The Batman Season 5 Episode Discussions
 

Today was the season premire of The Batman season 5. I thought today's Batman/Superman team up was really good. Batman did a lot better, IMO. Superman kind of spent the episode getting defeated. I really liked the villian team up and it was good to see Mr. Freeze again. Robin has a new jet pack with a missile launcher, he hasn't used the missles yet.

I hope Poison Ivy is able to escape the containment tube Lex Luthor has put her in.

All things considered, I thought it was a great episode. I am not a fan of them turning it into The Justice League starring the Batman, but this was a mighty impressive tale none the less...

Somehow I think they based Supes looks off of the new movie. Somehow. I just thought that when he was Clark he looked so much like the actor that protrayed him, or Christopher Reeves. I just got that vibe.

Looks like they're getting Batman's villains to work with the Superman story, and not just "HEY! Superman's fighting Batman's villains."

next episode will be epic.

That said, off topic... Skunk Fu? Wow... I shut my eyes and thought I was watching Viva Pinata.... wait... I take it back. Viva Pinata almost makes me laugh.

Bow you alien swine! :evilgrin:

I give this episode a 4/5. I sort of disliked the character design of Mercy, Lois was too skinny, and I really wanted a new intro but everything else was pretty good.

I missed it, had to fix my car...

Hope I can catch it again, and I also hope that not every episode is a superhero team-up. Season 4 was so good, now their changing the whole thing up.

Interesting points for this ep:

Mr. Freeze is back. But we know what happens to him in the future! MUAHAHAHAHA!

Speaking of which there's gonna be another Nightwing ep this season!

I wonder if Clancy Brown got confused since he voices both Freeze and Lex Luthor now. :lol:

A year has passed and Adam West is no longer the mayor of Gotham!!! Whaaaa!!! :( Now we got Hamilton Hill (who was the mayor in all the other Batman animated stuff).

A year has passed and the JLA hasn't done squat apperantly. "We're gonna have our first official meeting soon..." WTF?! It took them a YEAR to get enough time in their schedules for a meeting?!

Mercy is now Chinese...

In reality Batman would be arrested for child endangerement for allowing a young boy to have his own rocket pack....and motorcycle.

Good to see Lucius Fox again! Lou Gossett Jr rox!

Where was Barbara Gordon??? I mean her former bestest best friend (Poison Ivy) was in the ep but she wasn't??? :ohwell:

West's Mayor character was too close to his self-parody on Family Guy and they wanted a Mayor who had some balls to reflect the darker direction of the series. Hamilton's comic persona is a very good peice of corrupt slime


I'm glad that Ivy hasnt really met Babs since the two reunited breifly in "Batgirl Begins" despite fighting her as Batgirl, I thought the scene was brilliantly written, it's not everyday a villain maintains a friendship despite being totally insane and eager to flood Gotham with plant life.

I always found it funny that he's the Mayor in both shows. He's not quite as funny as he is in Family Guy (though there's no reason for him to be). I really hope they could have kept Adam as a guest voice as something else. But it wouldn't be as epic as his appearance as the Grey Ghost back on the 90's series.

But I will say, as Zarius pointed out, as much as I dislike Jade... errrr... batgirl in this series, that one with Poison Ivy was pretty good. I noticed that too.

But I hope that Ivy can be made into a fuller character, and not just some late teen eco-terrorist like she began in this show.

This saturday's ep of The Batman features the villian known as Vertigo and the JLAer Green Arrow/Oliver Queen.

Chris Hardwick provides the voices of Green Arrow and Greg Ellis (Drax in LOSH ) provides the voice of Vertigo.

I want The Flash damnit!

Question: How different is Clancy's Lex voice in The Batman as opposed to the DCAU.

Edit: Wait a minute....Dana Delany was Lois in this episode? Why did no one mention that...

It's a bit different from Justice League, similar to Superman TAS.

And George Newburn reprised his JLU role as Superman.

As for Flash. Don't fret. He'll show up eventually.

Ain't Barney doing Flashes voice? (or was the New Frontier?)

It was a good ep. Clancy was great as Luthor. I can't wait til next week though - GREEN ARROW YES!:D

Neil Patrick Harris is voicing Barry Allen in New Frontier. No idea who's voicing him in The Batman (yea it's supposed to be Barry Allen).

Oh ok, I love Barney (Harris) in "How I met your mother" and Flash is one of my favorite superheroes, so that's cool.

Today was a great episode, I never really liked the Green Arrow, but this changed my mind a bit.

Was it just me, or did the lip syncing seem a bit off?

Good ep. But...did we REALLY need yet ANOTHER version of his origin story??? Don't get me wrong, I like the Green Arrow Year One mini...but Green Arrow didn't really need to waist time by telling Batman his origin...yes it was to tell his first encounter with Count Vertigo, but still. I wonder if they're gonna do the same with the other heroes Batman encounters? Green Lantern: "And then this alien crashed...."

Green Arrow is one of my fave JLAers. But he didn't become so till his appearance last season on Smallville.

This line was priceless....

