Batman Caped Crusader Review of Season 1 Episode 1 of the new Amazon Prime video Batman Series by JJ Abrams. With lots of characters being swapped for a more Hollywood acceptable version. Of course switching out these characters turns Batman into a comedy. An accidental parody comedy, but comedy all the same. Out of the first 4 episodes, the first one is definitely the worst, but that's understandable. They really wanted the audience to know what this series was with penguin up front. Although with 10 episodes, I think this series has plenty more comedy highlight potential, and plenty more weird character swaps to laugh at. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Lmao. Perfect. Who the hell comes up with this utter crap. I think the writers should have to answer to the fans. Even if it's a social media question answer session. They shouldn't be allowed to hide anymore. They have way too much influence on society to stay hidden. They are the deep state shadow government in Hollywood. SPOTLIGHT the cockroaches. I almost feel sorry for them if THIS is the extent of their imagination. Smh 🙄 🤦 😂 Great camera the picture is so clear.
Dude you really need to watch Bruce Timms Batman Dude this isn't that much different and there version of Two Face is kinda an asshole in his aggressive secondary identity, also this Catwoman is more linked to the Silver Age version from batman the brave and the bold
They made Barbra into a defense attorney. How can you be a defense attorney if your father is the police commissioner, does no one in the court see this as a problem?
Basically every modern show today. Except it's those really niche ones you'd find in Sonic fanfiction, the kind only a tiny tiny percentage of people like.
He's just the misunderstood good guy who is portrayed as the bad guy by a heeeeeweew-ite oppressive society! He's simply, and JUSTLY, turning it into a soyciety, showing that everyone can be healthy at any size to fight duh pay tree arch ee!
I don't see why they couldn't have it be penguins wife. Say that he started a crime family. At the club he's the main manager and his wife is the entertainment director.
The cabaret scene reminded me of the comedy trope of a man disguising himself as a woman and somehow becoming irresistable to other men. The only difference is, the writers of this show didn't understand the gag.
@@mlongpre100 I think that's a good example in how you do it well. In Boxtrolls, the trope is used to draw attention to Lord Portley-Rind's cartoonishly oblivious disposition throughout the story. What does the Penguin's scene tell us about Dent and Bullock? They have an awful taste in women? They should have gone to specsavers?
saw black gordon, saw female penguin, saw alfred fat and called by bruce/batman as "pennyworth" despite being an ex spy and SAS soldier whose primary mission was to protect master bruce and became a surrogate father to him in every way allways called alfred.....can not tolerate more disrespect........
I think that's the point of the show for him to be disrespectful and grows to learn how much he needs Alfred and that he's the only family he has left, the show isn't bad honestly give a chance, I like the old school vibes and detective batman.
@@pricemaxer9736, at which point are you going to quit giving these hacks the benefit of the doubt? We've given many "chances" and they always deliver subversive crap that defiles and insults what's established. You're part of the problem.
Bruce just diving into the pool and swimming off. Doesn't know if it leads out, and if it does if there is a boat engine that could delete him, just starts swimming. Plenty of boxes to hide in or behind, just dives. Incredible writing.
The themes of Two-Face: Once a man of the law now suffering from two personalities, one good, one evil, both bound to the outcomes of a coin toss. The suffering of repressing one's anger, the feelings of powerlessness to chance, the corruptive path of revenge against the angers and wrongs one has faced. The themes of The Penguin: A man of etiquette and high taste, forever ostracized for his peculiarities and appearance, lashing out at the world who abandoned him. The isolation of eternal exclusion from those one seeks to belong too, the needs to prove yourself against that others deem your failings, the abuse of power to force others to cater to your desires. Two-Face here: An asshole. Penguin here: Some reason adored. I don't expect these characters to meaningfully contribute to the deep introspective storytelling past Batman works did.
Actually they literally give a multi arc for Harvey through the whole series? Like not to spoil but his downfall is the whole point of the first season by the end. It’s beautifully done in fact.
@@TheNoobyNoob1I haven’t seen it, but downfall stories usually work best if the audience either does have sympathies for a character or if the downfall hits a villain, where it serves as comeuppance. I‘m not sure what the idea is to make Harvey Dent unlikable, but not a villain. It just blunts the downfall as it’s neither most tragic nor most just.
the show is known for changing the designs and characters every few seasons particularly the villains. This Harvey Dent is all about following the letter of the law. He isn't bad he just seems heartless. But emotions have nothing to do with justice. The 2 faced coin toss shows his view on justice. There was only one result possible the one that goes with the law.. The result wasn't evil it was just the correct ruling. The death penalty was never an option but if it was he would have chosen that as the only option.. if it was the right choice under the law. I m guessing Two Face will be the opposite crime is always the choice no exceptions. No grey area. The Penguin is more like the mom from Goonies was the Penguin. At no point did they claim she was beloved. She was just important and inserted in with rich and famous because she had power. And used it to insert herself with that crowd. No woman calls herself Penguin. She does so to push back against criticism. Like Oswald she is an outsider, a unconventional looking person, who takes up space, makes themselves look bigger than they are.
@@aubreysmith7355 True, she's not "beloved", but the wolf whistling and eager smiles clearly indicate that she is desired - even though that's just ridiculous here. As far as Dent goes, true justice needs to be appropriate to the crime, so the death penalty wouldn't make sense for smuggling bootleg liquor or stolen merchandise. But maybe that's his evil side already coming out in the form of sadism. However, that makes his dichotomy less stark because it's only opposed by blind ambition.
@@snowbunnie1113 And remember, the fact that he is deformed and looked down upon as a man, a major reason he ever went evil was essentially stripped cause god forbid we make a woman undesireable.
I just hope they don't do something fucking disgusting with her like have the Joker record himself sexually assaulting her, murdering her, and then posting it on the internet
@@snowbunnie1113The funny part is that it's CHRISTIANITY that co-lives with secularism. Not a good move to mock the religion that got punted by history enough to bow down to secularism. Hindu, Buddisim and Islam don't do that.
They've completely destroyed the whole point of the Penguin character. If she's now beloved by society and not an outcast or abandoned by her rich family, what is her motive to become a crime boss?
Agreed. If they really had to have a female Penguin, why not just have a different person take on the mantle in this “alternate universe”. We have multiple versions of Clayface, the ventriloquist and Firefly)
IF it's a whoa-menz, greed and avarice are enough. Probably a transformer, though...which would be actually a good narrative on soyciety since we have dudes claiming to be whoa-menz so they go to their prisons now.
My little brother watched Killing Joke before I did and told me it was a good watch as a prank... what he didn't know was that I took my now wife to it on what was effectively our FIRST DATE...
Watched 2 episodes, and honestly, if it was pretty good, the gender and race swaps weren't an issue to me because they all felt like the same character's imo.
@@JahonCross -- Yeah, it's just flat in general. And too slow. Took me three days to get through all 10. Probably peaked with episode two so you didn't miss anything. Wanted to like the Gentleman Ghost (!) show but hated his design. There's also a version of the Nocturna storyline Timm always lamented not doing for B:TAS but can't believe he was happy with what was produced here. A few of weird cameo (a newspaper photographer with a surprising name, a crooked cop, a bookstore owner and some orphans pus a familiar sideshow freak) appearances were nice surprises. Seems the show's concept was framing the series as if the Fleischer Brothers produced a Batman cartoon like they did for Superman but for that "modern audience" [read: woke] the studios keep insisting exists. This would explain why the Fleischer-esque Lois Lane & Jimmy Olsen appear in non-speaking roles along with a lesbian kiss (don't recall any hetero ones). Loved how the Batcave looked like the one in the '40s movie serial and didn't hate Alfred being fat (as in his original comics appearances). But why does Bruce call him Pennyworth and what's with all the hostility? Didn't like that stuff. Did you notice Harvey Dent looked like John Romita's version of Peter Parker? That was just plain weird, as was the insanely lazy Two-Face design -- had no idea what they're trying there. Sadly, the funnest part of the first season was the street names culled from Batman lore (Wilson, Lowery and Dozier were the biggest surprises) and that alone spoke volumes for how weak a show was delivered.
they show both the cops and batman to show jsut how dirty the cops are and how ienxperienced batman is. essentaill yto show that gordon and bats need each other to make any true headway. gordon can't touch the mob, but batman?
@@taddad2641-- Maybe that's all true but given the overall series' lack of quality seems like crediting the writers with such glorious purpose is a stretch. Here's how you know there's LOTS of problems with the show -- WB sold it to Amazon instead of streaming it on the HBO Max service that they own themselves! WB didn't think it was good enough or their platform and sold it to a competitor! When's the last time you saw that happen?! LOL
@@kidzoki Harvey Dent in this looks more like Desi Arnaz Sr. than Peter Parker. I almost expected him to break out the bongos and start singing "Babaloo." Which at least would have been funny.
