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Spoilers Gotham - Season 3

Going by the press release, it looks like they realized paying an actor for 22 episodes when he only appeared in 3 is a bad idea (Harvey Dent), but they kept Lucius Fox so maybe he'll actually get to do something this time around.
 
Hopefully. He did start doing a lot more in the last few episode of Season 2.
 
Gotham Showrunner’s Superheroes Comments Clarified
“Gotham” showrunner Bruno Heller raised eyebrows last month when he said, “I don’t think superheroes work very well on TV. Probably because of the costume thing.” As puzzling as that statement may have been to some viewers, Executive Producer Ken Woodruff finds it easy to explain, pointing out that Heller was speaking specifically about the Fox drama.

“There’s a reason why he chose to develop a show that took place before the actual fully-realized Batman,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “He thought that that was the best way to tell stories on the medium of television. It was about the origins and it was about real people and how they evolved and became the villains and heroes that we know and we’ve seen in comics and in feature films. A lot of that is just pragmatic and TV is a much more intimate medium sometimes than film can be.”
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That doesn't clarify a thing for me -- except that Heller is exactly as clueless about the genre he's working in as I thought he was. The idea that active superheroes can't be written as "real people" has surely been abundantly disproven by many works of fiction on the page and on the screen over the past three decades. Also, the idea that there is anything remotely realistic about the character writing on Gotham is downright farcical.
 
Yeah, I agree that doesn't really help.
As much as I love Gotham, at this point it's characters are probably less realistic than the ones on The Flash and Supergirl.
 
Christopher said:
That doesn't clarify a thing for me -- except that Heller is exactly as clueless about the genre he's working in as I thought he was. The idea that active superheroes can't be written as "real people" has surely been abundantly disproven by many works of fiction on the page and on the screen over the past three decades. Also, the idea that there is anything remotely realistic about the character writing on Gotham is downright farcical.
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I can understand the notion that it might be easier for audiences to relate to people not running around in masks and tights or at least where one might believe that. Your final point is hard to refute, however. Maybe that contributes to the bonkersness of Gotham though because maybe the facade of an everyday show blinds Heller and Co. to just how nuts their show is.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I can understand the notion that it might be easier for audiences to relate to people not running around in masks and tights or at least where one might believe that.
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I think it's easier to relate to a well-written, recognizably human character in a mask and tights than it is to relate to a campy, over-the-top caricature in a suit and tie.
 
JD said:
They could have just not said anything at all.
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I think it was an interview and the interviewer asked a question about Heller's comments. I doubt that he could answer with a with a "No Comment".
 
Christopher said:
I think it's easier to relate to a well-written, recognizably human character in a mask and tights than it is to relate to a campy, over-the-top caricature in a suit and tie.
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This confirms my original theory. Bruno Heller really doesn't know that there are other Superhero TV shows and no one has the courage to tell him the truth.

[Jack Nicholson voice] He can't handle the truth! [/Jack Nicholson voice].
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I submit that the clone be called Deuce Wayne.

Am I getting acclimated to the madness of Gotham or was that relatively reasonable?


Yeah, about that...
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Yeah, saw that... too bad.

But Alfred calling him "Master B".... umm.. no.

So..this will be low on my list of shows to watch (probably after a few days)
 
Watched Gotham. Jamie Chung is pretty, but this show is still a mess.

And now little girl Ivy is going to turn into a full grown chesty woman who will dress provocatively and have the camera ogling her... while still having the mind of a 13 year old?
 
Aragorn said:
And now little girl Ivy is going to turn into a full grown chesty woman who will dress provocatively and have the camera ogling her... while still having the mind of a 13 year old?
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Didn't you hear Mr. Heller? Because this is a show that talks about REAL PEOPLE and not some weirdo in costume.

REALISM!
 
Skipper said:
Didn't you hear Mr. Heller? Because this is a show that talks about REAL PEOPLE and not some weirdo in costume.

REALISM!
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Nothing is more realistic than the head of a mental institution being able to declare mass murderers sane and letting them out after a couple months.
 
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