There was this one reaction channel that only got 22 episodes into it before they quit the show all together. The official cope is that since they were all left leaning, they didn't want to watch more of a rich dude beating up mentally ill poor people
>That one was great though? I like the weird human trafficking story.
Basado! "The Forgotten" was one of the most chilling & unnerving episodes of the whole series. Shirley Walker's soundtrack, particularly, for that episode is nothing but pure excellency & an eargasm.
She was able to create a truly unforgettable blues atmosphere/vibe with that specific score. I know one insane anon that reworked BvS's human trafficking aspect (with the kidnapping of Martha) into a KINO live action homage to "The Forgotten" but BvS's original narrative/score radically changed to fit with the BTAS story & Shirley Walker's total aural/sound aesthetic: https://www.reddit.com/r/DCAU/comments/11li0nd/mothers_day_elseworlds_short_film_btas_style/
>That one was great though? I like the weird human trafficking story.
Basado! "The Forgotten" was one of the most chilling & unnerving episodes of the whole series. Shirley Walker's soundtrack, particularly, for that episode is nothing but pure excellency & an eargasm.
She was able to create a truly unforgettable blues atmosphere/vibe with that specific score. I know one insane anon that reworked BvS's human trafficking aspect (with the kidnapping of Martha) into a KINO live action homage to "The Forgotten" but BvS's original narrative/score radically changed to fit with the BTAS story & Shirley Walker's total aural/sound aesthetic: https://www.reddit.com/r/DCAU/comments/11li0nd/mothers_day_elseworlds_short_film_btas_style/
This always gets cited as a weak episode and I never got it. Always seemed like a solid story to me, I also liked seeing Batman in disguise.
What bugs me is that pretty much every Catwoman episode was used to push some feminist's agenda. B: TAS is the worst when it's trying to talk about social issues.
I think this show might be way I've just never cared for that character. All her episodes are about some lame shit like the environment. You don't really get that classic relationship represented very well in this show. Most of the time it seems like Catwoman is just a minor annoyance to Batman who keeps nearly getting herself killed trying to save cats or the rainforest and shit like that.
>mfw a lot of bad and preachy episodes were written by Sean Catherine Derek
Episodes Directed, Edited and/or Written by Sean Catherine Derek in Batman: The Animated Series
Christmas with the Joker, Nothing to Fear, The Last Laugh, P.O.V., The Forgotten, The Cat and the Claw Part I & II, Prophecy of Doom, Cat Scratch Fever
I liked the (1966) movie when I was like 8. I finally started watching the show when the blu rays were released and couldn't take any more by about the middle of season 2. BATB is like an animated version of what people pretend the Adam West Batman was. I was in college by then and it all felt kind of cringe. This was right around the time Nolan's TDKR was going to release and when the MCU was still at its absolute peak. And I'd seen the Raimi Spider-Man movies (campy but still respectful to their characters) and the OG X-Men trilogy.
Frank Gorshin was an incredible Riddler; I'll give it that. He'd be a great antagonist in something made today.
The first season of '66 Batman was legit lightning in a bottle, I can admit it. West, Ward, Gorshin, Romero, and Julie Newmar's perfect ass in skintight leather. It got a fricking movie after one season, and then it spun its wheels on the fumes of that popularity for two more years, getting West typecast until he died.
I can appreciate what it started out as, like with the 1987 TMNT show's first five episodes. I just think it was ultimately a victim of its own success. Everything after the first season + movie seemed to get progressively lazier and more dull.
That show is directly responsible for the downgraded american animation people complain about today.
There is a reason the anime boom took off, because the quality here plummeted to flat shadeless copycat build characters that proliferated cartoons after thanks to stas.
I love BTAS, but it has some real stinkers. And a writer with a clear fetish, there were like 3 anthro/furry episodes in a row in s1.
STAS was good, but it stayed in the middle. It never reached the lows of BTAS/NBA, but it didnt have as much bangers either. The only clear W it has over BTAS is that the VA work is better in quality.
There was this one reaction channel that only got 22 episodes into it before they quit the show all together. The official cope is that since they were all left leaning, they didn't want to watch more of a rich dude beating up mentally ill poor people
I find it more objectionable that you get reaction videos in your feed, Anon....
IMO most of BTAS episodes are solid to good with some shit ones and some standout greats.
I'd agree the start of the show is kinda rough, it was still trying to find its footing (just rewatched On Leather Wings on New Year's Eve, Kevin Conroy didn't seem to perfect his Batman voice yet at that point) so a lot of lamer episodes are at the start.
