So I wanted the Gotham TV show pilot. It was good. Yeah, and that's the thing, it was just good. Not great, not bad, just good. It setup an interesting city with interesting characters and a lot of potential plotlines. Plus even as the Marvel fan that I am, I did get just a bit giddy when they not really introduced not quite villains.
But the main issue was that, well, its a Batman story without Batman. The pilot starts off with Bruce Wayne's parents getting killed, so we have a good twenty-ish years before Batman can really be Batman. And all of the Super Villains are now the pre-Super not so Villainous Villains who I guess we will see turn into the Super Villains we all know and love.
I was sort of hoping Gotham was going to be more like the comic series Gotham Central, which followed the Gotham Police in a world with crazy super villains and super heroes who are doing all sorts of wild and usually technically illegal things. It was interesting to see how Police in such a different world react and think of things. But instead we see how police deal with things... pre-Super Villains, which I assume will get so bad that Super Villains will be formed and require Super Heroes to save the world.
I don't know, I mean I will still keep watching the show because it does seem interesting. It just leaves me with an overall feeling of 'Good, not Great'. Which is, well, better than being bad, right?
Oh, and don't even get me started on how awesome that Agents of Shield season premiere was!
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