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Obligatory clone pun.

Impressions:

Exactly how many different ways to undo death are they going to introduce alongside killing off of characters? The Laz pits, multiple forms of time travel, cloning… all just hanging there as characters… well, only Harley really, wring their hands about how much they're messing up. Even while diving head first into messing up even worse. The second they confirmed it was a deranged, manic clone, it was obvious she'd be taking the fall for Nightwing's murder, but even then, you'd think they'd do it by Tater-Harley saying "She did it!" and then letting the confusion and lie of omission put the blame on herself, but no. Actual-Harley just out of nowhere pins it on the clone and it's off to shoot Babs in the stomach to double down on the dumb gratuitousness.

Meanwhile, the Ivy side is back to the same not-at-all-Ivy stuff as it's been doing most of the season. The avowed misanthrope is out schmoozing and sucking up to Random Pasty Old Dude. So much for girl power, Talia. And then Lex just pisses off in a penis shaped rocket while she goes "Gee, this kind of sucked, didn't it?" Yeah, it did. What are you even doing with Ivy or her plotline this season, guys? With either of these two characters for that matter? I can't help but think back to the first season episode of Harley's biological family, and how they were a real, raw, upsetting slice of what made her the way she is. This season though? Everybody is so out of character while the setting is getting Flanderized to hell.