DC Series that are hard to rewatch

[CyberCubed]

Batman Beyond was a fantastic series whose only faults were too many episodic monster of the week episodes. I don't see what's not to enjoy about it since the actual writing was fantastic and on par with the other DCAU shows.

 

[Lighthammer]

Being that I'm in the minority and not being a big fan of earlier Batman TAS episodes, I totally understand Silverstar's view and just not being a fan of it. He's obviously given a shot and it just doesn't appeal to him. Not much else to be said.

 

[Silverstar]

@ CyberCubed:

Question: why is it so important to you that everyone enjoys Batman Beyond the way that you obviously do? You like BB? Great. It's just not my thing. As they used to say in the old Sara Lee commercials, everybody doesn't like something.

The thread asks everyone to name DC shows which aren't their personal fancy, and that's what we're doing. That's what generates interesting discussion. If everyone felt the same way about everything, then life would be boring and there'd be no need for threads like this. Just accept that not everyone's a fan of what you're a fan of, continue to like what you like and be done. No harm no foul.

 

[Gold Starz]

I really can't watch Young Justice Season 1 knowing that Young Justice Invasion follows it up, it just ruins everything for me, to be honest. I think that's really the only one, though.

 

[firefoxprime]

Yooooo....I just rewatched Young Justice S1 on Netflix. First time for me since first broadcast on CN(breaks n'all). It was a great rush, but man oh man MOI animation and LOTTO animation? Those dudes spoiled me rotten. I was browsin through some fav eps of Generator Rex, and the animation felt so choopy compared to the fluid work of MOI/LOTTO.

What's crazy is that I watched GenRex during its whole airing on CN, and enjoyed it fluid(at the time) animation compared to Ben10:AF/UA. -sighs- its a rough life.

Batman Beyond was a fantastic series whose only faults were too many episodic monster of the week episodes. I don't see what's not to enjoy about it since the actual writing was fantastic and on par with the other DCAU shows.

He can't embrace da "future". woosh woosh wahzam

Yeah, its a awesome show. Yet we can't gasp in awe when someone doesn't feel the same. Well. We "can", but respectfully I guess. Generational gap may be factor. Old men, old shows, young men newer shows, criss cross etc. *shrugs* it happens.


Double post please correct moderators please....

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[I_Spyral]

Season 2 of Young Justice wasn't watchable for me period. Love the first season, but by the next one the whole thing about villains caching "Yeah that was ALLL part of the plan" just got old fast. And the pacing was never anywhere as good as JL/JLU.

Set-up wise, YJ was basically perfect, it was the cartoon I was basically waiting to see my whole life. So I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't by the end.

 

[Silverstar]

@firefoxprime:

I know you're only joking around (at least I hope you are), but my lack of interest on Batman Beyond has nothing to do with my age or a resistance to futuristic settings. I'm fine with shows set in the future when they're done well and I'm into them (I enjoyed Futurama until it overstayed its' welcome and one of my favorite movies of all time is Disney's Meet the Robinsons--a highly underrated movie IMO), I just couldn't get invested in Terry or any of those characters. As previously stated, the only episode of BB I really like was "The Call", where we got to see future Superman and other cool characters like Warhawk, Aquagirl, Green Lantern Kai-Ro and Big Barda (who was just a last replacement for Wonder Woman, who the producers couldn't get for various reasons); if we could've gotten a show based around Supes and the future Justice League, I'd have watched the heck out of that.

 

[ABrown]

Young Justice lost me after the time-skip. Way too many characters, plots and twists for me to try to keep track of. Plus, I just plain don't like time-skips.

Season 2 of Young Justice wasn't watchable for me period. Love the first season, but by the next one the whole thing about villains caching "Yeah that was ALLL part of the plan" just got old fast. And the pacing was never anywhere as good as JL/JLU.
Set-up wise, YJ was basically perfect, it was the cartoon I was basically waiting to see my whole life. So I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't by the end.

THANK YOU. People around here treat Young Justice like its the greatest animated series in cartoon history. I've been beginning to wonder if I was watching a completely different show. The first season of Young Justice was ok, but I just couldn't follow the second season.

 

[hobbyfan]

If there's anything I can't go back and re-watch, I'd say it'd be Batman Beyond. It was DC's answer, IMPO, to Marvel's alternate-future reality books of the mid-90's, and I just couldn't completely invest in it. Return of the Joker wasn't as great as people thought it was, IMPO, though there are a few episodes I wouldn't mind watching ​for the first time​.

Of course, I'm dying to get my hands on some Super Friends DVD's, but Walmart always seems to run out before I have a chance......