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See this shows these people don't even understand the characters, when the penguin is introduced in this new female form she's accepted and "loved" in her performances at her club which is dumb as the original penguin was an outcast. He'd never dance and perform at his club because he hated the spot light, he got the name from people making fun of him which made him turn to villainy and rule with fear, he was small and sneaky, it's not only stupid that they gender swapped him but also took away the reason the penguin title is even used 😒
They do understand them. It’s a lot of the same people who worked on Batman: The Animated Series. It’s a little baffling how much they changed, but I guess they wanted to do something different. I can’t prove this, but I feel like these sort of changes are being forced on them. This team of creators never did stuff like this before.
@@PhilChoArt Timm's always been like this. His personal sketches from the time of the original cartoon were where the lesbian overtones between Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn originated and eventually spilled over into canon (to the ruin of both characters), and his fetish for pairing Bruce and Barbara Gordon was even hinted at in one of the original episodes (in a dream sequence). The difference is that Timm was being held in check by other creators and by Standards and Practices at the time, so his weirdness wasn't so obvious. The more creative freedom he got, the more he kept exposing himself. I don't think Timm's being forced into anything. This is Timm unfiltered, and it's as unsurprising as it is terrible.
@@reidmason2551 yeah that checks out. What he did with The Killing Joke was crazy, but also unsurprising considering what was already in BTAS. I never would have thought I’d be in favor of censorship, but I feel like when it comes to Batman and other superheroes, they do benefit from having certain rules and boundaries kept in place. I did end up enjoying Caped Crusader for what it was, but not nearly as much as if it was just a straight up continuation of BTAS or something.
All the best episodes of BTAS, all the most iconic moments came from the writers, namely Paul Dini (who also wrote the original Arkham games) Bruce Timm was a character designer whose biggest claims to fame was drawing prawn 🦐 of Harley and Ivy.
He was more of an evil James Bond in the first few decades of the comics. The mafioso stuff started with Chuck Dixon in 1995 because they felt the character needed a refresh.
I’m less concerned with Penguin’s looks. He’s never really had a consistent design (the only things that consistently translate is that he’s short and wears a suit). Stuff like Batman Returns, Gotham and The Batman have non comic accurate looks, but those looks work well with those versions of the character. Fem-guin is literally just Oswald in drag. It serves no purpose to the story and her character does nothing that a male Penguin couldn’t do.
For 52 of my years, Penguin has always been a man and then they ruin art and character with this crap? I'm disappointed and disgusted! And I'm the one with money, not some kid, not buying this or anything about this crap!
@the_absurd_hero and both problems are revolvers from batman related media Maybe these wouldn't be a problem if they learned about how guns work properly 🤔
this is like, the onyl, solitary fair comment. though it is an issue with a large swath of series with guns involved thoughout history. Disparu is fuckign delusional and trying to paint every detail as something its not....... like every fucking detail. also barbara is a defense attorney in this unvierse and it was pretty blatantly stated the kid wasn't even guilty of the crime in question, was used as a scapegoat. but noooop disparu is gonna ignore that and pretend that she's in the wrong cause she's race swapped and a woman........ yea i think brainrot ruined this mofo, the rot of his teeth reached his brain.
"I quit watching when I realized that the Penguin was gender swapped." Same thing for me! There was a red flag when I saw that Grace Randolph like the show! 🤦♂
It's not like he has treated HIS OTHER allies any differently throughout his animated run. The douchebag is so high on himself he couldn't even be bothered to say "Oops, my bad. I was wrong in letting that monster live for as long as I have." after The Joker had his cronies DETONATE A NUCLEAR BOMB IN METROPOLIS. Instead he looks the Man of Steel dead in the eye and said simply to "Let it go." like he expected Supes to get over the fact his city had just been turned into a nuclear ghost town before the fallout had even settled
@@jeremyallen5974 It was wrong for Batman to treat his friends, loved ones, and allies badly in those older versions, and it's just as wrong now. The Frank Miller influence on Batman has been pure poison from day one, and now it's finally hit terminal status. Prior to 1986, Batman was actually noble and heroic. Starting with *Dark Knight Returns,* he's been little more than a villain in hero's clothing. A total defacement of what Kane-Finger and their gang brought to life in the Golden Age. After 38 years of character assassination, I'm beyond sick of it. And the slathering on of bad liberal identity politics just makes it worse.
As someone who grew up watching Batman The Animated Series, this show is pathetic. How many times do they need to repeat character names? Do they think their audience is stupid?
Why name him Harvey right away? Waiting for the reveal would be far more satisfying. You could even subtly foreshadow his true character. But what am I saying? No one talented gets hired anymore.
There was already a perfect way to reveal him without it being awkward. When Barbara said his full name for the campaign. Did teens write the dialoge for this show?
Also i wann point out, as further proof of how much mischaracterized disparu made it. Harvey reveals barbara's name first, and barbara said his name mockingly. Also her saying his full name was basically saying it like reading a headline, as he is like in many continuities, running for mayor in this universe. suspiciously he edited it so it sounds ilke she said the name first. also he compeltely skips the part where she says harvey's full name... she says it like she's reading a newspaper article. "Harvey dent, hard on crime." so literally this man is mischaracterizing barbara and the show here.
@@maxheadroom4659 Batman: TAS was made for adults and just delivered softly so the violence or content wouldn’t be too much for kids. Now they make live action shows aimed at adults and write them like we’re children.
@@jeremyallen5974 It’s called having moral standards. If you like this travesty and how it got to be that way, I can see how having any kind of standard would offend you.
@@Xanegoh i used to watch that man review in mid 2010s and then he turn into shils and whatever it is now, oh God damn whatever brain rot he got sure fuck him up.
Watched the first episode, saw it was for "modern audiences". Was like: "Yeah, I'm done. I'll just watch Batman The Animated Series thank you very much."
Alfred ate all the alfredo sauce, Montoya ate all the mayonnaise, and the Penguin wanted to be sent to a woman's prison, so he got transmission change. No woke or audience detected.
@@kaymeachem1619that would've actually been an interesting reveal, then once it's over they turn their backs. But that's likely not what's going to happen
He's too British. He'd have to learn a foreign language. :D Yes, most people are gonna reply with "American English isn't that hard!" Well... this is an archaic form of an out-of-date futuristic pseudo-slang. It's barely comprehensible in the US. It really is kinda silly to mix fake words with modern slang... because slang changes too much.
I didn't notice it before but have they done it AGAIN with a Ginger? Why do they hate gingers? Is it the word? The similar arrangement of letters that angers them so?
Why is the animation quality so bad compared to a TV series from the 90s? Oh right, because modern animators for modern audiences can't draw worth crap. I'm surprised they don't all have bean mouths.
All-digital animation from people who've never actually done things like physical activity, and don't have to care about dynamic scenes because they just want to get paid.
Because even in the 21st century the Irish can never catch a break. They're practically the second runners up to the Jews in terms of being systematically killed off or enslaved.
Because contrary to what usually gets peddled, redheads are in reality _the_ minority of the world (white is already considered a minority skin color-wise, and true redheads are a severe minority of white), which hurts the narratives. Plus, maybe in part to its rarity, humans seem to be almost genetically predisposed to being attracted to redheads, especially with green eyes (and a 50/50 on freckles or not). In short, they're exotic.
PC principal would get a micro Aggression about the penguin and would call her a beautiful and stunning woman. Gosh it’s so annoying how they try to manipulate us to think she is somehow pretty.
The animation in this show sucks and I think that's a testament to how little faith Warner had in it. It's a crude and superficial attempt at re-creating Batman the Animated Series' art style using limited animation rather than the gorgeous full animation that the original show had. The boxy character designs of the original show were to let the studio animate them at a reasonable budget and keep the designs consistent from one frame to the next. When you those types of character designs (or a bad facsimile of them) and use them in limited animation it looks cheap and crappy, which is what this show is.
Ok if they wanted genderbent flirty penguin......why make her so large? Female penguins aren't larger than male penguins...You have done this with a smallish woman who has a hard time being taken seriously.
Danny Devito's Penguin looks and acts WAY more intimidating than what they call "The Penguin" in this show. He literally bit off a guy's nose in Batman Returns.
