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Old 04-18-12, 08:22 PM
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Re: Beware the Batman.

I know it's only a short piece but the CGI animation style doesn't do much for me.
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Re: Beware the Batman.

I actually like the character design for Batman from what I've seen. It's different, but i like it. But not a fan of the overall CGI style.
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Yeah, Magpie liked the shiny objects. IIRC the story ended a little sadly, with her being highly neurotic/obsessive.
It always struck me as odd that #400 was this huge effort filled with talent, then 401 was pretty lame.
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Originally Posted by dtcarson
Yeah, Magpie liked the shiny objects. IIRC the story ended a little sadly, with her being highly neurotic/obsessive.
It always struck me as odd that #400 was this huge effort filled with talent, then 401 was pretty lame.
Its because for about a year after Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC didn't really know what they were doing. COIE was 1985-1986 yet the Batman reboot didn't happen until a year later in #404-407 with Frank Miller's Year One. So for that year in between the Batman books were stuck in this weird state of being somewhere between Pre and Post Crisis. #400 was essentially an epic send-off to pre-Crisis Batman similar to pre-Crisis Superman's send-off in Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Then #401-403 were basically fill-in stories until Frank Miller's Year One.

Its funny how people complain about DC's relaunch last year being so messy and not planned out very well. COIE was pretty much just as messy.
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First epsiode is July 13th.

http://www.toonzone.net/2013/06/bewa...-july-13-2013/
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I'll give it a chance but don't really have high hopes for the series based on the clips that have been shown.
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"I'm Batman."
Old 07-11-13, 12:57 AM
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Worldfinestonline has a VERY positive review for the 1st episode.

http://worldsfinestonline.com/WF/bewarebatman/
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Part of that trailer reminded me of the CG scenes in Mortal Kombat: The Animated Movie.
Old 07-12-13, 08:41 PM
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Set my DVR to record the series since the reviews so far have been pretty positive and I'm even hearing the show is somewhat similar in tone to Batman: The Animated Series. I have my doubts it will actually be anywhere as good but we'll see tomorrow I guess. I really wish that the animation would be more traditional style rather than CGI.
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I enjoyed the episode overall, though I hate that style of CG animation (as I did with "Green Lantern"), -it just lacks any kind of detail and subtlety.

I also enjoyed the "Wonder Woman" vignette, -mostly for its style. Was it concluded in the "Teen Titans" episode (I refuse to record it)?
Old 07-13-13, 01:31 PM
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So I just finished watching today's episode and I thought it was pretty decent. I liked the tone of the show and feel like it could be geared towards older audiences as well as towards a younger audience. I did find the villains used in the episode to be a bit of a surprise and those who don't follow the comics may not even know they exist. I also sort of like that Alfred's background as an MI-6 agent is being incorporated in the show a bit. Bruce Wayne himself is only used sparingly in this episode and just has a couple of scenes at Wayne Manor with Alfred with Batman obviously taking up most of the screen time. The action sequences with Batman were pretty good mostly I thought. Also didn't mind the voice acting for most of the characters. My main thing is still the CG animation style of the show. It's not as bad as I thought it would be but still seems like it'll take getting used to. As of now though I think I'll stick with the show for a while.
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I wasn't super impressed with it, but I thought it was decent and I'll at least watch until the end of the season. Like Mike86 said, it has a balance where it can be for young and older audiences. That's a lot better than what they're doing with this Teen Titans Go and Ultimate Spider-Man crap. I honestly don't know who those shows appeal to. When I was younger the Batman and Spider-Man cartoons I watched didn't treat the viewer like they were idiots. So Beware The Batman, while not better than Batman: The Animated Series, is still a lot better than the current trend we're seeing with some other comic based shows.
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Re: Beware the Batman.

I watched it, and I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised. I think the animation style of this lends it style far better to Batman than Green Lantern. I liked that the villains weren't main bad guys, but I hope we do get to see some of the others.

Batman's voice was a bit "off" to me. Just sounded too deep and too old for how old they are portraying him in the show. Beside that minor complaint, I think it was fairly good.
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It was alright. I'll give it another shot but what was up with that weak Pink Panther sequence?
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It wasn't unwatchable but the animation is goofy, particularly for the character design of Batman himself. The design for Bruce Wayne looks perfectly acceptable with normal proportions, and then he has impossible proportions in the bat costume with a strange neck.

It really felt like Nolan's version of Batman with a few tweaks. I think they even modulated Batman's voice to some degree.
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This was pretty awesome, IMO. Set to record the series on my DVR.

