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Here's the "Gotham" trailer. Pretty much what you'd expect. Looks pretty, though. update: Full two-minutes extended trailer. BrianWilly fucked around with this message at 02:29 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 6, 2014 01:32
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Looks kinda cool even, though I giggle at the thought of Batman's origins happening in 2014. Did the Waynes die after taking Bruce to see Amazing Spider-man 2? Will Bruce start his kung-fu training with Youtube tutorials?
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May 6, 2014 01:36
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Looks kinda cool even, though I giggle at the thought of Batman's origins happening in 2014. Little Bruce starts training in Japan, comes back six weeks later with 500 mangas and a body pillow girlfriend.
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May 6, 2014 02:03
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McSpanky posted:Little Bruce starts training in Japan, comes back six weeks later with 500 mangas and a body pillow girlfriend. "Alfred, I told you my waifu wants HOT water!" "Alfred, get the Martial Arts VR Training Room ready!" "Master Bruce, I still cannot fathom how to turn on this Xbox One machine."
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May 6, 2014 02:13
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The extended trailer seemed fairly derivative of Nolan, but if nothing else it'll be cool watching Rawls from The Wire play a curmudgeonly crime boss.
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May 6, 2014 03:44
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Looks fairly dull and lifeless, I have no real interest, but man is that a quick turn-around. It doesn't feel like it was announced that long ago.
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May 6, 2014 05:54
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Hakkesshu posted:Looks fairly dull and lifeless, I have no real interest, but man is that a quick turn-around. It doesn't feel like it was announced that long ago.
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May 6, 2014 08:19
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Before the Pengiun...he was a younger penguin looking dude? It looks terrible but maybe Fox can do a Sleepy Hollow with it and just go as batshit dumb and crazy as possible to make it work.
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May 6, 2014 08:30
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Waterhaul posted:Before the Pengiun...he was a younger penguin looking dude? How dumb can you go with it before it ceases to be recognizable and alienates its major audience? They are screwed because the fact of the matter is people are going to want this show to be more Batman than the executives at WB/DC will likely let them be, especially since they are about to reboot the character for movies. They should have pulled an Arrow or Flash and put in some other second stringer into a TV show.
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May 6, 2014 09:01
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ToastyPotato posted:How dumb can you go with it before it ceases to be recognizable and alienates its major audience? They are screwed because the fact of the matter is people are going to want this show to be more Batman than the executives at WB/DC will likely let them be, especially since they are about to reboot the character for movies. They should have pulled an Arrow or Flash and put in some other second stringer into a TV show. I would watch the show if they went super dumb and had Batboy and Catgirl off fighting crime. That's how dumb they should go.
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May 6, 2014 09:43
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Waterhaul posted:I would watch the show if they went super dumb and had Batboy and Catgirl off fighting crime. That's how dumb they should go. Oh come on, they wouldn't go that stupid. This is the same logic that got us Smallville, you need to think more dumb. It'd be "the Night" and "Feline" fighting crime.
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May 6, 2014 12:43
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:"Alfred, I told you my waifu wants HOT water!"
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May 6, 2014 15:11
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ToastyPotato posted:How dumb can you go with it before it ceases to be recognizable and alienates its major audience? They are screwed because the fact of the matter is people are going to want this show to be more Batman than the executives at WB/DC will likely let them be, especially since they are about to reboot the character for movies. They should have pulled an Arrow or Flash and put in some other second stringer into a TV show. They only have the TV rights for Batman I thought. How are they working Bullock in though? Doesn't he fall under characters WB still has control of for television?
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May 6, 2014 15:16
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That Gotham trailer just made me miss Southland. Imma just pretend Ben Sherman got transferred to Gotham.
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May 6, 2014 15:24
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The vibe I got from the trailer was "Before they became interesting characters you like, they were a bunch of random kids and adolescents in a city". Still passing on this one.
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May 6, 2014 16:16
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What is the reason for not just making a Batman live-action series? With Batman?
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May 6, 2014 17:09
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qntm posted:What is the reason for not just making a Batman live-action series? With Batman? WB doesn't want Batman on TV while there's Batman movIes.
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May 6, 2014 17:13
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I'll probably watch the first few episodes, if only for Donald Logue as Harvey Bullock, but my expectations are very low. Hopefully It'll be good and Arrow gets a buddy in the "Good comic-book TV show" category.
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May 6, 2014 17:21
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They missed their opportunity to have it take place in 1930's Chic....er....Gotham.
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May 6, 2014 17:23
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Aphrodite posted:WB doesn't want Batman on TV while there's Batman movIes. Apparently they also don't want Batman off TV so I guess this was the compromise. So is it just a coincidence that this, Arrow and Agents of SHIELD are all set in superhero universes but none of the main characters have any super powers? If I had to guess I'd assume that keeping the FX budgets as low as possible was a big factor in getting these series greenlit.
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May 6, 2014 17:29
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Apparently they also don't want Batman off TV so I guess this was the compromise. Well there's also The Flash.
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May 6, 2014 17:30
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Aphrodite posted:Well there's also The Flash. Ah of course there is. 
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May 6, 2014 17:32
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Unless it has a young Egghead or King Tut, not worth the time.
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May 6, 2014 17:41
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Madkal posted:They missed their opportunity to have it take place in 1930's Chic....er....Gotham. That'd cost way more money to produce.
