The DC Animated Universe: From Batman to Beyond:

I remember Batman: The Animated Series for a lot of reasons—characters, ideas and plot—but what I truly remember about it, came from the visuals. Animation (in my book) is everything that defines any series and BTAS didn’t disappoint with its art deco style, looming buildings of impossible architecture glory and subtle beauty seeping out of every frame on-screen. Course, I didn’t consider any of that when I was five, but time has given me the ability to look back on the glory to come forth in the 90’s.

Going across the realm of time brought a lot to Bruce Timm’s DC Animated Universe with Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, but they lacked a certain essence that BTAS had. It wasn’t the writing, characters or plot that were lacking—nothing of the kind—but the animation lacked a certain punch of uniqueness to have evolved from the amercing visual that BTAS had given.  I won’t complain about the quality of animation to be presented afterward, because I can’t complain, the animation quality was always fantastic with successive show to add onto mythological of the series. But, if you watch an episode of Justice League and then an episode of BTAS, you’ll see the difference come to light.

I watched some Justice League and then some BTAS to see the difference, and I really could see the difference—the presentation comes across as BTAS had this dramatic way of presenting everything happening on-screen, but watching Justice League I felt less involved with every single action. JL lacked a certain nuance in its animation that could let it be BTAS, because I tried envisioning a scene from BTAS done in JL style, but I couldn’t see it happening.

Maybe it’s a sign of me getting older to be devoid of acceptance of the changes to come about since my younger days? But I’m allowed to miss those cartoons of the 90’s.

Thought of the Day: October 3rd:

Enjoyed my day, enjoyed a lot of little things about how I spend my days—from the simple pleasure of waking up to the nice oddity of how time can feel inconsistent. My days aren’t all that bad.