostromos had warned Ethan about boarding the sunken ship and is invited to a party being held in Nostromos' honor. With animation from one of the show’s worst villains, AKOM, “Prophecy of Doom” has visuals to match the script and ultimately proves to be an insignificant episode with nearly no redeeming qualities. His evil scheme depends on his victims acting incomprehensibly dumb, and they do because it’s the only way to move the story forward. Nostromos sound unfamiliar? That’s because he only shows up in this one episode, which is the true mark of a bad villain on this show (although the also bad Red Claw does get a second appearance). “Prophecy Of Doom” (Season 1, Episode 19)īatman: The Animated Series being targeted to children is often used as an excuse for its occasional descent into stupidity, but I doubt that even a child could find much to enjoy about “Prophecy Of Doom.” Unlike some of the past B:TAS failures, this episode doesn’t heavily feature children, and the plot by Dennis Marks barely features our main character in costume, instead focusing on Bruce Wayne’s infiltration of a secret brotherhood devoted to the psychic Nostromos (Michael Des Barnes, MacGyver’s Murdoc).
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