Good ep with Ollie! Though I definately prefer Kin Shriner for his voice actor. He's who I hear in my head when I read the comics. Chirs Hardwick is okay but just didn't scream Ollie to me, voice sounded a little too low in places and not distictive enough. I liked seeing Ollie origin animated for the first time on TV as well as working Vertigo into this version (didn't Vertigo show up in the Off Balance ep of Batman TAS? I really should rewatch that now) okay yes there were the Smallville webisodes or whatever they were called, but I prefered this version and animation style better. Then again, I'm a sucker for Ollie origin stories in general I think. I like GA island stories.

I didn't know much about Ollie prior to JLU and Smallville either, but over the past year he's grown to become my favorite character in the DCU.

Can't wait to see Flash and Hal Green Lantern show up. But what about some female leaguers too - Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Zatanna, any of the three would be nice.

Some more of my favorite lines:

Ollie: Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Alfred: At the renaissance fair perhaps?

Ollie: Concentrated acid arrow.
Batman: Phospherus would have been quicker.

Ollie: I like the set up you have here. Gives me some ideas for my place back in Star City. (nice reference to Ollie's pre-O'Neil days of being a Batman copycat).

On the whole I think the episode did a good job showing the similarities between GA and Batman but their differences as well but all the while keeping GA cool. Nice varitation the the Adams costume too, the underpants over your shorts is so out these days for superheroes, the tunic pays a bit of hamage to Grell.

Sorry but in the Universe of The Batman the only female JLAer is Batgirl. Wonder Woman's contract says she can't be in a series unless she's a main character or team leader. This basically means no guest spots. *sighs*

Altho I'd love to see Zatanna for sure in The Batman.

Yeah, I think I did read that recently about WW, but Canary and Zatanna are still fair game right? I'm not a fan of a "boys club only" league. Though I do wonder, any hope for Aquaman showing up this season? I always had a soft spot for him since the Superfriends days.

Oh, and Robin trying GA's bow was a nice touch considering who Batman's sidekick is named for, also brings Speedy to mind a bit.

Robin was named after the bird...not Robin Hood... :P

Yes Aquaman is listed as one of the JLAers.

Not according to The Encyclopedia of Superheroes!:P They quote the dialogue from of old issue in Robi's bio that says he was indeed named after Robin Hood. The Encyclopedia is circa 1985 pre-crisis though, so it could have been retconed to be the bird since then.;)

Cool!

Any one watch today? I fell asleep, but the 5 minutes I caught seemed alright.

It was another pretty good ep... altho Robin mostly whined about Batgirl getting all the good gadgets. I felt sorry for Phospherus and his GF (loved that Robin and Batgirl compared em to Joker and Harley). Due to Pospherus (formerly Lightening Bug or Bee Man) stupidity he can't touch anything. Kinda sad really.

Today's LOSH tho was better....Lightening Lad got a new origin! *sings* The monkey rode on the rocket ship...the rocket ship...the rocket ship... the monkey rode on the rocket ship and bumped his head on the moon. :lol:

LOSH was awesome today, I'm really loving this new season. Was that James Arnold Taylor (aka Leonardo) doing LL's brother?

You know, no matter how many times I try to watch Legion, I just can't get into it. Just can't.

Really liked seeing Batman go back to his solo adventures....well, solo with Batgirl and Robin, not with the Justice League. Not the most exiting episode, but very interresting none the less.

Yeppers!! James Arnold Taylor does indeed voice Lightening Lord/Mekt. :D

Yeah, but as Batgirl said, Robin gets to ride shotgun.;) Poor Firefly. The girlfriend angle was a nice twist for the character. And while I like the JL it's nice to know we're getting some solo Bat adventures this season too. What's next week? They didn't show a preview this time.

Generally if they don't show a preview it's cuz they're airing a rerun. The next new ep of The Batman is in November with "A Mirror Darkly"...Im assuming from the title this ep deals with Mirror Master...which means... The Flash is a guest star.

AHOY! yessss! Too bad I have to wait till November :evil:

Info is up for next week's ep of The Batman entitled "A Mirror Darkly"

Charlie Schlatter provides the voice of The Flash, and John Larroquette provides the voice of Mirror Master.

Humm... Im having a bit of a hard time trying to picture John Larroquette's voice coming out of Mirror Master....but ah well. I wish they had gotten Michael Rosenbaum to reprise his role as the Flash...but then I remember that this is Barry Allen and not Wally.

Charlie Schlatter is currently known as the voice of Ace Bunny in Loonatics Unleashed and was Dr. Travis (the cute one) on Diagnosis,Murder.

After seeing the episode Im not so sure about it.

John Lorroquette voicing Mirror Master was just wrong. They should have gotten Cam Clarke or Rob Paulsen.

Im not so sure I like The Batman's take on Flash. He actually reminded me a bit of the Loonatics Unleashed character, Rev Runner the way he talked.

And why exactly WAS Mirror Master doing in Gotham??? He could have done the same thing in Central City!

I liked that he had a sidekick named Smoke tho. :lol:

Missed it again, runing errands. Sounds like I didn't miss much, guess I'll catch the rerun.

The only thing I really disliked about the episode was the fact they had to shove in as many "the Flash is fast" jokes as possible. We could have done without a lot of them. We kinda get the idea. He's not called "Sluggo, the amazing turtleboy" afterall.

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Ooh! I wonder who's voicing Sinestro?! :o

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/ne...fullnews&id=72

Something tells me that this season was just a lead into the Brave and the Bold series. :P

The Brave and The Bold series is it's own show, it wont follow this continuity