Review: Fall of the Blue Beetle
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Captain Wedneday reviews this week’s Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode “Fall of the Blue Beetle”.
Not a planned review, but after watching this week’s Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode I just had to discuss with all of you in the webverse. This week’s show was titled “Fall of the Blue Beetle,” and I am thinking okay maybe this is an episode where Jaime fails and learns a lesson on his way to becoming a “real” hero.
Well I was sort of right and a lot of wrong. Jaime does learn a lesson, mostly why he was selected to become the Blue Beetle in the first place. But this episode was also about Ted Kord’s Blue Beetle and the cast and crew at Batman: Brave and the Bold could not have done the character more justice if they tried.
First let me say this, I am a huge Ted Kord Blue Beetle fan, and an even more of a Blue & Gold fan (when Ted teams up with Booster Gold). Kord’s return to the DC ‘verse are the only issues of the current run of Booster Gold that I enjoyed when they brought (or pulled) Kord back for a couple of issues. Blue & Gold’s glory days in the Giffen-Maguire Justice League was just plain fun.
I don’t want to give to much away, because I always write spoiler free, but I am just gushing over this episode. Don’t forget that this is primarily a kid’s cartoon so the story content has to be delivered in a way as not to frighten the blue beetles out of all the little ones. And how do you tell a tale where in the end, Ted Kord dies so that Jaime can become the Blue Beetle. I’ll tell you how, this week’s episode is how.
Wil Wheaton (Wesley from Star Trek TNG) voices Ted Kord and Blue Beetle 2. Will Friedles continues his terrific job voicing Jaime. The animation is awesome and the Blue Beetle Bug never looked better. Plus the soundtrack was swinging as usual.
If you are looking for a reason to watch one of these episodes, this weeks was the one. And the future should be bright for the rest of the season as I have found that when these series have their moment it is all uphill from there.
Don’t forget to tip the concierge on your way out – Peace!
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I just watched the episode. It was actually really good. I felt like the Kord Blue Beetle was basically like another Batman with the ingenuity and gadgets. The new beetle can fly and regenerate itself (well the suit) and is totally different.
I liked how the story was put together. I mean, there were really no surprises, but it was a good story. This was my first time watching, so I didn’t realize that the opening credits were sooo “Adam West Batman.” Not in a bad way.
Thanks Captain!
Glad you liked the episode. You are right, there were no story surprises but I think that is okay. I was really impressed at how they told a brand new story on the demise of Ted Kord, but made it fit in withthis animated reality while all the time paying tribute to the character and to its mostly-younger audience.