That was subtle?
Gotham - Season 1
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That was subtle?
@Mr Light She looked at the board Bruce has with all the connections to crime in Gotham and his parents murder(right?) and then she jacked a silver box(what was that?).
Probably a jewelry box or something similar, though Bruce was probably using it to keep papers or pens or something. Or string and pushpins. Can't have an obsessive-person conspiracy board without string and pushpins.
Dr. Funkenstein
Lieutenant Commander
For some reason I got the impression that it was what was left of Martha's pearl necklace. I have no idea why, but it's the only thing that came to mind.
Yeah, it was. They offhandedly mention that Viper was the bad prototype and that Venom is the fixed version. That was it. There was no little Latin boy being whisked away to a prison or anything like that. We're told that Venom exists. We know what it will eventually lead to, but that's it. If they ever mention Wellzyn again, I'd like to see the comedian from the first episode as an extra in the background at a Wellzyn lab.
Dr. Funkenstein
Lieutenant Commander
Sorry, but it was quite blatant. Subtle would have been if they never even mentioned Venom, as the only audience members who even know what Venom is would know that Viper was its predecessor. (Actually, just showing the label and not even giving it a name would have been truly subtle.) The general audience would have had no idea, and they probably still don't even after being told it was Venom.
As it is, they hit you upside the head with a brick to let you know that Viper was, in fact, the predecessor to Venom. Because, you know, we're too thick to have caught that.
No doubt all of us who are familiar with the comics figured that one out. But there's really no point of reference for casual viewers. They need a few more clues. Even then, there's never been a reference to Bane's Venom in the films, IIRC. I blocked out so much of Batman and Robin that I can't remember. Of course the casual audience might be more likely to conflate it with Joker Venom, which the writers of this show might do, too. Either way, the casual viewers get their eureka moment, too.
It was the Wayne Family Mcguffin.
The general audience has no idea what Venom is.It's not in Dark Knight Rises. Is it named in Batman and Robin? I haven't seen it in forever.
LOL, that's actually what I said.
Well whatever they are up to in terms of story, hopefully the producers do something quick, as I'm losing interest in the show very quick, and the Penguin arc is starting to grow mould. I might just stop watching it and wait for the Blu-Ray to come out.
Batman isn't really a hero?
You're not thinking fourth dimensionally Mr Light.
This show is literally making fun of the Batman mythos.
Not at all -- it's reinforcing it by showing how badly Gotham needed heroes. It's cynical attitudes like Dix's -- and like Bullock's 10 years later -- that contributed to Gotham being such a corrupt mess, and that's why it needed people like Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne to introduce some heroism into the mix.
Batman runs around in the dark beating street thugs half to death.
Superman rescues kittens from trees.
Hero is a very relative term.
Superman rescues kittens from trees.
Hero is a very relative term.
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