TV News Thread

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I liked Leviathan Wakes but haven't gotten around to reading any more in the series.

It has the potential to be a good series if done well.

[The Lurker]

http://www.noise11.com/news/efrem-zimbalist-jr-dead-at-95-20140503

[Sideswipe]

Alfred takes a well earned retirement.

[Johnny Unusual]

First preview for Gotham.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/0d1zpt6k5OI" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/0d1zpt6k5OI</a>

[mrbasehart]

The allusions to all the future villains is a little much, but otherwise, it looks neat!

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic.  Personally, I always thought it would be cool to have a show about young, angry but rather unskilled Bruce Wayne travelling around the world to learn new skills and meeting new characters on the way, but this looks like a neat alternative.

[Sideswipe]

It looks like they are trying to do a Batman show without Batman.  That doesnt make sense to me.  If they want to tell a story about a young Gordon, they need to get rid of 95% of the Batman references and have him taking on police and government corruption or organized crime.  Give him his own nemesis.

[mrbasehart]

It looks like they are trying to do a Batman show without Batman.  That doesnt make sense to me.  If they want to tell a story about a young Gordon, they need to get rid of 95% of the Batman references and have him taking on police and government corruption or organized crime.  Give him his own nemesis.

I'm going to go on the assumption that the reveals of the future Batman villains are really just teasers, and that the central drama will be all about Gordon getting to grips with Gotham and being a decent cop.

[Darth Geek]

Got ham? Wait till you see Bruce Wayne like ham!

[RoninFox]

There's part of me that wants this show to eventually morph into the one that Kevin Smith and Paul Dini pitched on an episode of Fatman on Batman that would focus on a teenage Bruce Wayne in boarding school starting to hone his skills and uncovering crime and conspiracies on the campus.

[ScottotD]

  NBC is the opposite of Batman 

[doggans]

NBC is the opposite of Batman 

They're like a fun vampire. They don't suck blood...they just suck.

[TheUnabeefer]

Killing both Community AND Revolution... and Revolution was getting really good too! It was finally getting up to what I'd expect from Kripke and Edlund.

Oh well.. I guess the only full-season-length shows I watch now are Person Of Interest and Supernatural.

[gbeenie]

Killing both Community AND Revolution... and Revolution was getting really good too!

So did Revolution leapfrog over the time when it was even slightly good? Cuz the show I was forced to watch for half a season was a festering pile of garbage from the word jump.

[TheUnabeefer]

Killing both Community AND Revolution... and Revolution was getting really good too!

So did Revolution leapfrog over the time when it was even slightly good? Cuz the show I was forced to watch for half a season was a festering pile of garbage from the word jump.

You must have watched the first half of season 1.

Season 1, part 1 was "Oh come on. We KNOW you can do better than this!!" about maybe a 2-3 on a scale of 1-10.

Season 1, part 2 was "Okay Kripke, you're getting closer... but not quite" on a sliding growth as the season progressed steadily from 3 to about a 5-6 on a scale of 1-10

Season 2 started off at an 8 or a 9 and has held steady around 9.5 recently... and I find myself saying "God this show is awesome" at times... and Giancarlo Esposito in the most recent episode has become even more brutal and cold than he was in Breaking Bad.

So yeah, the show JUMPED up in quality at the start of season 2. Every episode gets better and better... Mostly due to the addition of Ben Edlund and Rockne S O'bannon to the writing staff.  (Particularly Edlund, who was Kripke's "story glue" on Supernatural)

Actually sad to see it go, despite its sorry-ass first season. (Season 2 has been so good, I actually bought season 1 on blu ray)