Volume 2 of the old DVD releases has some of the most mediocre episodes. That's about where you are. I'm sorry. There's about six episodes after the HARDAC two-parter that are real slogs, but then you get Almost Got 'Im. That's the episode that is the source of that webm of Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and Penguin looking at the viewer disapprovingly while at a card table. S-tier, no question.
Volume three/season 2 of the OG BTAS run has cleaner animation and several Paul Dini scripts that are absolute kino. After that it's followed by TNBA.
>Don't even get me started on TNBA.
I tried to show the first story from Holiday Knights as part of a presentation I was giving about animation at my parochial high school for an honors English class and the teacher made me turn it off, kek. I almost got kicked out of class.
Show was mid. Never good. It was different at the time but that’s it.
No one cares about it other than manchildren online. Which is why every Bat cartoon flopped after. Beware of the Batman especially cemented no one cared anymore.
You’re the definition of a homosexual who spends his life on the internet. No one gives a frick about this show, especially zoomers who doesn’t even know it exists. It’s a kids cartoon for a reason.
Overall I agree. There are some great fricking episodes but also a lot of average or slightly good ones. Not to mention that the animation and sometimes music being inconsistent is pretty unfortunate. With that being said, I still think is among top 5 western cartoons because the great episodes are really that great and the medium has barely anything at that level.
I only have vague memories of watching this as a child, so I was thinking of going through the whole series now as an adult. How bad are the lows? And is TNBA really as bad as people say? I do like its artstyle.
>How bad are the lows?
Mildly boring to outright goofy >And is TNBA really as bad as people say? I do like its artstyle.
Simpler art, less restrictions on BS & P. Bruce is more of a hardass in terms of his arc from BTAS > JL/U > Beyond. BTAS is comfy, younger, empathetic Batman. By TNBA he's jaded and merciless with only a bit of light showing under his edginess.
Is JL/U required watching for continuity purposes? I'm only asking because I'm really not in the mood for Justice League shenanigans and would rather focus on Batman only stuff for now.
JL/U aren't necessary but you should give them a shot once you're Batmanned-out. Legitimately some of the best superhero cartoons ever made, especially Unlimited.
It's a decent show, but I think what holds it back is the episodic nature of it. Which was fine at the time, but as someone who finally watched it after years of watching cape cartoons with a more sequential story it just felt like something was missing. Like, there's is continuity and sometimes episodes are built off from an old one, but other times they play a little too loose with it or contradicts something. It's partially my fault because it became clear this was not a show that was made with binging in mind. The Justice League cartoon was way more engaging for me.
Dini not on a leash with just do a bunch of fetish smut.
Clearly, the solution is to put Timm and Dini in the same project and give them full creative control. I want to see what sort of horny monstrosity they would come up with.
Overall Superman TAS had more consistent quality. Batman TAS has some FANTASTIC episodes, but you got to admit there's a ratio of 1:5. For example you got episodes like Feat of Clay, Mad as a Hatter, and Heart of Ice, but then you got a lot of forgettable episodes like The Underdwellers, Batman's In My Basement, and Tyger
There was this one reaction channel that only got 22 episodes into it before they quit the show all together. The official cope is that since they were all left leaning, they didn't want to watch more of a rich dude beating up mentally ill poor people
You're saying that OP is mentally ill?
ah so they are a homosexual
Reaction channels are worthless garbage and turned YouTube recommendations into aids
Show requiring you to watch it without emotional cues is kryptonite to them.
Yeh, but the good ones are REALLY good.
It did take a long time to get good, yes.
nope it was good since the first episode homosexual
We've been had that conversation. We were talking about that while OG JL was airing. We all knew there were a bunch of bad eps.
The only bad episodes of BTAS are Batman in my basement, the one where Catwoman becomes an actual furry, and Critters.
How about the one Bruce gets kidnapped and has to work on a mine
That one was great though? I like the weird human trafficking story.
>That one was great though? I like the weird human trafficking story.
Basado! "The Forgotten" was one of the most chilling & unnerving episodes of the whole series. Shirley Walker's soundtrack, particularly, for that episode is nothing but pure excellency & an eargasm.
She was able to create a truly unforgettable blues atmosphere/vibe with that specific score. I know one insane anon that reworked BvS's human trafficking aspect (with the kidnapping of Martha) into a KINO live action homage to "The Forgotten" but BvS's original narrative/score radically changed to fit with the BTAS story & Shirley Walker's total aural/sound aesthetic: https://www.reddit.com/r/DCAU/comments/11li0nd/mothers_day_elseworlds_short_film_btas_style/
I like the idea of Bruce getting amnesia. The villian was kinda underwhelming but the music was good.
This always gets cited as a weak episode and I never got it. Always seemed like a solid story to me, I also liked seeing Batman in disguise.
