Forever Young

ANASTASIA (1997)

Mine are the biggest parasites, I’ve got huge parasites!

Harleen Quinzel is a psychiatrist. She is educated. She is intelligent. She understands how people work and demonstrates it multiple times in the series. And the Joker got to her anyway, because that is what emotional manipulators do. When Batman laughs at her in “Mad Love”, he’s not mocking her. He’s laughing out of pity because he finally sees that Harley’s too blinded by love to see the Joker for what he really is. (Side note: The few times we ever see Batman laugh, it’s usually out of pity; see also “The Killing Joke”.) 

bonus:

I finally put my finger on what makes DA:2 so unique: it feels like a comic book. 

Hawke’s crew reads like a band of misfit superheroes who just keep stumbling into trouble, and somehow saving the day every time, all the while with wit and charm and interrelationship angst and fluff… No wonder I love it.

Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!