[Locke]

So I FINALLY got around to watching the first episode of Beware The Batman. And if I had one word to sum it up, it'd be: inconsistent.

Like take the actual content, it struck that weird balance that EMH did where at times it'd feel heavily censored and others not at all, sometimes in the same scene. Beware The Batman is allowed to use the d word, no people getting destroyed here, and people are allowed to get hurt and pop their dislocated shoulders back in place...on screen. But for a gun to work like a gun, it has to look like a Power Rangers blaster. It was really annoying because it made the tone of the episode feel all over the map.

Or take the visuals, some moments were absolutely gorgeous and there is a sense of detail to the animation in Beware that I don't think we've really seen before but the actual character designs are in my opinion, awful. Everyone looks like a daddy longlegs, with horrible gangly limbs with tiny torsos and heads. Plus I especially hated the unnecessary over cartoonifying like Alfred's ginormous chin or Bruce's botox lips.

Having such gangly limbs also made all the movement look really awkward and unnatural, and for a character like Batman, that is supposed to move with fluidity, it was really disappointing that he looked a bit like a spider when I turn the tap on at times.

Then there are the characters, I actually kinda like the new Alfred but...he isn't Alfred, I don't understand why they even kept the name. They've made entirely new villains for the show, so why not just make Bruce a new butler? I mean I know you have but you've still called him Alfred...

I LOVED the new villains, they obviously couldn't be quite as twisted as the writers wanted them to be given the limitations of children's animation but what we did have was really awesome.

I loved Brave and The Bold, but I'm really glad we're back to a nice dark Batman series. Batman is one of few heroes who can do the grimdark crap, make the most of it!