Its interesting, because Penguin has always had this relationship with his mom, where she was the dark council behind the curtain for him. Now it’s almost like the mom and penguin have been made into the same character. She also reminds me of Mama Fratelli from The Goonies.
@@BCrall there was a Batman Beyond villain that was directly inspired by Mama Fratelli too, in 'the egg' episode. A very iconic archetype. I was on the fence with the change at first, admittedly, just because my nostalgia for the Danny Devito inspired versions...but it honestly opens up a lot of fun opportunity to have the mom be The Penguin 🐧
@@crimsonghoul8983no I’d say about a month in. They think Batman is an urban myth but he’s obviously been in the game enough to know goons and operators so.
Fun Fact: Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth first appeared as a big boy, way back in the early 1940's. When a 1940's serial cast a slim actor with a thin moustache, DC ordered the comics to change his design to match the actor. So they had him go to a Heath Spy and he came back skinny with a moustache. Been that way ever since. Given Adam's shirt, I chose to include the full name in honor of another long named, Vengeance driven character. Whose 3rd season is only a few months away. I wonder if we will see him get his Vestige of Divergence this season?
i just loved that we exist in a timeline with Caped Crusader and X-Men 97. we were young, now we're .... still young [iChuckle] and the shows have grown and yet stayed absolutely stellar in the writing and craftsmanship of the shows. massive vibes.
Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series) and James Tucker (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) are showrunners while Matt Peters and Christina Sotta (Justice League: Apokolips War) are directors; I’m ALL in.
@@sombrashadow0013Do you think Reeves wanted to make this show a little bit like his Batman movie since Gordon in the show kind of looks like Jeffrey Wright’s Gordon?
@@Otisboy121Genuinely it’s way too early to predict anything like this but imagine this does well enough they do a Superman show successor and then a JLA or JLU series that could be some next level revival of an iconic set of shows
Its nice that he still uses the “batman voice” when out of the suit and its just him and Alfred and only changes to “bruce wayne” when he wants to fool people
Of all the Batman villains to get gender bent, the Penguin seems like an unlikely choice because female villains are usually sexy, femme fatales. However, this bold choice really works! I’m digging it.
And that each episode was designed for a 30 minute commercial broadcast length. If they'd have doubled the length of each episode, they could have fleshed out all the main characters more. Still enjoyed it though!
You have to think of the Batman voice is his ACTUAL voice and it’s not put-on. When he isn’t around anyone that is how he sounds but in social settings it’s lighter and more charismatic
We will definitely get one more season as it’s already in production. Unfortunately there is a lot of pushback on the shows take with some of the characters. I hope we get more but I doubt it.
I think you could budget the murder wardrobes by rolling it into a money laundering scheme. Step 1: Buy luggage company. Step 2: Use drug money to purchase the luggage for body disposal at a marked up rate. Step 3: Collect now legitimate profits.
I read an interview with Hamish Linklater where he said something to the effect of he was thinking of Kevin Conroy when he was developing the voice and wanting to do Conroy justice, but he wasn't necessarily trying to imitate him. But when Linklater found the voice he wanted to use, it sounded like Conroy and he was very happy about that.
@@AuntieL_ATL Batman Noir: My name is Bruce Wayne. In my universe, it’s 1939, and I’m a hard boiled vigilant-ing private eye. I like to drink black coffee and I like to fight mobsters and villains. A lot! And Gotham City has A lot of them! Sometimes I let matches burn down to my finger tips just feel something. Physically, emotionally, Anything. (Sizz) aw,…..
I binged the whole series today and loved it! The theme music feels borrowed from “The Usual Suspects” or “Basic Instinct,” but it fits the 30s/40s vibe of this. Minnie Driver is great as The Penguin and there are a lot of great guest voices coming up the rest of the season. The show is a great un-Iron Man-ing of Batman, stripping away the power armor and going seriously analog.
Was hoping ya'll would react to this. I binged the entire season in one day. I want MORE!! It's sooo dark!! Characters are killed on screen! I love it. The new origin stories for Harley and Clayface were my fave.
This show is good, but it lacks some of the soul of BTAS. I don't like Barbara being older, because Bruce Timm has some weird obsession with her and Bruce, if you remember from the old DCAU. But still, its good.
