the Gray Ghost appreciation thread

[BatBat]

http://books.google.com/books?ei=6Q...n+marriott+batman&q=homosexuals#search_anchor

 

[The Joker]

"At the time when the Batman TV was first a hit, that the two chaps were indeed homosexuals"

This doesn't even make any sense. They were never homosexuals, especially when the show was a hit. Your book is still wrong. It doesn't even mention it being part of the original conception of the show like you said it did.

Here's your proof. I scanned this from Adam West's autobiography:

There you go. Nothing about the original conception of the show having Batman and Robin being gay lovers. The very idea is absurd.

 

[BatBat]

"At the time when the Batman TV was first a hit, that the two chaps were indeed homosexuals"

This doesn't even make any sense. They were never homosexuals, especially when the show was hit. Your book is still wrong. It doesn't even mention it being part of the original conception of the show like you said it did.

Here's your proof. I scanned this from Adam West's autobiography:

There you go. Nothing about the original conception of the show having Batman and Robin being gay lovers. The very idea is absurd.

Hey I agree the idea is absurd. The tone of the show itself was absurd. Maybe the book was wrong. I just know I read in it that was the producers original intention. Google books cuts off most of the paragragh but I know it's in there. If I had it to scan in I would do so.
If I have offended you by my dislike for that show then I apologize to you personally. But please understand my point of view. That is how i was introduced to Batman. But as I grew and started reading comics I felt that show was a bad misinterpretation. The show did in fact spawn many a gay jokes about Batman. It took away his dark side which took DC years to get back.

 

[The Joker]

You don't have to apologize. I'm never offended by anyone disliking anything about Batman. It's your right to like or dislike what ever you want. We were just talking facts here. The fact is that they never ever intended to make the Batman TV with the premise that they were gay.

The comic books had been campy as hell long before the TV show came along. The TV was based on those campy comics. The TV show is probably the most loyal adaption of the Batman comics to date.

 

[BatBat]

I don't know, man. BTAS was pretty close. I would much rather Bruce Timm and co. produce a live action Bat film than Burton or Nolan anyday.

 

[The Joker]

BTAS is awesome but it still took it's liberties with established characters. Putting Andrea Beaumont into Bruce's origin. Merging the characters of Matt Hagen and Basil Karlo for Clayface. The whole inclusion of Harley Quinn etc.

Not that these were bad changes but they were still changes. Adam West's show was pretty much the campy comics come to life on screen with minimal if any changes to the characters.