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While interviewed by IGN at the Television Critics Association press enlistment , Fox TV prexy Gary Newman casually mentioned that he ’d be open to make a spinoff of the Batman prequel show Gotham , base perhaps on one of the show ’s many scoundrel . No . No .
Let me clear up : Newman did not say he was make a Gotham spinoff , or ordering a original for a Gotham spinoff , or even that he had been imagine about a Gotham spinoff before someone asked him about it . And yet , a Gotham spinoff is such a terrible idea that I must speak , lest this dreaded lot come to pass .
Gotham is a bad show . Now , I find out it , and often I even enjoy it . But it is not a well - made show full of rich , compelling type . It is a hole . It is a show about a bunch of insane , awful people doing insane , terrible things , in a world that seemingly is leading to the Batman universe while the show actually works to destroy every fundament of the Batman universe that we screw .
This is a world where Jim Gordon , ostensibly the only good cop in Gotham , is willing to shoot an unarmed criminal in the cheek ( while he ’s tied up ! ) just in case he confide succeeding crimes . It ’s a populace where Bruce Wayne ’s loyal pantryman Alfred is not just uncoerced , but felicitous , to threaten and strike child . It is a world where Edward Nygma , the man who will become the supervillain known as the Riddler , work in the Gotham City Police Department at a aesculapian examiner , tells people riddle all the time , and even fuddle out of a mug with a question mark on it , and yet is somehow supposed to finally go on to a viable criminal .
Gotham is terrible — but entertainingly so . It is the tv equivalent weight of big riotous food . You may savour it , but not only it is bad for you , it also makes you feel guilty and ashamed for enjoying it , even as you ’re have it .
And we dead do not need any more of it .
Continuing with my regretful fast food analogy , too much crappy nutrient would inevitably make us throw away up , but that ’s not even the real problem ( although I do suspect news of a Gotham spinoff would , in fact , make me vomit ) . It ’s that what is marginally a dainty when it come once a calendar week is strictly disgusting when consume twice a workweek .
And meanwhile , who would the show in reality asterisk ? There ’s no way the show would separate Gordon from his professional partner Bullock , or his romantic partner Leslie Tompkins . As for the villains , making a show about one of the kids — Catwoman , Poison Ivy , Scarecrow , Hush and Firefly — would be a hard sell . Two - Face is n’t Two - Face yet , and he ’s not supposed to become Two - Face until after Batman begin his career . Mr. Freeze and Hugo Strange are coming , but they have n’t really been introduced yet . Jerome , the kid who was not the Joker but acted exactly like the Joker , is all in . Other villains have been introduce , but almost none of them have lasted more than an sequence or so .
In fact , there are only two scoundrel “ large ” enough to theoretically indorse their own appearance : the Riddler and the Penguin . Would you see a hour - long show abut Edward Nygma , the nerdy riddle aficionado who is somehow so unintelligent as to have unexpectedly murdered his girlfriend by quiet down her ? ( Seriously . ) Even despite his preference for unintentionally killing people , he ’s far too slight a character to carry an entire show — he ’s interesting solely as a piece of Gotham ’s roll .
That leaves the Penguin , inarguably the best villain of the show , who ’s played by breakout champion Robin Lord Taylor . aboveboard , Fox could make a show about Oswald Cobblepot ’s rise to power in Gotham City ’s condemnable underworld ; actually , to a magnanimous extent that ’s what Gotham actually is . A show about the Penguin would literally just be Gotham minus Jim Gordon , which is not actually the regretful idea in the world .
However ! Please think Gotham minus the Penguin — it would be unwatchable . Taking aside the show ’s most interesting graphic symbol might make for a great twirl - off , but it would diminish Gotham to the point where you ’re basically trading one show for another . Again , in fast food terms : A moth-eaten roll , some composition board - esque American cheese , a bit of wilted lettuce and an cake of greasy , indeterminate meat make a cheeseburger . Take out the meat patty and what you ’re pull up stakes with is actually just garbage .
count , Fox . I know superhero telecasting shows are all the rage , and you want more . What web would n’t ? But even despite Arrow , The Flash , Supergirl , Constantine , fable of Tomorrow , iZombie , and everything else , there are literally hundred of DC Hero , baddie , team and comedian that you could take to live - action — and should bring to live - activity — before you reduplicate down on an existing superhero series ( on this subject : A second factor of SHIELD show ? derive on , Marvel . There are other choice ) .
In fact , I seem to recall TNT lately passing on a Teen Titans alive - action series . Do n’t you think that might be a slightly more interesting , more watch show than a Gotham spin - off ?
No ? Then you might as well make a Gotham prequel , because you ’re clear as crazy as everyone else on this goddamn show .
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