Cartoon Nostalgia Thread

[Ghengis_John]

I've been rewatching random episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. I hate to say it, but it really isn't as good as I remember. Some episodes are a lot better than others. Poison Ivy is the most boring Batman villain and episodes with robin tend to suck too.

Might watch a few episodes of Batman Beyond too. Futuristic dystopias appeal to me for some reason. I remember the Mr. Freeze episode being really sick.

I loved the old animated series. But I like film noir and fancied poison Ivy so take from that what you will.

 

[Lasercakes]

I mean it's still really good, but some episodes just weaker than I expected them to be. I'm not familiar with any incarnations of Poison Ivy other than the one from the animated series, but it's not even that she's just a boring character with boring motives. Whenever I see Batman poisoned by some means, I make my not this shit again face. Every villain is pretty much guilty of this, but with Poison Ivy that shit is guaranteed to happen in an episode. It's that and constricting vines.

She does some pretty metal stuff sometimes like turn people into plants in "Eternal Youth" or make plants into people in "Chemistry", but as a character I haven't spotted anything going for her.

 

[Ghengis_John]

She does some pretty metal stuff sometimes like turn people into plants in "Eternal Youth" or make plants into people in "Chemistry", but as a character I haven't spotted anything going for her.

Well the thing that I think that's interesting about poison Ivy is, she's a character who's motivated by how can I put this? Not entirely evil motivations? Yes she's screwed up, yes her logic is all whacked out by our standards but it's compassion that makes her do crazy things. She's like those crazy peta people who will argue with you that a dog and a human are the same, man. And that saving one over the other just because one is human and the other is a dog like makes no sense, man. And that's totally specist, man. And try as you might you can not get the lunk head to accept that their argument is stupid. But their hearts are so big and their brains so scrambled that they place the value of something else over their fellow man. Regardless of whether they'ed want to be saved over a dog themselves.

 

[Ghengis_John]

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You sir, just ko'd the thread. Rare was the 80's kid who went without these staples.

Points if you recognize this show, it was one of my absolute favorites as a kid, me and my brother had all the toys. (I got the bad guys, naturally. I always got the bad guys for some reason. Perhaps my parents knew from an early age the job for me was super villain.)

So yeah the toys stood 6-8 inches tall. I don't remember how tall but they were taller than GI JOE's. They were pretty durably built too, I'd bury them in mud and stuff and they'ed be fine with it afterwards. I saw a bunch of episodes of this show about a year ago on the internet, surprisingly well written for a kid's show. But they cancelled it after 16 episodes. the production values were too high :(.

 

[FleshMasher]

@ Ghengis John: Thank you so much!
I watched that like 20 years ago i didn't know the name anymore, it was lost to me. To the point i wasn't even sure anymore if the series even existed.
Thank you!