probably the best incarnation of Batman ever?

Give it a try, you might change your mind.

yeah I might give it a shot

instead of these idiots who didn't have a single clue on what they were doing for this show.

some of the writers were comic book writers like adam beechen, and len wein, a living legend. the writing was *beep* dope

. Pixar and Dreamworks does better CGI then this

-bigger budget

they didn't inspire that amount of feeling like in Batman: TAS from the 90s.

first of all, the animated series villains weren't that great, or that inspiring of pathos, except maybe 2facen clayface and freeze. magpie, humpty, metallo, manbat, were all richly written, at least on par with tas, and at times better. did you even watch the show?

he's someone who considers himself as a shadow form for Batman

-your interpretation. there are other interpretations were bruce is just as rich and deep a character as 'batman'.

refuse himself any humor

batman can have humour and still be batman. it's actually WAAAAY better when batman/bruce has snide back and forths between him and Alfred for instance.

Harvey Dent, he's just a jerk. A greedy, controlling coward

well he IS a villain

I though it was cool how he could give bruce advice, and keep him on his toes, keep him sharp. it was also cool that Alfred manned the cave (and bat-computer) while bruce and katana were on missions, a role that Barbara gordan eventually took over
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Still doesn't explain why he has to look like Lex luthor and don't give me that bullsh!t that he doesn't need to have hair and a mustache.

kind of a non-sequitur there, and you didn't respond to the argument. looks (specifically hair and a moustache) aren't everything

Instead he shattered that hope for me.

shattered hope! sorry I just love the phrasing

He is NOTHING like the freedom loving extremist that he was created to be. He's basically The Joker in an Anarky costume.

true. instead of anarchy being a political movement of freedom from a creeping capitalist state (or a deliberate fight against capitalist forces in gotham), anarky was more an ideological opposite to what batman was trying to impose: order. in this way he was more like joker from the dark knight (that's kinda cool tho right? he's like, proto-joker?).

And his second appearance? That was lame. Honestly. A gas that turns people into Banes? Really?

he's like the ultimate strategist, the archetypal chess-master opponent, like moriarty to Sherlock holmes!

That is why I wish they had gone with the Joker instead.

boring, been done

Professor Pyg and Toad were turned into simplistic goofballs in this show.

true, but pyg was pretty extreme in the comics. the writers said they were going for a "wind in the willows" type thing with those two. it kinda worked. I admit, they weren't my fav characters, nor many other people's.

making him brainwash people and turn them into his dollotrons in a more kid friendly way instead of this "Doctor Moreau" knockoff who wants to create humanoid animals instead of the Dollotrons

yeah I would've rather have seen this. dollotrons would've been great

Magpie was the only reoccurring villain who's rather inconsistent. First she's a mental case

yeah but doesn't that make sense, because she is mentally ill? I looooved magpie

I'd like to think she's replaced by Deathstroke

deathstroke sooooooooooo badass

This is all we see of Beware the Batman’s Two-Face, who doesn’t flip a coin, doesn’t have a mentality obsession with the number two, and wasn’t ever a good person before the scarring. After the scarring, he starts speaking of himself as “we” even before seeing that he has two faces behind the bandages and not just showing off the difference between his 2 eyes, mind you despite the fact that he displays no discernible difference in personality from his pre-scarring self. Dent is not Hush or Peyton Westlake/Darkman so we have every right to know what his scarred face looks like behind those stupid bandages so I can safely say that this is the worst take on Harvey Dent since Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever. the list goes on...

it's good that they took some chances instead of writing the characters EXACTLTY the way they were written in the comics. what's that phrase about life and variety and spice? they would've revealed two-face's face(s), in the second season if they ever got the chance

Call it a lucky guess cause sometimes i'm not always right but it doesn't mean i'm clairvoyance.

can't argue with that

[quote]Both when executed properly but in Beware the Batman's case, it's *beep* nuff said


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She's the only reoccurring villain who's rather inconsistent. First she's a mental case (you know, ASIDE from the usual mental cases), then she's a pseudo-Catwoman, then she's a DIFFERENT mental case, and then she's just a prop in the background. Fortunately, there are only a few episodes devoted to her, and then she's sort of forgotten about. I like to think she's replaced by Deathstroke.

from ikrani's review!

This is not Batman the Animated Series. It will NEVER be Batman the Animated Series. That being said, this is still a pretty solid show once you get past the boring bits.

The first few episodes are the worst. Granted, that's not unheard of for a new show, but it's only when an overarching storyline is established that the show starts to take off.

The show seems to take the Batman: Year One approach of giving us a Batman who hasn't quite fleshed out his routine yet. In the early episodes, he makes mistakes in battle and gets clocked more than once which results in a pretty noticeable injury. Anthony Ruivivar is no Kevin Conroy but his Batman sounds right nonetheless. It's his Bruce Wayne that's not quite up to snuff, since there's usually a subtle voice change between the two characters. Still, nothing distracting.

The supporting cast, for the most part, are good as well. The show takes the former MI6 version of Alfred and runs with it, though I'd be lying if I said it would've been stronger if they HADN'T told us about it from the get-go. Lt. Gordon keeps with the Batman: Year One feel in that he doesn't wholly trust Batman at first and even makes a few attempts to arrest him. That and he's Lt. Gordon, not Commissioner Gordon. Katana takes a while to flesh out her character, but eventually the plot allows her to develop a character that is similar but still different from Batman's. If only her costume was the same...

The one character they messed up was Barbara. They took this great female character and turned her into the Barbara Gordon from Frank Miller's All-Star Batman and Robin series: a devoted fangirl who spends just a little too much time thinking about Batman. This is sorted out later when she becomes Oracle (thankfully without taking a bullet to the spine), but not until the post-cancellation episodes.

The villains are a mixed bag. The best of the bunch is Deathstroke, to whom the entire storyline of the post-cancellation season is dedicated. I say he's the best because he'll be involved without you knowing it until you watch the entire arc, after which all the pieces fall into place and you realize just what an awesome villain Glen Murakami made him into. Then again, Glen made him just as awesome in his Teen Titans cartoon, so I think he's just good at it. Second best is Professor Pyg, who's not as violent here as he is in the comics but his professional approach to villainy makes some of his dialog pretty funny to boot. He gets a bit weaker in his final outing in Season 1, mostly due to the generic plot of the episode. For third-placer Anarky, it's the opposite. He starts off as this weak pseudo-Nolan Joker out to spread anarchy and chaos, though in post-cancellation his dialogue's finally ironed out and he becomes engaging, even pairing up with Harvey Dent. Yeah, Harvey Dent's in the series, and I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone that he goes bad by the end. In fact, he's pretty much rotten from the get- go, constantly at odds with Batman while being best friends with Bruce Wayne. Tobias Whale is more or less your clichéd crime boss character, and Magpie... Well... I really don't know what to say on Magpie. She's the only reoccurring villain who's rather inconsistent. First she's a mental case (you know, ASIDE from the usual mental cases), then she's a pseudo-Catwoman, then she's a DIFFERENT mental case, and then she's just a prop in the background. Fortunately, there are only a few episodes devoted to her, and then she's sort of forgotten about. I like to think she's replaced by Deathstroke.

I once heard from someone that works on this show that it would be getting a second season, and just as well since Episode 26 ends on not one, not two, but FOUR cliffhangers, two of which involve The Terminator himself. I only hope CN takes it off Toonami and puts it back on the afternoon block where Justice League and previous DC shows once stood. And now that it's been almost a year since its cancellation, might as well wish Bob Kane and Bill Finger would rise from the dead and tell WB to stop mucking up their comic adaptations.

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