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09/01/09
Looking forward to this.
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Static Shock was a decent show, and Zeta, well Zeta was what it was.
09/01/09
I think it was partly the animation which looked like a cheaper variant of the Timm-style, and the soundtrack and characters which were trying way to hard to be 'urban'.
He was pretty awesome in the JLU episode too, and even in his current iteration in Brave and The Bold.
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This is great news, the series in my opinion was pretty solid. And the Joker movie... mmm mmm good.
I Too have been Craving the batman animated series. I just recently saw Epilogue and currently got the Batman beyond series in the Netflix queue.
Epilogue did really tie up quite a few loose ends so it would be interesting to see if the story would take place after or before.
I'm completely lost for ideas as to what the topic would be! Because the old Bruce Wayne in Epilogue wouldn't be as active a supporting character on account of having to be in bed by 7.
09/01/09
What happened to Dick Grayson?
I know they briefly mentioned he was probably still working in Bludhaven as Nightwing, but it was really weird he never got to make an appearance, especially since he is usually considered Bruce's best protege with regards to the superhero trade..
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He basically becomes Bruce without the masks?
That's kinda weird too that he'd just be a cop since I always thought Nightwing was his way of rebelling from the Bat-legacy.
This would also probably make it the only continuity where Dick doesn't become the golden boy of the next generation of superheroes...
As for Barbara/Bruce, yea I never liked that.
I saw that Timm and Dini were content with making DCAU Bruce more of a bachelor by pairing him up with Wonder Woman, and even giving him dibs on Lois Lane before Clark, which as a bat-fanboy was cool, but Barbs was just too far.
Not just cause of the age difference which is where they think was the ickiest part to the fans, but because it showed a horrible lack of conscience and self-control on Bruce's part:
1) Babs in the comics is his surrogate daughter, so it would alway feel a bit incestuous.
2) Jim Gordon is his best friend so doing that with his little girl behind his back is pretty... ugh
3) Bruce obviously knew Dick and Barbara were sweet on each other for a long time... so he basically cock-blocked his own son, and yea, scarred him tremendously and actively threw aside their father son bond for some nookie...
Jesus DCAU Bruce, now I don't feel so bad about you becoming a lonely old codger....
09/02/09
Clearly you _are_ sketchy on the details. The intent with TNBA was that Barbara would be smitten with Bruce, but not that Bruce ever returned her feelings.
09/02/09
I don't know, they did make it pretty ambigious by all accounts. Although I swear I read a quote by either Dini or Timm stating that they were trying to imply that they did have a full blown relationship at some point. I don't know how far along into the series they were when they said it, but I suppose they could have changed their minds...
Still... I think it was pretty f'ed up how they handled the whole Dick/Babs thing in that series.
09/01/09
Although I really wish DC could just bring back the entire DCAU altogether...
It's probably one of the very best things they attached their name to.
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Let's vote on it! (=
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Dark Knight cannot be topped; therefore make a Batman Beyond movie.
I really just want an excuse to hear the theme music at a movie theater.
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Sigh... oh well.