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One non-canon story reveals that Bat-Mite plus Mr. Mxyzptlk (the other five-dimensional imp - the one who torments Superman) is proof that life is not worth living - the Anti-Life Equation that Darkseid craves.

http://www.paprikash.com/lou/antilife.jpg

Gotham wants the viewer to take it seriously, but the show's most in its element when it has villains do things like attach people to weather balloons. Gotham hasn't figured out how much more watchable it is when it embraces its dementia, rather than pretend the mob wars and Bruce Wayne's personal growth holds viewer interest.

The actor who plays young Bruce is terrific; he does a great job portraying a kid who has experienced trauma and isn't getting the help he needs (thanks Alfred!), so he's trying to cope by forcing himself to become an adult. I consider him the most watchable part of the show.

A few weeks back he actually confronted his parents' killer (Uncle Jack from "Breaking Bad"), and was trying to decide whether to shoot him, but couldn't bring himself to do it when he realized the killer wasn't a monster, just a man. That's not incredibly philosophically deep, but it was a well-rendered step in Bruce's education.

People are always dumping on this show and that's puzzling to me; Gotham's pretty good, so far as superhero shows go! I have my suspicions about why this is the case - namely, fan disappointment over having a Batman show with no Batman in it - but the sheer amount of negative criticism within the Nerdosphere strikes me as unwarranted.

Robin Lord Taylor is by far the best part, and honestly, from now on, he IS the Penguin so far as I'm concerned. I hope his career survives.

"Gotham" is structurally a mess, because it can't decide whether it's Gotham Before Batman or Gotham Without Batman. Our hero, Jim Gordon, is in a bind where he can't succeed (because it would undermine the premise of the series) but also he has to succeed (otherwise he's of little use as a protagonist). They could have fixed this by starting the escalation at an early stage: street crime, followed by mob incursions, followed by mob takeovers, followed by the beginnings of supervillainy. Stretch out the process and you can get a few years out of the series (though it might not be enough for Bruce to grow up). Unfortunately we started getting supervillains as of the first season, so nope, the show is going to keep undermining itself.

Come to think of it, they ran into the same problem with "Smallville": it wasn't long before the entire DC Universe was out there superheroing, everyone but Superman that is.

>> Our hero, Jim Gordon, is in a bind where he can't succeed (because it would undermine the premise of the series) but also he has to succeed (otherwise he's of little use as a protagonist).

I don't see "little use" following at all! What about in a tragedy? Jim Gordon is a tragic hero, sympathetic and relatable yet undone by his fatal flaw (namely, being a regular guy who plays within the constitutionally-deliniated rules, instead of a heavily armed oligarch sitting on an arsenal of high-grade weaponry and Orwellian surveillance tech). Street crime is boring. Mob incursions are boring. Gotham's given us a few, VERY limited supervillains (more like run-of-the-mill'ains at this point) and that just helps to remind us that Gotham is a tragedy, unavoidable and Kafkasque.

Also, I'm not really too sure what you mean by Gotham Before Batman vs Gotham Without Batman.

Gotham Before Batman was a crime-ridden town but it was all conventional crime.

Gotham Without Batman is a crime-ridden town with supervillains and a police force that can, at best, cope with them with great difficulty.

I watched the pilot of SHIELD with some enthusiasts of these kinds of shows. I told them every single thing that was about to happen a few seconds before it did, all the way down to that bullet fired at the end of the episode. I even predicted a lot of the dialogue. Joss Wedon must have racked up a hell of a long distance bill phoning that show in. Or, he asked himself "how will people insult the shit out of this show, I should write it to that spec..."

The only superhero show I can get into is "Supergirl". I'm not going to tell you that it is well-written or deep, because it's not. But what it does is get the tone of Superman right, in ways that the movies never ever do. Melissa Benoist was apparently genetically engineered to be adorable, whether she is teamed up with the Flash or is sitting on a couch with puppies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYFlXuJGQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjS-FeY6wc

Side note, that Supergirl / Flash episode ran like the day after the "Batman v. Superman" movie debuted; I can't believe they were unaware of the contrast in styles. Supergirl and the Flash immediately got along, worked together, and shared ice cream, all things that would have saved "Batman v. Superman".

I was considering giving Supergirl a shot. I still hold out for a post Dean Cain Superman I can watch.

Dean Cain plays Supergirl's foster dad. Well, sort of. In theory he died a few years back under semi-mysterious circumstances, but there is strong reason to believe he's being held by a government agency by the guy who will become / is already the Cyborg Superman. So we've seen him in flashbacks and we're almost certainly going to see him in the flesh next season.

Superman himself appears on the show, via aniconic imagery. We've seen him in the distance, or through blurry first-person perspective. We saw his boot recently too. But my favorite thing is a couple times when he's done online chat with Supergirl, and the remarkable thing is, even in a text window they do a better job of capturing Superman's character than the movies and comics do.

I realize we've hit a philosophical conundrum here: how can the comic book version of Superman be anything other than the correct version of Superman, by definition? In answer to that, I post a link to a new story today about the group editor of the Superman titles:

http://comicsalliance.com/dc-comics-eddie-berganza-harassment- allegations/

What I'm talking about. There was an episode where one of Superman's old enemies came to Supergirl's town and attacked her; Superman had to step in, which she was grateful for, but it also made her feel like he didn't trust her. But she stopped the bad guy at the end of the episode, and there was a text exchange:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UIWqGI6Ag

I think The Flash is really fun.

I watch The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow with a friend of mine and we howl with laughter. The Flash is the story of an idiot who can travel and think (or at least read) at a hundred times the speed of normal people and can cross dimensions and travel through time and still winds up getting punched in the face a lot. Legends of Tomorrow is _at least_ a good five times stupider than The Flash.

Meme, your friends remember that as an evening you ruined.

They do not, because to this day they are still badgering and bartering with me for watching more SHIELD. Like most of these kinds of nerds, my suffering is a part of the entertainment in their watching the show. They keep saying the same thing : "If you can get through the first eight episodes, it gets pretty okay."

I am very close to giving in as trade for making them watch Captain Power.

Bort, I'm cool for reimaginings of Superman (or anything really) so long as it isn't completely insulting seemingly on purpose (Snyder) or just milquetoast and obviously half-hearted with no real interest in being interesting (Grant Morrisson).

For every All Star Man of Small Cash Grab there is a Kingdom Come to be had.

It's hard to do good alternate takes on Superman; the only thing that keeps him from being completely terrifying (his respect for normal people) is also the first thing they change in alternate takes. I'm not saying it's impossible, but not all writers are up to the task.

So it turns out that, during that final battle in "Kingdom Come", Superman was transported to the normal DC universe for a time, all bitter and mentally unstable. The JSA tried to keep him from going on a rampage, with mixed results:

http://www.paprikash.com/jsa10/

Exactly, "Superman doesn't care" is the worst case scenario every time. As terrible a situation as "Batman cares too much" and "Dennis Hastert admires your youth."

Flash doesn't want to cooperate. Hrm.

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Good action choreography, primary-colour characters, and melodrama plots enhanced with any number of the following: A) courtroom scenes, B) gritty gang stuff, C) ninjas, D) absurdly good-looking human beings having sex.

I don't blame anyone for not liking it, but those are its qualities.

It's also surprisingly good at introducing moral ambiguity into a story about a sorta-blind ninja who beats bad guys up.

First season is so-so, second a bit better than average and coincidentally has the best live-action adaption of The Punisher.