I don't quite get the point of this show. This could be any kind of generic crime drama with Bat-Egg (it's like an Easter Egg but darker, broodier, and countless millions of people practically fall into paroxysms of ecstasy whenever the merest hint of it is mentioned) plastered all over it. We're not getting the twisted, larger-than-life stuff here. If I want gritty, character-driven crime drama I can go watch any number of other shows and not have to deal with the foul taste of Bat getting into everything.
OT: Nothing very original about their take on Wayne. The recipe doesn't vary, just the proportion of ingredients. If they're going to be focusing on the traumatized child angle, so be it, but I'd almost rather see how having a doting father figure like Alfred fails to stop a traumatized Bruce from becoming a hobo-beating basement dwelling psycho. I'd rather not see the redemption so much as the failure in this case, the underlying message that becoming Batman wasn't necessarily the right path to take. That story, with the desperate Gotham PD facing a rising tide of crime borne by people who will become monsters given the right catalyst, would be one I'd watch.
OT: Nothing very original about their take on Wayne. The recipe doesn't vary, just the proportion of ingredients. If they're going to be focusing on the traumatized child angle, so be it, but I'd almost rather see how having a doting father figure like Alfred fails to stop a traumatized Bruce from becoming a hobo-beating basement dwelling psycho. I'd rather not see the redemption so much as the failure in this case, the underlying message that becoming Batman wasn't necessarily the right path to take. That story, with the desperate Gotham PD facing a rising tide of crime borne by people who will become monsters given the right catalyst, would be one I'd watch.
