GOTHAM - BATMAN Prequel TV Series

[Rambler]

I didn't mind the past 2 episodes. I'm sticking with it.

 

[Chapter 2099]

Finally caught up on the last two episodes as well!

Loved them. This is such a great show. Love that they added Morena.

 

[dw316]

I met her at NYCC years ago at the V panel and thought she was absolutely beautiful, and now I've gotten to work a couple of scenes with her. Life is beautiful. My next episode should be the Flying Grayson's one and I'm curious to see how that turned out. With a second season approved, they might be able to take some time with certain episodes and story arcs and extend some so that it's not "bad-guy-of-the-week" format like Smallville was.

 

[batfan08]

What role do you play in the making of the show, dw, if I may ask? It's really cool to know that a fellow freak is actually getting to experience the making of this stuff.

 

[Jameson Rook]

I met her at NYCC years ago at the V panel and thought she was absolutely beautiful, and now I've gotten to work a couple of scenes with her. Life is beautiful. My next episode should be the Flying Grayson's one and I'm curious to see how that turned out. With a second season approved, they might be able to take some time with certain episodes and story arcs and extend some so that it's not "bad-guy-of-the-week" format like Smallville was.

Who do you play? And was there a NDA?

 

[sifu74]

Morena is beautiful, too bad she is no longer in Homeland, She had nice scenes in the first season

 

[Chapter 2099]

Loved her in Firefly. Met her at a convention once. Really sweet in person.

That's really neat you work with these guys, dw.

This show is awesome. Very cool that you're a part of it.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

This show is just ok, but not great..it's gotten better from the beginning

 

[Drakul]

I'm really liking it now. When I watched the Pilot I was very much on the fence but now I'm digging it (watched everything in one sitting Sat.).
My main problem with the pilot was Alfred, he was played way too aggressive and mean to my taste but since then they've mellow him a lot! He's still strong but not unreasonably aggressive; although that scene

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where he tells Bruce to stop crying over his broken heart and pick up a broom was pretty rough.

Phish Mooney is OK but a bit too out there / cartoony for my taste.
Penguin is outstanding! He switches from frail, to excited to insane on a dime, just perfect.
Bullock is good, so is Gordon (again a bit aggressive too but here it makes sense), Falcone is good... Selina is very well cast too.
I really like Bruce as well. You see when he's driven and hints of the bat but he's obviously a kid still lost and naive, a nice mix.

All in all I think that for an alternate Gotham it's really nice. It's cool seeing Nigma, Zasz, Cat...

 

[Chapter 2099]

Getting caught up on this week's episode now!

 

[EVILFACE]

Riddler gets all mad bro.

 

[Chapter 2099]

He does.

And he hates onions.

 

[Chapter 2099]

Another strong episode. Great show. I like that it's a comic-based series that's not over the top. It's refreshing.

 

[Chapter 2099]

Saw most of tonight's episode, so I need to rewatch it, but loved what I saw. More Penguin.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

They're obviously hinting at the Scarecrow, but from next weeks previews, it looks like Bruce finds the cave

 

[Chapter 2099]

Show keeps getting better and better. I'm digging this more than Arrow at the moment.

 

[Mister Ski]

Arrow is still my fav, but this and Agents of Shield are a close second and third.

 

[Chapter 2099]

Arrow is still my fav, but this and Agents of Shield are a close second and third.

I never got into Agents and that surprised me because I love Joss. I need to give it another shot, one of these years.

 

[batfan08]

I'm really trying, but, the more this delves into Batman stuff, the more ridiculous I find it. Last week, I almost laughed out loud when Alfred stops the car so that Bruce can ask little Ivy where to find little Catwoman. Now, they've got teenage Scarecrow, who actually got the idea from his dad, who was the first Scarecrow, and now they're saying that we'll get our first glimpse/tease/whatever of The Joker before the end of the season. I'm really trying here, but, as a hardcore Batman fan, it almost physically angers me when I think that, instead of an actual Batman show, we get this.

The worst part is that, as negative as that sounded, I don't hate it, but it's just so disjointed and, frankly, weird. It's like Bruno Heller said "what if we combined the zaniness of the Adam West television show with the grittiness of the Christopher Nolan series?" You've got The Penguin overacting next to Mobsters while pint sized Bruce Wayne tells an adult Police Detective what he can and can't investigate, and it's just loony. The characterizations are as over the top as the 1960's television show, but the difference is that the original Batman series was self-aware. They knew they were being over the top and that's what made it great. Here, it's like they're taking those characterizations and trying to play it straight, and the result is just very jarring. In the context that it's presented in, they really are "overacting."

This episode, though; some of it was just cringeworthy. Gordon and Tomkins' drawn out PDA in the middle of the precinct with the dramatic music and every cop staring at them almost had me guffawing, and, just in case you thought that McKenzie and Baccarin were going to get the most over-the-top scene on Gotham, award, in comes Jada Pinkett-Smith about to do battle with a pirate. I really want to like this show, and I did, for a while, but, if you had told me this stuff ten years ago, I'd have thought you were joking. The stuff with all of the kids literally reminds me of that "Watchmen Babies" joke from The Simpsons, and it's just...it's a mess. It can be a very entertaining mess, at times, but that's if you can see it through all the cringing you'll do.

It kind of saddens me that, in a lot of ways, the best Batman show currently on TV is about Green Arrow.

 

[EVILFACE]

Eh, it's entertaining and over the top at times.

I'd rank em.

The Flash
Arrow
Constantine
Gotham

And dig em all.

Watched Agents of Shield and thought it was meh until the Hydra take over. Haven't bothered with it since.