The continuation of Batman the animated series, now with the man of steel... who isn't the superhero Steel that also shows up in this series. Was shown on channel 5 in Sweden I recall, right before we had to go to school so the ending was missed a lot of times. Amazing how they could pull so much depths and emotions into 22 minutes episodes that took 45 minutes for Star Trek episodes to do. A great show, but it clearly isn't as good as Batman. First off, the villains ain't that good. They try to make them in the same mold as the Batman villains with tragic back stories that put them on the road to villainy, but it doesn't work that well here. Bizzaro is probably the only one that you feel sorry for and maybe Metallo.
Take Livewire, I don't feel she is justified in her evilness, she's just some random radio host that got electrocuted with Superman as a conduit and she got electrical powers. She just straight up abused her powers to dominate others. Same with Parasite, a lowly dock-worker that got entangled with villains due to debts and got showered in toxic waste. And what does he do? He uses his powers to get revenge on the world. It's not that the Batman rouges did that, they did it a lot, but their introduction episodes usually are about them getting revenge for one special thing that tipped them over to madness and then Batman becomes the target for their obsession. Only Toyman follows that formula.
The good things though is that it feels like Superman pushes a continuous narrative through every episode. As with Steel, in one episode he gets fired from LexCorp for trying to stop the use of this Robocop suit and a couple of episodes later he built his own fighting Metallo that also references his latest appearance in the show (that of being caught below a volcano). Also I like that we time to time check in on Lex Luthor on non-Luthor stories. Take the Lobo story where his office get destroyed, twice due to the Main Man or the Livewire episode where he is seen agreeing with her as a radio host since he also dislike Superman. Also the introductions of other Superheroes, like Dr. Fate, Green Lantern (Kyle Raynar) and the Flash. Makes the world be more organic.
On the other hand, Darkseid is the best archenemy introduction and execution across DCAU. As stated, good, but there are things laking. For one, there wasn't any movie in the package (probably due to not having any canon movies for that series, but they could have thrown in some of the non-canon ones... or Death and Return of Superman) and secondly, only for commentaries on 54 episodes and a couple of documentaries. I would have liked something more substantial.
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