Fox Developing "Gotham" Young Jim Gordon Series
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His comment is kind of ironic, because this actually looks a lot more comic booky and OTT than the Nolan movies. My biggest complaint about the Nolan movies was that went so realistic in how they approached Gotham. So far I am really liking the more stylistic approach they seem to be taking here.
He does say it's a heightened reality. He's either using "comic book" to mean "cartoony" and/or as synonymous with costumed characters, something a lot of people still do. People who are steeped in comic books may prefer not to have the term used like that, but it's not a big deal.
It it was me, I'd introduce more than one potential Joker.
Say what?
The show doesn't have to be about the Avengers popping up all the time, but just how SHIELD handles things (and least they're not trapped in angst like Smallville was, plus they've had the occasional appearance by a superhero.)
It was a reference to SHIELD no longer existing in the aftermath of The Winter Soldier.
New trailer:
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That's kind of an awkward trailer. And if these guys are going to become "the worst villains around," but "it's up to us to stop them," doesn't that kind of give away that they won't stop them?
She's a character created for the show named Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith.
Fish Mooney is the crime boss that Oswald Cobblepot (the future Penguin) works for. I'd imagine the "Fish" might be due to the "Penguin" connection. And I would conjecture that Cobblepot's arc through the series will be about rising through the ranks of Mooney's organization and eventually taking it over.
No, it's not odd. It's a spotlight on the main villains introduced in season one, and she's one of them. It would be odd not to include her.
Right. Just because the show is inspired by Batman, that doesn't mean it's aimed solely at Batman fans. It's meant to be accessible to a more general audience that watches it only in terms of the show itself, with the comics references being subtler easter eggs woven into a mostly standalone crime narrative. Mooney is the dominant crime boss of Gotham City at the time the series is set, so of course she's going to be heavily featured.
After all, this is a prequel. Of course the main bad guys aren't going to be the Penguin and the Joker and the Riddler and Catwoman -- those people are still in their formative years, still going through the processes that will shape them into the characters we know, just as Lt. Jim Gordon and preteen Bruce Wayne are. So naturally the main forces of crime in the city are going to be different people than the ones we know. Frank Miller did no less in Batman: Year One when he introduced a bunch of characters we'd never seen before, characters who would eventually be replaced in the police, the government, and the criminal sphere by the characters we know from the "present day" series. So did Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. It shouldn't really be that surprising.
I could see that trailer potentially perking interest in viewers who might not be that interested in a "Batman show".
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