@@maxheadroom4659what? No. I meant that Caped Crusader has the worst on screen version of Penguin. Batman Returns is classic (and the change to the source material has actual purpose to the story)
Grew up watching penguin in Batman the animated series loved him like I do all the characters especially two face but I can’t believe they’ve done this it’s actually infuriating
@@thecrimsonlip53I cannot believe that Bruce Timm stated that he hated BTAS Penguin (and thought of him as uninteresting), but THIS was always his “true” vision of what the character should be.
@@pricemaxer9736 No. Nobody should watch absolute garbage just because it bears a familiar brand. We've had a steady stream of bad Batman content across all mediums going since 1986, with scattered bright spots. When is it enough already?
@@reidmason2551Exactly. It's like "Nah this bit of Dragon Ball Media can't possibly suck because it has (insert their favorite character) in it". Complacent fanboys are the reason they keep getting funding to make this drek.
okay let's start a running list 1 : in the first scene Batman is responsible for several deaths. No, Batman didn't "kill them", but that rule wasn't imposed on him via some mystical curse by John Constantine, it's a self-imposed rule to make sure he never loses himself. If Batman can get away with murder on a technicality, he's not Batman. The point is no-one should die if it's in his power to stop. Note : this is not to say you can't do anything interesting with Batman being more flexible/conflicted morally, but this show does not appear to be intentionally going that route, so it just means they don't understand his character. What a Batman like this (i.e. : not leaning into the moral quandries of vigilantism, he's just a de-facto "good guy" that always does what he should because that's what heros do) would do is *_maybe_* use the boss as a fake-meatshield betting on the goon not wanting to shoot him, and using that as an opening to disarm them, or (more likely) disarming him while grappling the boss without giving them the chance to aim. (then when he was diving from the bomb he'd either pull the other guy out of the way by grabbing him or maybe using his grappling hook, if it's a latching variety in this continuity) 2 : Yes, Harvey Dent's entire point is he's a genuinely good guy. IMO the Telltale game actually handled this brilliantly. Early-game a bunch of criminals attack a political rally by locking everyone inside and filling the room with a gas that makes people tell the truth. As you could guess, the politicians don't have their speeches go too well. However, Harvey Dent continues to give his speech anyway and it's still entirely hopeful and inspiring, proving that those are his genuine beliefs. 3 : While I know some versions of Harvey Dent do lean into the whole double sided coin thing, I tend to lean against it. While conniving villains that decieve people can be good, it just loses a lot of the impact when they don't actually have a code. (for instance in No Country for Old Men one of the most thematically important scenes is when the wife of the main character is confronted the the villain and is told to call a side, and basically says "no, I'm not calling a side, if you're going to kill me it's your choice, I won't let you turn it into a game of chance".) A twist on this that is slightly more useful is if he always technically obeys the coinflip, but doesn't necessarily follow any unspoken expectations. For instance "heads, you live, tails you die. Welp, you got lucky, though I can't have you running away and alerting anyone so I'm still gonna need to break your kneecaps." 4 : Yeah, a train is stupid here. It technically could work just on the basis of pants-shitting-terror (even if they know logically "hey wait, Batman wouldn't kill me!" they probably wouldn't have time to think that through before their fight-or-flight-or-get-hit-by-a-train kicks in) but it's still really stupid. Again, this could work well if we're playing into the whole gritty-vigilantism angle, but it really does not look like that's the intention. 5 : Isn't Gotham in America? 22:10 the steering wheel is in the right of the car here. Bonus : if you want to subvert Harvey Dent's "good guy" character without completely misunderstanding it, have him be a corrupt dickhead specifically to catch criminals. In other words he's not actually a corrupt dickhead, he just puts on a bad face to stop criminals. You'd keep the twisted irony if he becomes a more traditional 2 face, you'd keep the subversion of his golden-boy Harvey Dent characterization *_and_* you'd even get some nice drama with him conceptually mirroring Batman as a good man who puts on a bad face to stop criminals.
A minor point about the steering wheel: I believe Disparu has reversed the image to avoid automatic copyright claims (though this is undoubtedly fair use as well). Hence the backwards Batman title in the opening.
If you're referring to the warehouse that got blown up, HOW THE FUCK WOULD HE KNOW AN ARTILLERY SHELL WOULD HIT THE BUILDING?! 20 SECONDS MAXIMUM, Only 1 guy was directly indirectly killed by batman, because an artillery shell came out of nowhere and he didn't react in time. As for number 4 HOW WOULD HE KNOW BATMAN WOULDN'T KILL HIM?! This batman is relatively early on, so he has no reason to doubt batman would kill him. Also, henchmen who are confronted by batman in his 10th year are still scared shitless by him!
But I think Alfred was actually fat in the earliest stories of Batman ? I don't remember when he started losing weight though. Or maybe it was just retconned
10:40 what a frame. The wolf-whistling reminds me of an article I read when Bruce Jenner came out. The article described how everyone in the writers' room was in awe, cat-calling and drooling over an old man with implants. It's all so phoney. This act would only get cheers in a circus.
@@kwayneboy1524 Different character. They had the same first name but different last names. The fat version was something of a prototype before deciding on the version we’re all more familiar with.
@@John-fk2ky It was basically the same character it's like saying pre-crisis Jason wasn't Jason Todd. Both are named Alfred, both are connected to Wayne Family, both are butlers to Batman. An arbitrary difference doesn't change that while yes there was a *Retcon* of both the name and design it's essentially a part of the classic character's back ground and lore.
It's how I consume stuff like this and The Acolyte, I watch the people shitting on the terrible show and am more entertained than if I actually went seeking the stuff. Doesn't hurt that until people start giving their opinions I was unaware of the terrible show existing.
We are also expected to believe that nobody saw the previous muzzle flashes or the exceedingly loud report when the cannon fires. The sound would travel extremely well across water.
Exactly. A Literal Artillery Piece. She's so close to Gotham there is no way no one would have noticed it. Would have made sense if that Cannon was REALLY far away to the point you couldn't even see Gotham anymore.
@@silverhawkscape2677 they would essentially have to be outside of the guns range for it to not be noticed when fired. Also, considering it's on a ship it would be a miracle to hit the target on the first shot, they could be off by a hundred meters due to a wave. Even direct fire would be sketchy. Oops, blew up the apartment building next to the warehouse we were aiming at.
TikTok is PRAISING this shit. That is so amazing, interesting twists and turns and yes the same old slayyy bullshit. They’re so delusional over on that platform.
Because it's like super progressive! Healthy at any size!!! Even though 3 of those lifestyle promoters, only in their 30s, are no longer around! Totally had NOTHING to do with that lifestyle, however, that's just the pay tree arch ee lyyyyyiiiiieeeez!!!
Alfred it makes sense since that's how Alfred first appeared on the comics. He wasn't a skinny guy he was a heavy man who lost weight at a spa. Which later made it canon that he was always skinny.
@AnoneemusNoename If you read the comics this show takes place in the first appearance of Batman. Alfred was fat in the comics before they changed his design. The show is supposed to be inspired by the 40's aesthetic but I don't agree on the race or gender swap of characters or heavy set women in the show.
Harvey dent was a good man with a split personality issue that came out stronger when he got acid attacked in court. as he broken down dealing with his scars and the bad personality he was oppressing came fourth cause he couldn't handle what happend to him.
I hate the way that they walk, the way that they talk, i hate the that they dress $0 spent on marketing No ones talking about it There will NOT be a season 2
Bruce Timm also stopped pretending to be anything other than a hack with weird fetishes, too. It's amazing how much of the success of *BTAS* and *Superman* was actually down to EVERYBODY ELSE who worked on those shows. The more free reign Timm has, the more he reveals he has no real talent.
I tried to watch this. It was shit. I was so saddened. It looked like it tried to be good and it just missed the mark by leaps and bounds. They were just trying to be edgy for the "modern audience" and it did not work. I went back and just watched the old Batman cartoon all over again and it was so much better My kids could watch it with me and it still tackled serious issues that even made me tear up at times.
This is supposed to be in the 1930-1940 right? There is nothing in this show that is even remotely accurate to that time period, it's all 21th century modern intersectional feminism and identity politics.
@@SwiftNimblefootdude stfu already no one is buying anything you say, if you want to be a obnoxious lefty good for you, buy you are not gonna convince real fans to be less angry with this this garbage.
@@SwiftNimblefootI mean the 90s show had 60s elements but Bruce had high tech for his time. He even had tiny CDS back when Xanatos still used floppy disks with all that money.
... what are you talking about, we just got a genderbent penguin and three race swapped characters, everyone else is who they are, including the race swapped character, and the genderbent penguin works as penguin.
