Batman

Season one impressions

Re-watching the entire first season of this show has left me a bit perplexed. I had memories of really liking this series, but over the past 26 weeks I have frequently found myself underwhelmed with what I thought was going to be a really fun exercise. I know that the appeal of this show for me has always been that it contains the largest and most diverse cast of DC comics characters of any show to date, but that appeal is somewhat of a novelty, and by definition, novelties are only novel when they’re new. So I guess I am just finding a really wordy way of saying that it didn’t hold up as well as expected.

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Episode Title: “The Fate of Equinox!”

Original Air Date: November 13, 2009

So we have the season finale folks, are you excited? It’s time for Batman’s inaugural season of team up adventures to draw to a close, and it’s been a bumpy ride. We finally get to see a resolution to the Equinox story line, But will it end with a bang or fizzle out? Read on to find out.

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Episode Title: “Mayhem of the Music Meister!”

Original Air Date: October 23, 2009

Do you like musicals? Do you like West Side Story style Dance fights? Do you like Neil Patrick Harris? If you answered yes to any of these, today is your lucky day! This is the musical episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, probably the most highly praised episode of the series, smashingly premiered at San Diego Comic-Con and Emmy nominated. It has been called one of television’s best musicals (by Wikipedia). The question remains, did I enjoy it? Read on to find out.

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Episode Title: “Inside the Outsiders!”

Original Air Date: November 6, 2009

I suppose that I like Nightmare on Elmstreet as much as the next guy, and I guess the same goes for Inception, but I feel like stories featuring “dream warriors” are a bit formulaic. In this episode Batman and the Outsiders take a trip to Freddie Kreuger-land courtesy of Psycho Pirate. Will they avoid the typical story telling pitfalls? Read on to find out.

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Episode Title:  “When OMAC Attacks!”

Original Air Date: October 16, 2009

So, at this point I had forgotten that this season had a (sort of) over arching story centered around a (sort of) original, mysterious villain. Just as we go into the final few episodes of the season we get a nice invigorating shot in the arm from the character with much yet to be discovered, Equinox. I had reached a point where I was just trying to grind out the season, but now I am actually curious about what will happen next.

Continue reading Batman: The Brave and the Bold S01 E23

Episode Title: “Last Bat on Earth!”

Original Air Date: June 19, 2009

So we have time travel again. I don’t mind an occasional time travel story, but I do get annoyed when it is used too liberally or in an undisciplined manner. This is at least the fifth incidence of time travel so far this season, but I guess it’s an unavoidable necessity in order to showcase the many crevices of the DCU.

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Episode Title: “Duel of the Double Crossers!”

Original Air Date: June 12, 2009

A time traveling cowboy walks into a galactic saloon. That’s not the setup to a corny joke, that’s the setup to the adventure we have this episode. Throw in a gladiatorial arena, sibling rivalry and a slew of new gods and what do you get? Read on to find out.

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Episode Title: “Hail the Tornado Tyrant!”

Original Air Dance: June 5, 2009

When I saw the title for this episode I thought we were going to see some kind of computer glitch cause Red Tornado to take a “heel turn”, but that isn’t quite what happened. Though there were a lot of liberties taken, this episode did pay quite a bit of homage to Red Tornado’s, strange, interesting and somewhat confusing history.

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Episode Title: “Legends of the Dark Mite!”

Original Air Date: May 29, 2009

It’s quite the unplanned coincidence that the same week that Bat-Mite #1 is released by the new DC You, I review the first appearance of Bat-Mite in Brave and the Bold. This imp from the 5th dimension has a ton of potential for this series, but the question is will he be used to his fullest, or seem like a gimmick.

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Episode Title: “The Color of Revenge!”

Original Air Date: May 22, 2009

The phrase “Dynamic Duo” is as firmly entrenched in Batman lore as “the Dark Knight”, and of course it takes two to form a duo. In this episode we finally get to meet Robin (Dick Grayson), the second part to that duo, and in at least some people’s opinion, perhaps Batman’s better half.

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