I'm hoping we get more of Penguin in season 2. Part of me wonders if Aaron and Ronnie were her only sons. If she has any more kids, I could see them going after Ronnie in season 2, to stop him testifying against "Mama," not to mention to pay him back for Aaron. I could also see a team up between Penguin and Catwoman, given their different attitudes, that could be entertaining, especially if they are both in a place where they both have nothing.
This is so good. I approve of the gender change for this adaptation. Much darker. I don't think it would hit a well if it was a man when we see she is willing to kill her own sons and isn't even bothered she killed the wrong one.
Gonna be honest saw so many reactors talk about body positive Alfred. Some liked it and others didn’t but was I just the only one who didn’t notice first watching?
Binged the whole thing last night. Of course expectations weren’t entirely met but it’s Batman so it’s difficult not to have any. Overall enjoyable. That’s all I’ll say.
While I generally enjoyed the big swings this show took, I don't like how one-dimensional they made Harvey Bullock. They cheapened him by making him _just_ another crooked cop.
@@TheFiddleFaddle xD lol i didnt see Bullock i just read Harvey and my brain auto filled "Dent" thats my fault. but his facial expressions give away his misgivings on being dirty
Storywise and it in general. 8/10 THE FREAKING NAME OF OSWALDIA GETS A 0/10. They really couldn't have spent the time to come up with a better name than that shit. Are you serious
It made me feel like a kid again- until the reveal of them gender swapping penguin. It's funny how they'll always chnage male & white to female & black yet no company would dare do it the other way round
Catwoman has been portrayed as black in the comics, many shows, and movies for years now and she was swapped back to white in this, but go off I guess 🙄
The reason so many characters get race and gender swapped away from being white dudes is because the genre was SO white and SO male dominated for so long. The gender and race bending is more inclusive and more realistic. It’s the *correction* for how white and male all these stories were for decades. But guys like you never want to talk about that.
@jasonmarbach I don't mind diversity I just don't like gender swapping if it's male dominated make new female characters but is lame just to switch. Sex for he sake of it
@@jameshurcombe2049 The argument has existed forever now. It was like this when Miles Morales was created too, for instance. “Why don’t they just give them their own superhero?” That was the common refrain. There’s an “othering” in that sentiment that sucks, man, intentional or not. Especially because Miles *is* “their” own spider-man. He’s a different guy. Different story. Different motivations. Different character. There’s no reason, for example, for the Penguin not to be a woman. There’s nothing inherently male about the character, except “this is how it’s always been,” which is a stupid reason to do *anything* in life. This version of the Penguin was even more cold and ruthless than a lot of the male penguin iterations have been over the years. I get that it isn’t coming *necessarily* from an ugly place for everyone. When a person (like white guys like us) is used to the status quo being overtly white and/or male for so long, a movement more towards *actual* equality can feel like oppression of some kind to the folks who are used to the status quo favoring them. But if you step back and achieve some perspective, nothing is being taken from us. Other people are gaining that which we’ve taken for granted for most of our lives. When we’re all more equal, we’re all more free.
I dont think this show is for me lol After how amazing X Men 97 was my bar for animated super hero content is so high in terms of quality and comics accuracy. It was an *okay* first 3 episodes but I think thats far enough for me. Especially since I have no nostalgia attachment to the OG series.
I got maybe one ad per episode. The only intrusive part was they were inconveniently placed throughout the episode. I don’t think that’s enough to warrant pirating it at least from my perspective.
@@cmrobbins88 It's weird, when it started, there was a little white ad mark partway, and yet I only got the pre-episode ads. Prime's keeping me on my toes haha.
@@xtroguyver wtf? EDIT: Wait I’m realizing I just lumped multiple ads into one because it was 1 minute for the break. I tune them out because I don’t really pay attention to them.
Its interesting, because Penguin has always had this relationship with his mom, where she was the dark council behind the curtain for him. Now it’s almost like the mom and penguin have been made into the same character. She also reminds me of Mama Fratelli from The Goonies.
I’ve been having that very same thought!
SUCH a good comparison to Mama Fratelli. I love this comment and this show.
@@BCrall there was a Batman Beyond villain that was directly inspired by Mama Fratelli too, in 'the egg' episode. A very iconic archetype. I was on the fence with the change at first, admittedly, just because my nostalgia for the Danny Devito inspired versions...but it honestly opens up a lot of fun opportunity to have the mom be The Penguin 🐧
I was thinking Ma Beagel from Ducktales, but my mind was in the 90's Saturday morning cartoon gutter. 😅
"So many wardrobes, I don't know how they can afford all of them." -- I fear Jay may not understand how crime works.
