Man, I just don't know if I can do it anymore with this series.
Lucius Fox tells Bruce that he's working for Bard. It's not a surprise. He tells him very clearly. He's also not really a traitor. Bruce endangered the entire city by hiding caches of weapons throughout the city and not doing enough to make sure that they were secured from falling into the wrong hands. If it's not some sort of trick, Lucius is well within his rights to assist a Commissioner that appears to be an upstanding guy in protecting the city. It's a little odd that he would help him try to arrest Batman, but he's angry and I get it.
But, Bruce walks RIGHT INTO THE TRAP. I'm not just talking about walking into the trap itself. Julia even questions him about it, and he says that he's doing it to provoke the confrontation. I mean that he walks into the trap without anywhere to extricate himself from it. He knows that Lucius knows all the weaknesses of his equipment. He's got to know that his likelihood of maintaining control over the Batmobile is low, since Bard and Fox would go straight for it. But, he seemingly doesn't do anything to install some sort of override system that Lucius wouldn't know is there. He just blindly drives into the trap without taking basic steps to protect himself. Are we supposed to believe he's suicidal?
Moreover, within hours of setting foot in Detroit, Vicky Vale has discovered Bard's motivation for working with Hush. Some superhero likely killed his girlfriend, and he wants revenge. Did Bruce did that little research into Bard? I mean, he knows that Bard worked for Hush. If he had done the research that we would all believe Batman would do on the mysterious new cop that waltzes into Commissioner Gordon's job, he would put two and two together and realize that Bard wasn't going to stop with Hush getting detained. But, since he apparently hasn't done this research, he thinks that he's just going to magically talk down Bard at some point.
I could continue, but I won't. This series, man. I just don't know what I'm supposed to say about it anymore.
* (one of five stars)
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