Batman Beyond

[Spitfire]

I just got season 1 and 2 recently and I've been watching them when I have free time. I finished season 1 and I'm about half way through the 3rd disk of season 2. So far I love it. I had seen most of season 1 already on TV back when I was a kid so most of the episodes I remembered. But season 2 I don't remember many from.

I haven't watched the special features yet but before I started watching season 2 I watched a few minutes of this interview with the creators who tell us the show was green lighted over one meeting basically. Amazing that it turned out good.

Anyways I like a lot of stuff about this show. For one the intro impressed me I liked the style of it. It has tons of action, something cartoons now of days seriously lack. And there's blood in it. I haven't seen blood in a cartoon in ages. I had forgotten they even allowed blood to be in cartoons it's been so long. I also like the villains. Blight was bad ass, though he hasn't returned yet*At least with how far I am in it* and I liked Spellbinder a lot. The tie ins to the older Batman cartoon were awesome. Makes me wonder where the movie fits into all of this.

So far the only episode I didn't really like was Joy Ride, it just didn't really do much for me. But other then that I've loved it so far. I don't know how this series met it's end or how long it lasted, but I'll be getting the season 3 set for sure.

Anyone else like this series?

[ZariusTwo]

I just got season 1 and 2 recently and I've been watching them when I have free time. I finished season 1 and I'm about half way through the 3rd disk of season 2. So far I love it. I had seen most of season 1 already on TV back when I was a kid so most of the episodes I remembered. But season 2 I don't remember many from.

I haven't watched the special features yet but before I started watching season 2 I watched a few minutes of this interview with the creators who tell us the show was green lighted over one meeting basically. Amazing that it turned out good.

Anyways I like a lot of stuff about this show. For one the intro impressed me I liked the style of it. It has tons of action, something cartoons now of days seriously lack. And there's blood in it. I haven't seen blood in a cartoon in ages. I had forgotten they even allowed blood to be in cartoons it's been so long. I also like the villains. Blight was bad ass, though he hasn't returned yet*At least with how far I am in it* and I liked Spellbinder a lot. The tie ins to the older Batman cartoon were awesome. Makes me wonder where the movie fits into all of this.

So far the only episode I didn't really like was Joy Ride, it just didn't really do much for me. But other then that I've loved it so far. I don't know how this series met it's end or how long it lasted, but I'll be getting the season 3 set for sure.

Anyone else like this series?


The third season is the final one.

I personaly don't like the second season, especially when compared to seasons one and three and their shorter number allowing for more classic storylines like "Meltdown" and "Out of the Past", which I strongly recommend you treat as the series finale next to Return of the Joker.

[Jon]

Ah, yes. Batman Beyond is quite a series.

As has been noted, Season 3 is the last of it. Though, Justice League Unlimited has a couple appearences by this Batman.

On the villains, have a nice array of them. From Blight and Spellbinder as you mention, to Curare, Inque, Shriek and Stalker (all having at least a couple appearences in the show).
As well as the interesting throw-backs to Batman TAS (with Mr. Freeze, and Bane -- and, in Season 3, Ra's Al Ghul).

[Spitfire]

Season 2 had some more boring episodes. I just finished it. "Egg baby" wasn't all that great, neither was "Where's Terry?". If the psycho sewer rat mutant didn't look so lame the episode "Rats" would have been cooler to. "Terry's Friend Dates A Robot" was funny at some parts but not all that great either "Ace In The Hole" wasn't my idea of a good season finial.

But the rest was okay I mean all of them were good in their own ways but when the season started off with episodes like "Earth Mover" the second half of it is a decline.

So Zeta got his own spin-off series I heard in the Season 2 interview. I never saw it, is it any good? Also what episodes of Justice League is Batman Beyond in? I'd like to see them. He's a cool Batman, good mix of a Robin and Batman. He's not that serious but he knows how to get the job done and doesn't do anything near perfectly. He's also very reckless and there's a lot of senseless destruction during his fights.

[DrSpengler]

"Earth Mover" was my favorite episode of the season. So incredibly dark.

The JLU/BB crossover happened at the end of JLU's first season, the two-part "Once and Future Thing". There was another one at the end of JLU's season 2, the episode "Epilogue" which has very little to do with JLU and is almost entirely an episode of BB.

BB also crossed over with Static Shock during that series finale, though I didn't follow that show enough to tell you what happened or what the episode title was.

As for Zeta Project, it's considered by most to be the worst part of the Timm/Dini DCAU. I only saw a few episodes of it back in the day and was not impressed.

[Spitfire]

Thanks maybe I can get my hands on those episodes, espcially if they are mostly about Batman Beyond.

I looked it up on Wiki I guess Batman was only in one Zeta episode anyways. I also read they basically canned the series so they could focus on Justice League.

[DrSpengler]

Thanks maybe I can get my hands on those episodes, espcially if they are mostly about Batman Beyond.

I looked it up on Wiki I guess Batman was only in one Zeta episode anyways. I also read they basically canned the series so they could focus on Justice League.

All the JLU/BB episodes are on the recently released JLU season 1 (which actually contains seasons 1 and 2). AWESOME show, too.

[ZariusTwo]

The first season of The Zeta Project is laughable...It's like watching Barney in a Rambo movie, the animation is bland, the designs half-assed, and the female side-kick has "Jade Chan" levels of annoyance, Zeta also becomes a near patsy who does'nt have a clue how to behave in a human world.

The second season? Now THAT was when the series was demonstrating it could do some seriously good things, the animation got better, and so did the writing as they figured out where to take the characters, but then WB axed it

[Jon]

Thanks maybe I can get my hands on those episodes, espcially if they are mostly about Batman Beyond.

I looked it up on Wiki I guess Batman was only in one Zeta episode anyways. I also read they basically canned the series so they could focus on Justice League.


Yeah. After Zeta's debut episode, Batman Beyond and Zeta Project had 2 cross-over eps. -- one considered part of Zeta Project, and the other part of Batman Beyond.

And, for the JLU episodes in question. As another poster notes, they're on the 'Season 1' DVD Set.

And, while on these, will also mention the Static Shock episode that was noted. It basically has Static with Batman (Bruce), when some machine they're working on causes Static to get sent to the future. There he helps Batman (Terry) to rescue that-time's Static from a criminal group called Kobra (not to be confused with the G.I. Joe villains, hee-hee! :) ).

[DrSpengler]

Kobra? That cruddy terrorist organization not-to-be-confused-with-Cobra that DC used back in the early 90's? Yikes, that's obscure.

Also, in regards to Zeta, prototypes of the Zeta robot appeared in the JLU season 1 episode "Fearful Symmetry". JLU effectively tied in every show from the Timm/Dini DCAU in some capacity.

[Spitfire]

Huh that's good to know torrent away I guess for some of these. Most likely all of these.

Kobra was cool in the episode "Plague" so that would be interesting to see.

[Spike Spiegel]

I only have Season One for now, but yeah, GREAT series. Not as cool as BTAS though.