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Is it really the second best Batman series?

posted 10 years ago by razzzor-1
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8.1 is pretty high. I had high hopes, it seems to be the second best Batman animated series. I haven't seen any others, this one was my initiation. Well, maybe just bits of TOS.

But I found it to be pretty difficult to sit through sometimes. It got off to an okay start with Terry going after Powers for vengeance. But after that episode that was it really. No more Powers, no more main story arc, just one cliched story after another, apart from a couple later episodes that revisit Powers and his son. So much for building those characters up only to be forgotten about.

By the fourth episode we get a completely overused plot in BB - the freakishly ugly highschool geek has had enough and snaps, becoming a super villain. If it wasn't one of the geeks, it was some other fellow student or jock. How many stories do we have to have that involve Terry's friggin classmates? What sort of school is this?!

Terry himself was okay, a bit of a stiff, void of much personality, but the voice acting was okay.

How about Heroes with "the terrific trio" and complete ripoff (homage apparently) of the Fantastic Four. That was awful.

Season 2 was worse though, apart from Earth Mover which was actually pretty good, feeling like an episode of The X-Files. But some of the later episodes were pure late night 1980's trash, like Rats, Terry's Friend Dates a Robot, Eggbaby, Sentries of the Last Cosmos. I'm only up to the third episode of season 3, but I'm looking forward to this to being over soon.

It's certainly doesn't hold a candle to many of Marvel's cartoon series. Animation is very average as well.

Is it really the second best Batman series? It's going to be tough sitting through the others if it is. Bring me some anime any day.

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[–] michaelward15 9 years ago

I thought this was a pretty mediocre show myself. TAS and B&B are both much better.

[–] Sammiboy94 9 years ago

What does B&B stand for?

[–] Darwinskid 9 years ago

Brave and the Bold, probably.

[–] Sammiboy94 9 years ago

Haha, that was horrible

[–] racy1285 9 years ago

Most of the OP's complaints have to do with the show's high school setting. Well thats what the WB wanted. They wanted to attract younger viewers so they wanted a younger Batman. Otherwise no more Batman. I think the creators took what was given and crafted something very original.

You can call them cliche all you want. Fact of the matter is those kind of things happen in schools and high schools all the time. Unless you live in a perfect world. Bullies, drugs, evil teachers, troubled kids, etc happen all the time. Thats why you see them in most tv shows that have a high school setting. Its not the show or creators fault that life in schools and high schools are cliche all by themselves.

If the show avoided topics like these than the show wouldn't have been very realistic. I enjoyed how they handled the material and that they didn't shy away from it.

[–] lukekywalkrawakenz 9 years ago

This was DEFINITELY the second best Animated Batman Series of the 90's and *ahem "beyond"...NO DC BATMAN Animated Series has been able to hold my attention since. It dealt with adult issues in a mature manner instead of dummy'ing it down for kids and alas that's what got it cancelled by its own Network Execs who wanted a kiddie show to sell toys...Shame, this show deserved two more seasons.

WB Animation & DC ANIMATED SERIES Peaked with BATMAN:TAS 92', SUPERMAN:TAS 96', BATMAN BEYOND 98', THE ZETA PROJECT 01', JUSTICE LEAGUE 01'. After that were nothing but failed attempts to revive a new BATMAN Animation series over, and over again, some decent(Animated Character Specific)movies, but never a return to that Animated Golden Age of the 1992 to 2006(End of JUSTICE LEAGUE's run) WB/DC ANIMATION.