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In the wake of CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, lafergs looks back at the WB's 'Birds of Prey' series:

. It was also more interested in actually being a comic-book show, in its own canon-breaking way. Set in the understandably darker New Gotham City—a revamped version of the typical Batman playground of Gotham City, due to an earthquake that destroyed all of Old Gotham and sent it underground—two of its lead characters were already accomplished superheroes who were comfortable with that role and the third character was the fish out of water who wanted to join in on that superhero lifestyle.

Watching the pilot with 2019 eyes,it’s a disappointing beginning for what would become a solid series about women. After the post-introduction fridging of Selina Kyle and the “Batman: The Killing Joke” origin of Barbara’s paralysis, there’s an attempted sexual assault on Dinah and Helena being drugged by an older man she trusts.

Actually, the other highlights of that particular viewing were the very 2002 music cues and the fact that, visually, the episode was at its best when it was doing something that actually was ahead of its time: the black and white, noir world in which the villain of the week navigated victims’ subconscious, which was veryHowever, rewatching the rest of the series left a better taste in my mouth, even thoughschool of feminism and girl power, specially when it came to the characters’...

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