 

[firefoxprime]

@firefoxprime:

I know you're only joking around (at least I hope you are), but my lack of interest on Batman Beyond has nothing to do with my age or a resistance to futuristic settings. I'm fine with shows set in the future when they're done well and I'm into them (I enjoyed Futurama until it overstayed its' welcome and one of my favorite movies of all time is Disney's Meet the Robinsons--a highly underrated movie IMO), I just couldn't get invested in Terry or any of those characters. As previously stated, the only episode of BB I really like was "The Call", where we got to see future Superman and other cool characters like Warhawk, Aquagirl, Green Lantern Kai-Ro and Big Barda (who was just a last replacement for Wonder Woman, who the producers couldn't get for various reasons); if we could've gotten a show based around Supes and the future Justice League, I'd have watched the heck out of that.

Now that I think about it....I never really liked TMNT Fast Foward....hmmm.

Edit: Joking? Yes and no. I've seen older dudes who like newer shows and younger guys that like older, vice versa.

 

[the greenman]

If there's anything I can't go back and re-watch, I'd say it'd be Batman Beyond. It was DC's answer, IMPO, to Marvel's alternate-future reality books of the mid-90's, and I just couldn't completely invest in it. Return of the Joker wasn't as great as people thought it was, IMPO, though there are a few episodes I wouldn't mind watching ​for the first time​.

Thank you for reminding me of that line. Yeah, I bought those books and the artwork was awful and the stories were barely there. Yes, now that I think on it, this show probably was a reaction to MARVEL Comics doing that line. Not to mention they did have an equally bad animated series in Spider-man Unlimited. Ugggghh. That was yet another nail in the coffin for me in this series by comparison.

 

[CyberCubed]

For Young Justice, I thought Season 1 was amazing, but Season 2 did feel like a little bit of step down.

Basing the entire season on The Reach storyline was kinda pointless...couldn't that entire story be covered in a 5 episode arc at most? They introduced tons of new sidekicks yet only Blue Beetle and to a lesser extent Impulse get any notable screentime.

It was also obvious Tim Drake and Batgirl were only thrown in there for fanservice, since they had no real characterisation in that show and felt like they were, "just there."

 

[BigFatHairyDeal]

Heh, reminds me when the rebranding of Justice League was announced, and all I could wonder was why they thought "Unlimited" would be a good add-on. Then I remembered that in "The Call," they used the term "Justice League Unlimited" and all I really could wonder was if DC was ripping off Marvel here.

I was pretty ambivalent on Batman Beyond. I thought things were cool because they were different, but I also found some of the stuff uncomfortably weird because... they were different.

I don't have great interest in rewatching season 2 of Young Justice. I thought it was pretty cool as I watched it, but as I like to joke, it was just too much Beetlemania. Also, a big strength of the second season was the suspense factor, and without the suspense the second time around it's a lot less interesting. The first season was a lot of fun, but the second season isn't as good to watch again after the first few episodes.

 

[Dusty]

Love Batman Beyond, I can re-watch that show many times, the main shows I have a harder time with are JLS2, JLU, STAS, and BTAS (not TNBA)
I know I always talk about my dislike for JLS2/JLU, and while JLS1 wasn't perfect, it still is awesome because despite a few cliche lines or slightly weaker heroes, it wasn't a animated soap opera like I feel JLS2 and JLU were many times. The relationship junk got to be too much for me, plus some episodes had characters acting ridiculous. In JL S1 it felt like a silver age JLA show; an updated super friends with more action. As for BTAS, I still think it is boss, but the animation bugs me a bit nowadays. STAS is fun... except one of my biggest complaints was Clark not even trying to act or behave different than his alter ego. So yeah I can still re-watch these shows, but they aren't as fun as BB, JLS1, SS, and the others I mentions before.
To each their own.



D.

 

[ShadowStar]

Hard to re-watch, hmm... I don't think my opinion of any of the DC shows has dramatically changed for the worse when I've left them for a while and then come back to them. I suppose JL season 1 seemed more mediocre when I was watching it on DVD than it did when it first aired in the UK... Also, I have to admit that a couple of early B:TAS episodes ("Christmas With the Joker" being one of them) were a bit tough to watch when I got the DVDs and made me wonder if I'd made a serious tactical error in buying the three DVD volumes. But then of course I checked out more and more episodes and was soon very happy with the purchases.

I have to admit that I don't really the feel the urge to re-watch YJ. I know I will sometime, having got the DVDs and watched them all last year, but shows that are highly serialised tend to lack the 'safe' structure of a clear beginning, middle and end (a structure which standalone episodes and multi-parters have). It makes the prospect of going back, post-series, to say the middle of the first season or a few episodes into the second season a bit uninteresting because when you watch those episodes you know you're not getting a full story - just a part of bigger tapestry which began before that episode and finished (or was meant to finish) much later on. Whereas you can jump on board B:TAS or Batman Beyond at pretty much any time and the aforementioned problem isn't in evidence.