Considering how he thought bags of coke was ice I think you may be right
@@HBstudios2005 Haven't heard of ice? ....Gen Z, man.
The fun part is that according to interviews this is week 2 Batman. So SUPER early.
Not even year one?
@@crimsonghoul8983no I’d say about a month in. They think Batman is an urban myth but he’s obviously been in the game enough to know goons and operators so.
Fun Fact: Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth first appeared as a big boy, way back in the early 1940's. When a 1940's serial cast a slim actor with a thin moustache, DC ordered the comics to change his design to match the actor. So they had him go to a Heath Spy and he came back skinny with a moustache. Been that way ever since.
Given Adam's shirt, I chose to include the full name in honor of another long named, Vengeance driven character. Whose 3rd season is only a few months away. I wonder if we will see him get his Vestige of Divergence this season?
i just loved that we exist in a timeline with Caped Crusader and X-Men 97. we were young, now we're .... still young [iChuckle] and the shows have grown and yet stayed absolutely stellar in the writing and craftsmanship of the shows. massive vibes.
This!!!!
Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series) and James Tucker (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) are showrunners while Matt Peters and Christina Sotta (Justice League: Apokolips War) are directors; I’m ALL in.
Can you imagine what this would've been like if Kevin Conroy were still with us!
Not to mention Matt Reeves and J.J Abrams as Executive Producers
Mixed that all together with an all star cast and that’s a recipe for a successor to BTAS!
@@sombrashadow0013Do you think Reeves wanted to make this show a little bit like his Batman movie since Gordon in the show kind of looks like Jeffrey Wright’s Gordon?
@@Otisboy121Genuinely it’s way too early to predict anything like this but imagine this does well enough they do a Superman show successor and then a JLA or JLU series that could be some next level revival of an iconic set of shows
Its nice that he still uses the “batman voice” when out of the suit and its just him and Alfred and only changes to “bruce wayne” when he wants to fool people
@@exceedcharge1 like in the dark knight trilogy.
@@Otisboy121 Oh sweet child.
cause hes crazy 🤣
Binged the whole thing in a day! It's awesome to see y'all jump into this
Same! Definitely can’t wait for Season 2! 🤞🏻
Same here. Had a good time
Same and thats not something i do
I took 2 days, but I am so stoked for season 2. It’s a good character study, not just of Batman, but of the city as well,
Of all the Batman villains to get gender bent, the Penguin seems like an unlikely choice because female villains are usually sexy, femme fatales. However, this bold choice really works! I’m digging it.
She filled the fatale part well enough. Just wish they’d changed the name. Oswalda is too on the nose.
she was carrying a wagon 🔥
4:46 *”SWEAR TO ME!”*
"DO I LOOK LIKE A COP?!"
The only problem with this season is there were only ten of them.
And that each episode was designed for a 30 minute commercial broadcast length. If they'd have doubled the length of each episode, they could have fleshed out all the main characters more. Still enjoyed it though!
You have to think of the Batman voice is his ACTUAL voice and it’s not put-on. When he isn’t around anyone that is how he sounds but in social settings it’s lighter and more charismatic
the batman voice is his normal voice, the bruce wayne voice is his customer service voice
I need up to 5 seasons of this show. Seriously, the amount of edge this show has is just right and perfect for this time period
We will definitely get one more season as it’s already in production. Unfortunately there is a lot of pushback on the shows take with some of the characters. I hope we get more but I doubt it.
2 lesbians kissing in public restaurant and telling everyone their relationship yea lol def very 50s
@kitno6415 who cares about accuracy in a cartoon?
@@BionicleGio22210 you apperantly since you just said show is perfect for that time period
@@kitno6415 as a setting
The fact that the umbrella on top of the boat is ALSO a giant Penguin gun... chef's kiss!
I think you could budget the murder wardrobes by rolling it into a money laundering scheme. Step 1: Buy luggage company. Step 2: Use drug money to purchase the luggage for body disposal at a marked up rate. Step 3: Collect now legitimate profits.
My fiance and I binged the entire series Thursday night and I'll only say one thing: you guys are in for a treat ❤
This first episode really got me invested in this new Batman TV series. I'm glad you guys are reacting to it.
It's crazy how much Hamish Linklater sounds like a younger Kevin Conroy. Like in the early BTAS days
@@sombrashadow0013 they definitely cast (in my opinion) a good successor for a Bruce Timm and maybe going forward Batman!
