The premise for Gotham is pretty awesome; it follows a young Jim Gordon as he tries to clean up the streets of Gotham. Jim isn't alone in this quest, though. He is accompanied by his alcoholic partner Harvey Bullock. Part of the thing that really drew me to the show other than the universe that it takes place in, is the fact that it is going to introduce us to the Batman villains that we have grown to love, but before they were full blown super villains.
This is definitely the most anticipated show of the new television season. It was so anticipated that Netflix is going to pay two-million dollars an episode for the streaming rights. For that kind of money, you would expect the episodes to play the very next day, but they don't. Netflix is paying that much an episode for the future streaming rights. I hope this means that Fox will want to make a little extra money, and give the season an even longer order of episodes than they normally would. While it is almost a sure thing, the show hasn't even been picked up for a full season order. That is how much faith Netflix has in it.
From this point on you should be warned that there are spoilers in this review.
The first episode of Gotham was exactly what I thought it was going to be. It starts out with the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. I know a lot of people think that this should have been later on in the season, and the Wayne's should have been supporting characters, but I think in the long run this will take us quicker to Batman. Bruce is supposed to see his parents die when he is a kid. If they waited any longer people would probably complain that Bruce was too old. If Bruce was any older when he saw his parents die, he probably would have become some emo cutter instead of the worlds greatest detective. I also think that trying to solve the case of who killed the Wayne's is a great case to start Gordon and Bullock on. What other great crime can you think of that needs to be solved in the Batman universe? Their deaths rock the whole city, and you need to establish Gordon as the great cop/detective that he is by "solving" this crime. Not to anyone's surprise, they don't solve this case in the first episode, even though they think they do. It seems most of the episode was spent introducing us to the many supporting characters in the show. While some may think that Gotham blew its entire load in the first episode, I think that it was just setting up a universe that people will come back and watch every week. I could be wrong, but I doubt that The Riddler will be in every episode, and even if he is, I doubt the episodes will focus on him. When I saw that he was a CSI person I was like: 'mind blown'. I never even realized that that would be the perfect profession for him. I do have to say that Bullock telling him to not talk in riddles was kind of a slap in the face. It was like the people who wrote the episode thought they needed to spoon feed the audience with who each person becomes in the future. This also shows later on when they introduce a young Poison Ivy. She is shown tending to plants every time we see her. She is shown in two different scenes, if I remember right, and somehow I doubt a little girl is going to just stand in the same place wearing the same clothes tending to a plant. I don't care who she grows up to be. It was also pretty irritating that her name isn't Pamela, but that is neither here nor there. It was also pretty pointless to keep calling Oswald Cobblepot 'penguin'. We all know that he grows up to be The Penguin, but I don't really see what they mean when they tell him he looks like a penguin. Is it because he wears a tuxedo everywhere, or because of his nose? The ending to the show didn't really make any sense to me. Why did Oswald kill that old man? Was it just to kill a man? Did he really want his sandwich, because he wasn't really in the water that long? Am I supposed to assume that he was starving? I just wish the show would have explained the motives for this killing.
I thought the casting of the two leads in this show was pretty awesome, too. The only person that I knew from the cast was Donal Logue. When I was a teenager I loved him in Grounded for Life, and I love him in this show. I have never seen Ben McKenzie in anything, but I think he was perfectly cast in this role. He looks very innocent, but can be a real hard ass when he needs to be. I can't wait to see some of the other actors that make appearances in this show.
Other than those few complaints I talked about, I absolutely loved this show, and I can't wait towatch it every week. Please let me know in the comment section what you thought about the pilot episode.
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