[School of Everything Else 2023]
The DC Animated Universe marathon watch, which began all the way back in 2020 as Lockdown started continues! And this is a show Sharon and I had never sat down to watch before, so it was almost entirely new to us.
I knew this was pitched as "What if Batman was Spider-Man?" but I did not know the circumstances of how that premise came about. Warner Bros. wanted an animated series about a specifically *young* Batman. Toy marketing indicated that kids would engage more with a teenager than they would with a man in his thirties. The double-bind was that Kevin Conroy's Batman, as established in this continuity didn't don the cowl until well into adulthood.
It was this information that Bruce Timm and company conveyed at a meeting with the studio heads. Then when asked to think of a way around it "What if Bruce Wayne was old and got a younger person to wear the suit and do all the superheroics?" was put on the table. Then they had to dream up an entire show to fit with that premise.
Guests:
Toby Jungius @TJungius of Through the Wind Door
Kevin Veighey @KevinTimeGeek86 whose Let's Plays on YouTube can be found here
Chris Finik @finmonster09
Bradford Yurkiw
Ready Player One
The Adventures of Tintin & The BFG
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Catch Me if You Can
10 Possible Futures
Deep Impact vs. Armageddon
Minority Report & War of the Worlds
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Schindler's List (Hook & Jurassic Park Revisited)
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Empire of the Sun
Mary and Max
Labyrinth
Knives Out
Flight of the Navigator
Stardust
Big Fish
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