He really does. I'm so impressed. It really does bring me back to my childhood.
I read an interview with Hamish Linklater where he said something to the effect of he was thinking of Kevin Conroy when he was developing the voice and wanting to do Conroy justice, but he wasn't necessarily trying to imitate him. But when Linklater found the voice he wanted to use, it sounded like Conroy and he was very happy about that.
@@adamolupin And he also took inspiration from Cary Grant!
I call it Batman Noir.. 🤣
@@AuntieL_ATL
Batman Noir:
My name is Bruce Wayne.
In my universe, it’s 1939, and I’m a hard boiled vigilant-ing private eye.
I like to drink black coffee and I like to fight mobsters and villains. A lot! And Gotham City has A lot of them!
Sometimes I let matches burn down to my finger tips just feel something.
Physically, emotionally, Anything.
(Sizz)
aw,…..
Remember Alf!? He's back! In pog form! 🤣LMAO!!! Adam always has the best deep cuts.
9:27 I wanted this video just for your reaction to this moment alone, and you didn't disappoint!!
Batman's Bowling for Badguys!
It's so strange when you realize that Batman is voiced by JERRY FREAKING DANTANA
The Police Station blowing up is a reference to the opening of BTAS
“That was subtly very good” agreed! The show so effortlessly well done!
YES!!!! I was WAITING for this!!!!
So glad to see you guys reacting to this!
I binged the whole series today and loved it! The theme music feels borrowed from “The Usual Suspects” or “Basic Instinct,” but it fits the 30s/40s vibe of this. Minnie Driver is great as The Penguin and there are a lot of great guest voices coming up the rest of the season. The show is a great un-Iron Man-ing of Batman, stripping away the power armor and going seriously analog.
Need this one on the frequent! Great reactions all the way down🦇
My son and I just finished watching this series. Man it is SO GOOD.
Was hoping ya'll would react to this. I binged the entire season in one day. I want MORE!! It's sooo dark!! Characters are killed on screen! I love it. The new origin stories for Harley and Clayface were my fave.
LOVED the first episode. Gonna binge more later today. This show goes right in and it made me feel like I was 18 again.
Great first episode. Oswalda Cobblepot was iconic
4:11 ADAM IN A CATWOMAN SUIT IMMEDIATELY
Jason Watkins as Alfred! Yay!
This show is good, but it lacks some of the soul of BTAS. I don't like Barbara being older, because Bruce Timm has some weird obsession with her and Bruce, if you remember from the old DCAU. But still, its good.
We just finished the season! I feel like the show managed to balance the TV 14 rating pretty well.
I'm hoping we get more of Penguin in season 2. Part of me wonders if Aaron and Ronnie were her only sons. If she has any more kids, I could see them going after Ronnie in season 2, to stop him testifying against "Mama," not to mention to pay him back for Aaron. I could also see a team up between Penguin and Catwoman, given their different attitudes, that could be entertaining, especially if they are both in a place where they both have nothing.
4:09 Not the first time. Troy Baker did Two Face as well and he did Batman. And Joker.
Great time period setting for Batman, loving it
I'm really glad that you like this show, I think it is one of the best executed superhero shows that I've seen in a while.
For reference, according to Bruce, this is more like Week 2 for Batman
His Bruce Wayne voice is just Dean from Supernatural.
This is so good. I approve of the gender change for this adaptation. Much darker. I don't think it would hit a well if it was a man when we see she is willing to kill her own sons and isn't even bothered she killed the wrong one.
9:29... guess this Batman doesn't mind a bit of murder, 'cos those dudes are dead! 😂
Nice, it's like watching the original show again..but it's darker 😊
Im on episode 7..i enjoy it snd dont have a issue with changes
BTAS is the ultimate Motion Picture and Batman the most quintessential hero
I was sick Thursday and watched all the episodes. GREAT series.
Yessss so hyped to watch this with y’all!!! This show absolutely RIPS
I've been waiting for this one!
You guys should do my adventures with Superman
Please tell me you know what a phone booth is. I really hope you were trolling me and I've been r//whooshed. Please.
I wonder if those 2 were adopted from the streets when they were little?
Did you guys do reactions to My Adventures with Superman?
Oooh, Pennyworth and not Alfred, this Batman is new at the job. Hey guys👋🏻.
