Batman: Caped Crusader (Prime Video)
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Given Timm's and WB Animation's output over the past decade or so, I'd expect something in the same PG-13 range as the DC Animated Movie Universe, aimed at teens and above.
Kinda goes back to the "whats a family show" thread.. whats a kids show? Y7? Pg 13?
Misnomar of having to be edgy or dark to be good.. dont need any of that.
Doesn't really need to be over violent or gory or bad language to make a good show. Given tbe period saying "damn" is a bad word.
Misnomar of having to be edgy or dark to be good.. dont need any of that.
Doesn't really need to be over violent or gory or bad language to make a good show. Given tbe period saying "damn" is a bad word.
Y and Y-7 show are geared towards kids, that's the whole point of those rating.
Of course not, but a lot of people jump the assumption that just because something is animated or a super hero show that it automatically must be for kids. I just thought that maybe that was what you were doing in your last post.
I daresay that people in the 1940s used the word plenty in real life, and harder expletives as well; they just weren't allowed to say them in movies or on radio.
EDITED TO ADD: Or rather, the idea back then was that there were words one didn't say "in polite company," specifically around women, but would have been used freely among men, in barrooms, etc. Although I imagine this show will probably have more gender equality in its version of the '40s as well as racial equality. At least, I hope Timm dials down his tendencies to oversexualize female characters this time.
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Trailer.
I've been cautiously optimistic about this show but that trailer does look promising. I do like how they're not trying recreate or emulate the stylings and character designs of Batman: The Animated Series and instead creating their own ones. There are some echoes here and there, but it otherwise feels new and fresh. Definitely worth a shot at least.
I have no faith in modern Bruce Timm to make anything that isn't edge lord junk, but the trailer definitely doesn't show off as much of Timm's recent weirdness as I would have expected, so I'll give it a shot and hope that the other people involved in the show restrained Timm's more recent trend toward edgier, and just plain bad, writing. Its got to be better then the last Batman thing he wrote, or at the very least have less fart jokes (that Batman & Harley Quinn movie really was garbage).
The trailer was pretty good, definitely feeling pretty optimistic about this now. I'm liking the whole way they're approaching the '40s setting, and so far the character designs are cool.
I'm a little surprised it's taken this long for JJ Abrams to get his name on a superhero adaptation that goes beyond the early stages.
I'm a little surprised it's taken this long for JJ Abrams to get his name on a superhero adaptation that goes beyond the early stages.
Reposting my trailer reaction from the "DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond" thread -- it belongs better here:
I can't say the trailer wowed me. It feels like a story that's been done many times already, from Year One to Mask of the Phantasm to Begins to the first couple of seasons of The Batman and so on.
Also, though I get why they're doing it, it is kind of jarring to see a 1940s setting with gender and racial equality. It feels kind of dishonest.
Interesting choice to give Alfred an Oliver Hardy-esque appearance like he originally had in the comics, before they redesigned him to match the thin, balding actor who played him in the '43 serial. I think this is the first time we've ever seen Alfred depicted that way onscreen. But otherwise he seems to be a pretty standard Alfred, rather than the comical bumbler he started out as.
I can't say the trailer wowed me. It feels like a story that's been done many times already, from Year One to Mask of the Phantasm to Begins to the first couple of seasons of The Batman and so on.
Also, though I get why they're doing it, it is kind of jarring to see a 1940s setting with gender and racial equality. It feels kind of dishonest.
Interesting choice to give Alfred an Oliver Hardy-esque appearance like he originally had in the comics, before they redesigned him to match the thin, balding actor who played him in the '43 serial. I think this is the first time we've ever seen Alfred depicted that way onscreen. But otherwise he seems to be a pretty standard Alfred, rather than the comical bumbler he started out as.
Looks cool to me. Wish they'd do a Golden Age GL or Starman show with this look.
Definitely wanna give it a try.
I'm interested enough to check it out.
I’m into this. I think the show will be good.
I dunno, it feels like it's trying too hard to replicate B:TAS, with the music and the casting of Batman. All I hear in Linklater's voice is "decent Kevin Conroy impression but not Conroy," which makes it hard to get past the comparison and take his performance on its own terms. I would've preferred to have a Batman actor who could make the role his own, the way Rino Romano, Diedrich Bader, Anthony Ruivivar, Jason O'Mara, etc. have done. (O'Mara in particular -- he was really different from the usual Batman voice range, but he gave a strong and highly distinctive performance.)
Yeah I couldn't care if he sounds like anyone. As long as the performance is convincing.
Life would be more fun for us fans if we just enjoyed a bit more and weren't so hyperfocused on small details.
I'm more annoyed by, as you mentioned, this show ignoring the bigotry of the time period. But that comes from trailers, actual episodes might be different.
Life would be more fun for us fans if we just enjoyed a bit more and weren't so hyperfocused on small details.
I'm more annoyed by, as you mentioned, this show ignoring the bigotry of the time period. But that comes from trailers, actual episodes might be different.
If the bigotry of the time period existed, there wouldn't be a black police commissioner. It's pretty obvious that they're glossing it over.
That's literally what I said. Good for you.