ROUND ROBIN CHALLENGE: BEST ADAPTION!

THIS IS MY THIRD POST TODAY 🙀

My other posts today were  the initial challenge post that can be found here!

AND

A random image post featuring me meeting Beetlejuice in 1990, which can be found here!

Now its time for my take on the question that I came up with for this week's

I could take the easy route and say the DC Animated Universe.

The take that was done was so good that it spun into many cartoons. It obviously all began with Fox's Batman: The Animated Series (TAS), then it went away briefly unril the WB network began.

They premiered Superman and the New Batman Adventures, but they did not stop there. 3 other series would air on WB.

Cartoon Network however would get Justice League and its spin-off Justice League Unlimited (which even gave Batman Beyond a true "Series Finale" in the episode "Epilogue" in which we discover that Terry was always meant to become Batman from the day he was born as he was in reality a sort of a clone of Bruce Wayne! How I feel  about that will be handled in a future article.)

WB continued the DCAU during that (as I mentioned above) with the highly successful Batman Beyond,

The less successful Batman Beyond spin-off "The Zeta Project", and

"Static Shock!" Static was shocking because it was based on the DC imprint Milestone comics and not DC proper and we had no clue it was a part of the DCAU until season 2 or 3 when Static teamed with Batman!

However I am not choosing the DCAU as best adaption. I am choosing the cartoon that started it all: Batman. I feel that it was true to its source material  more so than any other cartoon or tv series that came before it (except maybe the b & w series as I never saw that one so I cannot speak abut it). Also everything else has tried (and in most cases failed) to repeat it.

Unlike the other shows in the universe, Batman stayed on its course as it was the only one at the time. In fact with the exception of the Grey Ghost (Adam West) and Jonah Hex there were no guests that were not Batman related until the "New Adventures" began and even then we only saw Superman and Supergirl!

We did not see Robin until well into the series and when he did come it never felt forced. Even Batgirl felt organic (although she only appeared in a handful of episodes in TAS). I will say that the FOX era episodes (BAtman: TAS, Adventures of Batman and Robin) felt much more like the source material and in fact once we got to The New adventures, it began to feel forced and less "adult" like. I loved how TAS felt dark and that was something that at the time was unheard of in a kids cartoon. In fact Batman: TAS did not just pave the way for the DCAU, but also many non DC cartoons that would come long after it!