As the series had two good and two not so good seasons, I suppose it's only fitting that it closed out on one that was, all in all, average. The show returned to showing little of any of our heroes outside of their lives as crime fighters, though I didn't mind as much this time since I already had gathered most of what I thought they'd show from the prior season.
The big difference with this season is that in a good half the episodes, Batman teams up with one of the Justice League to fight one of their foes, as well as one of his own. While I didn't exactly hate these episodes, they felt an awful lot like The Theme Park Version. Mind you, I did enjoy some of the elements from them; the portrayals of Lex Luthor, The Flash, Mirror Master, and Green Lantern in particular were well executed. The rest were bland as bland could be. I also must ask why Green Arrow was in the League instead of Wonder Woman. Did the writers just find it too difficult to think of why Wonder Woman would have left Themiscyra and/or come to Gotham? Did they think they needed Arrow specifically for the series finale? If the latter, I doubt it; it seemed like the Bat family could have handled it on their own to me.
As far as the rest of the season went, the answer would be "fairly well". The problem is that half of the non-Justice League episodes focus on the Joker, and the other half are good. While I liked this series's Joker, he'd worn out his welcome to me, and I was anxious to see some other villains who weren't even introduced (Mad Hatter), never had much screentime (Bane), or whom I just liked better (Riddler). On the other hand, Firefly got a good last hurrah in the one episode featuring him, we get a peek at a reformed Man-Bat (along with Batgirl's sole episode past Robin's introduction where she appears without him, which I was happy with as there's not much of her in this season), and a villain team up focusing on an evil version of Batman and Robin that also has Killer Croc, though ultimately it's once again Joker who gets the spotlight when it isn't on Wrath and Scorn. The series finale was much weaker than the season four finale, but it was serviceable, I guess.
This is easily the weakest of the Batman shows, but it's still worth a look, season four in particular. Ultimately, though Your time would be better spent on TBAB or TAS depending on your tastes.
Season Five, Or: What wasn't necessary
As the series had two good and two not so good seasons, I suppose it's only fitting that it closed out on one that was, all in all, average. The show returned to showing little of any of our heroes outside of their lives as crime fighters, though I didn't mind as much this time since I already had gathered most of what I thought they'd show from the prior season.
The big difference with this season is that in a good half the episodes, Batman teams up with one of the Justice League to fight one of their foes, as well as one of his own. While I didn't exactly hate these episodes, they felt an awful lot like The Theme Park Version. Mind you, I did enjoy some of the elements from them; the portrayals of Lex Luthor, The Flash, Mirror Master, and Green Lantern in particular were well executed. The rest were bland as bland could be. I also must ask why Green Arrow was in the League instead of Wonder Woman. Did the writers just find it too difficult to think of why Wonder Woman would have left Themiscyra and/or come to Gotham? Did they think they needed Arrow specifically for the series finale? If the latter, I doubt it; it seemed like the Bat family could have handled it on their own to me.
As far as the rest of the season went, the answer would be "fairly well". The problem is that half of the non-Justice League episodes focus on the Joker, and the other half are good. While I liked this series's Joker, he'd worn out his welcome to me, and I was anxious to see some other villains who weren't even introduced (Mad Hatter), never had much screentime (Bane), or whom I just liked better (Riddler). On the other hand, Firefly got a good last hurrah in the one episode featuring him, we get a peek at a reformed Man-Bat (along with Batgirl's sole episode past Robin's introduction where she appears without him, which I was happy with as there's not much of her in this season), and a villain team up focusing on an evil version of Batman and Robin that also has Killer Croc, though ultimately it's once again Joker who gets the spotlight when it isn't on Wrath and Scorn. The series finale was much weaker than the season four finale, but it was serviceable, I guess.
This is easily the weakest of the Batman shows, but it's still worth a look, season four in particular. Ultimately, though Your time would be better spent on TBAB or TAS depending on your tastes.