Matter of personal taste in the show's style afterward.
But if the focus is on the music, there's no significant change in the style there. They still used orchestral scores, most of which were still by Shirley Walker with some by Lolita Ritmanis, Harvey Cohen, and other TAS veterans. And there's some good stuff there. Nightwing got a cool theme (featured in "You Scratch My Back," "Over the Edge," and "Old Wounds"), as did the villain Roxy Rocket in "The Ultimate Thrill" (whose motif sounds more like a classic adventure hero's theme than a villain's theme, but that fits the thrillseeking character). Walker's eerily soulful, Celtic-influenced score for the Ventriloquist/Scarface episode "Double Talk" was quite memorable -- a very different direction than her jazzy score for the original Ventriloquist/Scarface episode "Read My Lips," but appropriately so since the emphasis was more on Wesker than on Scarface. In "Chemistry," Walker briefly reprises the "destiny" motif from
Mask of the Phantasm when Bruce decides to give up being Batman. In "Girls' Night Out," Ritmanis does some nice, subtle work with all the character leitmotifs she's juggling in the score -- Batgirl, Supergirl, Harley, Ivy, Livewire. "Beware the Creeper" features a lively, jazzy Creeper theme (I think it's by Michael McCuistion, but I could be wrong). And of course in the Dick Sprang segment of "Legends of the Dark Knight," Walker does a fun pastiche of stock drop-in cues from old TV cartoons and serials, complete with really abrupt cuts from one piece of "library music" to the next (though all the cues were original to Walker).
And they are the first three seasons, as you can see by the airing date; even if they were aired out of production order, you can see each season has a September to May cycle.
Not exactly. The first 60 episodes were aired between September 1992 and May '93. Fox then aired the last 5 episodes of the first production season in the week of Sept. 13-17, 1993 and 5 episodes of the second production season over the month of May 1994 (2 in the first week, then one per week thereafter, interspersed with reruns); those technically fall into a single broadcast year, though they're over 7 months apart. Then we got 10 more episodes under the
Batman & Robin title once a week from September to November 1994. And the 5 remaining episodes of the second production season were delayed until the week of September 11-15, 1995, making them technically part of a fourth broadcast year.
And the DVD's handle it that way too.
No, they don't. They take the 85 TAS episodes and divide them into three essentially equal volumes of 28, 28, and 29 episodes. The FOX "seasons," going by the IMDb definitions, were 60, 10, and 15 episodes respectively (although in fact they were 60, 5+5, 10, and 5). The fourth DVD volume contains all 24 TNBA episodes, which were aired over two seasons of 13 and 11 episodes, respectively (Sep '97-Jul '98 and Sep '98-Jan '99). Also, the DVDs contain the episodes in production order, which in the case of TAS is radically different from the broadcast order.
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