Batman Caped Crusader Review of Season 1 Episode 1 of the new Amazon Prime video Batman Series by JJ Abrams. With lots of characters being swapped for a more Hollywood acceptable version. Of course switching out these characters turns Batman into a comedy. An accidental parody comedy, but comedy all the same. Out of the first 4 episodes, the first one is definitely the worst, but that's understandable. They really wanted the audience to know what this series was with penguin up front. Although with 10 episodes, I think this series has plenty more comedy highlight potential, and plenty more weird character swaps to laugh at. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Will you do the rest of the series?
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Lmao. Perfect. Who the hell comes up with this utter crap. I think the writers should have to answer to the fans. Even if it's a social media question answer session. They shouldn't be allowed to hide anymore. They have way too much influence on society to stay hidden. They are the deep state shadow government in Hollywood. SPOTLIGHT the cockroaches. I almost feel sorry for them if THIS is the extent of their imagination. Smh 🙄 🤦 😂
Great camera the picture is so clear.
Dude you really need to watch Bruce Timms Batman Dude this isn't that much different and there version of Two Face is kinda an asshole in his aggressive secondary identity, also this Catwoman is more linked to the Silver Age version from batman the brave and the bold
They made Barbra into a defense attorney. How can you be a defense attorney if your father is the police commissioner, does no one in the court see this as a problem?
No
But her father does
No , barbra, es BARBARA
I do.
@@garmack12 Forget about it. It's Gotham Town 😄
Progressive people don't believe in "conflict of interest"
Female penguin is the "starring the writer's barely disguised fetish" meme to the max.
I'd actually give that to Rene Mantoya.
The writer has the fetish for the female equivalent for an "ugly bastard".
Basically every modern show today. Except it's those really niche ones you'd find in Sonic fanfiction, the kind only a tiny tiny percentage of people like.
The barely disguised self insert.
Eho wrote this? Jim Effing Sterling son? Because someone once said that Penguine looks like them, and I've rarely heard a truer word.
Looks like the Joker poisoned the water supply with calories.
He's just the misunderstood good guy who is portrayed as the bad guy by a heeeeeweew-ite oppressive society! He's simply, and JUSTLY, turning it into a soyciety, showing that everyone can be healthy at any size to fight duh pay tree arch ee!
😂😂😂
He burned our crops and delivered a plague onto our houses too
Batman: Diabetes Knight
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey plague
Why does Alfred look more like The Penguin than the actual Penguin?
Might’ve been the original model before they gender swapped The Penguin.
Alfred looked fat in a lot of older comics.
I would tell you but I'm in the process of repressing this nonsense 🤣
Why even gender swap penguin? Batman has more female characters than any other major comic I can think of.
I don't see why they couldn't have it be penguins wife. Say that he started a crime family. At the club he's the main manager and his wife is the entertainment director.
@@chrimsonphantomyeah, or his mother, or his sister or his daughter. Oswalda felt far too stupid to be the real mastermind behind Penguin’s empire.
@@snowbunnie1113 the writers told not show how smart she was. She killed the wrong son based off of what the person she failed to kill had said.
@@snowbunnie1113 I think out of all the other options, being a twin sister would be interesting.
'Cause they are hot. An ugly fat woman is better.
The cabaret scene reminded me of the comedy trope of a man disguising himself as a woman and somehow becoming irresistable to other men. The only difference is, the writers of this show didn't understand the gag.
like in 'boxtrolls'
It’s like Lipsynka… but bad and with 80 extra pounds.
@@mlongpre100 I think that's a good example in how you do it well. In Boxtrolls, the trope is used to draw attention to Lord Portley-Rind's cartoonishly oblivious disposition throughout the story.
What does the Penguin's scene tell us about Dent and Bullock? They have an awful taste in women? They should have gone to specsavers?
For giggles google Russian singer “Сердючка” and look how similar this man in a drag looks to this Penguin 😂
Well, the writers overcame their gag reflex ages ago..
saw black gordon, saw female penguin, saw alfred fat and called by bruce/batman as "pennyworth" despite being an ex spy and SAS soldier whose primary mission was to protect master bruce and became a surrogate father to him in every way allways called alfred.....can not tolerate more disrespect........
It's golden age Alfred still sucks.
I think that's the point of the show for him to be disrespectful and grows to learn how much he needs Alfred and that he's the only family he has left, the show isn't bad honestly give a chance, I like the old school vibes and detective batman.
@@pricemaxer9736 And by "vibes" you mean "wafer-thin skinsuit"? Because that's what Rene Montoya and Barbara Gordon: Uncapped Crusaders is.
At the start, Alfred was fat and wasn't involved in Batman's work. Later was written that way.
@@pricemaxer9736, at which point are you going to quit giving these hacks the benefit of the doubt? We've given many "chances" and they always deliver subversive crap that defiles and insults what's established. You're part of the problem.
Commissioner Gordon: I'm just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
“I know who I am.” 😂
🤣
"It appears to be working. They don't know I'm not white."
Bruh... 😆
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍
Bruce just diving into the pool and swimming off. Doesn't know if it leads out, and if it does if there is a boat engine that could delete him, just starts swimming. Plenty of boxes to hide in or behind, just dives. Incredible writing.
Yeah but it's not a yacht party until someone falls overboard.
....... he obviously does. why else would she dump someone to die out of it?
It would've taken too long to hide
@@KingJC. He's Batman! He's a ninja with a pointy mask. He could easily hide in time.
As long as it's very stupid 🤪 that's what matters.
The themes of Two-Face: Once a man of the law now suffering from two personalities, one good, one evil, both bound to the outcomes of a coin toss. The suffering of repressing one's anger, the feelings of powerlessness to chance, the corruptive path of revenge against the angers and wrongs one has faced.
The themes of The Penguin: A man of etiquette and high taste, forever ostracized for his peculiarities and appearance, lashing out at the world who abandoned him. The isolation of eternal exclusion from those one seeks to belong too, the needs to prove yourself against that others deem your failings, the abuse of power to force others to cater to your desires.
Two-Face here: An asshole.
Penguin here: Some reason adored.
I don't expect these characters to meaningfully contribute to the deep introspective storytelling past Batman works did.
Actually they literally give a multi arc for Harvey through the whole series? Like not to spoil but his downfall is the whole point of the first season by the end. It’s beautifully done in fact.
@@TheNoobyNoob1I haven’t seen it, but downfall stories usually work best if the audience either does have sympathies for a character or if the downfall hits a villain, where it serves as comeuppance. I‘m not sure what the idea is to make Harvey Dent unlikable, but not a villain. It just blunts the downfall as it’s neither most tragic nor most just.
the show is known for changing the designs and characters every few seasons particularly the villains. This Harvey Dent is all about following the letter of the law. He isn't bad he just seems heartless. But emotions have nothing to do with justice. The 2 faced coin toss shows his view on justice. There was only one result possible the one that goes with the law.. The result wasn't evil it was just the correct ruling. The death penalty was never an option but if it was he would have chosen that as the only option.. if it was the right choice under the law. I m guessing Two Face will be the opposite crime is always the choice no exceptions. No grey area. The Penguin is more like the mom from Goonies was the Penguin. At no point did they claim she was beloved. She was just important and inserted in with rich and famous because she had power. And used it to insert herself with that crowd. No woman calls herself Penguin. She does so to push back against criticism. Like Oswald she is an outsider, a unconventional looking person, who takes up space, makes themselves look bigger than they are.
Excellent analysis.
@@aubreysmith7355 True, she's not "beloved", but the wolf whistling and eager smiles clearly indicate that she is desired - even though that's just ridiculous here. As far as Dent goes, true justice needs to be appropriate to the crime, so the death penalty wouldn't make sense for smuggling bootleg liquor or stolen merchandise. But maybe that's his evil side already coming out in the form of sadism. However, that makes his dichotomy less stark because it's only opposed by blind ambition.
Modern Batman written by NPCs?
Why not just call this modern incarnation "Botman: Crapped the Bed."
His nemesis: The Jerkler
@@InfiniteWatcher The Him-her
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this feels like it was AI made
Makes sense if they cast Amber Heard as Botman too.
Biden copywrited that...
There are TONS of female agonists for Batman, why are we change-gendering this character?!?
Ivy, Harley, sometimes Catwoman, who else?
The other women were hot ... we can't have that in modern days
Heck they even have female crime bosses.
@@lexnight8345 They've also been mostly retconned into lesbians. Which is even more bad pandering.
Why ?
Because of hate, that is why
DEI people feast on it like pissing Eric Cartman
That’s not a penguin, that’s an elephant seal.
The voice doesn't even sound like it belongs to the character, even if Penguin was a woman... No believability at all...
