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The guy playing Cobblepot just excels in his role. That stare of his is just way too creepy. Enjoying the show thus far I must admit although the Balloonman was a bit of a poor baddie.
 
It's a half-decent show so far but it seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis about where it wants to go. It seems they are trying to blend some of the darkness of Nolan's Batman with the light-heartedness/campier previous versions but I'm not sure if its working - I'd much rather they go in the former direction but then it's a network show so there's only so much they can do with it.
 
Rich_L said:
It's a half-decent show so far but it seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis about where it wants to go. It seems they are trying to blend some of the darkness of Nolan's Batman with the light-heartedness/campier previous versions but I'm not sure if its working - I'd much rather they go in the former direction but then it's a network show so there's only so much they can do with it.
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I came here to pretty much say exactly the same thing.

Ill stick with it, but its not excellent, in fact its stuck firmly in the average zone for me.
 
Quite an intense episode last night. Of course, what was Oswald playing at telling Maroni about Fish and Gordon? While it did work in his favour in the end, I felt that was a silly move on his part.

Bruce. Oh, Bruce. He's starting to become the detective we all know and love. :)

Again, Nygma's presence forced. Honestly, if he never showed up in an episode, I wouldn't miss him.

I liked the concept about Viper and what it eventually becomes. Who knew? Very soon, we'll be heading to Santa Prisca. ;)

And that scene with Bruce and then Alfred showing up with case files and the pair of them working together? Yeah. ;)
 
Better episode this week, it's the first one i've just enjoyed and not found myself picking at anything.
 
I thought it was in general pretty rubbish again.

Stand off between the lieutenants in the warehouse was, I don't know, it's like they are trying to camp it up, standing in weird positions and exaggerating movements. They keep getting Gordon to pull weird faces when he speaks to people. It's all just odd and out of place and the dialogue is frequently terrible.

Then Cat... girl I guess, seriously what, a terrible shot of her landing on a car then sliding down a pretty flat car front.... but without any shot of say dropping down from a fire escape or some other place that would mean dropping down on to a car made any sense at all?

Imagine if you will a wide open street in the middle of a day with cars not parked anywhere near a fire escape with loads of people standing in a queue who will be looking around the place. A girl randomly jumps on top of a car(making a noise), then slides down the front of it.... it's just ridiculous.

Now put that burger cart at the end of an alley with a car parked down it and someone using the alley as a shortcut, her dropping down(silently, because the thud of a someone on a car would make you look around ffs, that might be the most stupid part of it) and nicking a wallet but Gordon looking around happens to see it happen. Now that would be perfectly fine and work as a scene. It's things like that, everything is forced, it's written very poorly with lots of really badly done scenes. If you go back and look at that particular scene it's just embarrassingly stupid. They even throw in for good measure the him running, then the kid struggling with the guy over the wallet, the huge delay in Gordon getting across the street and the ever irritating person disappears in 1 second flat at a distance of 5-10metres with a shot of a street in which there is absolutely no where at all to disappear. She isn't magic ffs.

Again doing that scene at the end of an alley would give places for her to hide or make it out of the alley into a busier road on the other side.

Thoroughly disappointed so far. I don't think Shield has improved much either, I think what happens with a lot of shows that people aren't always aware of is even in a dodgy show you grow to know/like the characters a bit and your opinion changes as you get a bit more invested.

With a lot of shows the first 5 eps you really don't know the characters well so a lot of things seem unnatural for that character but after half a season if you go back and watch those episodes again they likely make a bit more sense and feel more natural as this time you know those characters. Effectively even if a show doesn't change in quality at all people tend to like them more the longer they watch them.
 
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Very mixed, some great bits but some bits that felt lame or just odd/jarring. It has been pretty well shot though if nothing else its quite enjoyable to watch in HD and I recommend if you do watch it you watch it in HD if possible.

EDIT: Oh and Morena Baccarin joining is no bad thing heh.
 
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Drunkenmaster in, 'look how negative I am' wall of text non-shocker!
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Another poster with a "I have the attention span of a gnat, I can't follow points or be part of a discussion so I'll just be negative about DM rather than contribute to the thread with anything even remotely meaningful" post.

I was negative in general because I was discussion a laughably terrible scene done badly in every single way and pointed out how just done marginally differently it would have worked completely fine. It's a sign of people in control of the show who make poor decisions which doesn't bode well for the show.

You could have commented on this, said I was wrong about the scene or even agreed. I wasn't positive about a crap scene thus I must be negative?

But then your post is purely negative also... but also didn't contribute anything to the thread or even mention the show.

Why read my post(if you even did) then comment on the negativity rather than a content. If the negativity is the problem then why are you making your own negative posts?

Just another of a long list of posters who with nothing remotely intelligent to contribute to a thread still feel the need to post and often to have a go at someone else.
 
Gotta be honest, DM. I do think that you tend to over analyse things :)
Something like that really shouldn't bother you to that degree really, but each to their own and all that.
 
Last night's episode was quite good. While I haven't enjoyed Nygma's presence in previous outings. He wasn't too bad last night. Tho his attempt to hit on the lady in the investigation room was cringeworthy at best.

That mask that was worn by the two killers was rather scary. Let's hope Bruce doesn't get wind of it. Also, what was Selina doing at the mansion? I mean she picked something up and then left. What?

That twist at the end tho! Oh Jim what have you done? Next week is going to be interesting for sure! :D
 
Slightly better episode last night, as it wasn't too focused on Gordon for once and allowed other characters to get a look in. Enigma is proving to be quite the interesting character, as is Selina!

That twist at the end :D
 
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