I also found many episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold a bit tough to re-watch (never mind the ones that just bored me on the first viewing). The charm the episodes had when they debuted was the cast of characters and/or setting unique to that episode. Take away the 'surprise factor' of what's coming next, where you've now seen all the episodes and you know who all the guest stars were, and the fun has gone out of it. While there were a handful of excellent episodes, the show was really just style over substance and the possibilities for future team-ups were what mainly fuelled my interest in the show.

The Batman also falls into the 'no plans to re-watch' category.

Teen Titans season 1 was and no doubt still is tough to watch. It was easily the worst season of the show IMO, with only "Nevermore" and "Apprentice part 2" standing out. The other episodes were either just plain bad or cliched, and cliched plots are only redeemed when you have a lot of fun with them - as "Car Trouble" did, to an extent, admittedly. Seasons 2-5 were much better and far less boring.

Some shows get more tolerable with time though. When S:TAS aired in the UK, they only showed the first season and I was bored by nearly every episode (except "Stolen Memories", which I only seemed to catch glimpses of whenever it was on). I took a gamble with the DVDs, but it was a gamble that payed off and I enjoyed many of the episodes, including first season episodes like "Fun and Games", "Feeding Time" and "My Girl".

 

[Jared Magie]

Justice league, JL unlimited , teen titans, batman beyond, batmanTAS a bit less, supermanTAS, are all great and i have enjoyed them many times... batman the brave and the bold is hard to watch but ok. and teen titans go is offensive and i hope it gets cancelled. young justice was great however i'm 25 i dont buy action figures anymore but toy sales is a crazy reason for a show to get cancelled thats what ads are for... loved the show but i really hope the ratings were way better for young justice than they are for teen titans go. I HATE TTG i hope there is a decent DC animated show soon because i need my dc fix i'm just to poor to subscribe to comics but i dig the shows and study the "lore" of DC endlessly.

 

[Christopher Glennon]

I'm kind of sad people are lumping The Batman into one big "Can't Rewatch". I agree about early episodes, but I greatly enjoyed season 4 and can re-watch that. Oddly enough, as much as I love BTAS and think it's the superior show, I think TNBA is the most re-watchable Batman show there is for me. There are some episodes of BTAS I don't need to rewatch, even if it has been years and years.

Young Justice: I love this series but the crappy way it was treated and the fact that we will never get a continuation or least some type of closure in some form just kills any interest in re watching it.

Not necessarily. Last I heard (and, admittedly, this was a while ago), the company that made the Young Justice video game still has the license and can make more games if they are profitable. Greg Weisman has at least considered the possibility of continuing some of his plot ideas in game format.

Basing the entire season on The Reach storyline was kinda pointless...couldn't that entire story be covered in a 5 episode arc at most? They introduced tons of new sidekicks yet only Blue Beetle and to a lesser extent Impulse get any notable screentime.

It was also obvious Tim Drake and Batgirl were only thrown in there for fanservice, since they had no real characterisation in that show and felt like they were, "just there."

I wouldn't say they were there for "fanservice" so much as they were there so they wouldn't seem to pop up out of nowhere later when they get their own plots. Doing a five year timeskip and making Dick into Nightwing means there are gaps, and rather than awkwardly have the team not get any new members in that time, they show they have expanded and gone on adventures. Dick got a new identity, Jason became Robin, Jason died, and Tim became Robin. Just like in the comics (err...the Post-Crisis pre-Flashpoint comics anyway).

Having said that, though, I do feel that season 2 isn't as rewatchable as season 1 (and that, of the two overlapping shows, Batman: The Brave and the Bold has more rewatchability than Young Justice simply because it's self contained). Because there were so many characters and stories going on, it felt like the show was telling us some of the plots were none of our business (Rocket's wedding, anyone?).

 

[the greenman]

Ya know, a good sequel to this thread would be which ones are worth binge-watching?

 

[Dusty]

I'm kind of sad people are lumping The Batman into one big "Can't Rewatch". I agree about early episodes, but I greatly enjoyed season 4 and can re-watch that.

I should have listed The Batman on my list of "shows that never get old." I thoroughly enjoyed that show especially seasons 1-2. Plenty of action, great designs, fun stories, and amazing animation.





D.

 

[Zentron]

The ones I have a hard time just even watching them for the first time, were Batman: Brave and the Bold and Teen Titans Go, let alone rewatching them, though I do often struggle to rewatch Superman: The Animated Series also, not because of the animation, the most were extremely good, but just the overall stories, they just don't hold my interest all that much.