Batman Beyond: Season 1 - Episode: 9, 'The Winning Edge' (1999) - TVEpisode Review

Official Score = 3 Devils

Batman Beyond... One of the things that I really must say that I do really like about this show is the fact that where as it is truly it's own show, it does add elements of, 'Batman: The Animated Series' in it as well!

I mean besides the fact that this series has an aging Bruce Wayne sort of mentoring the new, 'Batman'... (Sort of in the same way that, 'Alfred' used to mentor Bruce during his days as Batman.) Besides all that, this series has pretty awesomely incorporated in a very nice way certain elements from Batman: The Animated Series as well!

A great example of this is, 'The Jokers' a street gang that is modeled after the original, 'Clown Prince Of Crime' himself! And another example is in the episode, 'The Winning Edge'!

You see, this episode, which stars: Will Friedle (Boy Meets World) and, Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series), tells the story of how certain teams seem to be gaining an unfair advantage, and that in Terry McGinnis's school, 3 of these kids are using these performance enhancing drugs, and turning to crime to pay for their habit!

Doping in School? For shame! And you will find out when Batman comes to stop you!

And as Batman  begins to investigate where this drug is coming from, he will come to discover the involvement of an enemy from the past when Bruce Wayne was still Batman!

The episode, has a good message of why drugs are bad, and talks about them in a fun way.... And as for the episode itself, I am going to say that this episode is one of the better ones out there and certainly well worth checking out!