User blog:Alemon97/DEATH BATTLE! Season 2 Retrospective

Well, seeing how my Season 3 Review went pretty well, I decided: "You know what, I think it's time I do a DEATH BATTLE! retrospective." So for the next couple months or so, I'll be rewatching and reviewing past Death Battle Seasons to see how well they hold up. This time, I'll being doing a retrospective on Death Battle Season 2, and after that, I'll get to doing a Season 1 retrospective sometime later. If you've seen my Season 3 Review, you know that I don't give numerical scores for episodes after reviewing them, instead, I'll be listing Pros and Cons for each episode and give it a rating of either "Good", "Meh..", or "Bad" after looking at all the Pros and Cons, followed by my thoughts on the episode. Get ready to hear popular, unpopular, or any other opinion in between. Let's do this!

PROS

 * HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA reference in He-Man's analysis and the fight's aftermath
 * Analysis was pretty good
 * Boomstick questioning 80's logic
 * Interesting to know they both fought Superman
 * Some good jokes
 * How this fight basically plays out like a cheesy 80's cartoon
 * Battle Cat's role in all this (When Lion-O suspects He-Man of "animal cruelty")...
 * Animation's pretty decent, for what they had at the time, anyway
 * Voice acting's nice (on a side note, who else was introduced to Xander Mobus through this?)

CONS

 * ​​...Looking back though, was Battle Cat really neccesary?
 * Fight was a little slow
 * The more I think about the aftermath...whelp, the Thundercats are dead...
 * Climax was kinda underwhelming
 * Boomstick's especially bad pun in the post-fight analysis

​Overall
​Going back to the first episode of Season 2, this was a pretty good start. The way they tried to replicate the 80's feel in this fight was nice, and it made for some pretty good jokes. It's also rather interesting to know that both of these characters have fought against Superman at some point in their lives. Plus, the way this fight started with Battle Cat being a "victim of animal cruelty" in Lion-O's eyes was pretty funny. Combine that with some jabs at 80's culture, and you've good a pretty entertaining way to kick off Death Battle's second season.

​Rating

 * ​Good