Once Burned & Hooked Up

This week on The BATTASS Podcast, the game is on, the deck is stacked and reality is virtual as we get jacked into Once Burned and Hooked up! We’ve got the return of the Royal Flush gang, and boy is there family drama, and Terry is right in the middle! And then Max gets in on the game and finds herself a prisoner of the digital world as things get pixelated with Hooked Up!



Per DCAU Wiki:



“Once Burned” is the twentieth episode of Batman Beyond. It depicts the return of Ten. Desperate to rob the Derby, a high stakes poker game held in Gotham City, Ten finds herself running into trouble with both the criminal players and Batman. After explaining that she is only trying to save her family from the Jokerz, she manages to convince Batman to help her try and free them. However, having been betrayed by Ten before, Batman is wary of her. Meanwhile, Melanie Walker meets up with Terry McGinnis and the two share the same troubles as Batman and Ten.



“Hooked Up” is the 21st episode of Batman Beyond. It originally aired on November 13, 1999. Batman discovers several teenagers addicted to a new form of virtual reality, which causes harmful side-effects and pushes many of its users to crime to pay for their habit. Things worsen when Max, who has been pressing Terry to let her take a more active role in his crime-fighting, investigates the technology and becomes hooked on it herself.



It’s great to see Max back in the mix again and the Royal Flush gang is always a fun time, so these two episodes were fun. Even more fun is the long discussion of digital drawing techniques at the end, so if you’re interested in that stuff, make sure you stick around till the end!



So, cut the cards, betray your family, jack yourself into the digital ether, and join us for another episode of BATTASS Beyond!!