Bruce Timm in the DCAU

[Konja7]

I've recently seem many critiques to Bruce Timm in the DCAU and Batman.

This is curious, because I remember his work with Batman was pretty liked in the past.

What are your opinion?

[babybats]

The DCAU is one of my biggest influences as an artist and animator. I grew up watching it and it's what introduced me to the DCU, and to this day I use BTAS and the JL cartoons as my standard for good animated television. It made connected universes work before the MCU, it revolutionized the way people looked at Western cartoons, and it brought us iconic VA performances and iconic new characters and stories. I adore the DCAU.

The Babs/Bruce thing does weird me out a bit, but it's not a huge deal to me. Mainly because I never read the tie-in comics. Which sounds weird because I just said I loved the DCAU. But part of what makes the DCAU great is that it tells stories with consequences, sometimes depressing ones. The fate of Tim in BB is a great story...but it's sad af. All I know is that in the comics, Babs gets pregnant and Dick hates Bruce and everything is sad. I don't want my childhood memories to be crushed, so I'm going to hide my head in the sand and pretend they all lived happily ever after even though I know they didn't.

[LifeIsILL]

I think most people criticized Bruce Timm for dumbing down or simplifying other characters but gave Batman all the complexity and development.