Don’t get me wrong – Twin Peaks was always a weird show, and I can’t wait to see the batshit typhoon that it becomes when an older, stranger David Lynch brings it back in 2017. But it became significantly less intriguing when networks pressured Lynch to wrap up the show’s main murder mystery in the middle of its second season. By effectively solving the murder of Laura Palmer, Twin Peaks transforms into a show about crazy small-town folk with nothing engaging to do.
Batman: The Animated Series was never a bad show, but it did become a vastly different one after the network decided that Robin needed to be in every single episode. Apparently, there’s nothing that kids love more than to see their favorite superhero bombarded with puns from someone with a higher-pitched voice than he has. It was still a really good Batman show, but adding Robin meant taking away any chance that we’d see any more stories based around Batman confronting some kind of deep inner torment. Instead, we did get to see Batman and Robin beat the shit out of way more mob henchmen, and the day that more punching stops making things better is the day that I wake up without a smile on my face and without a fist on my arm. In all things, one must punch.
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