A Rashomon homage about three cops with wildly different accounts of the same evening. A story that asks what is Bruce Wayne without his memory, his gadgets, his costume, or his memories?
This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover \"P.O.V.\" and \"The Forgotten.\"
\"P.O.V.\" opens in the aftermath of a blown sting operation. Lieutenant Hackle from Internal Affairs has Bullock, Officer Montoya, and rookie Officer Wilkes explain what happens, but their accounts of the evening contradict each other.
Naturally, Renee Montoya doesn’t take the order to go home and wait for the investigation to end seriously, and tracks the suspects to the docks, where she ends up having to save Batman. This episode is very important, as its one of the early voice roles of Ron Perlman, who appears as one of the gang's thugs.
Then \"The Forgotten\" finds Bruce Wayne going undercover to investigate disappearing homeless men, only for a bonk on the head to give him amnesia, leading to him getting kidnapped and shipped to a remote mining camp. Thankfully, Alfred decides to jump into the action and hunt Bruce down, giving us a rare moment of Alfred out of the Batcave, though that doesn’t mean the episode is any less weird.
We talk about these two weird one-offs, question why fans rarely bring them up, and debate if \"The Forgotten\", a fan-acknowledged weaker entry, is more interesting to talk about than it is to watch.
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📌 Topics covered:
– Batman: TAS Episode 7 \"P.O.V.\" recap & review
– Batman: TAS Episode 8 \"The Forgotten\" recap & review
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