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The Pilot episode was extremely well done. They did a fantastic job with the visual effects and character development. They have a light 30's 40's aesthetic going on with the visual effects of the city and the highlighting effects they are using with the CGI, but at the same moment keeping it modern at the same time. We get the early teenage years scenes of the Cat women as a young teenage street cut purse trying to survive in the rough city of Gotham. They started the pilot off with the classic comic book scene of Bruce Wayne's Parents being murder, which I think was necessary it all will tie in nicely as the series builds. This event will of course set off Bruce's Long transition into the Batman role he will become. Looks to be that with this series the young Detective Gordon is going to end up being somewhat a mentor to the young Bruce Wayne in the end and that will probable build along the storyline as to where Bruce ends up getting his early training as a young teenage crime fighter. We also get some scenes with a corrupted and brutal police force, Carmine Falcone shows up towards the end of the episode played by Actor John Doman. We get a very complex character view between a young rookie Detective James Gordon played by Ben McKenzie and an older corrupt Detective Harvey Bullock played by Donal Logue. We get some scene development of the how The Penguin started and what pushes him into his psychotic criminal role later on, we get a short scene of the Edward Nygma played by actor Cory Micheal Smith which ends up being of course the insane Riddler. Ohh and we get to see a very Young Ivy, who is a severely damaged little girl due to her rough and brutalized upbringing by her career criminal and violent farther, and her somewhat damaged mother in toe. They have not introduced an early role for the Joker character yet or someone who will eventually become that twisted role. We also get an original character not part of the DC comics criminal under world, Fish Mooney played by actress Jada Pinkett Smith, and she is sweet and twistedly eviiillll at the same time. The look in her eyes all the time tell you this is one person not to cross, very well done character development
The IMDB information is only listing 8 episodes, so they might do short episode runs of the seasonal series to see how it goes, or that is all the current information they have on the series currently. The episodes run into November and with 3 major US holidays within 3 months of each other, that might just be a winter break for the series where it will pick up again later in 2015 which is what some TV series do, they break in the late fall and then pick up again early winter. So far I have watched the pilot episode 3 times, once when it aired and twice now with the ondemand service from my cable provider. I have rarely watched a TV series episode over and over again after it's first run, sure reruns a few years later but I must say I think I am going to enjoy this series even if it only runs 8 to 10 episodes a season run. Very well done and well written not a dry moment really, one of the best pilot epiosdes I have seen in some time. And some very good actors in this one should ratchet up the quality of the storylines.
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