This two part episode is The Batman jumping the shark. It's not really the addition of Bat Girl that made it jump. It's the Batgirl narration.
It's clear the format - start at the end, the Batgirl narration - was done because the double episode ran short on time. There wasn't enough story, so they did the flashback thing to add a little filler on the front end.
The series added Batgirl and later Robin, which changed the dynamic. But the bad narration, and Batgirl's habit of uttering statements as if they're questions, highlighted the shark jumping. Batgirl was so annoying that her addition stuck out like a sore thumb: "Hey look, we changed the series. Now it's crap! See this Batgirl. We changed the series. Isn't she cool? She pronounces statements as if they're questions? She says a lot of words in a weird way. She's suddenly narrating the episode as if it's about her. And oh, we aren't going to introduce her. We're going to start the episode from the end, with her already established, as if you're missing a secret." Creating a mystery by starting an episode at the end creates false interest. Viewers are interested because there's a mystery to solve - what happens to get to the end the viewers already saw. But that's a cover up for a bad story.
Couldn't Batgirl have gone mute? Then at least I would have to hear her speak.
It's clear the format - start at the end, the Batgirl narration - was done because the double episode ran short on time. There wasn't enough story, so they did the flashback thing to add a little filler on the front end.
The series added Batgirl and later Robin, which changed the dynamic. But the bad narration, and Batgirl's habit of uttering statements as if they're questions, highlighted the shark jumping. Batgirl was so annoying that her addition stuck out like a sore thumb: "Hey look, we changed the series. Now it's crap! See this Batgirl. We changed the series. Isn't she cool? She pronounces statements as if they're questions? She says a lot of words in a weird way. She's suddenly narrating the episode as if it's about her. And oh, we aren't going to introduce her. We're going to start the episode from the end, with her already established, as if you're missing a secret." Creating a mystery by starting an episode at the end creates false interest. Viewers are interested because there's a mystery to solve - what happens to get to the end the viewers already saw. But that's a cover up for a bad story.
Couldn't Batgirl have gone mute? Then at least I would have to hear her speak.
