This article contains spoilers for Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2, which is streaming Prime Video now.
Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader, the latest animated iteration of The Dark Knight, has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, you have the legendary Bruce Timm essentially revisiting one of his most famous co-creations — that would be Batman: The Animated Series — with fresh eyes, giving it the more mature and modern sheen he had hoped to infuse the show with back in the day. On the other hand, that take has led to some extremely odd choices in character adaptation, and a mostly deadly serious tone and slow pace that have done the stranger plot choices no favors. But there is one aspect of the series that was a standout in the first season, crops up again in Season 2’s best episode, and points to how Caped Crusader can ape The Animated Series’s own path and vastly improve its own going into a potential third season. That aspect? Robin.
Tom Holland pitched some ideas for Spider-Man: Brand New Day that would've pushed the film into body horror.
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Fortnite is hosting two sessions of Web Shooter hours on Saturday, Aug. 1 (or Sunday, Aug. 2 depending on your time zone). If you want to use the special Spider-Man items to web-swing around the island, this is a great time to play.
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New ZeniMax Online Studios co-head Nick Giacomini says that despite deep cuts at the studio as part of the most recent round of Xbox layoffs, The Elder Scrolls Online "is here to stay." But those layoffs, which saw more than 200 people let go including Giacomini's predecessor Joseph Burba, mean that previously announced timelines are no longer workable, and things are being moved.
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