MY REVIEW ON GOTHAM (THE SERIES)

MY REVIEW ON GOTHAM (THE SERIES)

Gotham is a new take on the batman comic books showing a different approach to other mediums like the movies and animated series of the ‘Dark knight’ stories with the perspective of a young officer James Gordon instead in the dark and dangerous Gotham City with a life before the cape crusader. A darker and more modern themed experience which follows suit to the movies and character styles of the modern age animated series. The characters are not hard to distinguish with young cat women Selina Kyle calling herself cat and Edward Nygma ‘young code braking detective’ as The Riddler. This form of identification is OK but is watered down and under interesting as the theme doesn’t develop them better as most people watching the show are already fans of the DC universe and know it like the back of their hands so, this gives no thrill in finding the character’s information.

 

The show is consistent to the comic books and keeps all character information the same whilst giving them a new look that keeps us aware of who they are and what stage of development they are in. This showing of development is mostly important in characters like Bruce Wayne after his parents are murdered in front him, the butler becomes his legal guardian refused treatment for Bruce after his parents told Alfred ‘Bruce’s guardian butler’ in the event not to do so.

 

However, the show isn’t perfect with not so great story development and character backgrounds and over covered areas of information like their hobbies and interest which factor which don’t have nothing to with the show like ‘The Penguins eating habits and Bruce’s dark clothing and home’.

 

The show does however gives us good viewing material as unlike the movies and comic books the show is in more understandable feeling with almost now CGI in this show until later the shows airing. The show has many features wrong though like the feel to the show. For instance, for a in the flesh show the show gives of a very cartoony feeling in comparison with another show the Batman animated series which is supposed to be cartoony however it’s not with deep and disturbing matter like death and domestic violence with ‘this show is a masterpiece with amazing voice acting, incredible artwork and introduction of new characters like Harley Quin’ the show is a symbol of the once modern genre of cartoons and resins as one of if not the best representations of Batman With features like deep character story’s and amazing adaption to the big screen in the later made movie which surprised fans and non-fans alike 

I give credit to the show as it gives a fairly decent backstory to characters like Oswald cobbelpot and Bruce Wayne but they were aiming to appeal to over-darkened audiences with themes like blatant homicide and family murders in the pilot episode alone which begs the question ‘Are tv show’s showing more events like murder and death appealing us as audiences to watch?’ and the answer is ‘maybe?’ as we transgress from more censored tv to a more open and brutal airing of once children based reading pleasures we forget that those children are now men and women and they are still enjoying the stories even after growing up.

The show was fair and decent and hopefully will become better in later instalments.