*wheeze* 😂😂😂
Female elephant seals are actually cute though.
🤣
She should have been called “The Whale”.
This hurts my soul. My Penguin is a mamma's boy, tempermental, and a gangster.
With an immaculate vocabulary and propensity for avian wordplay
It’s funny, in making Oswald a woman, they also removed everything that made him intelligent and sympathetic….
I want to see her use the Umbrella-Copter though .. just for the the evil Mary Poppins jokes.
@@snowbunnie1113 And remember, the fact that he is deformed and looked down upon as a man, a major reason he ever went evil was essentially stripped cause god forbid we make a woman undesireable.
And short, fat, and walks with a rolling limp that makes him “waddle”, because that is why he got the nickname.
Without Respect, We Reject.
I hope that's on a shirt..
Looks like Barbara Gordon, similar to April O'Neil, won't be allowed to be portrayed as a white red-head in any new adaptations going forward.
All it will take is one reboot of the comics and the Gordon’s will be POC’s forever (DC already did it to Deadshot and Etta Candy)
You know what they do to gingers in Hollywood nowadays
@@snowbunnie1113 no? deadshot is still white in the current main canon
No. What? @@shadowagent7361
I just hope they don't do something fucking disgusting with her like have the Joker record himself sexually assaulting her, murdering her, and then posting it on the internet
Modern Audience is the magic spell to repel me.
The actual Penguin is 5'2. Why is his female variant 6'6?
EMPEROR penguin??
XD
Because she is an empowered
Woman
All all empowered women
Are 6'6
In many birds, females are larger than males. That's the best I've got.
Cause they can’t make an empowered female character if she’s short
@@petrie911yeah but penguins almost have the same height. Yet this dragqueen is a sealion pretending to be a penguin.
So they made alfred look like the penguin and the penguin look like someone in the Olympic opening ceremony 😂
To be fair
Alfred was like that in the 40's
And you are not wrong
Wrong. Fem-guin didn’t disrespect Christ enough to appear in the Olympic opening ceremony. lol
@@snowbunnie1113The funny part is that it's CHRISTIANITY that co-lives with secularism. Not a good move to mock the religion that got punted by history enough to bow down to secularism. Hindu, Buddisim and Islam don't do that.
For a "modern audience" is DEI code for "we have no talent, we lack creativity"....
In a nutshell
They've completely destroyed the whole point of the Penguin character. If she's now beloved by society and not an outcast or abandoned by her rich family, what is her motive to become a crime boss?
Because....... reasons.
Agreed. If they really had to have a female Penguin, why not just have a different person take on the mantle in this “alternate universe”. We have multiple versions of Clayface, the ventriloquist and Firefly)
IF it's a whoa-menz, greed and avarice are enough. Probably a transformer, though...which would be actually a good narrative on soyciety since we have dudes claiming to be whoa-menz so they go to their prisons now.
Because it makes good money
Obviously
@@jeremyallen5974 Does it though? Does it really.
Batman for the modern audience - and no-one shows up
Yep. Gonna stick with the iconic 90s BTAS.
I am shocked. Lol
At this point it'd be easier to hunt for unicorns than the modern audience.
My little brother watched Killing Joke before I did and told me it was a good watch as a prank... what he didn't know was that I took my now wife to it on what was effectively our FIRST DATE...
it's number 1 on prime video
Why did Montoya eat her feelings? And all the donuts. And her partner…
Because she's healthy at any size! Just like Fat Alfredo Sauce!
If you look she skinny in the waist she thick buy I guess you want pancake butt.
Because she is a lesbian
So that’s why Detective Yin never appeared!
😂😂😂😂 Cuz already being a woman of color wasn’t enough, that’s why.
This is supposed to be the "spiritual successor" to BTAS???
Feck right off JJ🤣
You mean Bruce Timm
I mean as long as he has his beloved Bruce X Barbara ship sail despite NO ONE WANTS IT he's gonna be okay
Daily reminder that Batman TAS was only good because Paul Dini was capable of managing Timm’s fan faction tier plot lines.
@@saultdog1603You probably could have stopped at „because Paul Dini“ and it would have been true as well.
at least he copied the Art Style
At least it loses money and no one likes it, that's what matters 🤪
The Batman show no one asked for…and no one deserved.
Yeah we can't make anything someone might actually like or make any kind of profit.. it has to lose money! Yay!!! 🤪
The penguin looks like my 65 yo step father on HRT, truly terrifying.
Pointless gender swaps, pointless race swaps and not enough Bat, who's a supporting character in his own show. Weak.
Watched 2 episodes, and honestly, if it was pretty good, the gender and race swaps weren't an issue to me because they all felt like the same character's imo.
@@JahonCross -- Yeah, it's just flat in general. And too slow. Took me three days to get through all 10. Probably peaked with episode two so you didn't miss anything. Wanted to like the Gentleman Ghost (!) show but hated his design. There's also a version of the Nocturna storyline Timm always lamented not doing for B:TAS but can't believe he was happy with what was produced here. A few of weird cameo (a newspaper photographer with a surprising name, a crooked cop, a bookstore owner and some orphans pus a familiar sideshow freak) appearances were nice surprises. Seems the show's concept was framing the series as if the Fleischer Brothers produced a Batman cartoon like they did for Superman but for that "modern audience" [read: woke] the studios keep insisting exists. This would explain why the Fleischer-esque Lois Lane & Jimmy Olsen appear in non-speaking roles along with a lesbian kiss (don't recall any hetero ones). Loved how the Batcave looked like the one in the '40s movie serial and didn't hate Alfred being fat (as in his original comics appearances). But why does Bruce call him Pennyworth and what's with all the hostility? Didn't like that stuff. Did you notice Harvey Dent looked like John Romita's version of Peter Parker? That was just plain weird, as was the insanely lazy Two-Face design -- had no idea what they're trying there. Sadly, the funnest part of the first season was the street names culled from Batman lore (Wilson, Lowery and Dozier were the biggest surprises) and that alone spoke volumes for how weak a show was delivered.
they show both the cops and batman to show jsut how dirty the cops are and how ienxperienced batman is. essentaill yto show that gordon and bats need each other to make any true headway. gordon can't touch the mob, but batman?
@@taddad2641-- Maybe that's all true but given the overall series' lack of quality seems like crediting the writers with such glorious purpose is a stretch. Here's how you know there's LOTS of problems with the show -- WB sold it to Amazon instead of streaming it on the HBO Max service that they own themselves! WB didn't think it was good enough or their platform and sold it to a competitor! When's the last time you saw that happen?! LOL
@@kidzoki Harvey Dent in this looks more like Desi Arnaz Sr. than Peter Parker. I almost expected him to break out the bongos and start singing "Babaloo." Which at least would have been funny.
0:04 - Wasn't expecting a Jim Sterling cameo in the new Batman series but here we are.
I'll bet Digital Homicide is laughing their asses off watching him celebrate people unsubscribing from his channel after he jumped on the "Ah'm uh woomun cos ah SED so!" Bandwagon
Time really IS the ultimate weapon of mass destruction
Let's see how many videos it takes to happen...
XD
Random lawyer woman sounds awfully a lot like Velma..
That's not Random Lawyer woman that's Barbara Gordon
And yes she does
“Harvey’s a white man, with a tiny dong! Of course he’s the bad guy!” - Velma Gordon.
See this shows these people don't even understand the characters, when the penguin is introduced in this new female form she's accepted and "loved" in her performances at her club which is dumb as the original penguin was an outcast. He'd never dance and perform at his club because he hated the spot light, he got the name from people making fun of him which made him turn to villainy and rule with fear, he was small and sneaky, it's not only stupid that they gender swapped him but also took away the reason the penguin title is even used 😒
They do understand them. It’s a lot of the same people who worked on Batman: The Animated Series. It’s a little baffling how much they changed, but I guess they wanted to do something different. I can’t prove this, but I feel like these sort of changes are being forced on them. This team of creators never did stuff like this before.
@@PhilChoArt Timm's always been like this. His personal sketches from the time of the original cartoon were where the lesbian overtones between Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn originated and eventually spilled over into canon (to the ruin of both characters), and his fetish for pairing Bruce and Barbara Gordon was even hinted at in one of the original episodes (in a dream sequence). The difference is that Timm was being held in check by other creators and by Standards and Practices at the time, so his weirdness wasn't so obvious. The more creative freedom he got, the more he kept exposing himself. I don't think Timm's being forced into anything. This is Timm unfiltered, and it's as unsurprising as it is terrible.