Maybe I just haven't been watching kids cartoons in a few years but it seemed surprisingly mature, too.
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I watched this with my son. I personally thought the style of animation was annoying. Voice work was okay and the pig dude & toad thing were pretty creepy. You can keep the younger badass Alfred though. I found that more obnoxious than anything else.
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Seems as though a lot of people aren't aware that Alfred actually has had an MI-6 background in the past. That wasn't entirely made up for this show but it hasn't exactly been touched on a ton except for some comics. I do agree though that I don't know if I love the characterization of him on the show. The design was kind of what threw it off for me.

Originally Posted by Dragon Tattoo
This was pretty awesome, IMO. Set to record the series on my DVR.

Maybe I just haven't been watching kids cartoons in a few years but it seemed surprisingly mature, too.
Cartoons like this are really hit and miss now days if you ask me. A lot of what I see is so dumbed down that it's unwatchable. This did seem to have a good balance like I mentioned earlier of being able to be geared towards younger and older audiences.
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The Justice "trilogy: (JL / JL:U / Young Justice) was not dumbed down in any way.
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Originally Posted by Deftones
The Justice "trilogy: (JL / JL:U / Young Justice) was not dumbed down in any way.
That's why I said it's hit and miss. Some of them are good but not all of them. For instance I would say a lot of the Marvel stuff is pretty crappy such as Ultimate Spider-Man. Same goes for DC with crap like Teen Titans Go! and the Green Lantern series didn't impress me much from what I saw. Even some of the more recent Batman shows (The Batman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold) while having some moments weren't anything I could watch very frequently without feeling kind of silly for watching. I do realize that Batman: The Brave and the Bold was kind of harkening back to Adam West Batman/Silver Age Batman but still it didn't do a lot for me.

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Originally Posted by Spiderbite
I watched this with my son. I personally thought the style of animation was annoying. Voice work was okay and the pig dude & toad thing were pretty creepy. You can keep the younger badass Alfred though. I found that more obnoxious than anything else.
This is the direction they went in the "Earth One", - graphic novel aimed at bookstores, -by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, which attempted to present a more grounded "Batman" for the YA audience. Alfred was presented as more of a "Sean Connery-type" , an older, gruffer, mentor and man of action.
Alfred's gone through a few changes over the years. I believe he was "killed off" during the '60s for a time, and came back (after suffering from amnesia) as a villain called "The Outsider". Back then DC also re-tooled him to have been part of the OSS and involved in WWII espionage. Bringing him up to date makes them go with MI-6, which has been popularized by "James Bond". Older Comics fans can feel free to correct any faults in my memory.

I'm not crazy about this version of Alfred, nor the addition of the girl to increase demographic appeal, but I'll give it another episode (which is more than I've given "Ultimate Spider-Man or the latest incarnation of "The Avengers").
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I don't mind the addition of the Asian girl, even though it is blatant pandering to two different key demographics. I did mind that Alfred just introduced her to Bruce and said this will be your new driver. It's gotten ridiculous in recent years, Batman's secret identity is not much of a secret anymore. Half of Gotham City seemingly knows Bruce Wayne is tightly connected to Batman.
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
I don't mind the addition of the Asian girl, even though it is blatant pandering to two different key demographics. I did mind that Alfred just introduced her to Bruce and said this will be your new driver. It's gotten ridiculous in recent years, Batman's secret identity is not much of a secret anymore. Half of Gotham City seemingly knows Bruce Wayne is tightly connected to Batman.
I'm not a big fan of it either but on the same token it does sort of make sense to me as to why they do it. It makes certain characters look kind of stupid to be dumbfounded as to the identity of Batman (or any hero really) if the pieces are there to figure it out. Gordon in the comics has had his hunches as to Batman's identity for a while even though he doesn't come out and say it. He's a good detective himself so it makes sense that he'd start piecing it together.

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I also didn't mind the the way Nolan handled it in his films. Lucius knowing who he was made total sense to me. Same goes for not minding when Bruce told Gordon. Bane knew who he was in the comics so I sort of figured he would find out who he was in The Dark Knight Rises too and that led to Selina finding out. The only one that sort of bothered me was Blake figuring it out so easily. I guess you could chalk that up again to him being a good detective though.

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Re: Beware the Batman.

anyone else they are pretty much telegraphing the "bodyguard" being Robin? her motorcycle was pretty much a dead giveaway for that.

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