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№ 3 The Dark Knight On Trial

Season 1

Date

2011-01-24

Featuring

Ben, Matt

Length

1:01:53

Category

Philosophy

Time Looped as

№ 77

Essential

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The first iconic episode and a classic example of the intersection between pop culture and Christianity that the SFC does so well.

Firsts

  • Wayne Henderson mentioned
  • Sci-Fi Song of the Week (announced)
  • The Dark Knight Rises mentioned
  • Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog main topic transition
  • Annie, Ben's wife mentioned (she sent in feedback)
  • Feedback from Stephanie
  • "It's a Trap!" listener feedback transition
  • Matt and Ben start blogging on the website

Prophecy

Matt
Reboots are going to get old really fast.
There will be entire episodes of Ben complaining about reboots.

News

At this point Ben is optimistic about genre movies and is excited for "More: more Pirates, more Matrix, more Nolan Batman".

I'm really glad they're rebooting Spider-Man. Reboots are going to get really old really fast...I don't need to see Spider-Man become Spider-Man again.

Main Topic

Is Batman justified in his vigilantism?

There are four areas Batman must be justified:

  1. General morality
  2. Legality
  3. Motive
  4. Effectiveness
We're talking about Jesus the man, not Jesus the God-- You can't separate them. Oh, you're going to separate Jesus now?
'All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.' Is that from a comic book?
Even if you can say that Batman created supervillains (which I'm not even sure if you can 100% say that), you can't say that Batman created all bad. Otherwise he would be called 'Badman'.
On Back to the Future I bet there's some really great spiritual themes in there. Absolutely. There has to be: it's from 1985.
Take that, Matt!

Feedback

After feedback from "Prostate Gland Problems", the hosts turn on the spam filter.

Thank you, Prostate Gland Problems! Thank you, Prostate.
Is it a sci-fi prostate gland? I don't want any prostate-related links going up on the website. Is that too much to ask?