I feel like STAS is kinda weak and everyone is hy to admit that because it just is perfectly "Not that bad"It's so fucking boring
>>154652713And?
>>154652744Please respond with this to every new thread on the board from now on
It had some good and some bland. But i never found it terrible. It also gave us kryptonian ai brainaic which I've always liked better than green guy with shit on his head.
>>154652792Shittaste.
>>154652713Its fucking great.
It's solidly written and I think the character writing feels more robust on a whole than BTAS, but it also just feels more bland and less stylish. I kinda resent it being the template for the rest of the DCAU because it looks like such a downgrade from BTAS. I don't think JL/U had to be noir style like BTAS, but the angular style and flat colors just don't excite me. Beyond is the only one that I think works
>>154652792I used to but the older I get the more attached I am to VrilIf I owned DC what I'd do is have it be Vril for a while until there's a big Justice League versus Brainiac story where he dies and "Brainiac 2" who's the unthinking computer replaces him in the mission of pursuing knowledgeAt some point we'd come up with a way to do "Brainiac 3" in a war of the Brainiacs story and yada yada for Brainiac 5 in Legion
>>154652713It's the natural consequence of when you write a show where your main character is the most boring iteration of Superman possible. They forgot to give Clark a personality
>>154652956It seems like he barely enjoys being Superman. Or Clark. Guy is just emotionally constipated beyond belief, and I feel like even that's been done in more fun ways
He needed a more regular confidant like Alfred. The side characters needed more focus too. They were bringing back some of the old silver age cliches and not one wacky Jimmy Olsen adventure.
>>154653003It felt like the popular trope of "We need to modernize Superman!" and by modernize they just mean dull everything down until it feels like any other generic action storyNone of picrel would happen in STAS it would be too weirdAlso why is the show so fucking brown
>>154653032I'll also add in that I'm not asking the impossible and that I think Powerpuff girls would be a good comp for the tone I'd want from a Superman show
Kids WB was absolutely smart for combining Batman and Superman into one show (The Batman/Superman Adventures) because otherwise I would have never watched Superman. I remember watching it in the mornings before school and always being disappointed when it was a Superman episode. Gradually, the show grew on me though. I still would have preferred to watch Batman though.I do remember that I somehow ended up seeing only the first half of the finale of Superman and being disappointed that I never saw how it concluded. Brainwashed Superman invading Earth. The episode ends with the military shooting Supergirl with a kryponite missile. Kids have it easy nowadays with media accessibility. If you missed something back in the day, there was no guarantee you'd see it again. I didn't see the second half of the finale until years later when the show was released on DVD.
>>154653032This is terminally uncool. This would've sunk hard with kids in the 90s.
>>154652802Defend your take
>>154652713>because it just is perfectly "Not that bad"Please work on your sentence structure.
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what's a good show to you
>>154652713It's very good but not as good as BTAS. I'd say the show's main contribution was that it laid the groundwork for JL and JLU and all future Bruce Timm projects. That's something BTAS would never be able to do on its own. I wish that before JL we would've gotten some TAS-versions of Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and so on before introducing JL
>>154655296>TAS-versions of FlashI mean, we kinda did.
>>154654580Yes, because STAS was such a big hit with the kids that they had to bring back BTAS and give them a shared programming block.
>>154654728He will never elaborate. Dude is a bot.
>>154657109You are the bot
>>154655314That was clearly Barry in STAS when Flash in Justice League/JLU was Wally.
>>154652713I've been chipping away at it recently. It has a couple great moments, the rest is just saturday morning cartoon stuff. Clark is bland so that detracts from it a fair bit. The regular villain stuff leads back to Luthor and Darkseid a lot because it's the easiest way for some powerless muggles to have a chance to stop Superman. How much of Supe's rogues gallery could they use and still keep it in metropolis? I legitimately don't know, mostly preferred Marvel when I was younger.
>>154652713Superman has a stick up his ass the entire series. The only time he's playful is when he "confesses" to Lois that he's Superman. The fact that he's also humiliated by Batman in his own show should tell you exactly how Timm and company viewed Supes.
>>154657142>Eyes lenses>"clearly barry!" Fucking zoomers
>>154657192>The regular villain stuff leads back to LuthorIt seems to be a common way to streamline supervillains. Spectacular Spider-Man made a majority of the villains related to Osborn in some way.
>>154657291It is made for kids. They aren't watching it all that regularly back when it was on cable and they aren't that smart so repetition is good for them
>>154652713It has less bad episodes than BTAS You're also not a real person and haven't been responding to anyone faggot.
>>154652792I do like the robot design more. I liked the episode were they first meet, Superman defeating him meant destroying what was left of his home planet, it created a good sacrifice for the hero.
>>154657573This is true. Lower highs, higher lows.
>>154652713I really liked it as a kid, even more so then B:tAS, surprisingly. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I rewatched the entire thing when I was somewhere between 15-18 and felt it held up really well.
>>154653003True. He really needed to be bouncing back to the farm more or at the very least talking to Jimmy as a type of confidant whether he knew his secret identity or not
>>154652713I got into comics around the same time and was surprised how much I preferred Superman comics over STAS
The Lex Luthor episodes of Justice League written by Dwayne McDuffie was the DCAU at its best.
It has it's moments, the finale is excellent
>>154652713I just like how strong the animation is. TMS insisted on being able to direct any episode they were contracted for and they looked beautiful.
>>154655314There's a moment quite early on in Justice League where they reuse a shot from this episode showing Flash on an approach to land a punch and it threw me off so bad. That cel animation was so much better than JL's early digital stuff.
>>154652792The thing DCAU Brainiac does REALLY well is fix the plothole of Krypton's destruction. Because it IS a plothole past a certain point: how could a race as technologically advanced as the Kryptonians simply not know their planet was about to explode beneath them? You either need to nuke their technological advancement, which nobody wants because it's too integral to Superman's mythos, or make them absolute morons.OR, you do what the DCAU did: have it so that they shunted all their important monitoring off to an AI, and the AI started to lie to them. It's a tidy little way of fixing the problem. Also rather relevant these days, isn't it?
