Conch: If you can free up the time, I'd tell you to watch it.
Maybe one of the things I enjoy about this show is the same thing I enjoyed about the original Superman movie from waaaaay back in 78', and the original series before that in the 50's (Superman i.e.) the fact that one of the "lowly" comic books was being turned into mainline entertainment. I remember people scoffing at us as youths when they'd see us reading a comic book. Look around now at what Hollywood is, and has been doing for quite some time. It's not just the so-called "classic" literature and accepted "masterpieces" that are being produced and presented to mainstream America, it's what we used to have to hide from the teacher if we dared take it to school with us in our back pocket. Maybe this is going back too far for most of you, but I'm sure I'm not the only one here who was in grade school in the 50's.
But when Hollywood started to blossom and flourish, (20's, 30's & 40's), they made movies based on what was considered "classics" or history or something accepted by scholars as "legitimate". Maybe that's too broad a statement, but I think you get what I mean. "Trip to the Moon" was kind of ahead of it's time, but it was something more than a few people thought about back then, before it was even considered possible, Flash Gordon etc. could be seen on the screen, but it was mostly kids who were paying attention, and who it was directed to.
Ok, rambled enough for now. I was curious as to how Gotham was going to be done, that was what made me tune in to begin with. After seeing the first few episodes, in my opinion, it is being handled very well. It's not being done as some joke, but being treated like a legitimate piece of quality fiction, if there is such a thing.
I'm just saying, it's well done in my opinion if you're on the fence about whether or not to spend the time looking at it.
(The preceding is a personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion/stance of the management or this station...
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