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May 6, 2014 18:17
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I've been poo-pooing Gotham since it was announced how radically different it would be from GCPD proper... But I really liked that trailer.
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May 6, 2014 21:22
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I just found out there's rumors of an Hourman show on CW, and rather than have the obvious Arrow connection of Rex/Rick as a scientist who reverse engineers Mirakuru into Miraclo and then has his moral dilemma about addiction and superheroics, it's about a scientist who sees crimes that will occur one hour from now. I've never gone from excited to disinterested so fast 
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May 6, 2014 21:35
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Gotham still does nothing for me. Unless they do a time skip at some point, Bruce is just too young to get interesting. He's, what, ten years away from being the Bat? More? I can't get excited about them doing the uninteresting stuff before the character gets cool.
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May 6, 2014 21:49
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jng2058 posted:I can't get excited about them doing the uninteresting stuff before the character gets cool. That's why I've never watched a minute of Smallville.
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May 6, 2014 22:12
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I watched the whole first episode, said "Nope!" and never looked back. I'm told that the last season of Smallville was basically the JLA the TV Show or something, but I simply couldn't find it in me to care.
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May 6, 2014 22:21
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I can't wait for the first episode to have Kid Riddler and Young Pengiun, and every single other episode will be generic cop show plots with Gordon dropping in to talk to Young Bruce for a minute.
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May 6, 2014 22:32
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Including a very special episode where Gordon teaches Bruce that drugs are neither cool nor the correct way to deal with the loss of his parents. v Man, Lou Diamond Phillips would have made the best teen-Bane. Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 22:58 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 6, 2014 22:46
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Urdnot Fire posted:Including a very special episode where Gordon teaches Bruce that drugs are neither cool nor the correct way to deal with the loss of his parents. Because everything is connected, it will be venom.
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May 6, 2014 22:53
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I still maintain the best possible show would have been one about Bruce's parents and their involvement with Gotham's secret societies for rich people. You could still get the Cobblepots that way, and get some Arkham stuff going too.
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May 7, 2014 00:06
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twistedmentat posted:I can't wait for the first episode to have Kid Riddler and Young Pengiun, and every single other episode will be generic cop show plots with Gordon dropping in to talk to Young Bruce for a minute. The Riddler is actually an adult in the trailer. If the early script is right, he's works at the GCPD forensics lab or morgue. Probably autistic too. I just hope they abandoned that whole "criminal guy doing a stand up routine that is really funny" thing. I also realised they created a new character for Jada Pinkett-Smith to play because they need an older antagonist for the series, considering most of Batman's rogues would be in their 20s at the oldest.
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May 7, 2014 00:08
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ToastyPotato posted:I still maintain the best possible show would have been one about Bruce's parents and their involvement with Gotham's secret societies for rich people. You could still get the Cobblepots that way, and get some Arkham stuff going too. They might as well just do steampunk alternate reality Batman then. Don't have to worry about continuity and we can bring back zeppelins and tommy guns.
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May 7, 2014 00:11
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The MSJ posted:The Riddler is actually an adult in the trailer. If the early script is right, he's works at the GCPD forensics lab or morgue. Probably autistic too. I just hope they abandoned that whole "criminal guy doing a stand up routine that is really funny" thing. The Owl people, the League of Assassins, Ras Al Ghul, Hugo Strange, the Cobblepots, and the Arkhams. There has been a lot of pre-Batman story telling done over the years, buuuuut being familiar with their own characters and their histories is probably too much to ask of them.
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May 7, 2014 00:12
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ToastyPotato posted:The Owl people, the League of Assassins, Ras Al Ghul, Hugo Strange, the Cobblepots, and the Arkhams. There has been a lot of pre-Batman story telling done over the years, buuuuut being familiar with their own characters and their histories is probably too much to ask of them. I wonder why they did not just use Falcone if they wanted a mobster character, but I guess they really wanted Jada Pinker-Smith to be in the series. Strange would also made sense as well, maybe as Bruce's therapist or something. R'as is probably something they avoid because of Arrow. I just realised that a 10-year-old Hush could be in this series as well.
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May 7, 2014 00:37
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The MSJ posted:I wonder why they did not just use Falcone if they wanted a mobster character, but I guess they really wanted Jada Pinker-Smith to be in the series. Strange would also made sense as well, maybe as Bruce's therapist or something. R'as is probably something they avoid because of Arrow. It would be hilarious if the suits at WB cockblocked their own Batman based TV series from using a key Batman villain because they referenced him in another one of their shows (because even though they are now very desperate to set up their own shared universe, they have no idea how to do it, and can't help but take a shotgun approach to everything they make.) ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 01:08
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SO I just watched the trailer, and while I'm still not sold on alot of it, I'm feeling a little less poo poo about it. That being said, it was a two minute trailer, but we;ll see.
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May 7, 2014 01:14
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The MSJ posted:I wonder why they did not just use Falcone if they wanted a mobster character, but I guess they really wanted Jada Pinker-Smith to be in the series. Strange would also made sense as well, maybe as Bruce's therapist or something. R'as is probably something they avoid because of Arrow. Isn't John Doman playing one of the mobsters? (Rawls from The Wire) Also, I want to point out again that Pinkett-Smith's character is called 'Fish', almost definitely so they can do the joke where Cobblepot notes that Penguins eat Fish. I'm not sure WHICH of the two possible contexts is more likely, though.
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May 7, 2014 01:58
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