Apparently Alan Burnett didn't like the reveal of Terry McGinnis being Bruce Wayne's biological son. He worked on Batman Beyond but not on JL/JLU so Timm did it without him.

FWIW, Burnett is like the one guy on the staff who liked Max in Beyond.

it is pretty stupid. sorta undermines terry's accomplishments as an individual character--explaining it all away as

>muh batman genes

It was a shit concept, yeah. Apparently the one thing that makes Terry a successful successor to Batman, while the three sidekicks all grew to resent him or got mindfucked, was that Terry was actually his son.

>>136799717 (OP)

I didn't like it either

I hated it too. Always thought Terry was more like Bruce than Dick.

>>136799717 (OP)

I thought it was dumb but at least it didn't TOTALLY undermine Terry considering Terry didn't know until he was an adult. Reminds me of MGS with Snake being Big Boss's son: even if Snake was BB's kid, it didn't undermine everything he did up until that point, because his upbringing and experiences were all much more different to the point that him becoming legendary meant that being related was just a bonus at the end of it. Your genes don't make you predestined:

 it is your choices and the people who raise you and the world you live in that determine your fate.



Is it stupid? Yes. But I can live with it.

Except for Timm, nobody did.

That being said, it is still stupid because it undermines that Terry was conceived from a story POV as being a nobody: that the only one fit to carry on the legacy of the Bat was someone completely disconnected from the baggage, in order to redeem the cowl. Someone with a strong heart of justice, but without the scarring Bruce went through,

>>136799717 (OP)

The impression I got was that it was their version of the Boys from Brazil story. But they didn't go all the way with that concept, so it missed the mark.

If one wanted to recreate Batman, there's clearly one thing that must be done.

>>136799717 (OP)

Everyone hated this twist and called it out for being totally nonsensical

>>136799717 (OP)

I feel like most reasonable people disliked that twist. It was unnecessary and made no sense.

It's even worse that Terry was cool with it at the end of the episode.



I guess he really didn't give a shit about his dad, despite taking up the cowl to avenge him.

I remember Terry having no personality at all during this episode and was just a brick, didn't react to anything or show any personality whatsoever

He was just angry at Bruce throughout the episode, till he heard the story and went back to see Bruce made him soup. Could be misremembering though.
