I watched the creators’ justification for it beforehand, and was completely on board with their reasoning, but on watching it, yeah. The prologue was extremely awkward, weird, and unnecessary, and felt nothing like the rest of the story. And the animation was shockingly cheap for such a high profile adaptation. I didn’t have any objection to the rest of the story – the rape, etc - because, well, it’s The Killing Joke, and they followed the original comic very closely. If they’d made the story without the awful things that happen to Barbara, it’d kind of deflate the whole second half of the story.
