Pardon my non comic reading ignorance. but who or what exactly is Detective Chimp?
exactly what title says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Chimp
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exactly what title says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Chimp
Yup. A chimp who is also a detective. Prety self-explanatory.
Holy moly...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Chimp
I only recently ran into the character around 2005, where he is angry, surly, sarcastic and half drunk (He lives in a magic bar you can get into from any doorway, it's not difficult to stay drunk.) most of the time, and probably comparable to Rocket Raccoon as far as cute talking animals go, even though they are both rooted in completely dfferent genres of fiction.
I only recently ran into the character around 2005, where he is angry, surly, sarcastic and half drunk (He lives in a magic bar you can get into from any doorway, it's not difficult to stay drunk.) most of the time, and probably comparable to Rocket Raccoon as far as cute talking animals go, even though they are both rooted in completely dfferent genres of fiction.
Maybe Daddy Wayne could be trying to support gentrification in the city and got a little turned around and lost going back to the car and oops! I know I had to do jury duty in downtown Detroit under construction and ended up parked in a place so sketchy I wasn't sure my car would be there when I returned.
It's called "Crime Alley".
That's right up there with giving Sinestro a Green Lantern Ring.
That's right up there with giving Sinestro a Green Lantern Ring.
I don't think the premise of the show needs to be what you are suggesting at all, based on the first episode. I think that you are reading too much in to the little information we have so far.
I think that you are being a little closed as to the possible directions the series could go. None of us are saying that it has to include super elements, only that there is nothing established that it is not going to.
It's just experience. Most comic-book adaptations made for mass media try to downplay the fanciful elements in order to make themselves more accessible to the general, non-geek audience. Even the Marvel Cinematic Universe did so initially and still does to some extent (e.g. the rather prosaic version of the Mandarin). Batman adaptations in particular have done so more than most. So it's just bizarre to me to see people looking at a series that's very clearly positioning itself as being about police officers and mobsters and defaulting to the thought, "Okay, when do Dr. Fate and Man-Bat show up?" Where did that thought even come from?
Before the world was fantastical, it was normal.
The point where it changed from normal to fantastical is...Batman?
Hey!
This is the abortion argument!
Was Batman born with his parents murder or as he was squeezing into that grey body sock the first time?
The point where it changed from normal to fantastical is...Batman?
Hey!
This is the abortion argument!
Was Batman born with his parents murder or as he was squeezing into that grey body sock the first time?
I agree that super elements will be downplayed, but for me this is Gotham Central. The world is set in a comic book universe and we may very well those elements at least suggested in upcoming episodes.
^No, the world is set in a television adaptation of a comic-book universe. Like any adaptation, it will take what elements it finds useful and discard the rest, and it will reinterpret the elements it uses to suit its own approach. It's not obligated to do things exactly like the comics do. Most live-action adaptations don't. Anything they draw from the comics will most likely be stripped of any fanciful elements, as in the Nolan movies or the first season of Arrow.
Aaaah, well I am not going to convince you to be more open-minded about this but I will be back at the first suggestion of supers--and then we can debate if that was a tear on Scarface's cheek or just a drop of rain...
Oh gods, I hope TPTB stay away from supernatural elements. That would turn Gotham into campy goofy crap. Batman has such mainstream appeal because he doesn't have super powers. Batman has TOYS. 
Cool as shit toys and gadgets. 
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A touch of the fanciful is fine, but please I BEG you, powers that be--focus on your characters. Between the brilliant young actor who plays Bruce, Sean Pertwee, Jada Pinkett, whatshisname who is sublimely perfect as murderous pre-Penguin and the supremely charismatic Russell Crowe lookalike Ben McKenzie...this cast is perfection.
Cool as shit toys and gadgets. . A touch of the fanciful is fine, but please I BEG you, powers that be--focus on your characters. Between the brilliant young actor who plays Bruce, Sean Pertwee, Jada Pinkett, whatshisname who is sublimely perfect as murderous pre-Penguin and the supremely charismatic Russell Crowe lookalike Ben McKenzie...this cast is perfection.
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I can deal as long as I don't see Detective Chimp.
Detective Chimp will detach someone's retina with a beermug, after he's finished the pint, lets not be crazy, Detective Chimp would never waste beer... But how is that so different from the Flash Villain Gorilla Grodd, a super speedster, telepathic, English speaking Gorilla from a secret African invisible city full of telepathic gorillas, sucking brains out of human skulls he's just cracked open?
Detective Chimp is me just ####ing about, but it will be criminal not to have Gorilla Grodd make an appearance in the new Flash series.
Detective Chimp is me just ####ing about, but it will be criminal not to have Gorilla Grodd make an appearance in the new Flash series.
I'll have to content myself with Detective Handsome aka Jim Gordon.
This show should absolutely use Detective Chimp. Best episode ever.
They should have him on a case with no explanation whatsoever or any mention that anything is out of the ordinary.
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