And so we come to the end of the first ever Week of Review
and the final time Batman was on TV prior to Gotham. If you’re
interested in my thoughts on Gotham I
already reviewed the entire first season and will be reviewing the premiere as
well all for Front Towards Gamer so just follow the link right here. For now, however, we’ll be focusing on
the shockingly short-lived CGI Batman show from 2013 Beware the Batman. In
2013 Batman: The Brave and the Bold
had been off the air for about 2 years after the disastrous year of 2011. While 2008 had redefined the superhero
landscape 2011 showed that this wasn’t going to be a static game as DC saw its
dominate market share slip with the awful Green
Lantern and realized that there was legitimate competition thanks to smash
hits like Thor and X-Men: First Class.
More than anything, 2011 was the year that sent DC/WB
scurrying back to the safety of the Batman umbrella and confirmed to them the
importance of sticking with dark, brooding, quasi-realistic heroes. By 2013, they’d more or less expended
that particular capital in films with Dark
Knight Rises concluding the Nolan Batman trilogy the year before so the
decision was to pull the lighter and more accessible Green Lantern: The Animated Series and replace it with a dark,
brooding new Batman show; Beware the
Batman.