Just stick with the movie, most of the Joker episodes, the Twoface and Clay face episodes and Robin's Reckoning.
The first Riddler episode is pretty good.
What bugs me is that pretty much every Catwoman episode was used to push some feminist's agenda. B: TAS is the worst when it's trying to talk about social issues.
I think this show might be way I've just never cared for that character. All her episodes are about some lame shit like the environment. You don't really get that classic relationship represented very well in this show. Most of the time it seems like Catwoman is just a minor annoyance to Batman who keeps nearly getting herself killed trying to save cats or the rainforest and shit like that.
>mfw a lot of bad and preachy episodes were written by Sean Catherine Derek
Episodes Directed, Edited and/or Written by Sean Catherine Derek in Batman: The Animated Series
Christmas with the Joker, Nothing to Fear, The Last Laugh, P.O.V., The Forgotten, The Cat and the Claw Part I & II, Prophecy of Doom, Cat Scratch Fever
Prophecy of Doom sucked.
>yall
Your opinion is irrelevant, you aren't southern.
The '60s show is 10x worse, but boomers will never admit it.
Now Superman TAS, that's a series that's damn consistent from start to finish. Also, Mala and Volcana made my dick twitch when I was 8.
I don't think you can really compare them. The 60s show is supposed to be bad. It's called camp.
I liked the (1966) movie when I was like 8. I finally started watching the show when the blu rays were released and couldn't take any more by about the middle of season 2. BATB is like an animated version of what people pretend the Adam West Batman was. I was in college by then and it all felt kind of cringe. This was right around the time Nolan's TDKR was going to release and when the MCU was still at its absolute peak. And I'd seen the Raimi Spider-Man movies (campy but still respectful to their characters) and the OG X-Men trilogy.
Frank Gorshin was an incredible Riddler; I'll give it that. He'd be a great antagonist in something made today.
Yes because X-men 3 totally was respectful. You didn’t have to type so much. All you needed to say was “I have no taste”.
The first season of '66 Batman was legit lightning in a bottle, I can admit it. West, Ward, Gorshin, Romero, and Julie Newmar's perfect ass in skintight leather. It got a fricking movie after one season, and then it spun its wheels on the fumes of that popularity for two more years, getting West typecast until he died.
I can appreciate what it started out as, like with the 1987 TMNT show's first five episodes. I just think it was ultimately a victim of its own success. Everything after the first season + movie seemed to get progressively lazier and more dull.
>he doesn’t enjoy best Batman
for me, it's livewire
Just her voice alone would make me shoot geysers
Trying to stay on topic, I liked ol' Roxy too.
So many coomer designs in the DCAU. And some of the male characters like Terry McGinnis were basically himbos.
Dini's legit a bit of a pervert.
my childhood waifu
Leslie x Clark
>Now Superman TAS, that's a series that's damn consistent from start to finish.
Yeah consistently mediocre.
I'm deeply sorry you've been put under the thrall of the Anti-Life Equation
That show is directly responsible for the downgraded american animation people complain about today.
There is a reason the anime boom took off, because the quality here plummeted to flat shadeless copycat build characters that proliferated cartoons after thanks to stas.
a million times better then Calarts
I love BTAS, but it has some real stinkers. And a writer with a clear fetish, there were like 3 anthro/furry episodes in a row in s1.
STAS was good, but it stayed in the middle. It never reached the lows of BTAS/NBA, but it didnt have as much bangers either. The only clear W it has over BTAS is that the VA work is better in quality.
I find it more objectionable that you get reaction videos in your feed, Anon....
It doesn't have the same highs but it is far more consistent and easier to watch the whose series.
OP is a homosexual
We are ready to have that conversation
IMO most of BTAS episodes are solid to good with some shit ones and some standout greats.
I'd agree the start of the show is kinda rough, it was still trying to find its footing (just rewatched On Leather Wings on New Year's Eve, Kevin Conroy didn't seem to perfect his Batman voice yet at that point) so a lot of lamer episodes are at the start.
nah you suck homosexual and your life is mediocre
BatB is more consistently entertaining than TAS
I think I dropped TAS at the big computer AI thing episodes because I just wasn't having fun watching.
Volume 2 of the old DVD releases has some of the most mediocre episodes. That's about where you are. I'm sorry. There's about six episodes after the HARDAC two-parter that are real slogs, but then you get Almost Got 'Im. That's the episode that is the source of that webm of Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and Penguin looking at the viewer disapprovingly while at a card table. S-tier, no question.
Volume three/season 2 of the OG BTAS run has cleaner animation and several Paul Dini scripts that are absolute kino. After that it's followed by TNBA.
