Besides the characters and good story (not BTAS level of quality but still good), one thing I really like about this show is how it adress Gotham's corruption. Previous cartoons (including BTAS) never portray Gotham as this place controlled by corruption like in the comics. Yes we had mobster like Rupert Thorne and corrupt CEOs like Rolland Dagget. but politicians and cops were either average or just incompetent, not malicious. Caped Crusader, on other hand, shows how corrupt Gotham system truly is not only through villains like Catwoman and Gentleman Ghost (both are rich who abuse their position and privilege) but also through characters like Bulllock and Flass (who became the villains in the final episode). This really helps to connect the viewers with Batman and his allies struggle and justifies why Gotham needs a vigilante.
You make a very good point! That's also an example of one of the 'new' things in the series that's a change from both BTAS and the golden age iteration of Batman. Back in the 40's and 50's it was practically seen as sacriledge to portray police officers as anything less than the ideal. It definitely boosts the necessity of the Dark Knight if even the GCPD can, on the whole, be considered one of the contributing factors to the city's corruption.
@@crwhitwick That's true. As showed in many Batman stories, It's not just the rogues that make Gotham an awful place. It's the corrupt people and institutions who opress the people and make their lifes miserable. Yes we did got some of this in BTAS, with some rich CEOs being corrupt and responsible for the origin of some rogues, like Mr. Freeze and Clayface, but it's not the same thing as have people in higher position of power (like politicians and cops) being corrupt. The Batman 2004 also tried to have Batman having conflicts with the police but they were never show to be evil, only misguided and lead by Chief Rojas, who was more a unlikable arrogant cop who couldn't accept that Batman did a better job than the GCPD. The closes we ever got to see Gotham's corruption in a Batman cartoon was in the 2004 The Batman, with the first two seasons having Batman being hunt down by the cops, but they were never portrayed as evil. They were just cops doing their jobs and following the orders of Chief Rojas, who was treat more like a cop version 'J Jonah Jameson" than a straight up villain.
Honestly, I like this show. I like that the writers are experimenting with new ideas like gender flipping Penguin and making Harley Quin more serious. It appears to be the style nowadays. What I like most about this show is that it has types of villains that you can find in real life. Sure, in The Animated Series we had Rupert Thorne and Rolland Dagget, but the main villains there were the costumed ones. I had to rewatch the show to remember who Thorne and Dagget were. In Caped Crusader, the costumed rogues are more of a distraction. The real villains are the corrupt politicians, the mobsters and the crooked law men. I think that was shown better in the fourth episode. In that episode Flass and Bullock are the real bad guys. Firebug is just a sick man who clearly needs help. It brings back that question from Batman 2004: "When is a villain not the villain?". Gotham in this shows looks like a city that needs the Dark Knight.
I think Batman: The Animated Series is the superior adaptation I have mixed feelings about Caped Crusader. It's not bad but it's not good either it's just meh.
"It belongs in a Museum ! So do you !" sentences pronounced by the character Indiana Jones in the third movie of the franchise "The Last Crusade" directed by Steven Spielberg (1989) and starring the young River Phoenix (the brother of Joaquin Phoenix) who died of an overdose a few years later in the Nightclub owned by Johnny Depp. also starring Sean Connery (known for James Bond, Zardoz, the man who would be king , In the name of the Rose, Highlander,The Hunt for Red October, First Knight, The Rock, Entrapment, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ) Now The real "Crusaders" were Knights of the Christian Latin church in the medieval period send to "The Holy Land" in the period between 1095 and 1295 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem from Muslim rule. you can see a movie about it called "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) directed by Ridley Scott and starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons Peace Next
I may have had some recency bias when I said it was a B+ show, probably closer to a C+ with room for improvement. I wouldn't agree that it sucked, necessarily, but I can absolutely see why some folks would lose interest somewhere in the middle.
@@crwhitwick interestingly i skipped batman beyond becoz i didn't like the concept of batman getting old and someone else taking over but i recently started watching it and i love every episode of it. I wish i had watched it sooner, it's story telling, animation and dialogues are top notch. I saw the difference right away..
@@zachsummers2872 i was really waiting for this show.. it being cancelled and shelved i felt really bad. Poster looked cool n i was hyped abt it. This doesn't feel like a bruce tim show tbh. Even Kevin Conroy would have looked at it n said that's not batman series. R.i.p Kevin conroy. The animation was choppy, batman felt like a side character in his own series, characters look fat for no reason even bruce, unnecessary change of race n gender.. i wouldn't hv minded these even if the story telling was good but.. disappointed.
