Quote Originally Posted by AdamFTF View Post
I don't think Robin growing up and not being Robin anymore would have been a concept in either '66 or '77. Anyway, that's how I felt about the Wonder Woman '77 special using Barbara Minerva version of the Cheetah. It should have been Priscilla Rich or they should have created their own Cheetah like the show created its own Wonder Girl.
Quote Originally Posted by Powerboy View Post
The only thing I didn't like about the Batman '66/ WW '77 crossover was that, during those 11 years, the Joker basically started turning into the Post-Crisis Joker, murdered Alfred and Batman, in a fit of rage, killed the Joker. It's just not in keeping with the show. They pushed WW regularly a little beyond the 1970s shoe but this was way beyond.

I don't really mind characters showing up that didn't exist in the 1960s as long as they are done in the style of the Batman 1960s show. Bane and Harley Quinn were done nicely in a way that fit Batman '66.

The crossover, of course, had to be in 1977 since that's when WW returned to Man's World. If they were dealing with a real 11 years, I suppose Dick Grayson would be 25 and would be Nightwing. But I'd prefer that the Adam West Batman never be taken in that direction.
Dick Grayson had to be in his mid-20's, but he didn't have to be Nightwing. They could easily have had him show up as Robin, with a redesigned suit. Maybe a suit based on the Earth Two Robin suit that was in the comics in the 70's. It would have been more appropriate to the era than Nightwing.

I understand what you mean about the Joker thing not keeping with the tone of the show. Somehow that didn't bother me as much. The Joker had been a fairly dark and violent character when he was introduced in 1940, and in the 70's they were going back to that interpretation and building upon it. So I could kinda imagine that, maybe a decade later, Cesar Romero's Joker would go off the deep end and become a killer. I mean, its a story they could hypothetically have told had the show been revived in 1977! Not so with the Nightwing thing...

I haven't read much of the '66 Batman comic beyond that crossover so I dunno about the Bane and Harley Quinn thing. Must check it out!

But yeah, getting back to topic - I really don't think I'd want to see a '70's Doomsday' in this particular series...