@@reidmason2551 yeah that checks out. What he did with The Killing Joke was crazy, but also unsurprising considering what was already in BTAS. I never would have thought I’d be in favor of censorship, but I feel like when it comes to Batman and other superheroes, they do benefit from having certain rules and boundaries kept in place. I did end up enjoying Caped Crusader for what it was, but not nearly as much as if it was just a straight up continuation of BTAS or something.
All the best episodes of BTAS, all the most iconic moments came from the writers, namely Paul Dini (who also wrote the original Arkham games) Bruce Timm was a character designer whose biggest claims to fame was drawing prawn 🦐 of Harley and Ivy.
So did they make a female penguin just to have singing and raunchy dialogue? The whole point of cobble pot is that he is a piece of crap mafioso
Yeah, depictions of Penguin vary, but he's a guy who DOES a lot of legit work... otherwise he'd have no money. Crime is more a side-hustle.
He was more of an evil James Bond in the first few decades of the comics. The mafioso stuff started with Chuck Dixon in 1995 because they felt the character needed a refresh.
I’m less concerned with Penguin’s looks. He’s never really had a consistent design (the only things that consistently translate is that he’s short and wears a suit). Stuff like Batman Returns, Gotham and The Batman have non comic accurate looks, but those looks work well with those versions of the character. Fem-guin is literally just Oswald in drag. It serves no purpose to the story and her character does nothing that a male Penguin couldn’t do.
She is a piece of crap too, who kills people by throwing them in the sea in a suitcase. Including her own son.
She more hardcore than guy version she literally had her son stuff in a chest drop in ocean
For 52 of my years, Penguin has always been a man and then they ruin art and character with this crap? I'm disappointed and disgusted! And I'm the one with money, not some kid, not buying this or anything about this crap!
Rosie O'Donnell as penguin is pretty funny to think about.
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XD
That made me chuckle, thank you 😹
I thought that was Sonia Sotomayor or Gabby Rivera.
Don't make me vomit.
24:01 That's a revolver she's holding, so unless she ejected all the spent casings and loaded that last bullet just then, there's a problem.
You're right!
So, the same problem that _S~cide Squad: Kill the Justice League_ had when Harley unceremoniously shot Batman in the face?
@the_absurd_hero and both problems are revolvers from batman related media
Maybe these wouldn't be a problem if they learned about how guns work properly 🤔
this is like, the onyl, solitary fair comment. though it is an issue with a large swath of series with guns involved thoughout history.
Disparu is fuckign delusional and trying to paint every detail as something its not....... like every fucking detail.
also barbara is a defense attorney in this unvierse and it was pretty blatantly stated the kid wasn't even guilty of the crime in question, was used as a scapegoat. but noooop disparu is gonna ignore that and pretend that she's in the wrong cause she's race swapped and a woman........
yea i think brainrot ruined this mofo, the rot of his teeth reached his brain.
Progressives have no idea how anything works, especially not firearms.
It's like if Temu made a Batman series.
I quit watching when I realized that the Penguin was gender swapped. I don’t care if it’s good or not once I catch the asphyxiating stench of DEI.
I wasn't gonna watch it when I heard the show made Harley Quin Asian.
"I quit watching when I realized that the Penguin was gender swapped."
Same thing for me! There was a red flag when I saw that Grace Randolph like the show! 🤦♂
@@LunarSpiral1127…Can she say her own name?
@@Etherman7 Hawwee kwin
@@LunarSpiral1127 not only that, she has no relationship with joker. You cant have harley quinn without joker.
They had Bruce hate Alfred and treat him poorly. This show is awful. I don't care.
we got angsty manchild bruce wayne costarring the Barbara Gordon show, because real heroes don't need a mask
Alfred had his balls clipped.
It's not like he has treated HIS OTHER allies any differently throughout his animated run. The douchebag is so high on himself he couldn't even be bothered to say "Oops, my bad. I was wrong in letting that monster live for as long as I have." after The Joker had his cronies DETONATE A NUCLEAR BOMB IN METROPOLIS. Instead he looks the Man of Steel dead in the eye and said simply to "Let it go." like he expected Supes to get over the fact his city had just been turned into a nuclear ghost town before the fallout had even settled
@@jeremyallen5974 It was wrong for Batman to treat his friends, loved ones, and allies badly in those older versions, and it's just as wrong now. The Frank Miller influence on Batman has been pure poison from day one, and now it's finally hit terminal status. Prior to 1986, Batman was actually noble and heroic. Starting with *Dark Knight Returns,* he's been little more than a villain in hero's clothing. A total defacement of what Kane-Finger and their gang brought to life in the Golden Age. After 38 years of character assassination, I'm beyond sick of it. And the slathering on of bad liberal identity politics just makes it worse.
@jeremyallen5974 As if Injustice was ever a good example of character writing.
As someone who grew up watching Batman The Animated Series, this show is pathetic. How many times do they need to repeat character names? Do they think their audience is stupid?
Yes. This show is not for anyone who knows or likes batman. It's for progressives who like the idea of "the message" wrapped in Batman cosmetics.
Why name him Harvey right away? Waiting for the reveal would be far more satisfying. You could even subtly foreshadow his true character. But what am I saying? No one talented gets hired anymore.
There was already a perfect way to reveal him without it being awkward. When Barbara said his full name for the campaign. Did teens write the dialoge for this show?
Also i wann point out, as further proof of how much mischaracterized disparu made it.
Harvey reveals barbara's name first, and barbara said his name mockingly. Also her saying his full name was basically saying it like reading a headline, as he is like in many continuities, running for mayor in this universe. suspiciously he edited it so it sounds ilke she said the name first.
also he compeltely skips the part where she says harvey's full name... she says it like she's reading a newspaper article. "Harvey dent, hard on crime."
so literally this man is mischaracterizing barbara and the show here.
At least it's losing money and no one likes it, that's what matters 🤪
This is like Jim Sterling cast as Stephanie Sterling playing Penguin. It's like weird inception.
Those of you that didn’t grow up in the 90s can’t begin to comprehend how vast the quality difference is in your media now and what it was then.
yes, this new stuff is dog s**t by comparison.
@@maxheadroom4659 Batman: TAS was made for adults and just delivered softly so the violence or content wouldn’t be too much for kids. Now they make live action shows aimed at adults and write them like we’re children.
Not really. Bats is still a 'holier-than-thou' asshole so they get points for being consistent in THAT category
@@jeremyallen5974 so he has a moral code and sticks to it. lol. The bastard….
@@jeremyallen5974
It’s called having moral standards. If you like this travesty and how it got to be that way, I can see how having any kind of standard would offend you.
Who tf at WB thought turning Chris Chan into the Penguin was a good idea?
Oswald became a boyfriend free sweetheart from the ground up!
Actually started rewatching the chris chan documentary with an old friend who never heard of him right before watching this video. Weird coincidence
You mean Jim Sterling.
More like Jim Sterling
@@Xanegoh i used to watch that man review in mid 2010s and then he turn into shils and whatever it is now, oh God damn whatever brain rot he got sure fuck him up.
Watched the first episode, saw it was for "modern audiences". Was like: "Yeah, I'm done. I'll just watch Batman The Animated Series thank you very much."
At least it wasn't Assman - Gaped Crusader.
Even money it would be more faithful to the actual comics, especially if Axel Braun is involved.
Bruh... 😆
Not yet… give ‘em time. They’re waiting to see how that Batman simulacrum works out on The Boys.
Oh just wait….
I think they bought that "cannon" secondhand from Wile E. Coyote.
Alfred ate all the alfredo sauce, Montoya ate all the mayonnaise, and the Penguin wanted to be sent to a woman's prison, so he got transmission change. No woke or audience detected.
That's Canon!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Penguin is supposed to be largely unattractive mentally physically emotionally, yet they have all the men and women in here swooning.
I’d imagine ppl care because they’re at a fundraiser to get something monetary out of it.
They've been trying to wash the 🧠 of people for like a decade now, as if you can shame people into being attracted to the opposite of what they like.
@@kaymeachem1619lol you're trying to rationalize the actual show, this has zero to do with plot.
@@kaymeachem1619That would require the writers to be smart.
@@kaymeachem1619that would've actually been an interesting reveal, then once it's over they turn their backs. But that's likely not what's going to happen
I'll hear no more about how "Clarence" can't be a criminal name. Clarence Boddicker was the best of them. Someone make this man watch Robocop.
He's too British. He'd have to learn a foreign language. :D
Yes, most people are gonna reply with "American English isn't that hard!"
Well... this is an archaic form of an out-of-date futuristic pseudo-slang. It's barely comprehensible in the US. It really is kinda silly to mix fake words with modern slang... because slang changes too much.
