The first of four new super hero shows this season (Flash, Gotham, Constantine and Peggy Carter Agent of SHIELD) premiered and, while it wasn’t the instant home run that I was hoping for, I have a feeling Gotham is going to build into something quite special. I, for one, will be along for the ride in what is an origin story for a city, really. How did the Gotham City that needed a Batman become to be? That seems to be the show’s guiding principal question.
The protagonists for the show are very much the members of the GCPD. Drawing ideas and characters from Rucka and Brubaker’s Gotham Central run is never going to be a mistake and we get Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen a bit in the pilot, but the main focus is on the two lead characters in the show: Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock. It’s an…
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