Batman, The: The Complete Third Season (DVD)

I am going to give The Batman, Season 3, a rating of 4 stars, based primarily on the continuing improvement seen in seasons one and two with respect to certain aspects of the original Batman-The Animated Series, but downgraded from the five star seasons one and two, due to increasing reliance on Robin and Batgirl. Because of the obvious confusion in the series titles, I will refer to the Batman animated series from the 1990's as Batman-The Animated Series and I will refer to the current one as The Batman. I own and have viewed all four editions of the original 1990's animated classic, Batman--The Animated Series and like many, at first I was somewhat put off by The Batman's new animation style. Batman-The Animated Series was groundbreaking in many ways and had an original look and feel. Nevertheless, this new version grows on you and there is much of value here, indeed, some things here are even superior to Batman-The Animated Series. The animation style here has overtones of the Japanese anime style but nowhere near as much as has been incorporated into the Cartoon Network's Teen Titans, whose look I detest. In fact, given the tragedies of the look of the Teen Titans and the recent computer animations done of the Fantastic Four on the Cartoon Network, and Spider-man on MTV, The Batman looks traditional and sensational by comparison. Furthermore, for me, the Batman in Batman-The Animated Series was drawn too much with a brawny Space Ghost/Gothic look, inspired by Frank Miller and the first Batman movie from 1989. The costume in Batman-The Animated Series returned to the original Batman costume with all dark tones, from the 1940's. If you are in your 30's or 40's as I am, this is not what the Batman that we grew up with looked like. The 1970's Batman generally was leaner and more athletic looking, and had the costume that I prefer, with the round yellow bat insignia. The Batman retains this classic 1970's look. The premise of The Batman is that this is the Batman in his early years of crimefighting, and accounting for his youth, I believe that the overall look here is more consistent with the way Batman was drawn in the 70's by Adams, Giordano, Rogers and others, perhaps in order to fit more with the new Batman of the movie, Batman Begins. At least in the first two seasons of The Batman, this Batman is both a loner who works by himself, and a vigilante sought by the police. I find this more realistic than having, as in Batman-The Animated Series, the Police essentially deputize Batman and having Batman fight crime with child sidekicks--although Robin and Batgirl are to come in this series as well. The other thing that I am beginning to really like about this series is the fresh look at many of the villains that it is taking. The Joker is still recognizably the Joker--I asked my three-year-old sons to verify this--but he has a different and bizarre look. The same is truth for many of the other stalwarts: the Riddler, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, etc. Like its predecessor, The Batman continues with the annoying trait of far too many Joker episodes--really, can't they improve security at Arkham Asylum at all?--as well as too many of the other before-mentioned villains who are beginning to become a bit tired. I would prefer to see more of the lesser-used villains like Ras and the Scarecrow. It does, however, have some excellent episodes involving Killer Croc, Man-Bat, and Solomon Grundy and another involving the Bane defeat of Batman. Hopefully, we will continue to see more of these lesser known but more interesting opponents. One thing that I have never really understood about DC is their general refusal to use famous comic book story arcs in their movies and cartoons. When it is done, as with the Ras story from Batman-The Animated Series, the results can be excellent. Marvel does this much more often, to great success but DC seems to almost always try new and inferior stories. Overall, I find The Batman less stilted and more in line with the classic DC Comics Batman of the 70's, in terms of tone, darkness and style, compared with the more self-important, taciturn and somewhat bland Batman in Batman-The Animated Series. The reason that I only give it 4 stars instead of 5, is that the creators are currently going down the same road as their predecessors at the Animated Series and that means that the episodes are incorporating more and more Robin, which is arguable on the merits, and more and more of Batgirl, which is not arguable on the merits and is apt to ruin the series. Batgirl was never an essential part of the Batman comic, unlike Robin and her inclusion here is lamentable. I have heard the DC creative talent say that anytime you do a Batman show, that you get two years to do it right and then the suits at Warner Brothers come over and start asking, "where's Robin?--where's Batgirl?--we need the youth market." The first two years I would give 5 stars to each. Time will tell where this series goes from here. In my opinion, the first two seasons of The Batman were the best comic book adaptation currently going, with the possible exception of the Justice League, which is now out of production. I am hoping that the future of The Batman has some more famous comic book story arcs involving Ras, Scarecrow, or Man-Bat, but I fear that lots of the Joker, Penguin and Batgirl are in the offing. Time will tell. If you are a traditional Batman fan, I wholeheartedly recommend seasons one and two and the third season, somewhat less.

