Gotham

[regretfullySaid]

Came across this article and the show has potential to be interesting. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/ ... al12381224

The pilot with Gordon moving to Gotham and seeing what it's like at the time is a great idea, and Arkham Asylum is probably something I would really enjoy, and just seeing the villains lives beforehand overall, like Heath Ledgers Joker talking about his mom and dad fighting as an example, cutting up the face, etc.

How far back do any of the comics go? I'm assuming writers don't have many specific parts to draw from other than filling in large gaps, so most is anything goes?

[glenn303]

Came across this article and the show has potential to be interesting. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/ ... al12381224

The pilot with Gordon moving to Gotham and seeing what it's like at the time is a great idea, and Arkham Asylum is probably something I would really enjoy, and just seeing the villains lives beforehand overall, like Heath Ledgers Joker talking about his mom and dad fighting as an example, cutting up the face, etc.

How far back do any of the comics go? I'm assuming writers don't have many specific parts to draw from other than filling in large gaps, so most is anything goes?

I am looking forward to this. I hope they can find an actor that sort of resembles a young Gary Oldman. But more importantly good writers.

[lowshelf]

I think that Joker "how I got this smile" tale was just one of several in TDK, tailored to the audience/victim in question. In one of the deleted scenes on Bluray, he said it all stemmed from the Propellerhead's Record/Reason debacle.

[regretfullySaid]

Right, I remembered he changed the story, so maybe it'd be better if they left that part ambiguous.

[lowshelf]

It is a cool idea for a show, smashing ever-popular detective dramas headfirst into police corruption (think 2nd act of Place Beyond the Pines, The Departed), able to tap into real-world dissatisfaction with the political mainstream, amid a prequel backdrop of emerging heroes. And it kinda justifies DC doubling-down on dark and gritty. (I'm just guessing the pilot episode won't end with a flying car.)

[pskept]

The pilot with Gordon moving to Gotham and seeing what it's like at the time is a great idea...

you should check out the animated movie called batman year one as it is a similar concept and really incredible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Ye ... %28film%29

How far back do any of the comics go? I'm assuming writers don't have many specific parts to draw from other than filling in large gaps, so most is anything goes?

a big fad with current comic books, especially dc, is restarting the universes and retelling, or just telling, origination stories. scott snyder's zero year, for example, is telling an incredible batman origin story. its currently villian's month for dc so all villians are getting a one shot that tells their origin story.

[stringtapper]

Right, I remembered he changed the story, so maybe it'd be better if they left that part ambiguous.

The change in story in TDK is part of the Joker lore because there have been different origin stories told in the comics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(com ... us_origins

[H20nly]

+1 for has potential.

+1 another for as close as possible to young Gary Oldman please.

Comic book back stories are always up for changes when a new storyteller/group takes over. it's one of those 'how it is' things with them. certain major elements never change, but the finer details are always up in the air.




*Note: we are all brainwashed for participating in this thread and speaking English.

[glenn303]

Constantine!!!
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/27/47770 ... ped-by-nbc
Hopefully this will stay true to the comic (unlike the movie).

[pskept]

*Note: we are all brainwashed for participating in this thread and speaking English.

[H20nly]

^ we have a poster on the forum who believes that anything related to comic books is American propaganda designed to brainwash us into being apathetic to war crimes. since he hasn't been able to convince anyone to agree with him, at least not in an actual post, his theory is that the reason for this is because we are all from English speaking countries and we have run off the people who do not speak English as a first language. he believes that they would all agree with him wholeheartedly in his anti-American ranting but have moved on... (even though there are at least a dozen or so that post). so i left a disclaimer... since some of us just like comic books and superheros AND still manage to loathe politics and policy at the same time.

[pskept]

haha! wow!

since some of us just like comic books and superheros AND still manage to loathe politics and policy at the same time.

this.