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I sat through my first viewing of "Birds of Prey" in great delight. The show has good characters with plans to develop them, a coherent back story, fun plots, background characters who are worth hearing about, well choreographed fight scenes, and excellent special effects -- not to mention the gorgeous and talented actresses! As a fan of the DC comic books and of the animated "Batman" and "Batman Beyond" series, I'm delighted to see true descendants of the Dark Knight, who are at the same time wholly their own people. Interestingly, one of the themes of the show is the grown-up Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle) outgrowing her self-centered vigilante self, in an excellent examination of the theme of maturity versus impetuosity. The fact that the actress looks and sounds remarkably like Tracy Scoggins of Babylon 5 doesn't hurt. And then there's Helena Kyle, a twenty-something smartass metahuman, the embodiment of impetuosity, who is the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle, and Dinah, a teenage metahuman dealing with high school (she has a very pretty lesbian best friend with a pretty girlfriend, and that plot point was brought out exactly as Dinah would probably have found out in real life) as well as crime-fighting. All in all, a very nifty show that I want to see again.
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tygerlily781 27 November 2002
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