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Five Thoughts On Harley Quinn’s “A Seat At the Table”

By | January 27th, 2020
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Harley is back, and boy did that win take a turn, eh? As the name of the episode implies, our hero and her bag of squirrelly oddballs grab a seat at the big villain’s table. The much-adored Legion of Doom! As with all good things, however, the joy is short-lived. Her new job takes a weird turn as inside forces conspire against her. Harley certainly gets in her way, as many of us do during each day. Boy, this show is a metaphor for life. A metaphor fed threw the prism of the most batshit insane group of cartoon people you could imagine. Anyway, five thoughts on A Seat At The Table coming your way. Minor spoilers inbound.

1. Joker is the king of Gaslighting
The moment that clown started talking, “gaslight” was my first thought. We know the Joker isn’t sincere. Everyone across the DC multiverse knows that fact. You can’t bamboozle me into thinking Mr. J thinks Harley leaving him and going solo is a good thing. Somehow Joker tricks all those idiots in the Legion, including Harley. Perhaps not at first, but she certainly falls for it all down the line (more below). There is no such thing as a good Joker. He is an agent of chaos. Which leads me to my next thought.

2. The Joker needs Legion approval to be chaotic
This episode is chock full of bull. Are you trying to tell me the Clown Prince of Crime has to get his crazy off-the-cuff schemes approved by a resource management team? To give you some context, I have to get my projects approved by a group of people who handle my company’s budget. So the Joker and I have to go through the same process to do what we want. No, I can’t reconcile that. How do you justify giving the Joker, or any villain for that matter, any people or money to do some crazy-ass plan? You know damn well those goons aren’t coming back and, as the Joker proved, they are going to spend way too much money to get your assets killed. Where do you get more money and people willing to die for nothing? Linkedin and Venture Capitalists, I assume.

3. Is Poison Ivy a bad guy in this universe?
We have not seen our favorite BFF do anything remotely “evil” in this series so far. We know Lex Luthor has been courting Ivy to join the Legion Of Doom, but what exactly has she done in the past to gain the supervillain tag? She seems super chill compared to everyone else in the universe. The worst thing I have witnessed her do was mistreat Kite Man, which is an act of super-villainy. Ivy’s “evil scheme” this episode looked to be doing a lot of good for everyone. That Planetwide Pavers ad was legitimately terrifying. Ivy and anyone within earshot of that ad should set some comically large bundles of TNT and blow that place sky high. We only get one earth people, don’t pave over the whole dang thing.

4. Love is hard
Joker sucks. He’s a terrible walking bag of organs. Lest we forget, Mr. J paints his entire face like a clown. He’s a dramatic idiot who is enabled by a very not secret evil organization. All that said, Harley loves him, no matter how much she fights it. We all have momentary lapses in judgment, and sometimes those can cost us. For Harley, she lost the trust and respect of her only friends. She so wanted the Joker to be different, but as Batman so eloquently put it, “Some things never change Quinn.” Very true, Bruce. Moments like this make Harley more relatable. It’s easy to write her off, but you forget, you don’t love the Joker, she does. Or did as it were. It’s tough to remove the poison from your system.

5. Why is Bane such a dipshit?
I don’t recall Bane ever being so incompetent. Even the big dumb brutish version from Batman and Robin got stuff done between grunts. Not only is his magic game weak, but he blew the fin off King Shark for no reason. He couldn’t even check the schedule of his apparent arch enemy to make sure he was working there. People, it would be best if you remembered, Details matter all the time. It’s always the little things that get you. I am wondering why Bane is in the Legion Of Doom at all. He seems more suitable for the Goon Pool downstairs.

This week’s episode ended with a masked group of baddies capturing our beloved Ivy. I can only assume this has something to do with Lex, but we have to wait and see. Answers are coming soon, my fellow Hyenas. See you next week for another installment of Five Thoughts on Harley Quinn.


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Carl Waldron

Carl Waldron is a father, creator, and life-long nerd. You can find him arguing the rules of different magical franchises with friends or indoctrinating his daughter into the world of comics. Follow his other works on Super. Black.

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