Goddamned Nite Owl-- I mean, Batman

[kiffie]

So my dad had taped a bunch of Batman:tAS eppies when they first aired. I'm watching them and have come to a few conclusions:

1) My love for the animation on the show is ridiculous and far-reaching.

2) "On Leather Wings" is probably my second-favorite episode, outdone only by "The Gray Ghost".

3) I far prefer Kevin Conroy's work on this than on Justice League.

4) I feel no shame in admitting that I had an animated-style costume when I was wee and used to run about the house, pretending I was the goddamned Batman. :3

Comments

[alba-aulbath.livejournal.com]

To tell the truth, B:tAS is FAR superior to JL and JLU. Superman:tAS is pretty good, but B:tAS is much better. It's one of the best versions of Batman -- outdoing Batman Begins by just a wee bit. There's a few episodes I don't like, but I think that's probably only two or three total out of so many good ones.

Kevin Conroy has a much better feel for Batman in the animated series than in JLU. JLU!Batman feels too much like comic!recent!Batman. One that is a total jerk and unsympathetic in most cases. B:tAS is much more interesting, in seeing all sides of Batman, including his underbelly.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Batman's underbelly is soft and pink like a collie's and if you rub it, his leg goes off like a motor.

A lot of the development was owed to the formatting of the shows in general. B:tAS was set up rather like a radio serial -- it had a lead in that was adventurous, but not over-powering, and the rest of the show was more detective work than bam-bam-bam action. JL always made me think that they put all their effort into making the intros seem shocking or cool or what-have-you, while the rest of the series was simply holding the same, constant level of action. Action isn't fun unless it's mediated by something else. (That's probably why I liked the Question eppies so much -- less action, more phone sex-- I mean, uh. Detective work.)

Beyond was really the only other show of the series to try at this, and I think that's why it was so well-received. Beyond would spend lots of time highlighting Terry as Terry, not necessarily as Batman. That was important.

As for Conroy... I read somewhere that B:tAS was the only show of the lot to have an ensemble recording -- the actors all recorded their lines together, playing off one-another, as opposed to a single actor in an isolated recording booth. If that's true, they should do it more often.