Gotham: Going Too Fast?

[Wparker6804]

When I watched the pilot I watched it out of spite thinking it would suck but I moved up to cautiously optimistic. As the show went on, I enjoyed it more and more. But with just a few bumps on the road that all sum up to what's in the title: are they going too fast?

Primarily it's the Joker. He was a failed stand up comedian working in a bar (they brought something like that in during season 1 in the pilot) and desperate for money when Falcone (or Maroni) gives him the red hood costume & AFTER falling into the ACE Chemicals Plant he goes insane & becomes the Joker (after learning his wife & child died during childbirth--how sad). But with this they're basically taking the joker, plucking him from the future & presenting him 15 years too early. He's already the laughing madman (whose actor I'm not very fond of yet) & a nut who will probably be put into Arkham repeatedly and it just looks like bad timing to me. TOO EARLY

[MAJOR SEASON 1 SPOILERS HERE]

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Another slight personal dilemma (but understandable for story progression) is getting Falcone & Maroni out of the picture so early. In several of the comic adaptations they weren't a falling empire until the colorful villains came up the same time Batman started--but once again, the crime families are taken over 15 years earlier. BUT there's a chance that the actors had enough and/or the writer's decided it was time to set them to the side. All in all I guess it was necessary for 1+ reasons

As for Doctor Lee? Friggin' love her--which is weird as I usually don't like third wheel characters in romance relationships. But here it was the exact opposite as I liked her from the beginning. And with what happened to Barbra I can't really say I feel upset at all as I never liked her or her bad decision making long before she fell off the rocker.

[END SEASON 1 SPOILERS]

Penguin is a boss and I won't even begin to list his awesome moments but he's my favorite character. My ONLY problem isn't really a problem but just a personal preference that he was always the most clever when he's in a tight spot--brilliant, crafty & on his feet when his life and/or position is on the line & he outfoxes everyone.

Other characters like Harvey Bulloc, Victor Zsasz (PERFECT adaptation), Loeb (ass), Selena and Alfred (badass ex MI-6) do a great job providing the show justice & I'm still excited to see the rest of the second season. I'm just hoping crap doesn't hit the fan & ruin annother great show.

 

[-Punk-]

No. That's one of the stories the Joker has in the comics but that doesn't mean he is already in Gotham, because he is not, the show is only teasing him and teasing him with different people to make you think is coming but is not, but that's the point, it keeps the peopel guessing and not sure if he is or not.

 

[Goetia]

Got boring really fast. The way they handle some of the characters isn't that great, only good characters in the show are Penguin, Riddler and Harvey Bullock. The rest are actually pretty bad. Like that goddamn goat guy. That was some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen in a show. Moving on.

Joker (Jerome...aids) is...really just...eh. He killed his mother because she went around with other people? I can understand if there was some other kind of factor, but it was nothing more than disgust.

And Gordon...just a disappointing character in general. Given that he's the main, I'd expected him to be more than just another one of those typical cop characters that is always untrusted at the beginning, then earns disrespect by going against established rules, and then goes on to be respected by the others. It's done in literally every single show to do with cops and police.

Gotham was good in the first 2-3 episodes, then it went downhill.

 

[Enelsan]

Tbh i started to watch it and i cringed because of the Penguin, the guy looked so retarded and i really did try to continue the show but i just couldn't...

 

[chopstickchakra]

The show actually had a pretty good start for season 2. Season 1 is a little up and down. Penguin is one of the best parts of the show, Enelsan is crazy. Jerome(The Joker) is starting to grow on me as an actor, you just have to understand the show isn't telling the comic book story, I mean you don't get mad when you read alternate earth stories right? This is the same thing essentially, originally Alfred was a theater actor not a military man.

I hate what they started with the Riddler but season 2's premiere gives hope for where he'll end up. Selina and Bruce are a solid casting call. Fish is surprisingly good for the story, her and Penguin is one of the better aspects of season 1. Season 2 plans to introduce the Court of Owls which if you haven't read the new stuff or only know Batman mythos from the old movies and cartoons then you'll feel like it's bs but it was a great story line and villain group.

The one thing I wish had happened is in season 1 they not focused on villain introduction but rather focused on the Penguin/Fish/Maroni/Falcone power struggle and Jim trying to stop that.