Gotham: Anyone watching? Season 4 starts tonight and I'd love to talk about it

Frederick

I love all the comic book TV shows. I often theory craft with friends over on reddit but it'd be awesome to make some friends here to talk to about it, like, how incredibly sexy The Riddler is (nerdy, thin and pale does it for me but Alfred could eat crackers in my bed).

Or how about how amazing The Penguin is?

Wanna be besties with Selina?

Thoughts on where the season is going?

If this takes off it'd be fun to check in each week and talk all things Gotham.

Putting aside that openly gay Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin) and closet gay Corey Michael Smith (Riddler) are both liberal moonbats - especially Smith.. there are other major problems with "Gotham".
The show is basically an ongoing soap opera.. with flaws. They keep bringing in new characters and plotlines.. that are never developed or completed. They wind up killing off the characters and plots.. and bringing them back to life, and re-hashing plots. I could spend hours giving examples, but if you have seen the show… you know.

That shows ratings have gone steadily down.. and are now the lowest ever. The blogs about the show say they want to keep the show going so it can be sold in syndication. They are wrong. Only TV shows where each episode can stand on it's own work in syndication. Any "soap opera" style show that is continually growing only make sense if shown sequentially without skipping around.

To be blunt.. the show is loaded with potential.. that never goes anywhere. I try to watch it, but it puts me to sleep now.

cteavin

@Frederick:

ith (Riddler) are both liberal moonbats - especially Smith.. there are other major problems with "Gotham".
The show is basically an ongoing soap opera.. with flaws. They keep bringing in new characters and plotlines.. that are never developed or completed. They wind up killing off the characters and plots.. and bringing them back to life, and re-hashing plots. I could spend hours giving examples, but if you have seen the show… you know.

That shows ratings have gone steadily down.. and are now the lowest ever. The blogs about the show say they want to keep the show going so it can be sold in syndication. They are wrong. Only TV shows where each episode can stand on it's own work in syndication. Any "soap opera" style show that is continually growing only make sense if shown sequentially without skipping around.

To be blunt.. the show is loaded with potential.. that never goes anywhere. I try to watch it, but it puts me to sleep now.

Not sure what your watching but your thinking is old, very old.

Ratings for network TV are down for all shows. Do a yearly comparison for any and all network shows to see each one is losing audience share. Why? Because now we can record TV shows, catch them later on Netflix or Hulu, binge them, torrent them, stream them. TV production companies have to look at several metrics to decide what is failing/succeeding now. One thing is for sure, critical response to Gotham has only gotten better over time. You're the first person I've seen online who's not into this new season.

Syndication, like ratings, has changed. Traditional syndication already works in serial format. The new "syndication" is on-demand streaming and rentals – and Gotham already hit their 100th episode mark, so they're all set.

Gotham will most likely get a new season. They've put a lot into developing these characters. The show really does feel like a comic book -- it's fantastic. (I'm not happy with dark Bruce atm, but it's a necessary step.)