YMMV / The Zeta Project

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Whether Dr. Myrell is selling inventions on the black market to keep his charitable foundation open, or because his foundation is a Fake Charity not drawing in enough money to satisfy him is a bit ambiguous.
• Awesome Music: The main theme, which manages to be mysterious, exciting and dramatic all at once.
• Ensemble Dark Horse
  • Sheriff Morgan, Ro’s old foster dad voiced by Clancy Brown.
  • Ruthless Bounty Hunter Rodin Krick.
  • Agents Lee and West, the Only Sane Man of the NSA group and the Plucky Comic Relief.
  • Ethical TV host Skye.
  • Doctor Edmunds, who built Zeta’s hologram projector and has a memorable appearance in the finale.
• Epileptic Trees: Agent West being related to Wally West, the main Flash in the DCAU. They both look similar, act similar, and sound similar.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Bucky's attempted use of Zeta as a murder weapon doesn't work out, but the fact that he got to blatantly attempt to force someone to murder another person is astounding by today's standards. It's worth noting some people found the episode to be without tension, however, because - see the trope title - it's a kid's show. They can't show that!
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The Lighter and Softer take on the show instead of what was shown back in Batman Beyond, including the slightly altered motive for why Zeta went rogue (Batman Beyond stated that he left because he couldn't deprive a man from his growing family, The Zeta Project states he left because the man was innocent^note Though, to be fair, Zeta had also said in Batman Beyond that his target was innocent, just not the main reason ("He was not a terrorist; His associates were. He had no idea what they were doing.")), Zeta's new modus operandi, Zeta's new appearance, and so on.
• The Woobie: Macy, the girl who appeared on the show Ro went on to find her brother. After dealing with a Disappeared Dad, her mother vanishes and might in fact have been killed by a hurricane. She then goes on TV in a desperate bid to find her mother, unable to believe she's dead. Said show cruelly tricks her, gives her a Hope Spot where she meets a woman made to look like her mother, and the next day she's thrown back into the foster care system. The kicker? They never give her a happy ending. While the host of the show says at the end she'll work to actually help the people they've hurt, there is virtually no chance of a woman in a hurricane zone being alive years later. If she is, then that Hope Spot is tainted, too, because they state many people were affected by the trauma and forgot who they are. Macy's mother may be alive, but she doesn't know Macy exists. Macy is also ten years old when she's on the show, meaning she was even younger when all this happened. Downer Ending is an understatement.