Johnny1378
Super Freak
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The sex scene isn't bad on itself, and there's nothing actually wrong with it, it's not "reductive" or whatever the SJW are making it out to be.
"muh strong female hero has the hots for a dominant male waaah".
What's wrong with it is that it's attached to TKJ, who the **** thought it was a good idea? I can see the Batgirl movie being something on its own and it wouldn't be half bad, but there's an immense disparity in writing and concept quality between the actual TKJ parts and the Batgirl parts, the batgirl stuff is terribly outclassed by TKJ material, even in this poor adaptation of it, not to mention completely unrelated themes and unnecessary backstory, which when mashed up together, create a foul tasting garbage plate.
I have to reiterate that I haven't seen this yet, so maybe it will play different than it reads, but the sex scene seems a really odd choice to me. Not because I think it's sexist or whatever SJWs are going on about, but it just seems like a relationship that wouldn't have occurred between Bruce and Barbara. I guess from the comics I've always felt like Bruce had an almost-paternal relationship with Barbara. I guess maybe because of her romantic relationship with Nightwing. I don't know.
Having said that, maybe I'll have a somewhat different opinion after I watch it. As different as it sounds, I could definitely see it being a possibility that the prologue part might have at least partly worked on its own. It sounds like it plays like it's its own thing, anyway. I'm surprised they haven't done an animated Batgirl movie yet, actually. I know she has a very vocal fan base. I just think it's silly that some of them get so upset over how her character is used in "The Killing Joke." I guess the argument could be made that if The Killing Joke had never happened, there probably would never have been all those years worth of good Oracle stories.