Yet another Batman cartoon has been released. Prime Video dropped Caped Crusader on August 1st. This first season is 10 episodes long and they dropped the entire season at once. Produced by Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, Daniel Pipskim and Ed Brubaker. This is really the team that you want working on Batman. Prime Video’s Caped Crusader was definitely in the right hands. Caped Crusader’s animation is very similar to the Animated Series style of animation, and the show starts us right in the middle of the action. We also seem to be getting a Batman costume more reminiscent of Detective Comics Batman and I love that. It’s like the only thing that hasn’t been done in Batman animation, ya know since he has 1000 animated series and Wonder Woman doesn’t have any…but I digress. So as someone who has absolutely no interest in Batman let’s watch the newest animated series.
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So far we seem to be doing a new villain every episode which is very original animated series so I don’t mind that. There might be a vague throughline but the new focus every episode goes back to when seasons were much longer and people needed to know what was going on if they randomly caught an episode on tv in the middle of the season. It really makes it easy for new people to enter at any point. Now the concept of that is nice but with streaming the execution is a little irrelevant. The thought, however, is appreciated. The first two episodes did open up storylines that could turn into ongoing storylines so they are giving themselves options. They are also things that don’t NEED to be closed out. So if they just drop them it’s not going to be the end of the world.
The thing that I really love about the first impressions of Prime Video’s Caped Crusader is that it feels very much like a film noir. From the intro, to the way the characters are handled. I think that film noir is also the perfect backdrop for Batman. And I say this as someone entirely uninterested in Batman. I think every character in Gotham City is more interesting than he is, but thus far the show is pretty good and I do hope that there will be a second season.
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