Review: Gotham – The Blind Fortune Teller

 

Jim and Leslie explore the dynamics of their relationship this week while investigating a murder at Haly’s Circus. Meanwhile, Fish Mooney cements her place as a leader in the underground prison and hijinks ensue.

Also, you know, Barbara is back.

A Batman Show to Dream Of

On yesterday’s news that Donal Logue is playing Harvey Bullock in FOX’s Gotham TV show, I found myself revisiting an old idea of mine.

A live-action Batman show.

Now, this was some time last year, way before FOX announced that they were doing an early-career Commissioner Gordon TV show that has now morphed into something that sounds much more akin to Smallville for Batman. My idea also came before I heard the wonderful podcast between Kevin Smith and Paul Dini talk about their so-wonderful-it-hurts Shadow of the Bat idea, about Bruce Wayne in boarding school.

Back in the ’90s, when I was much younger, I loved Lois and Clark. And that, for all its now-apparent flaws, was a great Superman show, a great take on Superman, that suffered only from a tiny budget and some campy writing. But for me, that was Superman. To this day, Dean Cain is my favorite Superman, and I’m even unable to separate in my mind Dean Cain’s looks from Dan Jurgens’ version of Superman, even though to an outside party, they probably look nothing alike.

But we’ve never had a live-action, true BATMAN show. So I made one up.

Young Justice Review: Bereft

-Newsarama

Bereft:  deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness.

I feel that this was M’gann’s episode through and through. She was the first person we saw in the episode, hers was the main struggle via having her powers tested, and she was the one that brought the team together by restoring their memories. Aside from Artemis, who I just have no interest in getting to know, M’gann is really the last person on the team to be explored. And now that she’s gotten her own episode, I still don’t know where we stand with her.

Young Justice Review: Downtime

-Comic Vine

A homesick Aqualad ventures back to Atlantis to reconnect with his people and his girl in order to definitively decide whether he wants to stay with the group on land or return to the ocean. The premise of the episode is on shaky ground:  Are we, as viewers, supposed to empathize with Aqualad (whose Atlantean name I absolutely will not Google to learn to spell; it’s Aqualad, and that’s how it is) as he reconnects with home? Or are we, as viewers, supposed to seriously wonder if a new show is going to get rid of its leader in the first view episodes of the season?

REVIEW: Young Justice – Schooled

- MTV Geek!

A few episodes in now, the show has developed a pattern for its episodes. If I wanted to be cynical, I could say formula, but the show’s pretty good, so I’m not going to be cynical about it.

The formula goes something like this: The team is given a mission; via some inner-team conflict, the mission goes FUBAR; the team comes together; beats the bad guy; lesson learned; Batman delivers unexpected “attaboy(s)”.

Add that with some genuinely snappy humor, say what you will, I like it.