Oh well in episode two Gordon's gun appears to be firing real bullets and looks more like a real gun, thank God.

I Really dislike the animation style, but I gotta say the team knows how to do fights. The show looks great in motion.

Overall, Beware the Bat is off to a great start I think. The first two episodes despite the flaws were pretty interesting, and I like the darker noir tone the series is going for. I'm going to be sticking with this and seeing where they end up going from here.

So anyone find a complete recording of the first episode of Korra season 2? :P I hate how they debuted it at SDCC and only gave the rest of us a brief teaser that's just given more questions... Like why Bolin is alone on the Fire Ferrets... It was much cooler when they debuted there then put it online not long after.

Just watched Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
It was alright.

It was an interesting take on the alternate universe story, and if I recall, it leads directly to the New 52 DC reboot a few years back, which could lead to a series of DC Animated movies with a set of continuity, like a movie version of the DCAU, which would be cool. For the movie itself, it was just alright. This is very much a comic story, and the pacing showed. Batman being a vigilante who despises the world, turning on a dime to Barry's words with no reason to believe him, Cyborg being the Presidential boy scout who breaks into a secret governmental bunker without second thought, and etc etc. It was just jarring, to say the least. That aside, it was otherwise pretty good.

The character designs were kind of bland. It honestly felt there were 3 designs in the movie total: Male, child, female, and Flashpoint Superman. Every man is a barrel chested titan, every woman a busty model. Additionally, some of the CG moments in the movie felt a little off. It's not bad, but it felt like the CG work was done using CG technology from 2008, with stiff and awkward models and movement.

However, most jarring is the gore. You see blood and broken limbs in the DC animated movies all the time, but you can't just step things up into decapitation without warning a brother. It's not extreme levels of gore (You're not going to see Elfen Lied levels of it), but it does seem like they got away with a lot more than previous movies.

So, in all: Decent story, 2 character designs, buckets of blood.

I guess... RWBY would be a more suited place to talk about in this thread even though, Monty views it as a Anime.

Anyways you guys should go check it out, or at least the trailers that's been out the past couple of months. 1st episode already aired last week.

Flashpoint-the reason its more gorey than before is because the ratings changed. Thanks to Spielberg. Long story short, when my fiance directed Wonder Woman, she had to remove A LOT of the action (and they weren't even gorey)...because it orignally got an R-rating. Sadly, unless you worked on it, no one else will ever get to see it (it was beatifully animated)...the finished animation is locked away, deep in Burbank WB archives.

Flash forward a few years, when we did Batman Year One, it got a PG rating...same with Justice League: Doom, and a bunch of the other DC DTVs. Same thing happened to flashpoint.Initial release was PG...but WB Home videos wanted a seperate rating from the TV shows and DVD releases...hence we upped the violence...thanks, Spielberg :/

AS for Flashpoints character designs...they were done by the same guy behind YJ..also it was animated by Studo 4ºC.

Sorry...you're gonna have to wait till September. Not our choice..we have quite a few episodes already in the can. As for story line, it'll be stronger this time, since now we have a set number of episodes. When Book 1 of Korra was made, the creators had no clue as to how many episodes they will get. AND there were no intentions of doing any additional seasons.

Book 1 did well, so Nick gave us the greenlight to do 3 more seasons.

Shame about what happened with the Wonder Woman movie...

And Spielberg is to blame? Huh. I find that surprisingly hilarious. :lol
I think the violence does fit the grittier and more chaotic story, but I do hope future DC movies (Like the upcoming JL: War, or whatever it's called) tones it back a bit. Sometimes it was just a little much.

And I'm still not a fan of the design direction in Flashpoint.

I thought the worst was the Death of Superman inspired movie, my God the gore in that was as ridiculous as it was gratuitous and it just looked so rubbish and stupid.

Then again weird choices seem to permeate DC's animated movie stuff, like the Superman VS The Elite movie where the story was made entirely for adults with animation seemingly marketed exclusively at four year olds.

The best DC Animated movie to me is still Under the Red Hood, I haven't found a movie that was quite as good as that yet.