As good as Almost Got 'Im is I can't consider it S tier because Ivy and Cobblepot's stories are utterly dull and detract from the episode
Don't even get me started on TNBA.
>Don't even get me started on TNBA.
I tried to show the first story from Holiday Knights as part of a presentation I was giving about animation at my parochial high school for an honors English class and the teacher made me turn it off, kek. I almost got kicked out of class.
That show got away with so much,
Robot Batman is one of my favorite episodes.
Show was mid. Never good. It was different at the time but that’s it.
No one cares about it other than manchildren online. Which is why every Bat cartoon flopped after. Beware of the Batman especially cemented no one cared anymore.
nah you are a manchild homosexual it was always good
You’re the definition of a homosexual who spends his life on the internet. No one gives a frick about this show, especially zoomers who doesn’t even know it exists. It’s a kids cartoon for a reason.
nah you are the homosexual and so are zoomers it not being known by them makes it a plus
>Salty as frick because someone shit on your niche children’s cartoon
Sad!
Namegayging is even worse
DC was never good.
Never. It was always clickbait shockvalue trash for idiots.
Are you storytiming? Are you leaking things?
DC = shit
They recycle the same dumbass stories in every piece of media.
But are you doing anything to warrant namegayging? Like are you leaking some shit or drawing in drawthreads?
>fanfic outrage thread
I'm impressed, op. How did you manage to type all that with dicks in each hand and a nut sack covering your eyes?
I'ts not even that they're great but this was literally the best fricking attempt at Batman in non-comics media to ever exist
Let that sync in
nah it it great homosexual
Overall I agree. There are some great fricking episodes but also a lot of average or slightly good ones. Not to mention that the animation and sometimes music being inconsistent is pretty unfortunate. With that being said, I still think is among top 5 western cartoons because the great episodes are really that great and the medium has barely anything at that level.
I only have vague memories of watching this as a child, so I was thinking of going through the whole series now as an adult. How bad are the lows? And is TNBA really as bad as people say? I do like its artstyle.
>How bad are the lows?
Mildly boring to outright goofy
>And is TNBA really as bad as people say? I do like its artstyle.
Simpler art, less restrictions on BS & P. Bruce is more of a hardass in terms of his arc from BTAS > JL/U > Beyond. BTAS is comfy, younger, empathetic Batman. By TNBA he's jaded and merciless with only a bit of light showing under his edginess.
Is JL/U required watching for continuity purposes? I'm only asking because I'm really not in the mood for Justice League shenanigans and would rather focus on Batman only stuff for now.
The core of Batman is BTAS, TNBA, Beyond, and the crossovers with Superman.
JL just has easter eggs for Batman. They're all good though.
JL/U aren't necessary but you should give them a shot once you're Batmanned-out. Legitimately some of the best superhero cartoons ever made, especially Unlimited.
DC entrainment will never get better until you remove these cucked gays from the producer roles.
Answer the question
They're comfy bad. You wouldn't get it.
What is a name for anti-shilling? Bashing the opposite company.
Marvel is worse than DC.
They’re so fricking bad in comic area. Shitney is aware no one is reading that garbage.
It's a decent show, but I think what holds it back is the episodic nature of it. Which was fine at the time, but as someone who finally watched it after years of watching cape cartoons with a more sequential story it just felt like something was missing. Like, there's is continuity and sometimes episodes are built off from an old one, but other times they play a little too loose with it or contradicts something. It's partially my fault because it became clear this was not a show that was made with binging in mind. The Justice League cartoon was way more engaging for me.
Bruce Timm is ass without Dini’s talent.
Dini not on a leash with just do a bunch of fetish smut.
Clearly, the solution is to put Timm and Dini in the same project and give them full creative control. I want to see what sort of horny monstrosity they would come up with.
Don’t care. Still the greatest television show ever made.
A 3rd of them are fricking hot garbage.
Overall Superman TAS had more consistent quality. Batman TAS has some FANTASTIC episodes, but you got to admit there's a ratio of 1:5. For example you got episodes like Feat of Clay, Mad as a Hatter, and Heart of Ice, but then you got a lot of forgettable episodes like The Underdwellers, Batman's In My Basement, and Tyger
>The Underdwellers, Batman's In My Basement
I submit that these aren't that bad.
>Batman's In My Basement
I want to see that type of episode but with a credible villain, like Joker.
When's the last time ANYONE cared about Sewer King?
>it's a focus on Harley episode
*skips*
The Harley episodes are great though. Are you a woman?
What was the one with the two brothers, one was a gangster and one was a priest and it was really preachy? That one wasn't very good.
Wow, Zoomers have shit taste. I'm shocked.