Monday, October 6, 2014

Gotham 3rd Episode reaction

I've decided I may do 2 reactions per episode, one soon after it airs, and maybe another when I've had more time to process things.

My Tweets
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Characters I want to see on Gotham

First of all, I can't believe I didn't think of this as soon as the premise was announced, Dr. Leslie Tompkins.  She is important to Bruce's childhood.

Since the reopening of Arkham Asylum is gonna be a thing, we ought to see Jeremiah Arkham.

I want Barbara 1 to give have given birth to Barbara 2 by the end of Season 2.  We know that marriage is destined to fail and I don't want it dragged out to much.  I could care less however about the Son Gordon has.

Thomas Elliot and Roman Sionis have both been villains implied to be childhood friends or family friends of Bruce/The Waynes.  Thing about Elliot is I don't like the comic character that much, but I love The Joker Blogs re-imagining of him.  As unlikely as it may be, I'd love to see that version of the character as a teenager.

I'd like Selina to make friends with Holly Robinson soon, I was hoping the Blond Orphan in the second episode would be her, but that seems unlikely now.

I also feel like the overlooked really early pre Batman#1 Batman villians would be interesting choices.  Hugo Strange is the most well known of those.  Dr.Death might seem like the same thing as Strange to some, but I'd make Strange like a Moriarty or Cornelius Kramm figure, and Dr.Death a more typical mad Scientist.

But I personally would be most interested in seeing The Monk (ReImagined a few times since.).  He'd be perfect for a Halloween episode, create a Vampire Panic in Gotham, but it turns out to be a naturally explained in the end.....  or is it?
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Reactions to Gotham, Second Episode and more on the first

I'm hooked on Gotham now, the Second Episode has me sold on it.

The chemistry between Gordon and Bullock is falling into place pretty well.  The Mayor is interesting.

What really sold this episode was Selina, she is proving to be a wonderful little Street Urchin.

I don't really have a lot specific to say on Episode 2 that I didn't already say in Tweets.

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I could not stop Geeking over the part about Bruce creeping up on people.
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 Of course what we really need to see Bruce do is sneak away while Gordon is talking.

I want to say some more on the Pilot, mostly what I feel is the most unfair criticism, all the stuff I see in other reviews about "clobbering us over the head" with who they will be.

Oswald Cobblepot being insultingly called a "Penguin" because of his unattractive features, and being constantly bothered by that, is part of the Character and his issues.  People who know the character beyond the Berdgess Meredith caricature should understand that.  Instead I keep seeing "we don't need be told he looks like a penguin every scene".

As for Edward Nygma, if this wasn't a show that was an Adaptation of something I think that scene in the Pilot would've been recognized as a perfectly natural way to established the character as being eccentric with a need to express himself in an unusual way, and the hardass Cop is of course annoyed by it.

And I've even seen people complain that Selina had to have a scene with a Cat.

The Gimmicks these people are nicknamed after are part of the character and a part of setting they character up, they didn't just come out of nowhere.
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I’m really sick of people who hate The Prequel Trilogy

I don’t care what their opinion is, what annoys me is how these people feel like they own Star Wars, and there are so many places on the Internet where I can’t express my Love of Episode I or the others without being told that somehow invalidates any opinion I’ve ever held.

Not only do I like the Prequel Trilogy, not only do I like it MORE then the Original Trilogy. I would not be a Star Wars fan at all if it was still only the OT. I enjoy those films like I do lots of movies, but their appeal to me is very limited.

Criticisms of the Prequels fall into 3 Categories

1. Problems that the OT also had but OT fan-boys are in denial about, bad dialogue, wooden acting and poor writing, being Kid friendly ect…

2. Ridiculously pointless nitpicking.  This of course plague lots of movie among online haters.  It inevitably overlaps with number 1.

3. The very things they don’t like are why I love them, i.e. they want different things from a Space Opera then I do, and that’s fine but they consider their preferences to be an indisputable agreed upon standard. Examples, Taxation Dispute, not being as simple Black and White as the OT is ect….

For me Episode I is the most Nostalgic, I was only 13 when that came out, it is a big part of the tail end of my Childhood. And seeing it on the Big screen again for the 3D release brought me right back to it, right from the Opening scroll, actually the first time I’ve ever began to tear up in a movie theater.

That’s why the “Lucas ruined my childhood” people outright offend me, they can’t respect people who have different Childhood experiences then them. Episode I was for me everything the OT was for them, and what I experienced for the re-release I’m sure is like what it was for them when the Special Editions came out in 97.
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Taxation Dispute

I find it humorous when people complain about the Taxation dispute, with the OT they love to brag about how it echos various mythologies, but this is just another example of that theme.

The Iliad begins with a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon over the spoils of war. Bram Stoker’s Novel Dracula is initially about a real estate transaction. The Richard Burton film The Robe’s events are instigated by the protagonist besting the future Emperor in a slave auction. The Burton and Peter O’Tool film Becket revolved around the controversy over what to do when a Priest is accused of a Crime. The story of David opens with a disagreement between King Saul and The Prophet Samuel about what to do with a Political prisoner.  The events in Batman Returns are largely set in motion because Max Shreck wants to get around political red tape keeping him from building a Power Plant.  And the crisis in Jurassic Park is caused by Corporate espionage.

It’s a framing device, not what the film is actually about, is Episode IV merely about the transportation of a Battlestations’s stolen Blueprints?  But only with Episode 1 is this kind of framing device ever a criticism. It just shows how irrationally obsessed these haters are with finding things to B!tch about.

The Trade Federation is also clearly modeled after the old East India Company, with the term Viceroy and all.

The film I’ve been writing in my head about the Hasmonean Revolt also begins with a Taxation dispute, still during the Reign of Seleucus IV who Daniel calls “A Raiser of Taxes” in chapter 11. The opening narration deals with the prophecies in Daniel and the back-story of Alexander, the Wars of Succession, The Laodicean War and Antiochus Megas, but ends with the statement that Helicon, the King’s treasurer is coming to Jerusalem.
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Captian America is an Archetype

Captain America is a more archetypical character then people realize. They see his Americanness and figure he can’t very relate to any Ancient Archetypes.

The thing is that Steve Rogers is for the U.S. what Lancelot is for the English and D’Artagnan for the French, and Achilles and Hector to the Ancient Greeco-Romans. Each is that culture’s concept of their ideal Solider/Knight.

And that often includes a willingness to go against their own Government when it goes bad.  And that is why Winter Solider is an awesome movie.
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Only a Sith speaks in Absolutes

Thing about this quote that Obi-Won says to Anakin in Revenge of The Sith after he says "You're either with me, or you're my enemy".  What people miss is that it's Ironic.

I don't know if it was intentional on Lucas' part or not (Update: I do now think it was intentional), but the fact is it's inconsistent with the entire rest of the movie in terms of how the Sith and Jedi are portrayed philosophically.

Palpatine wasn't speaking in Absolutes when he said "Evil is a point of view Anakin" or "to understand the great mystery one must study all it's aspects, not just the dogmatic narrow minded view of The Jedi".

But later into their fight scene, Obi-Won and Anakin have another exchange.

Obi-Won: The Chancellor is Evil
Anakin: Form my point of view The Jedi are evil
Obi-Won: Then you are truly lost

Who's speaking in Absolutes there?

The truth is, it's Palpatine who comes off like a Moral Relativist.  And The Jedi like narrow minded absolutists.

The main reason so many mis this is that so many people were working at the time under the assumption that Palpatine=Republican=Conservative.  Truth is however in Episode II he was faining reluctance at going to War, which is much more like Obama's current strategy, then Bush and the Neo-Cons in 2002.
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