Great series

Nice to see another take on the Batman franchise. While my favorite series will always be BTAS, I have bought all the discs form this series as well. For season 3 they rolled out a new young sidekick to add some humor and someone for Batman to talk to, which helps move the story as a writer. And the new sidekick that Batman shoes in his early years? No, not Robin, but Batgirl. Robin is a no-show until the next season. She is a good sidekick though and it all works out, maybe it helped to get some girls to watch the show, it worked with my wife. After a nutty villain named Gearhead takes over and destroys the Batmobile in what is my favorite episode of the season, Bats develops a new Batmobile that really kicks. A new title song, more upbeat is unveiled for this season. A total of 13 episodes on 2 discs, a really good deal for a great series.

Love this series and I'm going to collect all them! Animation style is great and this is like a follow up from Kevin Conroy's Batman that came in out in the early nineties. Highly recommended for Batman animated fans of all ages!

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(Continued from my reviews on The Batman - The Complete Season One, The Batman - The Complete Season Two & The Batman vs. Dracula) Things were going great in Seasons One and Two, and then, BAM! Season Three offers two major changes. First there is a new opening (and closing) theme. Initially, I didn't like it, not that it alone would affect my overall feelings toward the show. After it grew on me, it sounds like it is a modernized version of the 1966-1968 Batman live-action series (really wish that would see home release). The other major change is Batman, reluctantly at first, gets a partner in Batgirl. Robin wasn't available due to his appearance in another series, Teen Titans. Warner Bros./DC probably didn't want to saturate the market with his character. Because of that, The Batman interprets Batgirl as younger than her B:TAS appearance. The overall tone of this series wasn't nearly as dark as the "Timmiverse" to start with, but she has an occasional comic relief type comment. In a season opening two-parter, along with Batgirl, Poison Ivy is introduced and their stories are intertwined. Other stand-out episodes are one in which The Joker gets his own junior partner, and the season ender where Dr. Hugo Strange (a different actor here than Frank Gorshin (The Riddler on the 60s Batman series), who, before his death, had excellently portrayed Dr. Strange in three earlier episodes) programs a computer with profiles of various Arkham inmates/Batman enemies. Season Three, as a whole goes, a different direction than the previous two. The feeling I get is some amount of time has passed and The Batman is older and wiser. His detective skills seem to have grown and there is more reliance on this to complete the cases. The conflict of working with a partner adds a dynamic that has not been previously seen, as well. Pick this release up, and continue the capers of The Batman.

I got it some months ago and I am going to enjoy this for a very long time thanks and it came on time and my experience on here was very good

This season introduces Batgirl who Batman tries to dissuade from fighting crime. Batgirl persists and gains experience at the side of the Batman. She struggles because a lot of her equipment is home-made and not as high-tech as Batman's, a point that he tries to use to discourage her from following him. Eventually she proves her worth and he allows her to join him. A very well done story, love the characters, the plots, the pacing, even the animation is phenomenal. I would definitely recommend this series.

Excelente producto,llego en tiempo y en excelente estado

The animated adventures of The Batman continue here with the shows third series that sees the introduction of Barbara Gordon, the Batgirl. I did like this addition as I have always liked Batgirl and the portrayal of the character here is quite good. Also introduced into this series is one of the few major villains not to have appeared yet in the series Poison Ivy as well as a couple of minor villains from the comics and some new ones made specifically for the show. The Batman continues to improve in this third season with some good animation and great scripts that bring the characters to life very well. The show is still not perfect thought and there are some flaws such as the series overly episodic nature but this is easily overlooked as the overall quality of the show is so good and is well worth four and half stars. Any Batman fan should enjoy this series immensely.

Got my DVD this week works great

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Awesome! Thanks