Tonight's episode: "Epilogue"
In the not so distant future, Terry McGillis is having troubles being the new Batman, and starts acting like he's Spider-Man's replacement: contast whinning, not marrying his childhood sweetheart, and spontaneously quit becoming Batman. It seems that he's Bruce Wayne's son (through a lot of convoluted exposition) even though Terry thought he's some kind of clone of Bruce.
The whole episode becomes a justification of Batman Beyond, which is five years too late. Yes, Terry isn't some young "clone" of Bruce Wayne and through his series, evolved into his own character and was at least more interesting than Kyle Rayner. Unforunately, this series is about the whole League, and if the writers of JLU felt the urge to write another Batman Beyond episode, they shouldn't have let the series get cancelled in the first place.
The highlight of the episode was the flashback that contained the only actual League-related content. I was expecting another example of the dark, grim Batman of today, but was surprised by witnessing a wonderful scene with the "true" Batman. Also, Dr. Light, one of my favorite Leaguers in the series with many cameos under her belt, had her first speaking part. When will she go solo?
The episode's filled, as usual, with tons of references from past DC series, but almost to an extreme. I mean, Phantasm?! Why would you hire a woman in her sixties to be your assassin? If not for the overall predictableness of the plot (Terry stays as Batman), it could have been really entertaining. B
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