tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post6623570136483476361..comments2024-03-17T20:50:21.456-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: DCAU #32: Night of the NinjaSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-68830320929781313282016-02-27T08:52:08.960-04:002016-02-27T08:52:08.960-04:00Only surprising in the context of having watched t...Only surprising in the context of having watched the show before and remembering Ra's as a part of it. I thought he would show up earlier.<br /><br />Not surprising at the time.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-8129802438387849962016-02-27T08:40:50.684-04:002016-02-27T08:40:50.684-04:00Robin is somehow familiar with Samurai but not nin...Robin is somehow familiar with Samurai but not ninjas? That seems... unlikely. I'm also amused by his "how does he do that?" comment after Ken disappears, as I'm fairly sure it's a trick he must have done several times himself by this point. (Although I am imagining the pair of them in Gordon's office, getting information on a crime. Gordon goes to the filing cabinet, and when he turns Batman has disappeared, but Robin is just slowly walking out the door.)<br /><br />Regarding Ra's being such a late arrival, I don't think he's a good comparison. Nowadays we expect to see him everywhere, but until this series I don't think we'd ever had Ra's appear in non-comic media. He was created after Batman '66, after all.LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-2841642703131303622016-02-14T18:30:19.833-04:002016-02-14T18:30:19.833-04:00Oops, yes. Maybe shows this one wasn't that me...Oops, yes. Maybe shows this one wasn't that memorable.LondonKdShttp://londonkds.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-80038029849656904362016-02-14T07:40:23.817-04:002016-02-14T07:40:23.817-04:00I think you're confusing this episode with its...I think you're confusing this episode with its sequel, Day of the Samurai.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-80770376069129700732016-02-13T16:38:35.509-04:002016-02-13T16:38:35.509-04:00I have a big plot problem with this episode. We ar...I have a big plot problem with this episode. We are told that in the distant past the founder of the martial arts school where Bruce and Ken trained discovered a lethal pinpoint spot on the human body where any mild blow would cause instant and unavoidable death, and he and his successors have hid the knowledge from everyone but their successors ever since for fear of its misuse. However, at the climax, Ken uses the secret blow on Bruce and fails because he padded the spot with a fairly small and unencumbering piece of material. If blocking it is that easy, surely anyone who gets in a fight can just pad themselves there? Which makes one suspect that the old sensei really just wanted his successors to know a secret way of disposing of anyone who they didn't like...LondonKdShttp://londonkds.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-42608784352122453562016-02-13T10:13:52.763-04:002016-02-13T10:13:52.763-04:00Who works in a office shirtless?Who works in a office shirtless?Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-54890702410118746302016-02-13T10:08:55.338-04:002016-02-13T10:08:55.338-04:00"My" Bruce Wayne went to college, and go..."My" Bruce Wayne went to college, and got a law degree and a minor in psychology, but also studied every subject he could. These days, I'm not even sure Bruce Wayne went to college, because he spent so much time learning from martial arts masters, race car drivers, and so forth.<br /><br />If only Kyodai Ken didn't have that ill-advised tattoo from his youth, he could probably get an office job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-47123159493297641232016-02-13T08:34:50.387-04:002016-02-13T08:34:50.387-04:00Well he is *that*. ;)Well he is *that*. ;)Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-39391876632970648592016-02-13T04:25:09.257-04:002016-02-13T04:25:09.257-04:00Something that always makes me chuckle when I watc...Something that always makes me chuckle when I watch this episode anymore, thanks to my rudimentary knowledge of Japanese, is that Kyodai Ken can be translated as "enormous sword."<br /><br />Mainly, of course, because it could easily be interpreted as, well, a bit of a dick joke.Invidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12837339840555139007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-51504398835199104892016-02-12T12:20:49.669-04:002016-02-12T12:20:49.669-04:00I guess Batman Begins more or less filled the role...I guess Batman Begins more or less filled the role with Ra's.<br /><br />Oh man, we haven't gotten Ra's al Ghul yet, have we? Put him on the list of surprisingly late arrivals with Riddler.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-51509231767633827262016-02-12T11:24:25.507-04:002016-02-12T11:24:25.507-04:00It still astounds me we never got Kyodai Ken in th...It still astounds me we never got Kyodai Ken in the comics.American Hawkmannoreply@blogger.com