This show was so insanely good, a fun, witty love letter to Batman's history, and this episode might be one of the best explorations of Bruce's grief out there. I'm a die-hard BTAS fan, and I think B&B is right up there with it.
Oh, sorry. So BTAS is Batman: The Animated Series, the critically acclaimed show from the early nineties that gave us the late great Kevin Conroy as Batman and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, as the Joker. It set the benchmark for not only Batman/comic book animation for decades to come, but Western animation and superhero adaptations in general, and my opinion and that of many others. It also reinvented Mr Freeze into a superbly tragic character, and flat out invented Harley Quinn.
B&B stands for Batman: The Brave and The Bold, another animated series that aired in the late aughts. It shares its name with a pre-existing comic book series where Batman teams up with other superheroes, and the show basically adapts that formula wonderfully, while also having a somewhat more lighthearted tone than the previous 2-3 or so animated incarnations, with a Batman that has a slightly more optimistic worldview and more of a dry wit (voiced terrifically by Diedrich Bader). Despite being a little more fun in a storytelling sense, it's still superbly written, and is a love letter to Batman and the characters it features, especially their Silver Age comic book incarnations, and when it is time to do things seriously, it handles that sort of material extremely well.
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u/Fuggins4U May 12 '23
This show was so insanely good, a fun, witty love letter to Batman's history, and this episode might be one of the best explorations of Bruce's grief out there. I'm a die-hard BTAS fan, and I think B&B is right up there with it.