History YMMV / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE30PerchanceToDream

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: It's minor, but it's rather odd that Harvey Dent doesn't make an appearance in this episode. Given that he was one of Bruce Wayne's best friends before his FaceHeelTurn and his transformation into Two-Face is one of Batman's most personal tragedies in this incarnation, it was a real missed opportunity not to show a non-scarred and mentally sound version of him as part of Bruce's dream world.
** It would've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogue's gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities certainly provide loads of fun FanficFuel to play around with.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's minor, but it's rather odd that Harvey Dent doesn't make an appearance in this episode. Given that he was one of Bruce Wayne's best friends before his FaceHeelTurn and his transformation into Two-Face is one of Batman's most personal tragedies in this incarnation, it was a real missed opportunity not to show a non-scarred and mentally sound version of him as part of Bruce's dream world.
** It would've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities certainly provide loads of fun FanficFuel to play around with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities certainly provide loads of fun FanficFuel to play around with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities certainly provide loads of fun FanficFuel to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly provide loads of fun FanficFuel to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly fun to consider & provide loads of FanficFuel to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly fun to consider and provide loads of FanficFuel to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly fun to consider and provide loads of Fanfic Fuel to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly fun to consider and provide loads of [[FanficFuel]] to play with.

** It might've been interesting to see other, dream world idealized versions of Batman's rogues gallery besides Catwoman. Perhaps Harvey Dent & Pamela Isley are a stable, normal married couple, liable to double date with Selina & Bruce, rather than hating each other's guts or pursuing revenge plots. Maybe Penguin is a respected member of high society, donating to charities left and right. The possibilities are certainly fun to consider.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Batman figures out he is trapped in a dream when he is unable to read the books or newspapers; he later explains this by saying that the parts of the brain responsible for dreaming and reading are on different hemispheres and that it's impossible to read in a dream. This is a myth--the brain is far more complex than that, and it is entirely possible and completely commonplace for people to read in dreams. However, if you read in a dream, the text on the page rarely ''stays the same'' between two looks. So given "realistic" limitations on the dream machine, he could very easily have found out almost exactly the same way in real life, too--it just wouldn't be quite as obvious. For a twenty-minute cartoon, the way they did it is a reasonable shorthand to save time and simplify it for the target audience.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Aside from the similarities to ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' noted on the main page, the core plot of this episode was done in 1991's ''Detective Comics'' #633. The main difference is that the comic is pretty much a thriller all the way through, with none of the episode's psychological introspection.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Batman figures out he is trapped in a dream when he is unable to read the books or newspapers; he later explains this by saying that the parts of the brain responsible for dreaming and reading are on different hemispheres and that it's impossible to read in a dream. This is a myth--the brain is far more complex than that, and it is entirely possible and completely commonplace for people to read in dreams. However, if you read in a dream, the text on the page rarely ''stays the same'' between two looks. So given "realistic" limitations on the dream machine, he could very easily have found out almost exactly the same way in real life, too--it just wouldn't be quite as obvious. For a twenty-minute cartoon, the way they did it is a reasonable shorthand to save time and simplify it for the target audience.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Batman figures out he is trapped in a dream when he is unable to read the books or newspapers; he later explains this by saying that the parts of the brain responsible for dreaming and reading are on different hemispheres and that it's impossible to read in a dream. This is a myth - the brain is far more complex than that, and it is entirely possible and completely commonplace for people to read in dreams.
** However, if you read in a dream, the text on the page rarely ''stays the same'' between two looks. So given "realistic" limitations on the dream machine, he could very easily have found out almost exactly the same way in real life, too--It just wouldn't be quite as obvious. For a twenty-minute cartoon, the way they did it is a reasonable shorthand to save time and simplify it for the target audience.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Batman figures out he is trapped in a dream when he is unable to read the books or newspapers; he later explains this by saying that the parts of the brain responsible for dreaming and reading are on different hemispheres and that it's impossible to read in a dream. This is a myth - the brain is far more complex than that, and it is entirely possible and completely commonplace for people to read in dreams.