Animated DC Squeeage
Feb. 5th, 2007 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSaturday's animated DC shows were both good enough to justify the helishly long gap between new episodes.
Legion of Super-Heroes might have been a fluff episode, but any episode in which Brainiac 5 channels Gir (while still spouting random DCU facts -- I loved his list of Kryptonites) is worthwhile.
But The Batman was something else. Two character debuts (kinda), and a science-fiction concept that actually impressed me.
Dude! The animated debut of Oracle! And the third animated iteration of Nightwing! And some Dark Knight references!
Plus, we get looks into the year 2027 and the 31st Century, telling us that none of what we might expect from LSH or Batman Beyond should be considered destiny (and I love the false assumptions made by the folks in the future).
And, we see Batman apparently in a much darker place, morally. Nice.
When we saw the folks in the future attempting to restore Batman's backups, I figured it would be the same old "future technology can somehow read devices that degrade in ten years" stuff most sci-fi does. Instead, we had them acknowledge that it was impossible, and then had Batman predict this, and engrave the computer code in binary on titanium pillars. A bit silly? Maybe. But it was also one of the niftier workarounds I've seen in a while.
And next week, we get an episode written by Paul Dini!
Legion of Super-Heroes might have been a fluff episode, but any episode in which Brainiac 5 channels Gir (while still spouting random DCU facts -- I loved his list of Kryptonites) is worthwhile.
But The Batman was something else. Two character debuts (kinda), and a science-fiction concept that actually impressed me.
Dude! The animated debut of Oracle! And the third animated iteration of Nightwing! And some Dark Knight references!
Plus, we get looks into the year 2027 and the 31st Century, telling us that none of what we might expect from LSH or Batman Beyond should be considered destiny (and I love the false assumptions made by the folks in the future).
And, we see Batman apparently in a much darker place, morally. Nice.
When we saw the folks in the future attempting to restore Batman's backups, I figured it would be the same old "future technology can somehow read devices that degrade in ten years" stuff most sci-fi does. Instead, we had them acknowledge that it was impossible, and then had Batman predict this, and engrave the computer code in binary on titanium pillars. A bit silly? Maybe. But it was also one of the niftier workarounds I've seen in a while.
And next week, we get an episode written by Paul Dini!