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Odradek · 2014-09-22 21:02:18

Gotham is a more interesting failure than Agents of SHIELD

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-22 22:24:32

Elaborate

Bee · 2014-09-23 23:31:09

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

Anonus · 2014-09-24 00:13:39

Yarrun XIX said:
Elaborate

Imipolex G · 2014-09-24 20:58:26

I am the terror that flaps in the night

Odradek · 2014-09-25 22:11:12

Because abject failure is always more interesting than mediocrity

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-25 22:14:35

Fair.

I would like to know more about how both of them fail, possibly without having to subject myself to the material personally

Anonus · 2014-09-25 22:45:59

Mother enjoyed Gotham, but all the nerd-type nerds seem to hate it

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-25 22:53:57

I just kind of can't imagine the appeal in a show that is essentially "famous superhero property with all superheroes removed". It just seems counterproductive.

Anonus · 2014-09-25 22:56:36

I can't either, honestly

Also part of me wondered when in 30 years or so we'd get a show like this called Townsville :P

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-09-25 22:57:58

I can potentially see the appeal, because I like backstories on principle, but I can also see where it could go terribly wrong right out of the gate. Or, alternately, start out awful and steadily improve.

Section42L · 2014-09-25 23:08:49

I can't vouch for it, but I've heard that Gotham Central did a decent job with the premise of exploring the Gotham City police sans Batman. I doubt that Gotham is anything like that, though.

thenamelesssamurai · 2014-09-25 23:12:03

Section42L said:
I can't vouch for it, but I've heard that Gotham Central did a decent job with the premise of exploring the Gotham City police sans Batman. I doubt that Gotham is anything like that, though.

I read it. It remember it being pretty good overall.

criminalscum · 2014-09-26 00:33:57

Is it better or worse than Smallville?

Hexartes · 2014-09-26 21:31:21

There really aren't hard and fast rules for such a thing, though.

Also, Gotham as a concept isn't terribly ambitious considering it's just a reverse-engineering of what Marvel's done.

Odradek · 2014-09-26 21:44:27

Not really no

Odradek · 2014-09-26 21:44:41

Not in the way that Justice League thing is gonna be

Hexartes · 2014-09-26 21:47:48

And it also seems to be this weird extension of the "fun, costumes, color are incompatible with Quality" idea ushered in by trying to ape the style of The Dark Knight without its substance.

Odradek · 2014-09-26 21:53:16

Kexruct said:
And it also seems to be this weird extension of the "fun, costumes, color are incompatible with Quality" idea ushered in by trying to ape the style of The Dark Knight without its substance.

Thus not aping what Marvel is doing.

Hexartes · 2014-09-26 21:54:59

You can imitate more than one trend at a time. High concept and all that.

Besides, it's all just texture anyway.

Section42L · 2014-09-26 23:11:59

I sympathize with your desire to see nerd tears, but I don't want to see characters like Sandman and Shazam! get ruined in the process.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-09-27 01:11:03

Section42L said:
I sympathize with your desire to see nerd tears, but I don't want to see characters like Sandman and Shazam! get ruined in the process.

Agreed.

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