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Great Content, Lousy Packaging
I won't waste your time recounting the episodes. Instead, let's look at the execution: <
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>Impressive visualization. Thin, precise lines, balancing straight (futuristic) against curved (human); nothing muddy. Carefully chosen colors, nothing garish, but nothing mundane. Lots of flat, one-color surfaces: no attempt to be realistic (face it: reality is dusty, dirty, messy). Style convincingly Americanizes anime. <
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>Setting has some overtones of Akira or William Gibson's cyberpunk Tokyo, but hardly a slavish imitation, and no worship of futurific technology. <
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>Stories are imaginative, well written, with a generous share of telling one-liners. Example: in "Dead Man's Hand," a society blonde protests being robbed of her jewels, and Jack, one of the robbers, comments, "She probably got them the old-fashioned way." That cruelty is acted out later when King, top dog of the outfit, slaps 10 across the face, drawing blood: this criminal family is bound together, finally, by greed and violence. The plot makes much of parallel relationships: 10's need for personal freedom brings her into conflict with her father, as does Terry's with Bruce. <
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>Imaginative stories make for imaginative animation. To my mind, the best are the two Inque stories. The protean Inque lets the animators run wild, so to speak (rather like Jack Cole with Plasticman). <
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>Voices (Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Stockard Channing) are superb, ditto the music. One of the DVD "Additional Features" is "Music of the Knight": five segments from four episodes, shown with music alone, no dialogue. A great idea--except that the music selections aren't mine. It would have been nice to have the option to turn off dialogue for the whole of each episode. Oh, well . . . <
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>So what's the problem? The packaging sucks. It's thin cardboard with a single plastic mount inside. The cardboard slipcover is so tight that I have to open one end and push the contents out the other. (Cardboard doesn't suffer abuse nicely.) My plastic mounting piece was damaged some time before it got to me. Now one of the two discs is always sliding around inside the package or falling on the floor. I think I'll buy a used Brittany Spears double-decker, ditch the contents, and use the case as a replacement.

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If you liked all 109 episodes of Batman Tas, you'll really enjoy this.
Here's another series I didn't get to see very much back in the day. But its a great one. This first season is only 13 episodes, but its worth picking up! You'll get to see the origin story of the new Batman and why Bruce Wane put aside the mantle of the bat. In this season, Mr. Freeze is also revisited in one of my favorite episodes, Meltdown. We're also introduced to some new and interesting villains in this Gothum of the future such as Derrick Powers aka Blight. I don't want to give too much away, but this is a must have for any avid Batman fan. Kevin Conroy reprises his role as Bruce Wane from the Batman animated series for one thing. The voice talent in this series is just as fantastic as the previous one. So buy it!

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Excellent Addition to My DVD Collection
As a fan of the Batman Beyond series, I was extremely pleased with the product when I bought it. First thing I did was plop it in my DVD player and watch the series straight through with no interruptions, and it just made me crave for season two already. <
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>The episodes are in wonderful quality and the bonus features/special features are great especially hearing Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett etc that worked on the series, but for a Batman Beyond fan, there wasn't enough! The music bonus feature is great and after exploring every possibly inch of the two discs, I was seriously craving for more Batman Beyond. <
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>Overall, the condidtion of the series is excellent, if not better than when it first aired. The DVD casing is unusual though. The packaging consists of a cover slip that you see on Amazon's page for the product and inside the cover slip, the two disc carrying case. Basically, the packaging is very similar to the first two Harry Potter movie DVD packaging. Inside, the carrying case that holds the two discs is designed so that the discs will be slightly overlapped, which might be a little annoying for some, but it's not that big of a mishap. Also, instead of having the binding of the two-disc carrying case face the outside of the cover slip like the first two Harry Potter movie DVD cases, the binding is facing inside, which might prove to be a little difficult to take out, a minor flaw in the design of the packaging. But otherwise, Batman Beyond the First Season is excellent, I really am looking forward to season two, which hopefully, the WB will include more bonus features.