I"m actually a wee bit disappointed with this show so far. I was expecting it to be truly great, because I loved Batman TAS, Batman Beyond, and Justice League, so was expecting this to be of the same standard.
But this show while having some great episodes, also had some which I just didn't care much for and even felt like fast forwarding- something which hardly ever happened in the above shows. Not that they were bad episodes exactly, I probably would have loved them if I was a kid, but not really as an adult.
Although admittedly I haven't finished it yet, I'm at season 2 episode 21.
And like i said, some episodes were still amazing eg the one I just saw, "The late Mr Kent". And I loved the first three intro episodes "The last son of Krypton".
So it's still a very good show- I would probably rate season 1 a 7, and season 2 an 8 perhaps. But it's just in comparison to JL/Batman, where the first two seasons were around 8-10.
However, maybe I would have been better off watching this before Justice league, since several villains appear in that, so perhaps that's diminished their impact somehow, but I've tried to be unbiased.
One thing I do agree though is that this show has better continuity than Batman TAS.
EDIT- ok now that i've seen end of season 2 and all of season 3, this show most definitely was the best at the end. Season 3 was brilliant!
I just wish they had more episodes like that in first one and a half seasons.
"The shadows betray you, because they belong to me"
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Li-1
12 years ago
I actually thought this was the best of all the DCAU shows. The animation and sense of continuity were superior to Batman: TAS, Tim Daly's fantastic voice acting as Superman and Clark Kent were far superior to George Newbern in Justice League (Newbern was mostly pretty good, but would get too high-pitched at times), and maybe most importantly, it's the one DCAU show that just kept getting better as it progressed and finished on its highest note. The last season was packed full of great Darkseid episodes and Legacy is my choice for the greatest episode in the entire DCAU.
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T-eschberger
11 years ago
While this show is mostly praised by fans, I don't think it gets the amount of praise it deserves.
On a pure structural level, it's superior to BTAS. It starts off with a 3-part origin story and goes from there. The show just seems more like an ongoing saga than Batman did. It has more arcs and story progression. As much as I adore BTAS(I really, really do) my one big complaint was lack of narrative flow. Aside from the occasional 2-parter, the structure was too serialized.
I love the style of it all too. Just like how BTAS is like a greatest hits of Batman visually, so is STAS. It's like the lighter art-deco cousin of BTAS. The animation is also top notch. Smooth, bright and dynamic. I'll even say it has better action than BTAS.
I love the characterization of Clark/Supes the most out of any on screen adaptation yet. He's a boy-scout, but not obnoxiously so. He's a perfect mixture of kinda dorky, but smart and charismatic.
I love BTAS and STAS damn near as much as each other. Batman only gets the slight edge for more consistently interesting villains and Batman was my first true superhero love :)
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