Batman: Caped Crusader (HBOMax Animated Series) (Abrams and Reeves)

[Warm Gun]

I watched the first episode. Don't think I will continue. The digital animation looks so cheap. The thick outlines of Batman's eyes don't work at all.

1940s setting, but colored people everywhere. Everywhere. Several in positions of authority. Women too. Why even use the setting then? Could have touched on the racism and sexism back then, but no, had to make up history completely for diversity. Was less forced in Batman the Animated Series, which was more stuck in time with brutalist architecture but many modern tech elements, whereas this leans more into the 1940s. Black Gordon and lawyer Barbara Gordon bothered me especially. They made her hair light despite her dark skin.

Mrs. Cobblepot (Penguin, another character destruction) kills one of her sons for informing on her, which is illogical. The child she carried in her womb, gave birth to, gave so much of herself to. Someone reminded me that I have a Tony Soprano avatar and what happens in The Sopranos, but it was much better justified there, through all the meetings Tony had with his therapist, Dr. Melfi, who explained to him that his mother was a narcissist, and a childhood memory he shared of the woman pointing a knife at him. Penguin killed him like any henchman. Really poor taste and judgement.

Depressing move for Bruce Timm. To go back to old material, Batman again. Animation quality is so bad in this age of cheap streaming platforms competing. Digital looked cheap anyway, but now it's worse. Music also is nothing compared to The Animated Series. Streaming budgets are useless for this medium the industry regards as second to live action, very far beneath live action in fact.

[matirocker]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

1940s setting, but colored people everywhere. Everywhere. Several in positions of authority. Women too. Why even use the setting then?

Sooo in a super hero animated show set in a fictional city, in a time period which uses 40s fashion, cars, etc (they never explicity say which year it is) about a guy dressed up as a bat, that fights crime, including supernatural threats like a literal ghost and a vampire girl, what bothers you is that there's colored people and women in positions of power? You can buy all the fantastical elements but not a city with 40s setting that has a more equal society for all races and genders? Thats funny... Why use the setting? Because it looks awesome and fits with Batman like a glove.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Could have touched on the racism and sexism back then,

You really want a Batman show to be about racism and sexism instead of Batman and his allies fighting villains? I sure don't.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Black Gordon and lawyer Barbara Gordon bothered me especially.

Why? Makes sense since Gordon is also black in Matt Reeve's The Batman. Why do they bother you "especially"?

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Mrs. Cobblepot (Penguin, another character destruction) kills one of her sons for informing on her, which is illogical. The child she carried in her womb, gave birth to, gave so much of herself to.

Where in the show is it said that Penguin "gave so much of herself" for her kids? She doesn't seem to be attached to them very much despite being their mother.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Penguin killed him like any henchman. Really poor taste and judgement.

That's the point... she kills one of her sons like it's nothing and doesn't seemed too bothered when she finds out she killed the wrong one. The bottom of the ocean filled with caskets tells you that she kills a lot of people.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Animation quality is so bad in this age of cheap streaming platforms competing. Digital looked cheap anyway, but now it's worse. Music also is nothing compared to The Animated Series. Streaming budgets are useless for this medium the industry regards as second to live action, very far beneath live action in fact.

I have to agree with you on that.

Personally, I felt season 1 was underwhelming. I thought it was just ok. I hope season 2 improves. But some of the critisism I keep reading is just ridiculous.