Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Re: Gotham Central TV Series?
I'm of two minds about this.
The first is that I don't want to see Smallville with bat-ears. I don't care about the extended origins of the character. It doesn't interest me, at all. To me at least, Batman isn't that interesting of a character in and of himself. He's interesting mostly as a vehicle for narrative in stories that are really about the interesting villains and ****ed up city of dude's mythology. I think this is part of the reason he has such a large extended family. He's not an especially expressive character with layered emotional depth. Again, that's just my personal stance, but it colors my lack of interest in a ten season origin story.
That being said, a series about how Gotham became the ****ed up place we know and love is an interesting premise. And making Thomas Wayne's death the catalyst for that decline strikes me as a far better origin for Batman than going the Smallville route. A story that features young Bruce as a major supporting cast member, that tells the story of why Gotham needs Batman rather than how Batman came to be, is a stellar basis for a series.
And let's be honest... If a show about Green Arrow, a show about Superman where Superman never actually becomes Superman, and a show about the no-name spy people hanging out at the periphery of the MCU can sell, a story about Batman's villains definitely can. Seriously, people love those guys.
I'm of two minds about this.
The first is that I don't want to see Smallville with bat-ears. I don't care about the extended origins of the character. It doesn't interest me, at all. To me at least, Batman isn't that interesting of a character in and of himself. He's interesting mostly as a vehicle for narrative in stories that are really about the interesting villains and ****ed up city of dude's mythology. I think this is part of the reason he has such a large extended family. He's not an especially expressive character with layered emotional depth. Again, that's just my personal stance, but it colors my lack of interest in a ten season origin story.
That being said, a series about how Gotham became the ****ed up place we know and love is an interesting premise. And making Thomas Wayne's death the catalyst for that decline strikes me as a far better origin for Batman than going the Smallville route. A story that features young Bruce as a major supporting cast member, that tells the story of why Gotham needs Batman rather than how Batman came to be, is a stellar basis for a series.
And let's be honest... If a show about Green Arrow, a show about Superman where Superman never actually becomes Superman, and a show about the no-name spy people hanging out at the periphery of the MCU can sell, a story about Batman's villains definitely can. Seriously, people love those guys.
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Or you can just have him suffer a horrible accident and bring in a new actor under the pretext of major reconstructive surgery.
