The next batman

should either go 'light' and be more like the Super Friends Batman that I grew up with

OR get real with a gracefully aging Batman with an actor like Bryan Cranston.

Now that he's no longer seen as Malcolm's Dad, Cranston would make an awesome, grittier Batman. Just make him a little funny, too. Not Adam West funny, but self-deprecating funny.

I never took the Super Friends seriously, but I can't really take the bitter, angry Batman we have today for much longer, either.