Well.. this post is going to be useless, but I'll create it anyway.
My reasons for liking this show (from since my body was a kid):
- The Batmobile is COOL! (Even nowadays, I like the design and its nicely glowing lights in the dark, the weird 'fire-based' jet-engine-style propulsion system and the interesting shape and architecture, plus the gadgets (especially for their time)
- Adam West is amazingly.. 'immersive'? Hard to find the right word, but I could just look at him speak or make statements for hours. He also really got passion as Batman, and the way he gets really angry and worked up when talking about Joker, is both funny and remarkable. Burt Ward is a great companion, they work so well together - but Adam West is the genius of the two, in my opinion, at least onscreen in this show.
It's really enjoyable to watch Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin to slowly solve the riddle or mystery and figure it all out.
- The fighting scenes are ridiculously entertaining - as unrealistic as they are, you always wait for the fight scene and are always satisfied to see it. They're energetic, funny, fun and even inspiring in some ways
- Batman doing a stupid dance is certainly cringeworthy, but it shows that this show (no pun intended) has no limits in some sense - it can make Batman do ANYTHING, even a dance he's "not supposed" to do! This feeling of 'anything can happen' makes the show more exciting.
- In a world, where every Batman interpretation (along almost every other movie) is dark, gloomy, overly serious, pretentious, depressing, colorless, creepy, scary, horrifying, repulsive, barbaric, 'night-only' effect-fest, it's refreshing and balm to the wounds to see something colorful, fun, energetic and uplifting for a change. And for a Batman, it's even better, because nowadays you only see the throat-problematic 'dark knight' crap, that's so boring and tries so hard to be so depressing and gloomy, almost making Batman just another emo kid..
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5 years ago
..then you suddenly get to see the fun, exciting, colorful, energetic and slightly silly side of Batman, where you don't have to descend deep into the dark and oily depths of gothic emo crap, but you are allowed to remain in the normal world, and ESCAPE a little (remember, when TV used to be ESCAPISM instead of trying to depress the viewer as much as possible?).
- Bruce friggin' Lee was in this show! That should be enough said right there (I recognized him immediately when I saw him move, before I knew about the whole Green Hornet-thing a long time ago - it's amazing how you can recognize someone masked just from a tiny movement)
- The villains are imaginative, cleverly thought-out, almost a match for our brave protagonists, and really interesting in their own right - the actor performances sell the madness of the villains SO well, you forget this is supposed to be a 'campy joke', and you get actually involved with what's happening, and it's easy to worry for our heroes as well.
- The production quality is WAY better than it ever should have been, and this makes the show, albeit very 'dated' in many ways, timeless anyway - it also gives the show a 'dreamy quality', as if this is all happening in another dimension, another planet, or another form of existence altogether, in some 'dreamy Batworld'.
- The narrator is icing on the cake - Same Bat-Time, Bat-Channel! Who can forget this iconic and funny, but still inspiring stuff? It was a stroke of brilliant genius to have the narrator always verbalize the worry for our protagonists at the end of the episode.
- The wall-climbing gimmick, although over-used, is still just so fun to watch, and Batman and Robin being so serious makes it even the more humorous.
- The show is so well made, you can't always know if some humor is intentional or unintentional. But the humor is always there, deeply interwoven within the serious plot structure and the scary (but campy) villains.
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5 years ago
When you watch Joker, for example, you can really feel he has a lot of power, but also that he is a bit mad, and a real threat to Batman and Robin.
This may be a 'campy' show, and intentionally so, but they were never sloppy about this stuff, it really makes you think the villain can yet beat Batman and Robin, as wonderfully powerful as they are shown to be, too.
- I absolutely love and adore the Batcave, the outfits, and Alfred - and the whole sideplot of trying to keep the truth from the Aunt.
But most of all, I love the 'moral at the end', that Adam West is SO excellent in delivering in a proper pathos and passion, which makes it brilliantly funny, but sometimes even a little bit thought-provoking.
It's just a masterfully entertaining show that I'd rather watch 100 times over, than see even two minutes of any modern Batman interpretation.
But as I mentioned, this reply is pretty much useless.
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