Batman Beyond

This is indeed a impressive show, but then the batman series that it spun of from (it even gets mentions later on in the justice league series that followed up on the batman and superman series) was also quite a impressive creation.

Thanks for uploading another user Review. I am glad to see that you continued it. Thanks.

The photos you chose are pretty good to show the Cyberpunk style of the series.:thumb: (Because for a long time, you stopped uploading user reviews, I though maybe you have decided to cease it completely, but I am glad to see you didn’t.)

Phantom 2040 did this concept five years before Batman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040

Thanks for the info about Phantom 2040. I never heard about that. Perhaps, this would be qualify for review, too.

Great to see a review of the Batman Beyond series, could have taken the detail up a notch. Haha, when i was 12, he was the guy i most wanted to be! Awesome batsuit, (batrophones in his fingertips, stealth batouflage, jet-batoboots, batwings), a sweet bat plane and a hot girlfriend. All in a cyberpunk future where you drove hovercars to batschool…i mean highschool.
I never figured out why he was such an angst ridden teen who’d rather hang at the mall and techno raves (he was 16, right?) than fly around, messing with bat-gadgets and whooping ass.
deneneneh BATMAN!

Don’t bother with Zeta Project. It took a character from this dark cyberpunk batman storyline and threw him into the daylight. There is nothing cyberpunk about it. While Zeta is a robot, he spends most of the series using the same human form so as not to confuse any children watching.

Not sure phantom 2040 is worth the watch, the artwork is basically weird. Much prefer the batman beyond art.

Nothing wrong with Phantom 2040’s look. It was drawn by the same guy who did the designs for Aeon Flux, and it shows.

I hate it when the hero is a young teenager. Why do all heroes are teenagers nowadays?. Haven’t seen the series but letme guess… the kid goes to school, ans is considered a freak, (he gets beat up by bullies) he is in love with the cheerleader, who is engaged with the quarterback. Then the kid somehow gets the power and saves the girl and kicks the boyfriend ass. Then the girl falls in love with him, never knowing his real identity. Ah, he solves crimes or fights injustice while in free time.
Please tellme I am wrong! why do all american series/movies fall in this refried plot? (transformers, spiderman movie, dragonball evolution, etc, etc)

nope he is actually a successful member of the school wrestling team, and have a girlfriend. Part of show comes with balancing that with his crime fighting.

And i think they go with the teen angle because the series are broadcast towards kids (dark theme and all), and having a character closer to their own age may work better (or so at least marketing probably reasons).

Wow.The Review was uploaded last week and has already got 10 comments.

A fantastic series, one that was pretty dark for American animation. I am surprised that most people do not view it as cyberpunk, since it covers a lot of themes normally associated with cyberpunk.

Why Batman would take on “such an angst ridden teen who’d rather hang at the mall and techno raves (he was 16, right?) than fly around, messing with bat-gadgets and whooping ass”, check out the Justice League Unlimited episode “Epilogue”.

I’m sorry to say that while i see how it is cyberpunk, I can’t relate to the 9 stars rating. Maybe as a Batman fan i can’t get around Terry as a Character. But i’d have given it 6 or 7. The main draw to Batman for me anyway is Bruce Wayne, not the Costume or the gadgets, it’s Bruce Wayne’s well developed character, one of the only believable comic book heroes personality wise, this was too much Gadgets and Nostalgic “When i was in that situation…” Moments. Let’s face it, we had New Bane, a new Joker Crew, a horrible return of the original Joker, Mr. Freeze was the only interesting return. There were some good epsidoes in the series, namely the first 2, some of the ones about Splicing, and the others about the Teenage Rehab Camp that was very Orwellian. There were some cool new villains, one that used sound, and MAD STAN! The other ones were just shallow interpretations of old Batman Villains If i were to rate it on some of those episodes I’d say an 9 was reasonable, but if you watched the whole series, there weren’t enough of those episodes.

The Zeta Project unfortuantely never realized it’s potential it got cnacelled durrin gthe big WB Saturday morning fallout after the Original Batman Animated series was over. It went down with some of the other strong starters, and second season half assers like Static Shock. Good luck finding it, and if you do let us know, it was pretty good, on par with Batman Beyond. There was a fallowup episode to the first Zeta episode that took place within the Zeta Series timeline with Mad Stan in it.

As for Drraagh’s question. Batman took in Jason Todd didn’t he.

My bad, Terry’s 17, and to anyone dismayed from watching because of the young age of the protaganist, he’s quite mature as he takes care of his Mom and lil Bro since his Dad died.

He did some time in juvenile prison (he actually steals the batsuit), he’s got a steady girlfriend (though he does occasionally cheat), plays a couple team sports, gets average grades and mostly hangs out with nerds and his gf’s friends. The maturity keeps in line with that of ‘Batman: the animated series”.

ALSO a live action movie was planned with NEAL STEPHENSON as a consultant writer, but Warner Bros went with Nolan’s Batman Begins instead. Can you imagine:
Batman(Nolan)+Cyberpunk (Stephenson)= so SCHWAY!

Very awesome show. The Hub started airing it yesterday with the episode “Rebirth,” which brought back memories. Channel numbers can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hub_(TV_network)

thank you so much, I just discovered this show, and it’s all I ever wanted. It’s just perfect

i remember watching this when i was a kid (came on right after another futuristic/cyberpunk show that depicted sherlock holmes waking up in the future and doing futuristic reboots of his cases) always loved that show, unfortunately some “concerned parents” (crazy religious nutjobs) wrote in to the station and told them that the show was inherently evil or some bollocks like that, and they kept on doing this until eventually the show was pulled off the air

I remember that Sherlock Holmes show too

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_the_22nd_Century

Has some vague cyberpunk interest, maybe CPR could review it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn8n18yS7A

Static shock can be found in the one place where anything can be found

Phantom 2040 is amazing, if you can get your hands on it. It was drawn by Peter Chung - so if you like the look of Aeon Flux, you’ll probably love it. In fact, the only reason not to watch it is if you don’t like his artwork (admittedly, it’s not for everyone) The animation isn’t the best (pretty standard 90s fare), but the characters are crisp and distinctive. Also, the show is considerably more serialised than Batman Beyond, and has an amazing voice cast: Mark Hamil and Ron Perlman, among others. It’s also, in my opinion, much more cyberpunk than Batman Beyond, both in aesthetics and themes - it has futuristic versions of hackers (called sliders - who essentially live online through avatars) a version of the world wide web called ICE (one character says “in my day we called it cyberspace […] the 90s were a simpler time”). Also, the big bad is a corporation called Maximum Inc. led by a power crazed, elitist mother and son, with a super-computer containing the consciousness of its founder. It has lots of stuff about individuality and ecology thrown in for good measure. To be honest, if you liked Batman Beyond, you should absolutely adore Phantom 2040.