Gotham Trailer

Gotham Trailer
IGN

MAX. Pretty good show. Good production values, mostly realistic, but the characters and their actions are exaggerated, like somebody turned the dial up a couple of notches.

We've got all the standard Batman elements, 

• a young Bruce Wayne, 
• the murder of his parents, 
• Alfred, the ever faithful butler, 
• Jim Gordon, the straight arrow detective, 
• the Maroni 
• and Falcone crime families, and of course, the sleaziest weasel in all of gangster land, 
• the Penguin.

I've been kind of avoiding all the Batman movies. I mean, I've seen a couple, back when the Batmobile was the star, but that was enough for me. Funny I don't remember the story from either of those two, other than what I related earlier. But I am enjoying this show and Penguin. It's kind of like Perry Mason, you get to see the same characters over and over again. Probably part of the attraction of Soap Operas.

 

A good show for me has to have some continuity. Actions in one need to have plausible consequences in another. It may take a while, but when so and so falls off the cliff, we need to know what happened to him, or at least know that someone went looking for him. You can't just run a car full of characters off a cliff and just forget about it. One problem with soap operas is they will just conjure a problem out of thin air, and any normal people would easily deal with it, but soap operas use this made up problem to provoke a small war which is somehow brought to a truce by the end of the episode.

I dunno how accurate any of that was, I was just attempting to set down my feelings on the matter.