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The Dark Knight made me want to watch Batman: The Animated Series again. I used to watch it just about every day when I was, I don't know, between the ages of nine and... thirteen, maybe. At the time, although I liked it, I didn't really think of it as my favourite show, because in general, I only liked tv when I felt my attention span, for whatever reason, couldn't handle books; and besides, I also liked Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, so my opinions of the time don't mean much.
But in retrospect, as I was discussing with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollsh last night, it was a really good show. One that would definitely beat both Heroes and Lost in a cage match, for example - not just good by Saturday morning cartoon standards (in the normal run of Saturday morning cartoons, the dialogue was somewhere around the level of the dialogue in Attack of the Clones. Or at least, only slightly better, I'd say). I think someone said that it was award-winning, but possibly I was imagining that.
I don't want to illegally obtain it, though. In the last few yearswax_jism and I have more or less adopted a "pay for it if it's worth it" approach to entertainment, and if it's not worth it, I have a fairly large backlog of free things to watch, so. And I'm sure it's definitely worth it.
It had such a huge cast, and such a cool noir look which I noticed but didn't entirely grasp the meaning of at age 10, and it's, you know, Batman, who's nuts and 100% hilarious ("I'm Batman. I don't enjoy anything")(Has anyone invented Batman macros? They should. Maybe they have them at Superman Is A Dick).anglepoiselamp says it was never shown on Finnish tv at all, but unless I'm hallucinating things, I think I've spotted the box sets at Anttila.
On a related note, I went looking for Batman/Jim Gordon slash again, but everyone seems to take it so seriously. I was looking for more the way Batman shows up in Smallville futurefic. You know... a running joke, like "What is this? A social call?" said Jim. "Would you like a cup?" Batman couldn't drink coffee because the nose of the suit tended to get in the way. Fox said that if he needed coffee that badly, he should take a "break", whatever that was, so the feature was currently in... negotiation. He didn't say anything, because you don't talk about noses in the Batman Voice.
But in retrospect, as I was discussing with
hollsh last night, it was a really good show. One that would definitely beat both Heroes and Lost in a cage match, for example - not just good by Saturday morning cartoon standards (in the normal run of Saturday morning cartoons, the dialogue was somewhere around the level of the dialogue in Attack of the Clones. Or at least, only slightly better, I'd say). I think someone said that it was award-winning, but possibly I was imagining that.I don't want to illegally obtain it, though. In the last few years
wax_jism and I have more or less adopted a "pay for it if it's worth it" approach to entertainment, and if it's not worth it, I have a fairly large backlog of free things to watch, so. And I'm sure it's definitely worth it. It had such a huge cast, and such a cool noir look which I noticed but didn't entirely grasp the meaning of at age 10, and it's, you know, Batman, who's nuts and 100% hilarious ("I'm Batman. I don't enjoy anything")(Has anyone invented Batman macros? They should. Maybe they have them at Superman Is A Dick).
anglepoiselamp says it was never shown on Finnish tv at all, but unless I'm hallucinating things, I think I've spotted the box sets at Anttila. On a related note, I went looking for Batman/Jim Gordon slash again, but everyone seems to take it so seriously. I was looking for more the way Batman shows up in Smallville futurefic. You know... a running joke, like "What is this? A social call?" said Jim. "Would you like a cup?" Batman couldn't drink coffee because the nose of the suit tended to get in the way. Fox said that if he needed coffee that badly, he should take a "break", whatever that was, so the feature was currently in... negotiation. He didn't say anything, because you don't talk about noses in the Batman Voice.