He wanted to prove everyone wrong about that name not fitting a criminal, so he gone over the top with the violence
Can you fly Bobby?
@@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo I prefer: "Bitches leave."
Clarence a n igg er name....is a white guy
"I can't be intimidated by anybody who has a knife so small, it'd be legal in the UK."
God. Damn.
"I dunno, I just cant get intimidated by someone who has a knife so small, it would be legal in the UK." Oh ho ho ho, BURRRRRRRRRRN!
I didn't notice it before but have they done it AGAIN with a Ginger?
Why do they hate gingers? Is it the word? The similar arrangement of letters that angers them so?
They thought replacing a ginger with a black is an easy task of just switching around the letters N and G
But... but... Barbara is still a ginger. Are you blind? She has red hair.
@@SwiftNimblefootyeah because we all know blacks are readheads, all that celtic DNA, we wuz irish and shiet.
Because the casting directors are dyslexic, so they scramble the letters in ginger.
@@SwiftNimblefoot Bottle Ginger is not Ginger
Why is the animation quality so bad compared to a TV series from the 90s?
Oh right, because modern animators for modern audiences can't draw worth crap. I'm surprised they don't all have bean mouths.
All-digital animation from people who've never actually done things like physical activity, and don't have to care about dynamic scenes because they just want to get paid.
Excellent. A long-awaited episode review. This and a drink are exactly what I needed after work today. Thanks, Disparu, and keep 'em coming!
Why is it... every red head?
I am pretty sure they want to make the redhead race extinct.
Because even in the 21st century the Irish can never catch a break. They're practically the second runners up to the Jews in terms of being systematically killed off or enslaved.
Because contrary to what usually gets peddled, redheads are in reality _the_ minority of the world (white is already considered a minority skin color-wise, and true redheads are a severe minority of white), which hurts the narratives.
Plus, maybe in part to its rarity, humans seem to be almost genetically predisposed to being attracted to redheads, especially with green eyes (and a 50/50 on freckles or not). In short, they're exotic.
They hate us
PC principal would get a micro Aggression about the penguin and would call her a beautiful and stunning woman. Gosh it’s so annoying how they try to manipulate us to think she is somehow pretty.
Penguin was impressed because she'd never seen anything extend a few inches in front of her.... 😆
I spit out my coffee with that one😂😂
😂
The animation in this show sucks and I think that's a testament to how little faith Warner had in it. It's a crude and superficial attempt at re-creating Batman the Animated Series' art style using limited animation rather than the gorgeous full animation that the original show had. The boxy character designs of the original show were to let the studio animate them at a reasonable budget and keep the designs consistent from one frame to the next. When you those types of character designs (or a bad facsimile of them) and use them in limited animation it looks cheap and crappy, which is what this show is.
Ok if they wanted genderbent flirty penguin......why make her so large? Female penguins aren't larger than male penguins...You have done this with a smallish woman who has a hard time being taken seriously.
Danny Devito's Penguin looks and acts WAY more intimidating than what they call "The Penguin" in this show.
He literally bit off a guy's nose in Batman Returns.
Definitely one of the worst on screen versions of Penguin (sucks for him because otherwise he has pretty good track record)
@@snowbunnie1113 you are just here to shill for the show arent you?
@@maxheadroom4659what? No. I meant that Caped Crusader has the worst on screen version of Penguin. Batman Returns is classic (and the change to the source material has actual purpose to the story)
All the writes have done is make Danny DeVito's Penguin a woman and make her tall.
@@MikePhillips-x6m Danny Devito: "THAT'S a woman??"
That's penguin?
What a joke
Grew up watching penguin in Batman the animated series loved him like I do all the characters especially two face but I can’t believe they’ve done this it’s actually infuriating
@@thecrimsonlip53I cannot believe that Bruce Timm stated that he hated BTAS Penguin (and thought of him as uninteresting), but THIS was always his “true” vision of what the character should be.
Oh nooooooo…..haha. THIS is the show with the female penguin? Well…thanks for saving me some time disparu.
Why did they make penguin so huge. She's like 6'8. Got boobs bigger then my head.
Bitman: "[The penguin is] ... hiding in plain sight."
Me: 'She literally can not hide anywhere else!"
Disparu, I'm informed that Clarence J. Boddiker disagrees with you on appropriate names for criminal masterminds
"Well, give the Man a Hand!"
Well played!
Herbert Q. Pumpernickel seconds this notion!
Came here to say this, now I don't need to 🙂
OK, but is that what people actually called him when referring to him?
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lpoddly enough
In the novelization he waa poetically described as " a serious clown".
And doesn't that seem familiar...
I turned it off as soon as I saw Penguin
give it a chance and watch it for batman
Penguin?
Where?
I don't see him.
@@pricemaxer9736 No. Nobody should watch absolute garbage just because it bears a familiar brand. We've had a steady stream of bad Batman content across all mediums going since 1986, with scattered bright spots. When is it enough already?
@@reidmason2551Exactly. It's like "Nah this bit of Dragon Ball Media can't possibly suck because it has (insert their favorite character) in it". Complacent fanboys are the reason they keep getting funding to make this drek.
I gave up at black Gordon and Barbara
Look how they massacred my boy.
Indeed😢
Did they really make Barbra a black ginger…?
Sadly yes another dumb race swap
okay let's start a running list
1 : in the first scene Batman is responsible for several deaths. No, Batman didn't "kill them", but that rule wasn't imposed on him via some mystical curse by John Constantine, it's a self-imposed rule to make sure he never loses himself. If Batman can get away with murder on a technicality, he's not Batman. The point is no-one should die if it's in his power to stop. Note : this is not to say you can't do anything interesting with Batman being more flexible/conflicted morally, but this show does not appear to be intentionally going that route, so it just means they don't understand his character. What a Batman like this (i.e. : not leaning into the moral quandries of vigilantism, he's just a de-facto "good guy" that always does what he should because that's what heros do) would do is *_maybe_* use the boss as a fake-meatshield betting on the goon not wanting to shoot him, and using that as an opening to disarm them, or (more likely) disarming him while grappling the boss without giving them the chance to aim. (then when he was diving from the bomb he'd either pull the other guy out of the way by grabbing him or maybe using his grappling hook, if it's a latching variety in this continuity)
2 : Yes, Harvey Dent's entire point is he's a genuinely good guy. IMO the Telltale game actually handled this brilliantly. Early-game a bunch of criminals attack a political rally by locking everyone inside and filling the room with a gas that makes people tell the truth. As you could guess, the politicians don't have their speeches go too well. However, Harvey Dent continues to give his speech anyway and it's still entirely hopeful and inspiring, proving that those are his genuine beliefs.
3 : While I know some versions of Harvey Dent do lean into the whole double sided coin thing, I tend to lean against it. While conniving villains that decieve people can be good, it just loses a lot of the impact when they don't actually have a code. (for instance in No Country for Old Men one of the most thematically important scenes is when the wife of the main character is confronted the the villain and is told to call a side, and basically says "no, I'm not calling a side, if you're going to kill me it's your choice, I won't let you turn it into a game of chance".) A twist on this that is slightly more useful is if he always technically obeys the coinflip, but doesn't necessarily follow any unspoken expectations. For instance "heads, you live, tails you die. Welp, you got lucky, though I can't have you running away and alerting anyone so I'm still gonna need to break your kneecaps."
4 : Yeah, a train is stupid here. It technically could work just on the basis of pants-shitting-terror (even if they know logically "hey wait, Batman wouldn't kill me!" they probably wouldn't have time to think that through before their fight-or-flight-or-get-hit-by-a-train kicks in) but it's still really stupid. Again, this could work well if we're playing into the whole gritty-vigilantism angle, but it really does not look like that's the intention.
5 : Isn't Gotham in America? 22:10 the steering wheel is in the right of the car here.
Bonus : if you want to subvert Harvey Dent's "good guy" character without completely misunderstanding it, have him be a corrupt dickhead specifically to catch criminals. In other words he's not actually a corrupt dickhead, he just puts on a bad face to stop criminals. You'd keep the twisted irony if he becomes a more traditional 2 face, you'd keep the subversion of his golden-boy Harvey Dent characterization *_and_* you'd even get some nice drama with him conceptually mirroring Batman as a good man who puts on a bad face to stop criminals.
I agree with Harvey Dent he was good guy at first its build up becoming 2 face and telltale did his character justice
A minor point about the steering wheel: I believe Disparu has reversed the image to avoid automatic copyright claims (though this is undoubtedly fair use as well). Hence the backwards Batman title in the opening.
Disparu has the image left-right reversed.