This show is sooooooooo good. I can’t wait for the rest!
Gonna be honest saw so many reactors talk about body positive Alfred. Some liked it and others didn’t but was I just the only one who didn’t notice first watching?
I love this Penguin.
A really interesting take.
She reminds me of Mae West.
Binged the whole thing last night. Of course expectations weren’t entirely met but it’s Batman so it’s difficult not to have any. Overall enjoyable. That’s all I’ll say.
Kitt from knightrider surpasses the bat mobile, but only just.
I ❤ Batman Animation!
You guy's planning on doing My Adventures with Superman at all?
yep! great show great storys!
Yessssss
Wow your childhood must’ve been rough man..
@Valerain-gg5gt Bro read the title of the video, and use some common sense.
😂
NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN!!! 🦇
ecto 1 might be cooler
Is it just me or do penguins sons look like act like Don Jr and Eric trump
😎
In before the WB clowns take this
Poor choice of words
While I generally enjoyed the big swings this show took, I don't like how one-dimensional they made Harvey Bullock. They cheapened him by making him _just_ another crooked cop.
but if you keep watching it shows hes douchey not dirty until he becomes desperate
@@kingofnonation5843 He straight murders a guy and then gets hailed as a hero for it.
@@TheFiddleFaddle xD lol i didnt see Bullock i just read Harvey and my brain auto filled "Dent" thats my fault. but his facial expressions give away his misgivings on being dirty
no ur shadow is catwoman
This was horrible. Hope it picks up.
Storywise and it in general. 8/10
THE FREAKING NAME OF OSWALDIA GETS A 0/10.
They really couldn't have spent the time to come up with a better name than that shit. Are you serious
Bruce Timm is involved, so be fully prepared for Bruce and Barbara to hook up at some point in this show 😏
It made me feel like a kid again- until the reveal of them gender swapping penguin. It's funny how they'll always chnage male & white to female & black yet no company would dare do it the other way round
Catwoman has been portrayed as black in the comics, many shows, and movies for years now and she was swapped back to white in this, but go off I guess 🙄
The reason so many characters get race and gender swapped away from being white dudes is because the genre was SO white and SO male dominated for so long. The gender and race bending is more inclusive and more realistic. It’s the *correction* for how white and male all these stories were for decades. But guys like you never want to talk about that.
@jasonmarbach I don't mind diversity I just don't like gender swapping if it's male dominated make new female characters but is lame just to switch. Sex for he sake of it
@@jameshurcombe2049 The argument has existed forever now. It was like this when Miles Morales was created too, for instance. “Why don’t they just give them their own superhero?” That was the common refrain. There’s an “othering” in that sentiment that sucks, man, intentional or not. Especially because Miles *is* “their” own spider-man. He’s a different guy. Different story. Different motivations. Different character.
There’s no reason, for example, for the Penguin not to be a woman. There’s nothing inherently male about the character, except “this is how it’s always been,” which is a stupid reason to do *anything* in life. This version of the Penguin was even more cold and ruthless than a lot of the male penguin iterations have been over the years.
I get that it isn’t coming *necessarily* from an ugly place for everyone. When a person (like white guys like us) is used to the status quo being overtly white and/or male for so long, a movement more towards *actual* equality can feel like oppression of some kind to the folks who are used to the status quo favoring them. But if you step back and achieve some perspective, nothing is being taken from us. Other people are gaining that which we’ve taken for granted for most of our lives. When we’re all more equal, we’re all more free.
I dont think this show is for me lol After how amazing X Men 97 was my bar for animated super hero content is so high in terms of quality and comics accuracy. It was an *okay* first 3 episodes but I think thats far enough for me. Especially since I have no nostalgia attachment to the OG series.
just a shame the forced ads on prime ruin it and I refuse to pay them more to remove so going to have to go to the high seas for the show
I got maybe one ad per episode. The only intrusive part was they were inconveniently placed throughout the episode. I don’t think that’s enough to warrant pirating it at least from my perspective.
@@cmrobbins88 more then that for me got 2 at the start and 3 in the middle per episode
@@cmrobbins88 It's weird, when it started, there was a little white ad mark partway, and yet I only got the pre-episode ads. Prime's keeping me on my toes haha.
@@xtroguyver wtf?
EDIT: Wait I’m realizing I just lumped multiple ads into one because it was 1 minute for the break. I tune them out because I don’t really pay attention to them.