I've said on this board many times I thought Terry Moore's performance as a moll was not very good, so I certainly agree with you. She seemed to be going for some breathless faux Marilyn Monroe vibe and it simply didn't work. Granted, she wasn't helped by the script or the direction, but still. . .gothosmansion wrote: I like the Zodiac Crimes, but I thought it was padded in places. Since it had two writers, I wonder if maybe it started out as a two-part Joker story and was padded out into three parts to accommodate Penguin, especially since he isn’t in the second episode. Does anyone know? I’m sure the plot point about Venus defecting and helping Batman was Stephen Kandell’s idea, since it echoed Blaze joining Batman in the False-Face episodes that Kandell wrote. To be honest, though, one of the things that knocks the episode down a few notches for me is I just didn’t like Terry Moore. She is a pretty bad actress and I found her to be one of the least attractive molls on the entire series. I think a better Venus would have added
Also, an interesting thing about this episode is that according to the script and spec script titles in Dozier's files at the University of Wyoming, it began as a Kandel story titled 'The Astrologer.' That's all I know--the title. I wonder if upon examining the script outline we might find it actually was for a new villain called the Astrologer, and then adapted to fit Joker.
Maybe someday I'll go to Laramie and find out the answers to these and many other Bat-conundrums!