If you're referring to the warehouse that got blown up, HOW THE FUCK WOULD HE KNOW AN ARTILLERY SHELL WOULD HIT THE BUILDING?! 20 SECONDS MAXIMUM, Only 1 guy was directly indirectly killed by batman, because an artillery shell came out of nowhere and he didn't react in time.
As for number 4 HOW WOULD HE KNOW BATMAN WOULDN'T KILL HIM?!
This batman is relatively early on, so he has no reason to doubt batman would kill him. Also, henchmen who are confronted by batman in his 10th year are still scared shitless by him!
The worst thing about Penguiness, apart from her name, is that they couldn't decide whether she was wearing a vest or a cummerbund. 😞
She can't even pretend to be a man properly smh
Hell yeah. Broken Arrow was such a good movie that don't get no respect.
That movie was shit
samantha mathis
@@revan3841That was it
Ok really want to see this alfred try to clean the mansion. He’d have a heart attack half way through the first room
Alfred: Finished with the dishes and......*heart attack*
*Dies*
In all fairness, I don't think any iteration of Alfred could clean Wayne Manor - that's not a one man job.
@@TheBlackSeraph with all the tech batman has he should be having ROBOTS clean that place at this point💀
@no.1spidey-fan182 I think Alfred likes cleaning it, though. Keeping things in order.
But I think Alfred was actually fat in the earliest stories of Batman ? I don't remember when he started losing weight though. Or maybe it was just retconned
11:32 Pingvin is VERY attractive! It's called gravitational pull!
She might not be able to accelerate quickly but damm she's got the mass to make up for it.
You're getting really good at this, this is the funniest one you've done yet
Wow...batman must have herculean strength to be able to hold up a man that large....
10:40 what a frame. The wolf-whistling reminds me of an article I read when Bruce Jenner came out. The article described how everyone in the writers' room was in awe, cat-calling and drooling over an old man with implants. It's all so phoney. This act would only get cheers in a circus.
*THIS"
Alfred...cannot perform the duties of Alfred, much less live to be as old as Alfred, at that size!
This Alfred looks like he'd have problems preparing dinner never mind the more active duties he'd be required to do.
They really should have just called the character Alfred Beagal, who was the “proto Alfred”, but no they keep calling him Pennyworth.
This was based on the original design of Alfred
@@kwayneboy1524
Different character. They had the same first name but different last names. The fat version was something of a prototype before deciding on the version we’re all more familiar with.
@@John-fk2ky It was basically the same character it's like saying pre-crisis Jason wasn't Jason Todd.
Both are named Alfred, both are connected to Wayne Family, both are butlers to Batman. An arbitrary difference doesn't change that while yes there was a *Retcon* of both the name and design it's essentially a part of the classic character's back ground and lore.
Thi just makes me want to watch Batman the animated series. The superior in every way show.
Good thing I called it quits when we saw that Two-Face's face was on the wrong side. She-guin just *really* sealed the deal lol
I waited for disparu more than the actual show
You made an error, then. The show is actually really good.
I always check the reviews first now they’ve ruined so many things already now
It's how I consume stuff like this and The Acolyte, I watch the people shitting on the terrible show and am more entertained than if I actually went seeking the stuff. Doesn't hurt that until people start giving their opinions I was unaware of the terrible show existing.
SAME
@SwiftNimblefoot Odd that all of the clips included here are either repulsive, irritating or both.
Batman: Caped Crusader:
No crusades nor batmans on sight
"we need new ideas"!" Let's remake Batman for the 100th time.
"but this time, lets make it suck"
Put a woman it! And make her lame and gay!
@@maxheadroom4659 Put a chick in it, and make it lame and gay!
“Also make it lame and make it gay!”
We are also expected to believe that nobody saw the previous muzzle flashes or the exceedingly loud report when the cannon fires. The sound would travel extremely well across water.
Exactly. A Literal Artillery Piece. She's so close to Gotham there is no way no one would have noticed it.
Would have made sense if that Cannon was REALLY far away to the point you couldn't even see Gotham anymore.
@@silverhawkscape2677 they would essentially have to be outside of the guns range for it to not be noticed when fired. Also, considering it's on a ship it would be a miracle to hit the target on the first shot, they could be off by a hundred meters due to a wave. Even direct fire would be sketchy. Oops, blew up the apartment building next to the warehouse we were aiming at.
TikTok is PRAISING this shit. That is so amazing, interesting twists and turns and yes the same old slayyy bullshit. They’re so delusional over on that platform.
Facebook loves it, too. It's amazing how what passes for comic book fandom these days is so far-left.
Why is everyone fat in this show.
Because it's like super progressive! Healthy at any size!!! Even though 3 of those lifestyle promoters, only in their 30s, are no longer around! Totally had NOTHING to do with that lifestyle, however, that's just the pay tree arch ee lyyyyyiiiiieeeez!!!
Alfred it makes sense since that's how Alfred first appeared on the comics. He wasn't a skinny guy he was a heavy man who lost weight at a spa. Which later made it canon that he was always skinny.
Barbara isn't. Nor Harvey Dent. Or most of the women Bruce dates.
@AnoneemusNoename Dah
@AnoneemusNoename If you read the comics this show takes place in the first appearance of Batman. Alfred was fat in the comics before they changed his design. The show is supposed to be inspired by the 40's aesthetic but I don't agree on the race or gender swap of characters or heavy set women in the show.
Harvey dent was a good man with a split personality issue that came out stronger when he got acid attacked in court. as he broken down dealing with his scars and the bad personality he was oppressing came fourth cause he couldn't handle what happend to him.
That one guy from Gotham Knights: "Here's to questionable choices!"
Female Penguin is Jim 'Stephanie' Sterling?
They have to only write one draft no way a second draft was written.
The dialogue sounds like this was made by Mindy Kaling
Are we sure she didn't work on this
Penguin design looks like jim sterling now. Lol😂
@@KaiNLinda when I first saw the design I thought it was edited as a joke and not what she actually looked like
Let alone the art style
@@KaiNLinda LMAO I forgot that guy existed, you're right and I can't unsee it now.
The Penguin looks like Sterling in bad cosplay.
honerstly, that is kind of an insult to the penguin here. sterling has........ yea what a fall.
Jim Gordon was made black because they cpuldnt leave redhead Barbara white...
Wow, collateral gingercide. They're getting better.
They did that since The Lego Batman movie. I dont know how people are still suprised at this point💀
@@no.1spidey-fan182 Lego Batman movie at least did it as a joke.
I hate the way that they walk, the way that they talk, i hate the that they dress
$0 spent on marketing
No ones talking about it
There will NOT be a season 2
That's why Max punted it over to Amazon.
@@Redclaw-gk1cv hbo dodged a bullet skull 💀
Had to stop the video for two solid minutes
"Why is pepperoni pizza talking to me?"
Dammit, Disparu
At this point I'm wondering if Jar-Jar Abrams is shorting stock or something, because everything he touches turns to ash.
Bruce Timm also stopped pretending to be anything other than a hack with weird fetishes, too. It's amazing how much of the success of *BTAS* and *Superman* was actually down to EVERYBODY ELSE who worked on those shows. The more free reign Timm has, the more he reveals he has no real talent.
Such a shame that this Batman voice is wasted on this 😢 he's REALLY good!
I tried to watch this. It was shit. I was so saddened. It looked like it tried to be good and it just missed the mark by leaps and bounds. They were just trying to be edgy for the "modern audience" and it did not work. I went back and just watched the old Batman cartoon all over again and it was so much better My kids could watch it with me and it still tackled serious issues that even made me tear up at times.
When was the last time Santa put people in hospital?
You might have missed The Night Santa Went Crazy.
This will be forgotten literal minutes after finishing airing
This is supposed to be in the 1930-1940 right? There is nothing in this show that is even remotely accurate to that time period, it's all 21th century modern intersectional feminism and identity politics.
Not really, same as how Batman TAS is not set in the 60ies. It is just a nondescript time period that looks like that era. This is not our Earth.
@@SwiftNimblefootdude stfu already no one is buying anything you say, if you want to be a obnoxious lefty good for you, buy you are not gonna convince real fans to be less angry with this this garbage.
@@SwiftNimblefootI mean the 90s show had 60s elements but Bruce had high tech for his time. He even had tiny CDS back when Xanatos still used floppy disks with all that money.
... what are you talking about, we just got a genderbent penguin and three race swapped characters, everyone else is who they are, including the race swapped character, and the genderbent penguin works as penguin.
And don't forget, Jim Crow law was very relevant back then. Jim and Barbara Gordon would've had no possibilities to become a Comissioner and a lawyer.