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Good God, why?

posted 7 years ago by NotoriousRio (12927)
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Haven’t they learnt anything from Gotham?

I enjoy watching Gotham but its set up ruins the Batman mythos a little, with Jim Gordon defeating most of Batman’s villains or killing them, and is just not interesting enough without an adult Bruce Wayne as the Dark Knight.

It’ll be the same with this Pennyworth show but without Bruce this time, it’s just being made to cash in on Batman, and I’ve no doubt that a Young Alfred Pennyworth will fight half of Batman’s rogues gallery long before the show is over. 😫

[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

You nailed it

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

You might want to watch it first. It was actually better than most Batman movies. At least in Pennyworth, Alfred actually kills baddies instead of the overly PC Batman movies where he doesn't dare kill anyone just bundle them up for the police.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I enjoyed it as well and like that is linked more to Michael Caine's Alfred than Sean Pertwee's, which may continue down the line like one the of comic versions as in when he was SAS and: " Alfred was hired away from the British Royal Family by Bruce's parents, and he virtually raised Bruce after they were murdered." Though given Gotham was a big melting pot using different aspects of most the DC Multiverses in one, this may well do the same and mix it all together as it's own with nods to others. Like in his how Alfred asks what's it like to be an Actor and how he likes acting, in one Multiverse Alfred is a retired actor and intelligence agent, all up though to take from how it's set in the Britain it is I'd say it's a right ol' knees up, thus far.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

How does it ruin the mythos when Gotham is set in another DC multiverse that has nothing to do with any of the other Batman movies or stories and is one of it's own.

Just another take on it all like the other comic ones for instance:

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Wayne_(Flashpoint_Timeline)

In the alternate timeline of Flashpoint, robber Joe Chill kills the young Bruce Wayne rather than his parents. As a result, Thomas Wayne wishes revenge so takes up to mantle of Batman, but unlike his son he is far more ruthless in his actions as he is happy to kill any criminal that gets in his way. His wife Martha Wayne is so traumatized by the event she cut her face into a garish grin and soon enough, descends into insanity and becomes the altered timeline's Joker.

The comics have had so many changes in the last 80 years I don't get why people get so bent out of shape about it, and most of what I end up reading is that they think it should be all 1992's Batman: The Animated Series (which change heaps as well). I disliked the 1960's Batman series but all up just figure that one's not for me, so just took it as that it is what it is and moved on let people who like it like it.

I mena so many Multiverses: https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2019/04/18/the-map-of-the-multiverse

[–] ATG6 (3000) 5 years ago

But Gotham was the best show on TV for a few years. This just seems dark and violent.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 2 years ago

Why would I watch this peripheral triviality?