The actual show doesn't match the intro's atmosphere. :/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS1s3T-rnFU&ab_channel=NightowlStudio
>>150197924It did though
>>150197924Taste issue
>>150197924Probably because the network execs at the time wanted the show to be lighter and dumber.
>>150197924Not sure what you were expecting. The Maxx for kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkapTMxf_0Okay but why does the ending theme go so hard?
>>150197924It does tho
>>150198862Apparently this was the original intro theme the guitar on this is fucking nasty
why are batman beyond comics never successful?
>>150198955Comic Writers are spiteful that a cartoon only character was able to successfully become Batman after many failed attempts at pushing for legacy characters of their own. The spite was so much that did you know the Batman Beyond Arkham game wouldnt even feature Terry yet take on the same ideas of Beyond but with Damien
>>150197924It can, but it's definitely lighter on the cyberpunk dystopia stuff than you might expectAt the end of the day it's still a kids showIt's a shame that Spellbinder, despite being one of the first things you see in that sequence, is really underutilised in the actual show, and Dana, despite her prominence and cuteness, is just kinda meh as a characterWould be nice if the comics/continuations were written by people who care, but alas
>>150199003These people are spawn of Damn Dildo
>>150199407I mean, it's actually pretty dark, including the cyberpunk dystopian stuff. It doesn't go hard into the body horror/AI doom stuff of Cyberpunk, the Sprawl trilogy, and Shadowrun, sure, but those elements have always been more fantasy than sci-fi. The human body just can't take that kind of heavy chopping and grafting; the most realistic I've seen is Minority Report, where dude gets just an eye transplant and is on bed rest for days, even with future pain/recovery meds, and ends up fucking himself up permanently by breaking protocol. And the most realistic AI thing is probably Person of Interest, where the super intelligent AI escapes but is, you know, smart enough to understand human dynamics as well as its limitations in the physical world.So much cyberpunk was conceived by the same group of dudes who thought Doom was sick and it shows.
>>150199003>Harley is allowed to get anything and everything>Terry doesn't get anythingthis shit is ass
>>150199003I am so GLAD that game was canceled it legit was just batman beyond but with no Terry
>>150200000horey shit, I got quints!
>>150197924yeahnahur a cunt
>>150200000Not that I want to argue against digits like that but>It doesn't go hard into the body horror/AI doom stuffI feel like Beyond does a pretty good job with this, at least half of the villains have some level of body horror going on, but AI stuff is pretty limited (really only Vance, though Spellbinder has hints of it)The trouble is it's not that dissimilar to how the world was in BTAS and STAS, people aren't really being crushed under the suffocating weight of megacorps or the government because Wayne-Powers isn't much worse than LexCorp, and a lot of the terrible things that can happen to people in cyberpunkland could just as easily happen during the height of Bruce's careerI understand that we've got the benefit of experiencing an endless stream of cyberpunk and dystopia since Beyond (fictional and otherwise) but really, Neo Gotham's living standards are pretty good and the 'evils' of technology don't really survive past the episode a problem gets introduced inIf Beyond were more serialised or they just fleshed out the setting more I think it'd get real dark real easily, but as it stands, it's definitely on the cheerier side of the genre's spectrum (still not very cheery, but a lot less grim than others)At the very least my rule of thumb is that if the setting has a functioning, natural ecosystem, it can't be that grim
>>150199003Batman in Bethlehem>Batman Beyond. Only secondaries think otherwise.
