296: The Official Batman

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

You asked for it, and we delivered! Batman University is in session, as we dive into “Batman: The Animated Series.” Lifelong Batman fan Tony Sindelar has provided us with a 10-episode watch list, which served as a refresher for our panel and an introduction for our host. What makes many people call this version of Batman the definitive one? How does a show that’s for kids end up being so strikingly adult? How is the character of this Batman not like recent movie depictions? We’ve got the answers.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 296, April 2016.
0:11.1	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.9	We're here to talk as everybody has demanded about Batman.
0:18.9	And that's right.
0:19.9	That's why we're going to be talking about Batman, the animated series, a Batman that people want to watch.
0:29.6	That's all I'm going to say.
0:30.7	Joining me to talk about a classic, perhaps the definitive Batman, we'll see what people have to say about it.
0:37.3	We've got a fantastic panel here. David J. Lohr is here. Hello. Hello. You used the adjective I was going to use. Definitive. Thank you. The playwright approves with my adjective. Dan Moran also joins us. Hi, Dan. I am the knight. I mean, hi. Hey, how's it going?
0:55.6	You got something near your throat there, I think. I do. Sorry, I got some tea here. Hold on.
0:59.8	Shannon Sutherth also joins us. Hello.
1:02.3	Ola, freaky.
1:03.7	Joining us for the very first time. But a familiar name, if you read the old TV website, which is essentially what spawned the incomparable.
1:13.9	But it's his first incomparable podcast.
1:15.6	You waited almost 300 episodes, but you finally did it.
1:17.8	It's Nathan Alderman.
1:18.6	Hi, Nathan.
1:19.5	Howdy.
1:20.7	And finally, one of the cardinals of the Church of Batman, Tony Sindelar.
1:27.9	Hello, nerds.
1:29.1	Oh, so dark, so menacing, so threatening. That is the voice of a great detective.
1:35.2	The org chart in the Church of Batman is complicated. It's very shadowy. There's a lot of
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