Does The Batman bring anything to the table that Tas didn't?

[CyberFaust]

The Batman used to have a pretty cool creepy sounding intro but now that's gone.

 

[Dread]

The Batman used to have a pretty cool creepy sounding intro but now that's gone.

It can't beat the B:TAS' theme, so recognizable that JL/JLU could score points just by playing a few strings of it. Sure, it was based on the Elfman score from the film, but it worked.

I agree that THE BATMAN's theme from Seasons 1-2 was good, and I miss it. Their new "remix of Hawaii Five-0" theme isn't Batman-ish to me.

 

[storyteller]

Well of course its easy to pick up theme. They like played it every 5 seconds. Personally after rewatching the batman episodes of boomerang. Most were pretty mediocre. Honestly most of the plots were boring.

 

[November Rain]

I quite like the new theme, the only problem is that it doesn't entirely fit in with the show.

I think by having batgirl in it, they tried to mke the series more applicable to younger viewers so they jived it up a bit...

but overall the effect was one that still doesn't go well with the themes and serious storylines they have...

The Batman isn't like DCAU as characters don't tend to have their own theme music bar someone like the joker but even his isn't as prominent as the tas version.

 

[newwaveboy87]

Well of course its easy to pick up theme. They like played it every 5 seconds. Personally after rewatching the batman episodes of boomerang. Most were pretty mediocre. Honestly most of the plots were boring.

the musical scores in BTAS were so popular that fans have requested them to be released on cd. imo, the scores are some of the highlights of the show. several of the villians had completely recognizable musical intros all to themselves. you knew who the villian wasby paying attention to the musical cue.

the plots were boring? ....they just took their time in developing their characters, motivations, and making you invest in the actions. that was part of the brilliance of the show. they didn't need to have an action scene every ten minutes to keep an audience interested, they treated the episodes like mini-noir films. they unfolded their plots slowly, making you care about the characters, and interested in how everything would tie together in the end. that's my favorite thing about the show, they didn't have to pander to the audience to keep them interested. i'm thankful that BTAS wasn't mindless action sequence and bad pun after bad pun like The Batman is.

 

[RogueDK]

Personally I don't feel that the new incantation threatens TAS. I don't care for the art style, direction nor how The Joker is rendered. It's just meh...


And once you get used to Conroy's voice, no one else adds up.

 

[November Rain]

well the batman's bruce wayne is far less dark than tas' batman, and he is still in a relatively early part of his career, he has no reason to be as dark as tas' batman.

this may be due to his relationship with alfred and the role alfred plays in his life in the batman helping to keep bruce from completely steering down the dark paths...

we will see how bruce is in this future episode and then it will be a much more fair comparison.

 

[Frank]

"I've Got Batman in my Basement."

I rest my case.

hahaha you are so right about that. That actually did put me off the old TAS. I liked the newer ones after they started making the Superman episodes.

 

[GNR]

The Batman series from the 90s is untouchable.It wasn't about flashy graphics or effects,it was the mood and feel that made the show.

This new series hasn't really grabbed my attention besides the DKR episode which featured a cool looking Batman and Nightwing.

Hopefully the JLA appearances are good.

 

[November Rain]

In all fairness, The batman showed a level of unrivalled ownage with bats and robin so good at what they do, they took down pretty much their entire rogue's gallery together.

I mean a team penguin alliance was good enough but taking down all these dudes without any preptime and using only their surroundings to their advantage, that's gotta say something...

 

[Dread]

In the spirit of honest admissions, I'll say THE BATMAN offers a different yet classic sort of Robin. In B:TAS, Robin is 18, a freshman in college and essentially starting to show his independance. What begins as some wisecracks about Batman's brooding and so on buds into outright leaving by TNGA. Naturally the "Robin's Reckoning" origin is untouchable, but we go from child to college man instantly, and that origin was offset with Robin's then conflict with Batman. It made for good drama naturally, but in THE BATMAN, we see Robin from the beginning, a kid not even out of junior high who is still snarky but more obedient. Batgirl's more of the obnoxious rebel out of the two. In a way that helps her be more seperate, if more annoying, rather than her simply being, well, the girl. It's no surprise that when Batgirl was added to "Team Batman" full time with TNGA, they added the Tim Drake Robin to have a youngster contrast her for that same reason. But THE BATMAN allows us to see this with Grayson, the iconic Robin. No Robin since has had an origin as iconic as the falling trapeze.

 

[jabbatheridge]

I think alot of people have a fondness for BTAS, including me, because they remember it growing up. It was a classic show embraced pretty much by the whole comic book community as a whole, something which is VERY unusual given how hard to please comic book fans can be. I love the show and yes it's not got the great animation of it's modern counterparts but that's because animation has moved on. It's still a classic though and I wonder whether The Batman will be as fondly remembered in the next fifteen years or so.

I've seen about twenty episodes of The Batman ranging from season one to season four and I'll admit the show is certainly getting better with age and some of the season four stuff was good.

I just think this show and probably every other Batman cartoon made in the future will live in the shadow of BTAS. It's a classic and you can't get away from that.

BTAS got pretty much everything right, they gave us the definitive Joker, characters like Harley and Montoya that were then used in the comics, they made Mr Freeze into more than a lame ass villain with an ice gun and didn't even make Robin naff. They did alot of things right, I'm not saying it was perfect, but it was as close as any animated series based on a comic book character has come.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I just really like Batgirl in The Batman.