Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Dear Pablo

Regarding your post: Just what is so wrong about TV Batman!? Hmmm??

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pablo's new training manual.

He can start reading it after he begins his training.

1:12 AM
Irene Gallo said...

Fun SCIAM post. Thanks! Not to take it too seriously but, I studied Aikido for a while and the point about defense _without_ harming the other guy is interesting. I remember being thrown about on my second day in class and being amazed how much the senior student trashing me was simultaneously protecting me from my own not-very-fluid movements.

1:47 AM
Pablo Defendini said...

Oh, there's nothing wrong with TV Batman per se... (as a matter of fact, I remember watching it when I was a kid, dubbed into Spanish in PR)
I'm just a child of the 80's and early 90's, when headlines for news stories about dark, decidedly not campy works like The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen were all prefaced by 'BAMs', 'POWs', and 'ZAPs'. All us kids who read 'real, serious comics' back then would rail against those, in that inimitable way that only self-righteous geeks can, and importantly declare "This news story has set back the credibility of the medium another twenty years!!". The habit has stuck, I guess. :)

9:29 AM
Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) said...

The old TV Batman was a GAS to watch in the day. Still is. I loved how every Bat-gadget was labelled stuff like "BAT SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLIZER" and things like that in huge type,right on the device. The DVD of the series is apparently available in the UK, or was anyway. Here it's tied up in rights-galore issues. Fox made the series, yet Warner owns the character, and mostly due to the estates of many "guest villian" stars they had and songs like when Leslie Gore was on and did two of her then-top ten hits. That can tie things up for years. Only the theaterical film is available, and the BRUCE & DICK:BACK TO THE BATCAVE TV film of several years ago which had Adam West, Burt Ward, Frank Gorshin,Julie Newmar and others all playing their roles, sans costumes to get around the rights problems. Just goofy fun! West made a career out of overplaying things to death to the point now, he gets paid to make fun of himself!

1:35 PM
Pablo Defendini said...

The trailer for the movie is on iTunes, along with the feature itself. It's hilarious, and so is the movie, although they lost me at bat-shark-repellent. For the longest time, I actually thought that's where the phrase 'jump the shark' had come from, somehow. Now I know better.

3:07 PM
Shane White said...

Wow...I had this as a kid, and sadly it was harder than hell to recreate the scenes I was watching on television at the same time.

I kept bending the Colorforms to have the characters interact.


=s=

3:17 PM
Anonymous said...

I took Aikido for awhile after landing here in Oklahoma. It was a hard shift after 20 years of Taekwondo and Escrima (Filpino stick and knife fighting). I don't know where people get the impression that Aikido is a soft martial art... talk about inflicting serious damage!
Aikido couples very well with harder styles in that in allows you to open up your opponent for some serious damaging techniques.
I could never be Batman.

6:02 AM

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